Thursday, October 29, 2015
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Wednesday, October 28, 2015
The Clitoris Doesn’t Have an Expiration Date
Reposted With Permission By Sheila Kelley S Factor
It happened at a party. One of those Hollywood meets Washington D.C. kinda parties at a mansion that used to belong to a child TV star from the 80s. Every 45 minutes you could take a tour of the house and grounds, which included a bowling alley, an indoor shooting range, 3 family rooms, a secret door down to a speakeasy, a squash ball court, putting green, tennis court, two pools, and – I kid you not – a pygmy pig farm with 5 itty bitty tiny miniature pigs. You gotta love Hollywood!
I had just finished my tour when a woman I vaguely remember meeting several years earlier came up to me and started speaking as if we knew each other very well, “How’s Richard? How’re your dogs?”
I realized that she was a very Famous Spiritual Thought Leader (FTL) whom I had met at an event years ago in Santa Barbara! FTL knew of my passion empowering women through their bodies and I, along with everyone else on the planet, knew of her work making miracles happen. She proceeded to launch into a deep discussion about the work I do with women. She mentioned that she was starting a new program directed toward women and she wanted to learn more about what happens at S. There isn’t much I love talking about more than the feminine so I jumped right in about the wildly exquisite Erotic Creature within every woman’s body and how she fuels your life.
FTL stopped me mid-sentence and said definitively, “Not me. I don’t have one. I’m over 60 now and being erotic just doesn’t hold much weight for me or women my age anymore.”
Ahhhhhh!!!!!
Well, this just about sent me sideways. What?! Inside I was exploding with a cacophony of words and thoughts that I frantically tried to gather together into a cohesive sentence. I couldn’t understand her calm finality. She seemed to be at peace with this self-imposed life sentence of sexual, sensual celibacy.
I blubbered, “FTL, what do you mean? Being erotic is a lifelong gift of being human, isn’t it?”
FTL: “When you’re my age, life becomes about something bigger, something more spiritual.”
Feminine sexuality. It’s the hot button topic of the millennium.
Me: “Why can’t spirituality be erotic?”
FTL: “It’s just not.”
Me: “Well, I don’t mean to be presumptuous here but I beg to differ, the journey of S Factor is a journey toward the soulful expression of your erotic body. Your soul speaks through your body which by definition is an erotic creature!”
Bam! Nailed it!
FTL: “Hmmmmmm…I’ll have to think about this.” She turned her gaze uncomfortably away from me. This conversation had taken a turn that was making her quite uneasy. Goodness. Was I altering her mind, her amazing brilliant mind that had settled into a belief that she needed to forever ban her erotic body to silence?
Me: “FTL?” I asked tentatively. “Could it be that you never thought of yourself as an erotic creature?”
FTL: “Oh, well, when I was younger I was a very erotic woman.”
Me: “What happened?”
Her: “I told you. Life has become about something far more elevated than sex.”
“I didn’t say anything about sex, FTL. I said ‘erotic creature,’ aka, the body, the fully matured feminine body that you live in, that carries you through life. Your feminine body is by definition a sexual being. The way your breasts curve out into the world, your waist indents, your hips swerve out. When fully relaxed that body knows how to undulate easily and send her erotic signals far and wide throughout your entire life. But if you want to talk about sex we can talk about sex. I know for a fact that the clitoris has no expiration date. Desire doesn’t give up! Lust is the healthiest most invigorating energy that rolls through our bodies! Every woman – exempting possibly those who have undergone female genital mutilation – is capable of feeling pleasure throughout her entire body for her entire life.”
FTL looked at me like I had been speaking in Swahili.
It may have been my mention of the word “clitoris.” Maybe I should have pushed my point further. FTL seemed to have a similar reaction to her erotic body that our culture has. Women who can no longer bear children don’t have desire, aren’t seen as sexual beings, can’t receive or give pleasure. Seriously? Let’s permanently debunk that evil little myth. The clitoris is the sole organ in the human body, male or female, that has one single lifelong purpose and that is to bring the owner pleasure. Period! It does that through the more than 8,000 nerve endings it has over its entire surface (the penis has only about 4,000). And the clitoris expands with age! Meaning that by the time a woman is say, 65, the age of our FTL, her clitoris will be seven times the size it was at birth! Think about it, seven times the pleasure! As I said to FTL, the clitoris has no expiration date. Don’t even get me started on the erogenous zone known as your skin and how many nerve endings of pleasure there are on it. Erotic pleasure is a human gift.
The concept that FTL’s body was a creature with desire and fire seemed to spin her. She seemed at a loss. Her eyes shifted and bobbed as if trying to find center again, drifting toward some kind of deep body awakening. She looked away from me and then just as suddenly caught herself. And very methodically she turned toward me, “Sheila you are adorable, you and your pole dancing, but until you are my age you really can’t understand where I am coming from. But I admire you. I really do.”
With that she gave me a quick kiss on the cheek and disappeared into the party. Escaped! Whoa! What? Was I just dressed down? Yes, I was!
Fifteen years into this journey of guiding women toward their body truth, their beauty, their soulful sexuality and I am still astounded with the controversy it provokes. Feminine sexuality. It’s the hot button topic of the millennium. So hot that it sends even some of the most awakened thinkers of our time running for the hills. It keeps women enchained in darkness with frozen bodies yearning to fly, stretch free, curve and be seen in all of their magnificent radiance. How can we move away from a place of unease toward the female body towards a place of elevation and celebration of her? Fully awakening to her true potential and the luminosity of her feminine light?
FTL is coming to town to speak next week. I bought tickets. I will go and shake her hand. I will nod my head and try to remain silent. But I know me. Maybe this time my words will seduce her into the light. Her own beautiful erotic feminine light of being. Wish me luck!
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Pole Dance e Loop Bands®, forza e flessibilità
Monday, October 26, 2015
Il primo Pole Dance Passport Training Day: 25 Ottobre 2015 Milano
Honesty
An Essay by David Whyte
Honesty is reached through the doorway of grief and loss. Where we cannot go in our mind, our memory, or our body is where we cannot be straight with another, with the world, or with our self. The fear of loss, in one form or another, is the motivator behind all conscious and unconscious dishonesties: all of us are afraid of loss, in all its forms, all of us, at times, are haunted or overwhelmed by the possibility of a disappearance, and all of us therefore, are one short step away from dishonesty. Every human being dwells intimately close to a door of revelation they are afraid to pass through. Honesty lies in understanding our close and necessary relationship with not wanting to hear the truth.
The ability to speak the truth is as much the ability to describe what it is like to stand in trepidation at this door, as it is to actually go through it and become that beautifully honest spiritual warrior, equal to all circumstances, we would like to become. Honesty is not the revealing of some foundational truth that gives us power over life or another or even the self, but a robust incarnation into the unknown unfolding vulnerability of existence, where we acknowledge how powerless we feel, how little we actually know, how afraid we are of not knowing and how astonished we are by the generous measure of loss that is conferred upon even the most average life.
Honesty is grounded in humility and indeed in humiliation, and in admitting exactly where we are powerless. Honesty is not found in revealing the truth, but in understanding how deeply afraid of it we are. To become honest is in effect to become fully and robustly incarnated into powerlessness. Honesty allows us to live with not knowing. We do not know the full story, we do not know where we are in the story; we do not know who is at fault or who will carry the blame in the end. Honesty is not a weapon to keep loss and heartbreak at bay, honesty is the outer diagnostic of our ability to come to ground in reality, the hardest attainable ground of all, the place where we actually dwell, the living, breathing frontier where there is no realistic choice between gain or loss.
‘HONESTY’ Excerpted From CONSOLATIONS:
The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning
of Everyday Words
© 2015 David Whyte and Many Rivers Press
Now Available
http://davidwhyte.stores.yahoo.net/newbook.html and Amazon.com
When the director Mark Pellington approached me with his wish to make a short film of my essay ‘Honesty’. I was intrigued but had absolutely no idea how he could accomplish such a task. An essay in film? In the end, I was completely floored by the result, a visceral sometimes overwhelming look, literally and figuratively at the inner complexion of a freeing honesty emerging through the face of grief and loss. Thank you Mark.
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What Is Yoga and Is It Right For You?
By Paras Saini KabirPanthi
Yoga is a form of exercise that unites breath, mind, body, and spirit. The word and practice YOGA conjures up images of Eastern philosophy and ancient practices. Modern day yoga practice has been discovered in the Western world by many people who want to strengthen their bodies in a new way.
Yoga is not the fast pace cardiovascular workout like running, dance class, or a sport like
tennis. Yoga is learning how to slow your thoughts way down, place all your attention on the present moment, and create an oasis of stillness in your movements.
Striking a yoga pose builds strength in every part of your body. It reconnects you to your higher spirit while your body and mind learn to BE still.
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Scared to get off the pill?
Hey Friend?
I don’t know about you, but women tell me all the time “Melissa, I want to get off the pill, but I’m scared to.” Truthfully, I don’t blame them. Hormones will fluctuate and I’m sure people have told you that you may gain weight too. Well before you jump off the pill, I want to talk to you about the deficiencies that are created and that you should know about before doing anything. (In fact you can take these supplements while on the pill too!) Plus I’ve provided a recipe that you are seriously going to go organic bananas over.
PS – Don’t forget guys,
my private hormone Facebook group, Sexy Lady Balls Private is open right now and free until the relaunch of the program, so join now if you haven’t already.
xo
Melissa
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How Can I Improve My Pole Skills?
By Meri Burgess
The number one thing I would say is practice…putting in the hours is so important. Your rate of improvement varies greatly depending on how much work you put into it. The two things I’ve done to push myself to practice? The first, is entering competitions and showcases. With every competition I do, I break through plateaus and gain strength in new ways that I might not have even necessarily been training for that specific competition.
So far I’ve been in about 6 competitions in the past 2 years, plus at least another 6 shows. Each one has been well worth it! Competing can sound intimidating, but I started out with Pole Sport Organization (PSO) events that have specific levels you can enter without any qualification rounds. It is a great place to start.
The second thing I did was enroll in a 9 month professional aerial dance training program through Frequent Flyers Productions in Boulder, Colorado last year. It was 20-25 hours a week of training in pretty much any aerial apparatus or aerial related cross training you can think of. Not only did this teach me a lot of skills, but it taught me how to train smart. Within the program we had a 6 week kinesiology course with a very skilled trainer, and beyond that I took half a dozen private sessions with her to work on very specific muscle engagements and alignment techniques. We also did a lot of ground based dance classes, which have expanded my vocabulary greatly.
You don’t necessarily need to find a program exactly like the one I did if you don’t want to move or pay for something like that, but rather, you can build your own based on resources around you. I’ve only been doing this for 3.5 years, with absolutely zero athletic or dance background, and I was pretty rough around the edges to start…I’m only just beginning to feel semi-competent!
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Thursday, October 22, 2015
Fermento, troppe idee| La pole sopra Berlino 3
Wednesday, October 21, 2015
Preparazione del grande evento: Pole Dance Passport Training Day
Tuesday, October 20, 2015
Dear SmallBiz, Are you Being Human Online?
All small businesses share something that no one can take away from them: passion. And, with online communication channels and networks, we can all share and enjoy that passion. How? By being human. It’s not your fault, we all forget that online interaction should be no different than face-to-face. Yes, you’re talking and communicating... Read more »
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Monday, October 19, 2015
Dieci anni di Miss Pole Dance Australia
Sunday, October 18, 2015
Calisthenics per la pole dance, funziona davvero?
Thursday, October 15, 2015
Arriva il corso federale di Allenatore Agonistico Nazionale di Pole Sport-Pole Dance
La dura ricerca di una scuola | La pole sopra Berlino 2
La mia vita tra coulotte, leggings e tacchi alti
Tuesday, October 13, 2015
Samantha Fabbrini You beautiful legend
When is The Right Time To Hand Over An Online Community?
Are you thinking about building an online brand community? 95% fail within the first 12 months. Click to read more about the most common fail factor and how you can get around it.
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Monday, October 12, 2015
Pole Dance Matters: Performers tribute to #blacklivesmatter
Los Angeles – Dance has always been a catalyst for empowerment. As a powerful tool of artistic expression, its potency can liberate the viewer and incite change. After being bombarded with news and images per the recent upsurge in senseless killings, from Trayvon Martin to Eric Garner to Sandra Bland, Mia Shanté knew she had to do something. Her spirit was calling her to dance out the trauma, the pain and the hurt. Shanté gathered together an ensemble of some of Los Angeles’ top pole dancers to participate in a dance ritual to Michael Jackson’s “They Don’t Care About Us” and has released a performance video entitled, “Old Fight. New Dance: Black Lives Matter.” at https://vimeo.com/channels/miashanteproductions .
“Old fight. New Dance: Black Lives Matter,” quakes with bold defiance while resonating with heartfelt compassion. Expresses Shanté, “In particular, I envisioned this as a piece for black women. We haven’t really been highlighted during this movement. We have had to mourn the deaths of our fathers, husbands, brothers and children and often we are there to build the men who have been victimized back up. This video is to let people know that as pole dancers, we hear them, we feel them, we are them and to still hold on to hope. Black lives do matter.”
Filmed in a warehouse location, eight pole dancers move fearless and graceful between vignettes of protest footage interspersed with passages of Dr. Martin Luther King’s “I have a Dream” speech over Jackson’s “They Don’t Care About Us.” The pole dancers, dressed in black, move in sync and solidarity, passing through pain to triumph.
“Old Fight. New Dance: Black Lives Matter,” was directed by Shanté for Mia Shanté Productions. Pole artist/performer Phoenix Kazree choreographed the production. Kazree, an Alvin Ailey American Dance School, Joffrey Ballet and “The Lion King” alumni, holds pole champion titles from around the world. Brandon Deese served as the director of photography. The pole dance collaboration includes some of the industry’s top polers including Candace Cane, Divine Em, Jamé Elis, Kelly Yvonne, Kitty Marie LaVeaux, Melody Amber-Marie, Onyx Black, Sasja Lee and Tehera Nesfield.
Left to right back row: Sasja “Fierce” Lee, , Kelly Yvonne, Mia Shanté and Divine Em Left to right front row: Jamé Elis, Tehera Nesfield, Onyx Black and Candace Cane
A Chicago native, Mia Shanté aka The Vegan Bodybuilding Pole Dancer, is a NASM Certified Personal Trainer, a 2014 National Figure Competitor, a 2015 Pacific Pole Championships Level 4 Dramatic Champion and most recently the 2015 Paragon Latin America Championships 1st Runner Up. She is also a member of Kelly Yvonne Productions’ Girl Next Door cast, the first and longest running pole dance revue in the world featuring top ranked local and international pole stars. With a background in television production, Shanté has combined pole with production to produce “Old fight. New Dance: Black Lives Matter,” the first release from Mia Shanté Productions.
Shanté’s interpretational dance concept at https://vimeo.com/channels/miashanteproductions indeed moves the Black life movement forward. Dance with her at @justmia23 on Instagram.
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Friday, October 9, 2015
3 Powerful Steps to Forgive the Past, and Create The Life You Desire
[Salenta Fox | PWN]
It turns out you really do create the world around you by the vibrations and energies you emit and send out all day long. To create a different experience it is said, you have to ‘be’ different, but how do you do this?
The past few months, I’ve been dedicated to creating this new experience in my life and taking things to a whole new level with precise consciousness and awareness in this area. To be different, means you have to start doing things a bit differently than before. Here are the three gems I’ve picked up on the way.
First, there are no secrets.
No matter how hard you try to hide, withhold, and keep down, you are a transparent being and people can see you NO MATTER WHAT. They know what’s going on. The more aware your crowd becomes, the more the issue of hiding just becomes laughable. People ‘feel’ what’s going on even if they don’t know ‘exactly’ what they are seeing. Even the most unconscious person still see’s, unless they are choosing not to.
I’ve been through some ‘stuff’ like most people, and some of it’s not too rosy. There was some abuse in my life that I kinda just swept under the rug, I don’t think I even really acknowledged how bad it was or how much it impacted my life.
I essentially was hiding it, even from me, but it was not hidden at all. I was still vibrating it, it was still in my energy field and aside from attracting other situations into my life that hurt me also, others could consciously detect this too. Having it still linger was influencing my NOW experience. Needless to say, to create better experiences now, something had to be done.
Lesson here, be upfront and transparent from the beginning, this means with YOU FIRST. This is only the first step and if you only stop here, you could make things worse, not better, so keep reading.
Second, forgiveness is key to releasing the past, and this means forgetting too.
Yes, forgiveness. And no, this is not church. But all those religions have it right because this is a universal truth. Forgiveness has a power greater than most even comprehend.
I attended a conference in Bermuda a year or so ago all about “Energy”, and the science of it. Dr. Vitaliy, a Russian scientist has been studying energy for almost 3 decades and as he was explaining the energy fields around the body, and demonstrating on someone from the audience, he first tested and showed all the imbalances in the man’s field, then, to my surprise, as he was showing us how to bring the man back into balance, before he did anything, he asked the man to first ask himself for forgiveness. Now remember, Dr. Vitaliy is a scientist, so this really surprised me! The man did it, the Dr. tests him again and suddenly just like that, the man is all balanced, nothing more needed to be done.
Miracle? Maybe, or this is just natural law at work.
So, after you are aware of what is going on, and what is still lingering in your energetic field or consciousness, you have to forgive it.
It’s in the forgiving that the magic happens and it can be released, just like that, instantly.
Forgiveness is as simple as becoming quiet for a moment and telling yourself, “I forgive you.” I like to say it at least 3 times and feel it, so I know it’s worked.
To forgive, you have to forget about the wrong. I know you have heard this before, but how do you do it? A mentor and friend of mine was explaining to me that if you do not forget, then you have not truly forgiven.
Forgetting means not talking about it anymore, not thinking about it anymore and replacing the past negative thoughts and story, with positive thoughts around the same person that hurt you. So instead, when you think of that time in your life, or that person, you reprogram yourself to think of a good memory or time related to the person or time in life, no matter how small that good was. This way you start to vibrate the good feelings instead of the hurt and wound. The wound is forgotten and replaced by a fond memory. I know that sometimes you might have to dig hard to find something good, but there always is something.
When you forgive, forget, and replace, you release the negative energetic imprint surrounding you and being emitted from you. It gets replaced by a lighter energy, essentially you are healed and you start stream and emitting this new energy, thus attracting to you, new experiences as well.
You will be vibrating this new energy, and as you vibrate it, you will pull more goodness in, more healing, and more love and will attract more of it into your life.
This takes healing to a whole new level. This is the science of healing, and changing what you are putting forth, thus changing what you receive back in your field.
Third, the power of the word.
You create with your words. You can believe this or not, it’s still true. Gravity is going to work despite your belief, this concept works in the same way, as with everything I have said in this article. Your belief in it is not necessary, but helpful, as the mind is a powerful thing.
Your choice is to work within this law, or work against it, either way you are creating.
So start speaking what you desire. Only speak in terms of what you want. Stop speaking about all the sh*t that happened in the past, let go of those stories and start telling stories that describe the life and experiences you desire now.
Forgiveness means forgetting what happened. This means changing the story, let go of the story, stop talking about what you don’t want, to start talking about what you do want.
To demonstrate just how powerful your stories are, and the energy they carry, let me tell you a brief story (no pun intended 
)
I was ice-skating and I am still a beginner, but after about 30 min I had gotten my feet under me, and I was feeling and skating pretty well. I started speaking about an incident in my marriage around why I stopped liking skiing because of this traumatic incident, as I recounted it, I noticed my feelings changed dramatically, and I was not feeling good, my body became tense, a thickness developed in my thought and sternum, and to my surprise, I also noticed my skating changed dramatically too. I started skating again like I had 30 min earlier. The negative emotion brought forward by the story had not only effected how I felt in my body but my outward experience and performance too.
I stopped this immediately and started focusing on more positive things and realized in that moment just how powerful that story was, and I decided I no longer needed that story. I no longer needed to feel so low, so overcome, and so bad. I chose to feel good and light and limitless instead.
To recap.
There are no secrets, if you know the dirty truth, then others do too, maybe it’s time to clean house. You are emitting that vibration of what you are hiding and it’s not hidden at all, and you are most likely still attracting similar situations to you.
Second. Forgive yourself. You are infinite and good and nothing you have done cannot be forgiven. You are divine. You are pure. And it is not only okay, but imperative that you allow yourself to be forgiven. It will change your life, your health, and what you are sending out to the world. You are worthy of good things.
Thirdly, release the negative stories and thoughts keeping you trapped in lower vibrations. Your words are powerful creators. To change your experience and what you get back, you have to change the input. Start speaking about what you want, and never stop. Speak in the positive, “Please keep your clothes in your closet or in the hamper”, not the negative, “Don’t leave your clothes on the floor.”
You are powerful. You can change the experience you are having on this earth, and you can do it all by being more aware, releasing the old and the shmoots, and speaking the life you do desire into being, by leaving the old behind you.
This will not only change what you bring forward to you in your experience, but you will feel better, be lighter, more free, more alive, more vibrant, and happier because you will be focusing on what you desire, the good around you. What you focus on expands.
love love love
Salenta
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Taking your performance to the next level
[Kristina Lloyd | PWN]
“Okay, first things first. Do your splits.”
Coach Vicki Rackley Neuman orders competitive pole dancer Lauren Manzano down to the floor. We’ve just been whisked thru the back doors into our rehearsal space at Pink Pole Party in Burbank, CA and Vicki wastes no time in getting straight into training mode, a trait she is proud of. Timekeeping is of utmost importance to her, and there are things to be accomplished in each training session, there’s “no messing around.”
On the floor, Vicki quickly manipulates Lauren’s body into ever-more challenging split stretches, working to increase her split to 180 degrees for some of the more difficult tricks planned for Lauren’s routine for PSO Nationals in August 2015, just a few weeks away. Vicki encourages Lauren to go farther and deeper into her stretch, she whispers for her to breathe. Lauren concentrates and pushes herself. Later, Vicki diagnoses Lauren’s body as having no physical limitations to achieving her split other than lack of practice.
“Repetition wakes up awareness,” says Vicki, whose goal in starting DANCE INTEGRATIONS in 2011 was to integrate the kinesthetic awareness and emotion that dancers have into more disciplines, because she believes this to be beneficial to all walks of life. “There’s nothing you can do that dance will not make you better at,” she says. “Dance translates into everything.”
As a professional Level 10 national gymnastics judge, Vicki has a keen discerning eye, using this technical expertise to help prepare competitors and performers find their best performance. “It’s beneficial for all dancers, gymnasts, singers, actors, and pole artists to have that objective eye.” She works in all styles of music and choreography, including theatrical movement.
Her particular expertise is in performance enhancement. “Viagra for movement,” she says, laughing. “Performers need a coach,” she continues. “They can only feel their performance. They need a third eye to help them to do it more correctly. And to push them to do it again and again.”
When Lauren starts to work her routine on the pole, Vicki makes her repeat her opening trick several times, commanding her to keep her legs straight. “Put your mind where it needs to go right now. It’s a competition. Hit it like a pro, Lauren.” Lauren takes a breath and works her jackknife from the floor for the 10th time.
In the trick, Vicki touches her knees, her feet, her wrists, reminding Lauren to strive toward perfection in length and precision and the spacial relationship best suited for the competition she is preparing for. She steps in close and talks to Lauren about the competition mindset, which Vicki knows all about. Lauren drops to the ground, and wipes her hands to have another go at it.
As a girl, Vicki was an Arizona state champion gymnast, and later she turned her love of acrobatics into high school cheerleading, and began her unofficial choreography career creating routines for the pom squad. When faced with the decision to continue into college cheerleading or take the opportunity for a dance degree, Vicki chose the latter, and that cemented her career.
While in college, the gym where she practiced gymnastics offered her a job as a choreographer for the kids dance program, she realized how important choreography was. “Choreographers are completely underrated,” she says, and says the process is what is important. She then began experimenting with different types of dance applications and taking risks in expanding the boundaries of what was possible, even conducting ballet classes on the balance beam.
Later a professional ballerina, she was instrumental in starting the premiere Los Angeles dance company, the Los Angeles Ballet, and remains on the board today.
Her journey into pole started about 9 years ago when she started taking classes at Sheila Kelley S Factor and found a personal joy in the unique expression. But she has found resistance within the gymnastics community toward pole. “They think pole is a joke, but I don’t care because I love it.”
But she stresses that the competitive world of pole is not regulated and needs respect. “The judges are not professionals,” she says, and she feels strongly that unless there are paid professional judges and a formal structure in place for judging, the sport cannot be taken seriously nor be considered for the Olympics.
“There is a new pole artistry coming out of the Slavic countries in girls with dance backgrounds,” she says. She stresses the artistic side of it. “We need to make a bigger deal of the artistry of the pole.”
On the pole, Lauren finally nails her superman death drop into reverse jackknife after several attempts to make it to Vicki’s specifications, and she breaks into applause. “Good! Love it, love it, and love it. That’s exactly what you need to be doing every time, Lauren!”
Beaming at the praise, Lauren takes a short water break, her eyes twinkling. “A tough coach is the best tool in your arsenal if you’re competing,” she says. Back on the floor, Vicki claps her hands and Lauren snaps into action.
“Now onto the spinning pole!” And back to work they go.
All photos by Kristina Lloyd
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Wednesday, October 7, 2015
L’arrivo, il trauma | La pole sopra Berlino 1
Monday, October 5, 2015
Pole Motion il corso di pole fitness in DVD e App per Iphone
Sunday, October 4, 2015
Esistono varie categorie di poledancer
Friday, October 2, 2015
10 Great Quotes to Motivate You
I don’t know about you, but I love a good quote. It helps me focus on the task at hand and motivates me to be the best I can be. In today’s post, I would like to share ten of my favorites for this year. It is my hope that they will give you good... Read more »
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