Lara started learning Pole Fitness in 2006. She loved the sense of achievement and empowerment from always achieving new tricks, and by 2007 she was teaching and doing performances in Perth, Western Australia. She travelled around Australia to attend workshops, learning from the best in their field in both circus and pole fitness. Lara has now taught all around Western Australia working alongside some amazing artists. The drive to understand how moves work, led Lara to study her Certificate III and IV in fitness, progressing over ten years later to get Internationally Certified to teach Pole Dance and train in Aerial Yoga instruction. And then to obtain her Certificate IV in Training and Assessing. She has also taught and performed Lyra and other circus acts including aerials at camps and shows in Western Australia and along the east coast of Australia. Lara's day job before opening a pole studio was also high risk, teaching for almost a decade; high ropes, rock climbing and abseiling at camps in Perth. After slowing down to start her family, Lara moved to Margaret River and set up a Pole Fitness Studio- called Rapture Arts, so that she can bring the same sense of achievement, empowerment and gift of flight to more people! Her current drive is to introduce Pole Fitness as a mainstream art. Part of this was being on the Australian Pole Sport Federation committee for a few years to help get the art recognized as a national sport!