Why Learn Poi at La Escuela Del Sol?

Besides the fact that we are the only vacation fire poi school in Central and South America, there may not be another fire poi academy as committed to individualized attention and growth as ours is.  We keep fire spinning classes to a maximum of 5 students per instructor.  Lessons are individual and begin with your ability when you arrive so that you can progress at your own rate.  Other schools may teach 15 or 20 students at a time, introducing a lesson and moving on before the move is learned by everyone.  We teach you personally until you get it.  Then we build from that skill to the next logical step, until you get that too.  Add our teaching philosophy to 90 minute poi lessons each and every day and  it's easy to see why the rate at which our students excel is exceptional.  Many have come from absolutely no experience to mastering multiple techniques and flow in a matter of weeks. 

Some of the skills you can expect to learn from our poi lessons are weaves, butterfly, buzz saw, thread the needle, stalls, behind the back weaves and turns, wraps, fountains, the gremlin, mind meltdowns, straight jacket weave and butterfly, flowers and many other variations. 

Beginner Poi Classes

If you are a complete beginner, in one week we can teach you the basics.  It will be a good starting point to build upon with videos, research and practice when you get home.  But if you really want to get good...if you want to find flow, feel it and be able to incorporate dance and movement with little thought to what the poi heads are doing, you'll need at least two weeks.  Come for four weeks and you'll be astonished at how much you learn.

Intermediate and Advanced Poi Classes

With such talent coming through Montezuma as Nick Woolsey, Alien John, Burning Dan, Zan Moore, Pyrosutra and a hundred other unknown yet extremely talented street performers and artists, we're constantly studying, evolving and incorporating cutting edge tricks and concepts into our classes.  If we can't keep you busy for weeks, you're probably already performing in the circus.

Some of the more advanced tricks and concepts might include behind the back (weaves and butterflies), quarter turn, half turn and full turn transitions between btb weaves and waist wraps in any and all directions, poly-rhythms on all planes (including btb), vertical stalls, one-handed butterflies and weaves, a plethora of tosses, isolations, inversions, air wraps, flowers, hyperloops, orbitals, spiral wraps, mind meltdowns, straight-jackets and crossers, anti-spins, complex transitions and a whole lot more.

Here's a look at what you can expect from our Poi or our Poi combination programs:

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 Fire Poi School -
What's Included

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1 Week Poi Only

• Free set of practice sock poi
  
• 90 minutes of poi instruction, on beach or covered veranda, M-F
• Guided waterfall hike
  
• Introduction to fire safety if lighting up
• 6 nights accommodation at La Escuela Del Sol

3 Week Poi Only

• Includes all features of 2 Week Program plus:
  • 1 more week's accommodation (20 nights total)
    
  • Optional class on third Friday to allow for extended travel

Poi and Spanish

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1 Week Spanish and Poi

• 2 hours of Spanish classroom instruction, M-F
• 2 hours of applied learning (in class or outside), M-F
• Books and instructional materials
• Free set of practice sock poi
  
• Introduction to fire safety if lighting up
  
• 90 minutes of poi classes, on beach or covered veranda, M-F
• Guided waterfall hike
  
• 6 nights accommodation at La Escuela Del Sol
• Fire show by Eli (chance to light up if ready)
  

• Includes all features of 2 Week Program plus:
  • 7 more nights of accommodation (20 nights total)
  • 3rd fire show by Eli (chance to light up if ready)
  • Optional class on third Friday to allow for extended travel

Poi Spinning and Yoga

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1 Week Yoga and Poi

**Popular program.  Book early to guarantee enrollment**

• Free set of practice sock poi
  
• Introduction to fire safety if lighting up
  
• 90 minutes of learning poi, on beach or covered veranda, M-F
• Fire show by Eli (chance to light up if ready)
  
• 90 minutes of Hatha Vinyasa-style Yoga, M-F
  
• Guided waterfall hike
  
• 6 nights accommodation at La Escuela Del Sol

3 Week Yoga and Poi

• Includes all features of 2 Week Program plus:
  • 7 more nights of accommodation (20 nights total)
  • 3rd fire show by Eli (chance to light up if ready)
  • Optional class on third Friday to allow for extended travel

Fire Poi and Surfing

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1 Week Surfing and Poi

**Popular program.  Book early to guarantee enrollment**

• Surfboard
• Introduction to surfing on beach for beginners
• 2 hours of surfing instruction at Playa Grande, M-F
• Free set of practice sock poi
  
• Introduction to fire safety if lighting up
  
• 90 minutes of fire poi classes, on beach or covered veranda, M-F
• Fire show by Eli (chance to light up if ready)
• Guided waterfall hike
  
• 6 nights accommodation at La Escuela Del Sol

3 Week Surfing and Poi

• Includes all features of 2 Week Program plus:
  • 7 more nights of accommodation (20 nights total)
  • 3rd fire show by Eli (chance to light up if ready)
  • Optional class on third Friday to allow for extended travel