Phoenix flight studio has been through an amazing evolution!
This studio started out as Knockout Bodies in 2010 with the original owners, a women’s only pole and fitness studio that resided as a side business to a large boxing gym. The studio was started during the infancy of recreational pole dancing.
The studio maintained a very posh, fitness-focus approach to bringing pole to women’s fitness. Since then the industry has been learning and growing and acknowledging the harm in excluding and sanitizing pole from its strip club and sex worker roots. In 2017, Knockout Bodies came under new ownership. The new owner, Charisma Blue, came in wanting to make changes and evolve Knockout into something that was more authentic.
The studio opened its space to all who want to try pole. New apparatuses and modalities were added to provide more opportunity for students to find beauty and strength in themselves. Two additional owners came onboard whose mission was to bring authenticity of sensual movement that honored and respected the roots of pole.
In 2023 the studio underwent a huge re-branding effort with changing the business name to Phoenix Flight Studio, encapsulating what it means to rise from the ashes and become the new, more authentic version of oneself.
In 2026 Phoenix was passed on to two long standing pillars in the pole and aerial community, Jane Grey and Jenn Justad. Jenn and Jane continue to hold the values of the studio close to their hearts and are bringing in new ideas and imagination in the hopes of growing the pole and aerial community even more.
Hear more from our owners:
“I started my movement in 2014 on a whim. After pretending to be a runner for 2 years my body, and mind, wanted something different. My sister roped me into taking a lyra class with her at another local studio. It was the most fun, challenging, and exciting thing I had done in ages. After the series was over I went on to try silks, trapeze, acro, and pole last. I couldn’t get enough of it. The strength, the flexibility and confidence that grew over time was unparalleled.
I TA’ed under a variety of instructors and eventually started teaching aerial in 2017. Pole is my favorite to teach though. The amount of growth I see in students in pole is amazing. Not just in strength but in confidence. It takes so much courage to walk in to a room full of strangers in essentially a bikini. I want to foster that courage as much as I can. Because no one wakes up strong, or flexible or sexy. They all take practice. And ANY BODY can be sexy. My biggest hope is to encourage students to find their own version of strong, flexy, and most importantly, SEXY.”
