Colleen Jolly

Colleen Jolly is a certified pole dance enthusiast and entrepreneur. She has been poling for 14+ years, owns and operates the International Pole Convention (PoleCon), is the Executive Director of the pole industry’s first trade association the IPIA, teaches movement in the DC metro area regularly, is a partner and instructor with 123 Poling.com, a Liquid Motion Master Trainer and On

Demand Certification Coach, a RAD Mobility Ambassador, and was the Advanced Tricks and Mobility Instructor for the Pole Company. She is the model for the “Pole Anatomy” book by the Pole PT. Previously, she owned and managed a pole studio in Washington, DC. Currently Colleen regularly competes in pole dancing competitions at the professional level. She has performed at the Kennedy Center and with Snoop Dogg, but not at the same time. Her first book “Mobility for Pole” was published in the fall of 2022.

Colleen came to pole and fitness in general later in life (29) and after a serious motorcycle accident that shattered her right leg. Her teaching style and methods for training are a mix of  functional movement (on and off the pole), physical therapy, and contortion. She firmly believes that everyone can improve their flexibility and level of fit-ness. As a life-long teacher/trainer she excels at providing options for movement, unique verbal and physical cues, a solid foundation of biomechanics and neurobiomechanics, and encouraging her students to develop their own movement style.