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Meet Jerjan Alim of Fembody Fitness – Santa Fe Springs

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Today we’d like to introduce you to Jerjan Alim.

So, before we jump into specific questions about the business, why don’t you give us some details about you and your story.
I am grateful enough to say that I am 25-year-old multi-business owner. I was part of the Music Industry as a Junior Music Publisher and left when I was 20 after realizing it was not my passion. I started at Fembody Fitness Signal Hill/Long Beach location when I was 18. However, having no athletic background, dance or gymnastic training, acrobatic sports was very difficult for me. I quit Fembody TWICE because I just didn’t feel strong enough, graceful enough, or enough in general. I went back at 20 and focused on training as much as I can.

After competing and placing in a few competitions, I become an intern for Fembody Fitness, and it’s two studios (Huntington Beach and Signal Hill). Joining the Work-study program was the stepping stone that launched my career. After six months of interning, I become a work study manager, and then a few months after, studio manager to regional manager. The owner of the Fembody brand and studios, who is also my mentor, MM (she values her privacy so I will only share initials), took me under her wing and with a lot her guidance and numerous projects filled with challenge, I knew I wanted a studio of my own.

I have seen and experienced first hand the power of community that Fembody brings into the lives of many and wanted to be able to offer the same thing. With the help of my mentor, and now business partner, along with a few behind the scenes forces, I opened the third Fembody Fitness location in Santa Fe Springs/Cerritos. Today, I am able to dance on air with grace, teach and empower students into discovering their strength they never knew they had, and find immense happiness in the art of our movement.

We’re always bombarded by how great it is to pursue your passion, etc. – but we’ve spoken with enough people to know that it’s not always easy. Overall, would you say things have been easy for you?
Smooth is the exact opposite of the journey. I had no dance background, so when I started at Fembody, I had no grace or flexibility. I lacked a gymnastics background, so I feared every moment my feet were off the ground or when I was upside down. Also, being a young college student, I had no capital to get my dreams started. But with enough practice and persistence, I’ve gotten my over splits and now being upside down in the air feels like home to me.

Seeking out different avenues to pursue capital gave me real-life field experience and somehow, some way, the studio was brought into fruition. The journey is still not finished. I dream to continue expanding our wonderful brand. There are days I feel that my own movement is not good enough, but luckily I am surrounded by such fierce energies, I am inspired to challenge myself every single day.

So let’s switch gears a bit and go into the Fembody Fitness – Santa Fe Springs story. Tell us more about the business.
Fembody Fitness are Pole and Aerial fitness studios. We offer classes with circus apparatuses such as Aerial Silks, Aerial Hammock, and Aerial Hoop/Lyra. We also offer Pole Fitness classes, where gymnastics meets ballet and sensuality meets badassery. We have three luxurious and sultry studios where we create the magic of movement.

We pride ourselves in being to teach extraordinary things, things most people do not believe they will even be able to do when they first walk through the door or hear about us. Personally, what I pride the most is, in a world where most businesses and brands make a profit off of its consumer’s insecurities, our brand pushes empowerment. We want our students to discover new ways their body can move.

The feeling of getting a student upside down for the first time, or accomplishing their first climb, is an indescribable one. Whatever your fitness goals are, whether it’s flexibility, or strength, or stamina, whether it’s to lose weight, gain muscle, or compete in a competition, Fembody Fitness is dedicated to helping you accomplish those goals.

In regards to Pole Fitness, we incorporate gymnastic style tricks, along with a movement from different dance genres. Pole FLOW can be contemporary while Pole Exotic more sultry. Every dance has their own style. We also offer BURLESQUE dance classes, FLEXIBILITY, AND STRETCH classes, BARRE SCULPT, and BARRE CARDIO, classes.

Has luck played a meaningful role in your life and business?
I am a firm believer of Balance. I cannot credit luck alone, nor can I discredit it. My mentor took a chance on me because hopefully, she saw something in me, perhaps it is the passion for the brand she created or the gratitude for the sacred spaces she built.

She knew I wanted to piggyback on something that has done so much good for many lives. However, I could have never had met her, and she could have never had met me, I will thank luck for that, maybe even fate as well.

Luck plays a part, but in my opinion, persistence and integrity play bigger ones.

Pricing:

  • 2 WEEK ALL ACCESS New Student Special for $69 available through the website

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Don Curry Photography

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