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High performance. Chill life.
Devotion Method to move your way to a fully resourced, prosperous life ✨️
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I have big dreams for the movement industry 🤸

My goal is to create space to support movement leaders - coaches, instructors, studio owners, influencers, etc - to challenge the industry and their own mindsets and practices, ultimately so we can co-create a movement industry based in love 💛

I am super grateful for the @stanforcreators Dare to Dream Challenge, which prompted me to better articulate my dreams and speak it out to the world. If I was a winner, I would use the prize to accelerate the start of this business venture.

Movement is a great way for us to build resilience, community, joy, and most importantly love - for ourselves, for others and for the world 🌎

We need leaders in this space who have the awareness, capacity, and support to guide us on the right path.

This means better mindsets, healthier practices, and more sustainable business models so we can all thrive together ✨️

#StanDareToDream26 by @pole.and.prosper

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6 months ago

I had the best time facilitating Pole with Purpose as part of Emmy Hosts' Pole, Elevated series.

We talked about holistic training through physical literacy, positive challenges (in the physical, psychological, social, and creative domains) and creating training plans thay align with your goals (and hopefully lower your risk of injury).

Feeling so lit up by the connections with all the wonderful folks who made it out and looking forward to more of this, please 💖 by @pole.and.prosper

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This week, one of my private clients asked me if I had any goal tricks that I was working toward.

I shared with her that I'm in a season of building foundations (raising the floor, as Tim Gabbett would say), not of actually going for new tricks.

I'd been working on some dynamic moves and tricks that needed a bit more strength or flexibility and noticing muscle soreness that lasted longer than usual or just little "tweaks."

No injuries or major discomfort, but signs that I was working close to my upper limit and need to build my capacity to keep myself safe for what I want to accomplish next.

In a typical pole studio, there is a general approach. Memberships that run all year round with the same or similar classes on the schedule all the time.

There's nothing wrong with this - it's a great way for studios to cater to everyone's needs at any given time. But it does mean that as the participant, you'll need to make decisions about training that align with your goals/priorities for the season that you're in.

You'll decide when your focus is on choreo, strength, strength, flexibility, tricks, etc.

When you need to lean in to the highest level membership and when you'll need to step back, slow down in the pole studio and focus your energy elsewhere for a while.

This Sunday, July 19th, I'll be facilitating a session of Pole, Elevated and this will be our topic of discussion and as our interactive activity, you'll be able to set a plan for your next year of training.

If this seems like a daunting task because you've done lots of New Years resolutions and annual goals that you've never accomplished, no worries - that's me too!

I'll share with you a system that focuses more on priorities than goals per se, and takes your whole life into account. In other words, the point is to build a training plan that takes into account your career, schooling, family, vacations, chill summer time at the cottage, etc, while also planning for showcases, competitions, teaching load, or the progress toward your dream tricks!

Join me for this collaboration with Emmy Hosts

🗓 Sunday July 19
⏰3-5pm
📍@pole_jamz, London ON
💲$40

RSVP emilysoti@gmail.com or DM by @pole.and.prosper

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8 days ago

Leadership isn't a title to achieve
It's a daily practice that each of us is capable of doing in our own way.

LION/ESS was built for people who want to lead through deeper self-awareness, courageous conversations, and aligned actions.

If that feels like you, get more information and register through the link in bio. by @pole.and.prosper

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9 days ago

LION/ESS was born from questions I've been exploring for years.

Questions about leadership, power, agency, and what it means to be fully alive in a culture that is increasingly divided by dualities.

For much of my life, I felt pulled between seemingly opposing ways of being.

As a scientist and researcher, I was trained to be logical, analytical, and systematic. As a dancer, I was drawn toward intuition, creativity, expression, and embodied experience.

I spent years trying to reconcile these different parts of myself—and later, the conflicting messages I encountered about masculine and feminine ways of being.

The more I explored, the more I noticed a pattern.

Whether in movement, business, personal development, or healing spaces, many conversations seemed to position one side as the solution and the other as the problem.

Yet my own experience suggested something different.

I've achieved through unhealthy expressions of discipline and ambition.

I've sought healing through unhealthy expressions of softness and avoidance.

And I've discovered that when I become attached to either side, the outcome is often the same: disconnection.

What I've found instead is a growing appreciation for integration.

For nuance.

For complexity.

For the possibility that opposing truths can coexist.

LION/ESS is not a space where I'll teach you theory.

It is a space for collaborative curiosity, contemplation, conversation, and movement.

A space to explore your own relationship with power, agency, leadership, and wholeness.

Because I believe that power is collective. And when we can hold our true power fully (as opposed to a false, hierarchical power), it strengthens the collective power, which increases the collective’s ability to shift and change.

So let’s change the world together 🦁✨️

Link in @pole.and.prosper bio for registration by @pole.and.prosper

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12 days ago

Sometimes you need a brief escape...

But for the most part, the goal I have with my own lifestyle as well as any programs that I create

Is LASTING change.

If you're looking for a surface level hype-friend, scroll on by.

If you're looking for someone who will:
✨️Challenge you and your limiting beliefs (as well as my own, changing my approach if I find a better way)
✨️Question what is, what should be and what could be
✨️Deconstruct everything to see if there's a better way to put it back together
✨️Discuss deep topics mixing science, astrology, experience, random song lyrics, and whatever else might offer an interesting perspective
✨️Consider everything we know about the world to be a constantly evolving knowledge, always in flux, always changing depending on how and where you're perceiving and applying it...

Then you may find value here.

I don't think brief escapes are useless, by any means. I think they are sometimes exactly what is needed for a little lift and honestly sometimes to survive.

But the lifestyle, practices, and growth that build a strong foundation for lasting change don't come from brief escapes.

They come from having the courage to go deep, stay the course, adapt, shift and create a new normal in your life.

Whether the new normal is
💧The amount or type of water you drink in a day
💖The shift to a more loving habitual self-talk
💪The way you joyfully discover how to challenge your strength
🌀The patience you give to your creativity and evolution
🚫The decision to divest from systems that no longer work for you and choose a new way of being.

This is what I'm about. Creating a new way through intentional, consistent, and loving action.

It may take more time than you want
It may pose more challenges than you want
But the reward is your own becoming...

But don't worry: I'm a gemini so there'll be lots of play and light-hearted laughs and jokes along the way 😉 by @pole.and.prosper

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15 days ago

Life is such a beautiful paradox.

Even though there are very serious things happening in the world....

We can still approach them with playfulness, curiosity, and love 💜

That's one of the things I am most excited for with LION/ESS - deep explorations in a fun and playful context.

For info and to join, check out the link in bio or DM. by @pole.and.prosper

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16 days ago

I have a lot of questions.

And I'm so excited to contemplate questions like these that challenge the status quo and shift perspectives and actions.

We'll be exploring these types of questions at
LION/ESS to cultivate greater awareness, agency, and choice, ultimately to empower ourselves as the types of leaders who can lead the shift to a more just and sustainable paradigm.

For info and registration, DM or link in bio by @pole.and.prosper

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17 days ago

One of my goals is bridge the gap between research and practice and to do it in a rational way where science, experience, and other forms of knowledge are appropriately integrated.

Because developing, leaning, or understanding a theoretical framework is one thing....

But applying it to practice is how we make meaningful change!

I'll be facilitating a practical workshop as a part of Emmy Hosts' Pole, Elevated series.

First, you'll learn this framework and then you'll get to apply it to your own pole training plan (or your class or studio plans if you're an instructor or studio owner).

Finally, we'll all get to have some fun and jam together!

🗓 Sunday July 19th
⏰️ 3-5pm
📍Pole Jamz, London, ON @pole_jamz
💲 40

20 people max.

Email emilysoti@gmail.com to register (or comment or DM and I'll connect you) 💖 by @pole.and.prosper

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19 days ago

During the 5-day LION/ESS retreat, we'll be doing different types of activities to deep dive into masculine & feminine.

Considering the social and our individual perceptions, stereotypes and beliefs, contemplating how they play out in our individual lives and society at large, how they limit or expand us, etc.

We'll be exploring this through activities, like structured and unstructured movement sessions where we move with typically masculine and feminine movement styles, forest walks to learn from nature, crafting to explore though our own creativity, meaningful discussions, and lots of free time to integrate, co-create and let whatever wants to come through emerge.

My intention (which may shift depending on the 10 folks present and co-creation with them) is to focus on leadership - of ourselves, our teams, businesses, families, communities, etc - and by the end for each of us to have a framework (or at least a better idea) of how we want to embody and integrate masculine and feminine (or just divest from the gender-based system) into our most authentic and powerful leadership ✨️

What other questions do you have? Tell me in the comments ⬇️ by @pole.and.prosper

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22 days ago

Have you hesitated because you don't trust your leadership?

That was my problem with LION/ESS.

I don't have the answer.

We may not leave with an answer.

In fact ONE true answer most likely does not exist in this case.

So, I felt like I needed to wait until I had the perfect framework, the airtight answer, the certainty.

But then I realized: That is the exact type of leadership model I'm trying to move away from.

The authoritative hierarchy.
The ONE who knows.
The ONE who will fix.
The confirmation that you NEED me.
And that I NEED to prove myself to you.

But that's not how we'll grow together. That's how we'll keep reinforcing what needs to crumble.

My goal is to create a space for us to come together in uncertainty and possibly a little confusion.

For us to chat, share, debate, laugh, cry, get angry, get excited, move, connect...

And see what emerges from our shared love and wisdom.

I have the activities planned, but I don't know how it will turn out.

It's risky, and as a facilitator, it's scary.

But we won't change the world if we don't take the risk.

So, I've chosen the path of courage and am trusting that the 10 people meant to find it will.

And I trust in the outcome that our collective love and wisdom will alchemize ✨️

(LION/ESS retreat link in bio) by @pole.and.prosper

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23 days ago

The old ways of leadership are crumbling, but are we ready to create something better?

LION/ESS will be a space to contemplate and explore topics like this together.

It's designed for people who are ready to leave the competition, hierarchies and polarities of the old paradigm behind and instead step into collaborative leadership, love and wholeness.

If this is you, I'd love to tell you more: DM LIONESS or check out the link in @pole.and.prosper bio by @pole.and.prosper

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