The Pole Garage

Take this Santa Monica pole dance studio's name with a grain of salt. Owner and lead instructor Drea Rogers opened The Pole Garage as an intimate five-pole space designed for women to explore "their inner fire" from six feet in the air, wearing seven-inch stilletos. Not your average fitness center (or, um, garage), the cozy studio's babely instructors are well trained to pass on their sensual skills in pole dance, striptease and lap dance, firming your buns and thighs, while making you feel like you're worth ten thousand dollars a shift. Classes for both first timers and expert dancers are available, as well as private lessons, parties and workshops. Sessions conveniently take place at night on weekdays and during the day on weekends, giving westsiders no excuse not to sneak a little sass into their weekly schedules.