Instructors
All our instructors are fully insured, qualified and first aid trained. They are trained to offer the best service possible to ensure your fitness aspirations are met in a safe a welcoming environment. Each instructor specializes in certain apparatus and has a unique teaching style, but we all share one goal: To ensure you have the best experience during your class!
Tracy
Teaches
Beginner to Advanced Pole, Flying Pole, Beginner to Advanced Hoop, Straps, Pole Silks, Chains, Trapeze, Aerial Yoga, Silks, Aerial Net, Strength & Stretch, Conditioning, Junior Circus, Aerial Circuits, Private Lessons (all apparatus) and Aerial Extravaganza’s
Tracy is the proprietor and chief instructor at Pagan’s Pole & Circus. Tracy has been teaching for 19 years and has also been a competitor, exotic dancer, performer, judge, and The Welsh Championships (WAPC) organizer. Tracy can teach all levels and genres of pole & hoop, her classes are fun and her infectious enthusiasm ensuring people work hard, with a smile on their face! Tracy loves nothing better then watching people fall in love with what their bodies can do and feels blessed to help people achieve body confidence and strength, ditching their insecurities along their pole or aerial journey.
Outside of the studio Tracy is an avid animal lover, mother, and grandmother, choosing to spend the majority of her time at home with her family.
Qualifications
BSc Psychology (with Clinical & Health Psychology) – OCN level 2 & 3 Counselling – Personal Trainer level 3 (PTAcademy)– Exercise to Music (ETM) level 2 – (FIE) – Mental Health in the Workplace level 2 (XPERT) – Pre and Post Natal Training (XPert) – Advanced Stretching (FIE) – Advanced Stretching Techniques (Bendy Kate)– XPERT Pole Fitness levels 1-4 (QCF) – XPERT Flying Pole (QCF) – Aerial Hoop Instruction (Spin City all levels) – Anatomy & Physiology Foundations for Pole & Aerial (Spin City)– Stretch & Flexibility (Spin City) – Grounded Hoop (Spin City)– Pole Fabrics (Spin City) – Pole Flow (Spin City) – Foundation Aerial Silks (Spin City) – Intermediate Aerial Silks (Spin City) – Silks Working in the Hitch (Spin City) – Silks Footlocks part 1 & part 2(Spin City) – Silks Climbs & Descents (Spin City) – Silks Belay Skills (Spin City) – Silks Hiplock Skills (Spin City) – Silks Catchers & S-Wrap Skills (Spin City) – Strength & Conditioning (Spin City) – Shoulder Strength & Stability (Spin City) – Pump FX (FIE) – Kettlebells (FIE) – Tri-Fly (Vertical Leisure) – Aerial Yoga (Vertical Leisure) – Rigging Fundamentals (Hall Rigging Academy) – XPERT Children’s Pole & Aerial (QCF), PDC Level 4* approved instructor – Sports Massage Level 3
Chris
Teaches
Beginners to Advanced Aerial Hoop, Private Tuition (Hoop & Sling), Junior Circus, Aerial Sling (Hammock)
Chris came to aerial hoop later on in life after having had gymnasatics aspirations as a child but no strength or coordination to fulfil them. His career has encompassed teaching and training using a variety of approaches across a wide range of contexts from e-learning to practical workshops.
Chris found aerial to be the perfect cross-training compliment to his other passions of running and mountain biking. He’s particularly appreciative of its ability to improve mind-body connection, spatial awareness, upper body strength and overall flexibility. He loves how it is also a tool for personal growth and is ready to help you take on the challenges to build confidence in a safe and progressive way.
Qualifications
BSc Biochemistry – PGCE Open & Distance Learning – Exec Diploma in Digital Business Leadership – Anatomy & Physiology Foundations for Pole & Aerial (Spin City) – Hoop Instructor (Beginner – Advanced Level, Spin City) – Aerial Sling Beginner Level (Spin City) – Strength & Conditioning (Spin City) – Active Flexibility for Pole and Aerial (Spin City) – Teaching Children ages 5-10 (Spin City) – XPERT Children’s Pole & Aerial (QCF)
Leigh
Teaches
Beginners and Intermediate Pole Dance, Minx Class, Liquid Motion, Private Tuition (Pole, Minx or Liquid Motion)
Leigh has been in the pole industry for over 10 years and has been teaching for a few of those years. Leigh specializes in choreography, flow and freestyle both on and off the pole. Her favourite things to teach are floorwork (beginner-advanced), heels technique, chair (including acro-chair) and seamless static rotation around the pole.
Leigh has many years worth of experience both as performer and competition experience on an international scale. She loves seeing people shine on stage and would love to help you if you’re thinking of entering performance and competition spaces.
Leigh has had bad health in the past and has ADHD, so she deeply understands the importance of accessibility in a classroom providing variations in teaching to meet people’s needs. Leigh is a fluent welsh speaker and can sign in British Sign Language and is ready to teach in these communication styles if requested. Leigh wants everyone to feel a sense of achievement and most importantly, have fun!
Qualifications
XPERT Pole Fitness levels 1-2 – Liquid Motion 1.0 & 2.0 (licensed) – Liquid Motion Heels (Licensed) – Liquid Motion Pole (Licensed) – British Sign Language (Units 2-4)
Niamh
Teaches
Beginners and Intermediate Pole, Private Tuition (Pole)
Niamh discovered pole dancing in her early 20s, after spending her childhood years doing ballet and rhythmic gymnastics, and fell in love with it instantly. She loves to incorporate her background into pole dancing, with a strong preference for performing and teaching contemporary & flow pole, bendy tricks, and pretty spins.
Niamh is confident in adapting techniques and teaching for those with chronic illnesses and disabilities, and believes that pole offers a safe space for many people, and she loves to watch people come out of their shell and become their best self after starting to dance!
Outside of the studio, Niamh enjoys scuba diving, hiking, spending time with animals, baking, and practicing her Welsh!
Qualifications
Beginners Pole Fitness (Spin City) – Intermediate Pole Fitness (Spin City) – working towards Advanced Pole Fitness (Spin City) –
Working towards BSc Marine Vertebrate Conservation (Bangor University)
Trainee Instructor Luned
Will Teach
Beginners and Intermediate Pole Dance, Pole Silks, Private Tuition (Pole Silks & Pole Dance)
Luned has been pole dancing for 8 years and has been doing pole silks for 5 years. She has always wanted to dance but she had no confidence. She did start gymnastics when she was younger but stopped as she was too shy to continue. She fell in love with pole dancing because of the accepting atmosphere and she felt safe there. Pole silks came later and she connected with it straight away.
Luned loves to perform and create choreo. She loves to tell you a story via dancing. It’s always been within her but she just got pulled down and no one really encouraged her or nourished that side of her. So she would like to be the person that encourages others and nourishes their creativity, doesn’t matter the size, capabilities, skin, race, sex, sexuality or religion, as long as they are kind and accepting of others. Luned was diagnosed at 23 with autism, selective mutism and BPD. She also was diagnosed at 12 with mild epilepsy. So she understands how hard it can be for people just to show up. She wants to encourage people to embrace themselves. She wants to create a safe space for everyone.
Luned loves all animals, she does have a soft spot for rabbits and cats. She would like to work with animals in the future. She was student of the year when she did animal care level 2. She loves crafting and drawing. Likes to be by herself and be in her own little world. She loves to listen to music. She is also a fluent welsh speaker, and will happily talk Welsh with anyone if they want.
Qualifications.
BTEC Level 1,2 and 3 Art and design, Welsh Baccalaureate.
Working towards Xpert level 1 and 2 pole. Working towards Xpert mental health. Working towards spin city pole fabric course.
