Natasha Bajic is a decorated army veteran who has gone above and beyond her pole studio’s controversial name. Not only was she was the first female to complete special forces training, but she has also hiked the Appalachian Trail, taken up sky diving as a hobby, explored war torn areas, and even survived a fall from a Black Hawk helicopter. Natasha is also the first pole instructor to teach with the accompaniment of her service animal Amigo.

Under Natasha's guidance, Brass Ovaries has developed into one of the best pole training facilities in the nation, and Natasha has received numerous awards and recognition for her invaluable contribution to the fitness industry. Natasha supplements her understanding of physical fitness with a degree in neuroscience, and a strong focus in anthropology and psychology. Her years spent studying the human brain helped shape her personal approach to pole dance, which she dubs “releasing your inner monkey”.

Unbound by gravity’s limitations, Natasha combines elements of gymnastics, break dancing, Mallakhamb, Chinese Pole Dancing, and freestyle, resulting in a distinct style of her own.She is X-Pert certified and Pole Position Fitness certified, participating in numerous workshops with accomplished pole performers. She has trained under celebrity pole dancers, including Pole Dance Hall of Fame member Kim Shafer-Standley, and World Pole Champion Pantera Blacksmith.

Sarah is a professional aerial hoop artist and pole dancer who has been with Brass Ovaries since the beginning! She is an X-Pert Certified Pole Fitness instructor, and her background includes 12 years of gymnastics, as well as Salsa, Flamenco, and competitive cheerleading. She skated for two years with the iconic Texas Rollergirls under the name "Spawn of Terror" and was dubbed the "rubber band" of the league due to her incredible flexibility and quick reflexes.

Recently, Sarah won the title "Miss Flexibility" at Pole Dance America's Miss Texas Pole Dance and Fitness competition in June 2012! Another accomplishment was winning "Ultimate Runner Up" in the 2010 Miss Texas Polestar competition. Sarah's past pole performances have included events such as the New Orleans Voodoo Music Experience 2007 & 2008, Austin's legendary Gadjo Disko parties, KLBJ's annual Pleasure Fest and featured on the aerial hoop with the famous traveling Day-Glow paint party. In addition to dance and music, Sarah is interested in visual statements and is the designer for all the Brass Ovaries flyers and posters. In May 2010, she became a Certified Photographic Artist – specializing in digital restoration and retouching. She also tells everyone that rescue dogs make the best pets because they know they have been saved. Her rescue Chihuahua, Schroeder, is usually prancing around the pole studio between classes, he's the official welcome committee!

Miss Sophie is a sexy triple-threat! She has been acting, singing, and dancing ever since she can remember. Like many fellow starving artists, Miss Sophie began working at gentleman's clubs to finance her journey toward a BA in Theatre and Dance at the University of Texas, which she completed with honors in May of 2007. As fate would have it, her new profession confirmed her interest and enthusiasm for erotic performance, through which she has discovered many pleasures, including aerial burlesque and naked skydiving.

Miss Sophie is the Studio Director and an X-Pert Certified Pole Fitness instructor at Brass Ovaries Pole Dancing, where she teaches Levels 1-5 Pole Dancing, Aerial Hoop, Strip Tease, and Burlesque for Pole classes. She created the "Art of Erotic Dance" class for Forbidden Fruit Boutique's Sunday Series and has hosted Austin Fashion Week events for Le Rouge Boutique. She has headlined on the pole and aerial hoop at many of Austin's most entertaining events, including Zombie Ball, The Extravagasm Fantasy Ball, KLBJ's PleasureFest, SXSW Music Festival, The Green Steam Circus, Freak Show Festival,The Real L Word party at Lipstick24, Dayglow, Life In Color: The World's Largest Paint Party, Ballet Austin's Fete*ish Fundraiser, MRY's 10th Anniversary Gala at The Belmont, and plenty of local burlesque showcases. She was also selected as a featured extra on season 5 of the hit NBC TV series "Friday Night Lights." Currently, she has executive producer credits for Brass Ovaries 5th Anniversary Aerial Cabaret show at The ND, High Heels and Steel at Beauty Ballroom, and The Capital of Texas Championships at The Marchesa. Sophie credits much of her success to her partner and rigging engineer, Shane, who bought her her first pole!

Growing up in San Antonio, Lindsey knew from a young age that Austin was the place for her. She moved here in 2006 with her cosmetology license and immediately jumped behind the chair. Lindsey has a true passion and talent for hair. She has managed a salon for which she was also able to travel as an educator! With a background of 13 years of dance experience, in January of 2011 she came into Brass Ovaries and fell in love, becoming instantly addicted to pole. Lindsey spent any time she wasn't doing hair swinging around the pole! She won her first pole competition in September 2011 as the Miss Texas Pole Star Fitness Division, followed by winning Miss Sexy & Ultimate Runner Up in the MTPS 2012 competition. Lindsey is an X-Pert Certified Pole Fitness instructor and is now performing with Brass Ovaries at venues all over town. You can always find her in the studio practicing and teaching classes!

Discovering pole dance fitness was such an amazing eye opener for Summer. As a mother of two, finding the time and desire to go the gym was a struggle. To realize that fitness can be exciting, sensual, and something to look forward to, was a feeling that she had not previously experienced.

Summer attributes pole dance fitness to transforming her into the strong, sexy, confident woman that she has become. As a student, she watched women of all ages start to feel sensual within their own skin. With a desire to bring these feelings to others, she began instructing in October 2009. She wanted to help other women discover the strength, beauty and grace that they all possess and sometimes find hard to express. Summer is an X-Pert Certified Pole Fitness instructor.

Welcome our new X-Pert Certified Pole Fitness instructor, Danae! From a young age, Danae has been drawn to performance and the arts. At the age of 10, she began studying ballet. Spending her teenage years between the city and working with horses in the country, she joined a hip-hop dance troop in Dallas. A year later she became captain and coached the girls to their first dance competition, where they won second place!
After having her little girl in 2007, Danae wanted to find a new scene and left for Austin. She soon discovered a whole new form of artistic expression in burlesque, but it was not physically challenging enough to hold her interest. Danae found the combined performance art and physicality of pole dancing addicting! She began training in pole around 2009. Self taught and driven, she soon began performing at shows and festivals and has since performed on some of Austin's most notorious stages. Danae has made appearances at the R.O.T. Rally, Antone's, SXSW, The Highball, Beauty Ballroom, monthly reviews at Elysium, and so much more!
Wanting to perfect her skills and techniques, and continue her love for teaching dance, Danae became an regular face at Brass Ovaries and is now an X-Pole X-Pert trained pole fitness instructor.

Luki Martino has competed twice at Miss Texas Pole star – in 2011 she was honored with the Runner-Up title in the Fitness Category, and 2012 competed as a finalist in the Ultimate Category. In November 2012 she won 3rd Place at the Southern Regional Pole Competition in the Championship category! Luki began pole dancing in March 2010 at Brass Ovaries in Austin, TX. Earlier this year, she was selected to be part of the first-ever Texas cast of Kelly Yvonne’s Girl Next Door: A Pole Dance Soiree and also had the chance to travel to California to perform with the Girl Next Door Hollywood cast. Luki is an X-Pert Certified Pole Fitness instructor.

Luki loves the confidence & strength that pole dancing has brought to her; along with a little bit of a dare devil attitude. Ever the trixter, she loves to break down and conquer new moves. Her love of aerial arts is not limited to pole -- Luki also loves to perform aerial hoop!

Fresh from California, this coiling pixie discovered her passion for dance and theatre arts at the young age of 4, though her dance aspirations really took off at age 12, when she made her way into a professional dance company, "Carrie On", under Carrie Pereira and Apryl Hanson. She received her Bachelor's Degree in Dance and Theatre Arts at CSU, Sacramento in 2005, and became a well known face and name in the community. She studied with Dale Scholl Dance Art under Dale Scholl, Nolan T'Sani, Lisa Ross, Sarah Bush Dance Project in San Fransico, and the infamous Mark Morris in New York. Haley soon developed into an award-winning choreographer of startling erotic and creative contemporary modern dance, and taught at the advanced college level. During a 5 year hiatus, due to a traumatic leg injury, Haley found the healing and powerful practice of yoga, first as a student and eventually as an instructor. Having recently moved to Austin, Haley has been working as an up-and-coming pole and burlesque dancer, falling in love with the theatrical tease and language of the body. She is elated to be teaching with the nationally acclaimed Brass Ovaries!

Erin is a bit of a Jack of All Trades! She went to college to study music, but found her love for doing hair along the way. She has been working as a hair color specialist for the past 8 years and loves helping people feel good about themselves. While doing hair in Dallas, she discovered she had scoliosis and turned to Pilates to help her rehabilitate. Loving the subtle physiological nuances of the practice, and the difference in how her body felt, she became a certified Pilates instructor through Karen Sanzo in Dallas, in 2006. Soon after her certification, she moved to Austin and continued doing hair color. She eventually became an educator to share her knowledge with colorists new to the industry. She also continued advancing her Pilates studies under Kate Wodash, at Mindful Body Center.
Always looking for new challenges, Erin took her first pole class at Brass Ovaries in early 2012 and immediately fell in love with not just pole dancing, but the support that she received from instructors and students alike. Not only was it physically challenging, but she discovered an inner strength and confidence she never knew she had. It is now her goal to help others find their own personal strength and sense of self through the art of pole and the sense of community found at Brass Ovaries!

Marisa’s love for aerial arts was sparked when a friend and fellow burlesque dancer encouraged her to purchase a Brass Ovaries Groupon. Following her first class, she was totally hooked on this fun new form of fitness! Aerial arts have completely changed Marisa’s life; within her first year of training, she was cast in a full-length aerial production, The Time Machine, with local circus arts collective Sky Candy. Since then, Marisa has continued to perform with Sky Candy in their productions of The Flame and Land Without Evil. She is also a member of Volve Performance Collective, with whom she has performed at Cirque Lunaire, Cirque Blanc, Head for the Hills Music Festival, and local fundraiser ArtErotica. Marisa’s specialty is doubles work, particularly doubles lyra with her partner, Lindsay King. She recently competed in the Doubles Division of the Capital of Texas Pole Championships and has also performed and created partner work on the hammock, the cube, the silks and the ground. Marisa has continued to train at both Sky Candy, where she is a member of the Studio Company, and Brass Ovaries, where she is absolutely thrilled to be making the leap to instructor. She is very excited to be able to instruct and support new students as they begin their own aerial journeys – she hopes it will be as life-changing for you as it has been for her!

Before she was even born, Caty Mae's parents were traveling up and down the California coastline, working in various circuses. So when it was her time to stand in the ring, her family would realize that it was more than destiny, it was in her blood.
Caty Mae started her training in Los Angeles by accident, when someone noticed her pointed toes during a set of pull-ups and recommended a silks class. With years of yoga and athletic tendencies under her belt, it wasn't long before she was enrolled in a full time aerial training program, under the mastery of Cirque du Soleil coaches Rachel Walker of Kooza and Sarah Steben of Saltimbanco.
Almost immediately after she left school, her career took flight. She has since worked in many Hollywood nightclubs as well as fairs, schools, and charity benefits. She has also flown next to high profile stars like Macy Grey and studied silks alongside P!nk.
Her passion fo being in the air has taken her all over the country and abroad. As an athlete first and foremost, she believes in specified techniques for flexibility and strength training, which she has molded over the coarse of her career.
Her latest endeavor has been with a three ring circus working on Silks, Lyra, Spanish Web, and several elephants. After two years on the road, Caty Mae is excited to return to teaching and share her experiences with students who share her enthusiasm for fitness and circus arts.

Bio coming soon!