Exotic Dance Course with Morgan Barkus
Welcome to a course that is less about learning to dance and more about falling in love with the way your body moves.
Whether you have never danced a day in your life or you want to unlock a side of yourself you have never fully explored, this course meets you exactly where you are. By the end you will move with more confidence, more freedom, and more joy than you thought possible.
You will walk away knowing how to move your body in a way that feels powerful and sensual, with real techniques broken down into easy bite size steps you can actually follow and repeat. You will feel more at home in your own skin, more connected to your femininity, and more confident whether you are dancing alone in your living room or for someone you love.
This is not about being perfect. It is about feeling something. And by the time you finish you absolutely will.
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Before You Get Started Watch This
It started with a billboard on Hennepin Ave, Flex Appeal Studios. I called, took a class, and my lesson turned into teaching me to give a lap dance to the studio owner herself. I was terrified and I was good at it. She hired me to teach, then helped me land a job at a Minneapolis strip club. I danced from 2006 to 2019, Minneapolis then Miami. Now I teach workshops and I'm bringing this course to you, to help you feel confident, sexy, and powerful in your own body.
It started with a billboard on Hennepin Ave, Flex Appeal Studios. I called, took a class, and my lesson turned into teaching me to give a lap dance to the studio owner herself. I was terrified and I was good at it. She hired me to teach, then helped me land a job at a Minneapolis strip club. I danced from 2006 to 2019, Minneapolis then Miami. Now I teach workshops and I'm bringing this course to you, to help you feel confident, sexy, and powerful in your own body.
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Choose Your Shoes
Stage shoes aren't your going out heels. The grip is different, built to prevent slipping. The platform is higher, keeping your foot level and giving the illusion of a taller shoe. Start with a strap, no higher than 5 inches, working up to 6 or 7 with practice. My favorite brand of shoes is Pleaser Shoes. Dancing on rugs or carpet is tricky. Wobbly! Stick to wood, tile, or linoleum. Shoes aren't required, and they are a fun way to get into character!
Stage shoes aren't your going out heels. The grip is different, built to prevent slipping. The platform is higher, keeping your foot level and giving the illusion of a taller shoe. Start with a strap, no higher than 5 inches, working up to 6 or 7 with practice. My favorite brand of shoes is Pleaser Shoes. Dancing on rugs or carpet is tricky. Wobbly! Stick to wood, tile, or linoleum. Shoes aren't required, and they are a fun way to get into character!
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Lesson 1: The Sexy Stripper Model Walk
We start with the foundation, the walk. Learn the sexy, stripper model walk from the ground up, one confident step at a time.
We start with the foundation, the walk. Learn the sexy, stripper model walk from the ground up, one confident step at a time.
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Lesson 2: The Bulk of the Dance Moves
Learn hip dips, body waves, and the core moves you'll repeat, mix, and match to freestyle with total confidence.
Learn hip dips, body waves, and the core moves you'll repeat, mix, and match to freestyle with total confidence.
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Lesson 3: How to Use Your Space
Learn to use your vertical and horizontal space to turn simple moves into an entirely new routine.
Learn to use your vertical and horizontal space to turn simple moves into an entirely new routine.
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Lesson 4: How to Shake That Ass
Twerking! Learn different ways to move your buns and finally let go and love the way your body moves.
Twerking! Learn different ways to move your buns and finally let go and love the way your body moves.
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Lesson 5: Sexy Floor Work
Floor work! Learn to get down and back up in a sexy way, plus everything you can do once you're there.
Floor work! Learn to get down and back up in a sexy way, plus everything you can do once you're there.
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Lesson 6: Create a Dance Routine
Putting it all together! Dress up, pick your music, and let yourself feel sexy, playful, and free.
Putting it all together! Dress up, pick your music, and let yourself feel sexy, playful, and free.
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What's Next For You
There's no such thing as perfect, so let that go. Practice builds confidence, and moving to music in those shoes is pure empowerment. It's a mood shifter too. In my course field trips, we watch dancers of every style and body type, and it teaches real acceptance, women supporting women. Loving our bodies as they are might be the hardest thing we do, but you are gorgeous, sexy, and worthy exactly as you are. Thank you for trusting me and being here.
There's no such thing as perfect, so let that go. Practice builds confidence, and moving to music in those shoes is pure empowerment. It's a mood shifter too. In my course field trips, we watch dancers of every style and body type, and it teaches real acceptance, women supporting women. Loving our bodies as they are might be the hardest thing we do, but you are gorgeous, sexy, and worthy exactly as you are. Thank you for trusting me and being here.
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Who is Morgan
I’m a small town Wisconsin girl who grew up with zero formal training in dance or sports. I just always loved music and I loved to move. High school dances were my thing and I showed up every single time ready to have the best time in the room.
It was not until I was 26 that everything changed. I signed up for a lap dance class and showed up to find out I was the only student. My teacher was smoking hot and she taught me everything. By the end of the class she had me give her a lap dance and apparently I was good enough that she asked me to teach. That same year I was teaching lap dance, pole dance, and exotic dance and I have never looked back.
I also ended up getting a job dancing at a club called Schiek’s Palace Royale where I worked for six years while putting myself through graduate school. I genuinely loved it. The sisterhood of the women I worked with, the freedom of the hours, the cash, the art of dancing and entertaining. It was a chapter of my life I look back on with nothing but fondness. I would not change a single thing.
I taught workshops in Minnesota until I left in 2013 and I still do one off workshops today. I retired from dancing in clubs in 2019 and it remains one of the greatest times of my life.
My favorite thing I have ever done is bring exotic dance to women who never thought they could do it. Watching a woman walk into a workshop unsure of herself and walk out completely lit up and in love with her own body is some of the best work I have ever been a part of. That is why I am so excited to bring this to you online. Because every woman deserves to feel that.
