Spotlight on Wendy L

Spotlight on Wendy L

Spotlight on Wendy L   What Are Some Highlights of your Fitness Journey?   As I reach a milestone birthday this year, I realize how very lucky I am to have been dancing at PulsePDX for 10 years! I wasn’t able to take dance lessons as a child as I was told my body...
Spotlight on Aisha B

Spotlight on Aisha B

Spotlight on Aisha What are some highlights of your fitness journey? Well, to start, I hate exercise. When I was 4 my mom put me in a ballet class that I stopped going to after a little boy made fun of me. In grade school I hated gym class. Growing up the only active...
Spotlight on Tiffany L

Spotlight on Tiffany L

Spotlight on Tiffany L PulsePDX has opened up an entire new world for me! Before Pulse I would hang around the surface, never really able to push myself out of my comfort zone. After going to Dance Fitness and Pop Pilates routinely for about a year, I feel as though I...
Spotlight On Jen S

Spotlight On Jen S

I grew up near Los Angeles in Long Beach, California, where about half of the people had swimming pools. We happened to be one of those people, and because my mom is afraid of getting in water, she put me and my sister in swimming lessons every day of every summer....
Spotlight on Kelly S

Spotlight on Kelly S

Journal Entry by Kelly Strider — May 19, 2022 The Last Normal Hour On September 28, 2021, I returned to Zumba at PulsePDX for the first time since well before Covid. Like many people over the preceding year and a half, I was experiencing a loss of fitness; I often...
Spotlight on Marika M

Spotlight on Marika M

Why do I absolutely love Pulse PDX? My Mom enrolled me in Ballet Classes when I was 3 and then I switched to Modern Ballet when I was 6. With weekly dance practices, weekend dance exams, and performance shows, I was truly in my element. I was a shy kid and introverted...