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If you love teaching as much as we do—then get in touch with us!
- Trainer for Poledance
- Trainer for Aerial (Lyra I Silk I Aerial Yoga)
- Yoga - teacher
- Dance- & Fitness trainer
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Meet our team
We love what we do. Our professionally trained and certified team is just as diverse as our offerings—with us, you’re in the best of hands. We’ll show you the most beautiful aspects of pole dance and aerial acrobatics—whether athletic, acrobatic, dance-like, sexy, or elegant—with humor and expertise. Pole, dance, and fly with us!

Diana Hoffmann
Founder
Qualifications
- certified Dance Teacher
- X-PERT Pole Fitness Trainer Level 1-4
- Polebatics Pole Trainer first steps (ADC)
- Polebatics Pole Trainer Level 1 (ADC)
- Pole Instructor Beginners Level 0-3 (ADC)
- Pole Instructor Intermediate Level 4-6 (ADC)
- Pole Instructor Advanced Level 7-9 (ADC)
- Exercise leader air acrobatics TPZAK
Competitions
- Deutsche Polesport Meisterschaft 2014, Bochum
Kategorie: Doubles Elite, 3 Place - World Pole Sports Championship IPSF 2014, London, Kategorie: Doubles Elite
- Duisburger Tanztage 2016 * PODA NOVA * 1. Place
Diana has been dancing since she was 9 years old. Starting with jazz dance followed modern, contemporary and ballet. In 2011 she discovered Pole Dance for herself and was immediately enthusiastic. She deepened her knowledge in various trainings and further trainings with international pole dance trainers. For Diana, Pole Dance is the perfect combination of dance, aesthetics, strength and acrobatics. She found a passion here that she not only discovered for herself but also wants to pass on to her students.

Sarah Goerres
Pole trainer & yoga teacher
Qualifications
- Pole Instructor Beginners Level 0-3 (ADC)
- Psychotherapist
Influenced by the Rhenish carnival, Sarah is a truly cheerful person and is bursting with energy. She is a trained psychotherapist and got to know pole dancing during a semester abroad in England and was immediately hooked. You can feel her passion in her courses. Our "lekker meisje" loves tricks on the pole and can also teach in Dutch :-)

Anna Harings
Pole trainer
Qualifications
- Physiotherapist
- Pole Instructor Beginners Level 0-3 (ADC)
Anna came to our studio in 2017 and has been enriching our team since 2019! She is our physiotherapy specialist and enriches her lessons with a wealth of specialist knowledge - not just about anatomy :-) She is a real cheerful person and a real power woman, which you will definitely notice in her courses.

Alina Dammers
Acrobatics trainer
Qualifications
- contortionist
- Trainer C mass sport
- Trainer C gymnastics & gymnastics
Alina discovered her passion for dance and acrobatics in childhood. At the age of 4 she started ballet, followed quickly by gymnastics, acrobatics, contortion and standard & Latin American couple dances. At the age of 15 she became the Dutch master in gymnastics. She now travels all over Germany to present all shows at various events with her acrobatic partner. Since 2020 you have been teaching the partner acrobatics course with us.

Joana Dinah Schwing
Joana is a freelance dancer and aerial acrobat.
Born in Canada, she studied dance at the Fontys Tanzakademie in Tilburg and has been seen in musicals and operas, at festivals and various other stages since her successful graduation in 2008.
Her entry into aerial acrobatics was a pole dance intensive course in early 2013. A few years later, she added other gravity-defying disciplines, such as Aerial hoop, silks and net. She loves challenges and thrills in her work, but is more calm and level-headed in her private life.
Because of her main work as a performer, Joana is an occasional trainer and coach (among other things) in the poda studio. In her courses, she likes to focus on efficient and conscious coordination in the air and on the ground.

Celine Lee
Pole trainer
Qualifications
- Pole Instructor Beginners Level 0-3 (ADC)
- XPERT Essential Science of Heels
Competitions
- Steel on Fire 2022 beginners
Funny & a little bit crazy. Celine quickly fell in love with a variety of high heel exotic styles, powerful pole tricks and every other challenge that pole sport has to offer. With her relaxed manner, she has been teaching since the end of 2022 and loves sharing her enthusiasm with others.

Lara Lesch
Pole & dance trainer
Qualifications
- Annaconda Akademie Polesport Trainer Grundausbildung & Level 0-1
Versatile, Hip Hop to Heels, creative & balancing.
It was love at first sight. Be it ballet, modern, contemporary, hip hop, commercial or pole, she was enthusiastic about everything.
She joined various competitive dance groups and gained stage and competition experience. She began teaching her first children's dance classes in 2014. This was followed by both basic and championship groups in hip hop and jazz dance.
In 2021, she landed at Poda in search of new challenges her passion for pole was quickly awakened. In her free time, she spends a lot of time with the dogs from the animal shelter and transforms her apartment into a native jungle with tropical plants.

Amelie Wolz
Pole trainer
Qualifications
- Pole Instructor Beginners Level 0-3 (ADC)
Amelie, our longtime Poda student, loves tricks on the pole and lets you participate in her courses. In her studies she focuses on the topics of sustainability and recycling.

Marina Yakubova
Pole, aerial & kids trainer
Marina is a professional aerialist and a real circus kid. Growing up in a family of artists, she loves everything that has to do with acrobatics & dance.
She teaches our aerial acrobatics courses aerial hoop & aerial silk as well as our kids & teens courses.
Languages: German, English, Russian

Thelma
Pole trainer
Thelma loves everything to do with heels—whether on the pole, with a chair or doing floorwork.
Exotic Pole, Oldschool, Burlesque & Strip
Competitions
- 2019 POSA Korea & Angelcup Pole Dance Championship 3. Amateur Exotic
- 2019 Pole Art Korea Competition - 3. Exotic Professional
- 2019 Exotic Generation Asia - Finalist Old School Kategorie
Award
- 2019 Pole Dancer of the Year, Korea Pole Sports Art Federation - Professional Sektor

Laura Weiler
Pole trainer
Qualifications
- Poda Teacher Training Grundausbildung & Pole Beginner Level 1+2
Laura started doing artistic gymnastics at the age of 6. She practiced with passion until she was 18 and competed in several competitions. In 2021, she took up pole dancing and completed her instructor training at Poda in the summer of 2025. Laura loves letting the music guide her and combining fluid tricks, dance moves, and floorwork.
She is open, funny, and creative, and loves pole dancing, fashion, art, summer, and the ocean.

Julia Jansen
Aerial & kids trainer
Qualification
- Fitnesstrainerin B Lizenz
Julia discovered her passion for aerial acrobatics in 2019—and she hasn’t looked back since. Prior to that, she had already gained valuable experience in martial arts, which now helps her develop strength, discipline, and body awareness in her work.
In her classes, Julia combines expertise with empathy. She believes it’s important to support each person individually and guide them on their own path. In doing so, she creates an atmosphere where progress is celebrated, self-confidence can grow, and the stresses of daily life fade into the background for a moment—all while enjoying the joy of movement and shared successes.

Jennifer Franzen
Reception & Marketing
Our friendly and outgoing staff is here to help you at the front desk with any questions about the studio, memberships and more.
Studio
Our studio is located on Martinstraße, right in the center of Aachen. With its industrial atmosphere, Poda Studio offers optimal conditions for training. Overall it covers an area of 300 square meters of which 150 square meters are used as dance floor on which you will find 13 professional poles with a total height of 3.40 meters that can be folded up on demand.

Studio Rental
You are looking for premises? Our studio is perfectly suitable for yoga-, pilates- and dance teachers that are still looking for facilities for their lessons/ workshop. Stereo equipment, mats, yoga blocks, balls, and bands are available to you. Or are you a photographer looking for a special location for your shooting? Feel free to contact us! Times can be agreed upon outside the regular lesson times. Price upon request.
Interested? Write us a message with your desired date.






