How to Not F*ck Up Your Students
Pole Dancing
Learn how to help your students level up safely, confidently, and consistently.
Through a mix of self-paced modules and live group coaching, you’ll learn exactly how to design safer, more effective pole classes that accelerate progress and reduce injury risks
10-week online course
Starting September 22, 2025
Accelerated Track
Advisor Track
What you’ll learn:
Week 1: Anatomy & Biomechanics of the Upper Extremity (shoulder, elbow, wrist).
Understand the shoulder, elbow, and wrist so you can spot faulty technique, reduce injuries, and coach stronger, safer grips and holds.
Week 2: Anatomy & Biomechanics of the Lower Extremity (hip, knee, ankle).
Understand the hip, knee, and ankle so you can spot faulty technique, prevent injuries, and coach stronger, safer grips and holds.
Week 3: Anatomy & Biomechanics of the Core/Spine.
Discover the role of the core, spine and pelvic in stability, power and ability to generate force in the arms & legs.
Week 4: The Science Behind Movement.
Dive into exercise science principles that directly impact your students’ skill progress — including strength, endurance, and motor learning.
Week 5: Assessing your Student’s Capacity for Movement.
Gain practical tools to evaluate if a student is physically ready for a skill, so you can avoid overload and keep them progressing.
Week 6: Addressing Common Limitations.
Get targeted exercises and drills to improve strength, mobility, and flexibility where your students need it most.
Week 7: Designing a Class.
Master how to plan progressions, regressions, and skill acquisition strategies — plus how to use progressive overload effectively.
Week 8: Working with Different Bodies.
Learn how to adapt your teaching for hypermobile, plus-size, pregnant, postpartum and older students so every body type feels supported and successful.
Week 9: Common Pole Injuries & Your Role as an Instructor
Recognize the signs of the most frequent pole injuries and understand exactly what to do (and not do) as an instructor.
Week 10: The Science Behind Recovery,
Help your students maximize progress and reduce injury risk with evidence-based recovery strategies including sleep, HRV, nutrition, and load management.
How you’ll learn
This course is module-based. Each weekly topic will have several short educational videos for you to watch before our weekly group Zoom call.
There will be weekly homework assignments for you to test your understanding of the material presented. These assignments will vary from online quizzes to you applying the information in your classes and reporting back.
At the end of the course, you will earn a Certificate of Completion if all the course material is completed.
Zoom Meetings:
Every Thursday starting on September 25 through December 11th (no meeting on November 27th).
Time: choose which time works better for you!
10 am & 2 pm Pacific Time
The Advisor Track meeting will immediately follow at 11 am & 3pm Pacific Time
Choose your track:
Want all the tools, strategies, and science-backed teaching methods right now?
The Accelerated Track
gives you instant access to the entire 10-week curriculum so you can learn in at your own pace.
This is ideal if you:
Prefer learning on your own schedule (fast or slow — your choice)
Want the freedom to skip live calls while still getting recordings for reference
Feel confident applying the material directly to your own classes and studio experience
Like having the option to ask questions in a private community rather than sit in another Zoom
With this track, you’ll get:
📚 Full, immediate access to all course modules
🎥 Recordings of every weekly Zoom call (watch when you want)
💬 Community group access for questions and feedback
🎓 Certificate of Completion once you meet the course requirements
Perfect for the self-starter who’s ready to learn, adapt, and implement.
Investment: $797 $597 or 4 payments of $179
The Advisor Track
Limited to 10 spots — the most personalized way to learn, apply, and get results.
If you want direct guidance, real-time feedback, and someone in your corner every step of the way, the Advisor Track was built for you.
This track is perfect if you:
Want to go deep into the material and explore how it applies to your students and classes
Know you’ll have a ton of questions and want them answered directly by Dr. Emily
Thrive with accountability and regular check-ins to keep you on track
Value connecting with a tight-knit group of like-minded instructors
Want the fastest route from “I learned this” to “I’m using this and getting results”
With the Advisor Track, you get everything in the Accelerated Track plus:
👩🏫 An additional weekly small-group Zoom sessions (Advisor students only. Live, interactive, and tailored to your needs)
💬 Unlimited Voxer access to Dr. Emily for personalized answers and coaching between calls
🤝 Extra accountability to make sure you’re implementing what you learn and seeing results in real time
Spots are first-come, first-served — no application, no waiting list. Once the 10 seats are taken, they’re taken.
Investment: $1397 $1197 or 4 payments of $359
What Pole Instructors are Saying about the Course
This was an extremely informative course. I loved the incorporation of sport science as it relates to pole.
Overall, it built my confidence and showed me how these principles absolutely belong in a dancey sport like pole.
Most courses teach spotting and tricks, but something always felt missing.
This one gave me anatomy, biomechanics, assessments, and tools to keep students from f*cking up their bodies.
I want to teach as long as I can, and this course gave me the tools to do that.
The training principles, assessments, and prehab/rehab videos were more detailed than I expected—and I use them in my warm-ups now.
Who am I?
If this is our first time meeting, Hi!
My name is Dr. Emily Rausch.
I'm a Certified Chiropractic Sports Physician who specializes in pole dancers. I've been pole dancing for almost 7 years (March 27th is my pole-anniversary). I combine my doctor brain with my pole dancer experience to help pole dancers learn how to not f*ck up their bodies and help them unf*ck them when they do.
When I started pole dancing, I had no idea it would end up being such a major part of my identity.
I was in chiropractic school when signed up for my first taster class. Like a lot of pole dancers, I quickly became obsessed. One class turned in to a pack of 10 turned into an unlimited membership.
This quick progression, coupled with sub-optimal training methods (turns out taking more classes isn’t necessarily better), I found myself laying on the studio floor with a dislocated shoulder.
As I underwent the frustrating and tedious journey of injury rehab, I swore to myself that I would do everything in my power to keep another pole dancer from having to go through what I went through.
The judgemental looks when I shared I was a pole dancer. The confusion about what I needed my shoulder to be able to do. The “then don’t do that” comments.
From this experience, I shifted my focus from general sports medicine to specializing in the reduction and treatment of pole dancer injuries.
Frequently Asked Questions
How will this course be run?
Each week will include modules for you to watch on your own. The weekly Zoom meetings will review the topic of the week & present an opportunity for you to ask questions.
What if I can’t attend the Zoom sessions live?
No stress! You’ll miss out on the interactive component but a recording will be sent & you’ll have access to it forever.
Who is this course for?
Pole instructors (both current and aspiring) who want to deepen their knowledge about the human body and movement. This is primarily an educational-based course with concepts being taught that you will have to apply to your classes on your own.
Who is this not for?
Pole instructors who are not interested in applying exercise science principles to how they teach. The course will be taught through Dr. Emily’s lens which is sports science/sports medicine based.
This course is more in-depth than the current in-person instructor courses. If you found those to be overwhelming, this course may be too much information for you.
What equipment do I need?
A device to watch the modules & zoom session on.
A way to organize your notes/thoughts.
You will learn off-the-pole exercises to help address student limitations. The equipment needed for the drills includes (but is not limited to):
A blank wall.
A foam roller.
A yoga block or 2.
Light or medium looped mini-band.
A light or medium tension long floppy band.
A set of powerbands. Rubberbanditz has a great set for pole dancers.
A dowel or broomstick.
A chair or bench.
Lighter weight for accessory movements.
Heavy weight for compound movements
Do you offer discounts or payment plans?
Those on the interest list will be offered an early action discount.
Payment plans will be offered. Please note that a payment plan is not a subscription that you can cancel. By signing up, you are committing to paying for the course in full, regardless if you complete the material or not.
NO REFUNDS will be given.
I’m not an instructor. Can I join the course?
Yes! But please understand that the information provided will be geared towards instructors. You may have to listen around the edges to have the information apply to you as a student.
What if I want 1:1 coaching about my specific situation/class?
Amazing! The Advisor track would be the best option for you. This track grants you 1:1 access to Dr. Emily through the Voxer (voice messaging) app as well as an additional small group (10 people max) weekly zoom call.
What people are saying
I found this so valuable. Especially the sections about nutrition and rest. It is really difficult to get a student to slow down once they get excited to try new things and this taught me how to explain it to them properly. I will highly recommend this to others going forward.
A few pluses & great add on’s that I was not expecting in such detail that you provided was the training principals, assessing a student’s capacity for movement, & addressing limitations. It makes sense to have these topics in this course, but I was not anticipating all of the exercise/prehab/rehab videos you provided which was great! Since this was reviewed initially, I have utilized a lot of those exercises in my warm ups during class. For the training principals, this is helpful especially for the ones who don’t know where to start so me as an instructor having that information is so valuable to share with my students in the event they truly want to nail a certain pole move.
I thought this was an extremely informative course. I loved the incorporation of sport science as it relates to pole dancing. I was finishing my NASM certification at the same time and this was a great review for that and really touched on pole specific things I have not encountered in other trainings.