Pastor goes from pulpit to pole dancing to find 'healing from the stresses of ministry'
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Updated: 5:59 AM PDT Apr 7, 2021
Jocelyn Brumbaugh
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Updated: 5:59 AM PDT Apr 7, 2021
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come back up. Set your hands. What's the first thing that comes to mind when you see this? Everyone thinks that we are all just exotic dancers. Limited climb or this hang. First people think that we come in here and we're all just like taking off our clothes when in reality it is a full body workout with one leg bent, one leg straight. Beautiful Ladies, you are lifting your full body way up off the ground multiple times throughout the entire class. Look at you close up. Those who teach and take classes here at whole revolution say they're used to snap judgments. We've known of teachers that have gotten fired just from participating in pole classes because it's not a good look. They meet those negative perceptions that stigma with acceptance doesn't matter. Your body type, you can be tall, short, big, small. Um, it works for everybody. Everybody including Diane Martin. So I took that intro lesson and I was just in love. Immediately she started taking pole sport classes. Well, vertical gymnastics, basically knowing she wasn't like everyone else at the studio, I was like, 20 years older than most of my fellow students. Sure, her age set her apart. But the thing that made her stand out most was her profession. I am assistant pastor at Pikes Peak Metropolitan Community Church, which is open and affirming church here in Colorado Springs. Good morning, Pikes Peak, MCC. Hastert Martin started doing pole workouts 11 years ago, and it was a healthy way healthy approach to healing from the stresses of ministry, the reaction from her church at the time I have been called a harlot. Some of them actually asked me to take the magnets off the side of my car when I pulled into town so that I could keep it hidden. Martin pushed through that stigma. Not only did she change churches, she decided to buy the pole studio. God didn't uncalled me to the ministry when I discovered pole in your many names. We pray at my current church. They are thrilled. They're proud of it and they love it. The pole dancing pastor pushing past others perceptions Hole allows a level of self expression that it's hard to find in day to day life. Really, it just goes to show that anybody in the community it can be part of a pulse studio. Christa Moss bought the studio a few years ago but kept Diane on as an instructor basic as their sport looks to break down its own barriers. There's no way you're actually in the observation period for an Olympic event, so we could potentially have pull sport in the Olympics in 2024. And if you don't think this is Olympic worthy outside, inside, outside, inside or this isn't what a pastor looks like, all right, so they try and lay back. Diane has a routine to show you This is working all right. They come with preconceived ideas of what someone who does poll is. They come with preconceived ideas of what a pastor is like, and it kind of explodes both of those ideas and gets them to maybe look at things a little bit different way.