Our teachers

Emilia-Jane danced from the age of 4 in ballet, modern, tap, Irish and street, and always loved performing on stage.

After falling away from dance during her tumultuous teenage years, she returned to it at 18 through hula-hooping. Her relationship with hula-hooping was deeply healing, and helped her overcome struggles with an eating disorder, abuse and her mental health. In her early 20s she began performing with a circus troupe, as a multi-hoop fire, UV and LED performer.

Her movement practice grew as she studied permaculture, human ecology, menstrual cycle awareness and yoga, exploring movement in response to nature and the cycles of the earth through live performance and poetry. Along the way she studied women’s yoga, yoga nidra, Afro-Caribbean dance and intuitive herbalism, connecting the inner world with the outer.

She realised she wanted to teach pelvic dance to women, and to do it as a collective. A few months later she met Sarah, who had the same dream, and the rest is herstory.

Her passion is creating brave spaces for women to connect with their bodies, their pelvis and womb, and joy, through yoga, dance and sisterhood.

Sarah danced from 5 to 16 years old in tap, ballet, modern, hip hop and street dance. She was introduced to dancehall music at 17 and saw the power that moving from the pelvis held, and started teaching herself from dance music videos across RnB, hip hop and dancehall.

She then embarked on a 16-year career in physiotherapy, specialising in women’s health, but twerk was always with her on the dancefloors across London.

Sarah believes the key to connecting to your essence and living an abundant life is dancing every day with your whole body, and that’s what pelvic dance embodies. She brings women’s health and joy together in her classes, courses and workshops, creating infectious and addictive wellbeing from the core of your being, your pelvis.

I am a lover of life. Born and raised festival fairy. Bringing people together, creating safe spaces and exploring the magic of this existence is what brings me joy.

Twerk has taught me so much about self love and I am very blessed to be able to share that. I believe that we all deserve to feel free within this vessel and what is a more beautiful way to do that than to twerk! Booty shaking is a love language. The Twerk After Work community feels like home.