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S Girls please help!
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Hi there!
Couldn't resist a reply: I was one of the original and long-time "S girls" online along with the fabulous chemgoddess and also spent many S-hours both at home alone and traveling to classes at S studios! I think the DVD's are a "good" starting off point will will say that "transitions" have never been S Factor's strong suit and while I agree totally with "letting the moment move you" but if you're a non-trained dancer,it can get frustrating when you learn tricks or moves and then can't figure out how to hang them together in a pretty way. have honestly moved on from most things "pole" although I do have a couple still in place and use at whim and into more actual "dance based" sensual movement studies: I find that even the slightest bit or more structured and true dance- information REALLY helps with the mvement be it S-style or other! Maybe take an actual dance class or explore other DVD options to help you deign your own style?
Music is also a major inspiration so play with the genres and explore which of them or any of them that moves you and your body will follow! I have never looked to my guy for validation or to "get" what I do and because I've been involved in sensual movement for quite a while,the "asking permission" part is null and void,LOL! It's a done deal and not open to discussion as to "how" I care for my self inside and out and although I have never met resistance from him,I truly understand what it's like to have judgement from others…give yourself permission first! Set some personal goals and try keeping a journal os how you feel and move on different days…maye a pattern you can build on will emerge?
Wishing you a beautiful journey!
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Hi there!
Couldn't resist a reply: I was one of the original and long-time "S girls" online along with the fabulous chemgoddess and also spent many S-hours both at home alone and traveling to classes at S studios! I think the DVD's are a "good" starting off point will will say that "transitions" have never been S Factor's strong suit and while I agree totally with "letting the moment move you" but if you're a non-trained dancer,it can get frustrating when you learn tricks or moves and then can't figure out how to hang them together in a pretty way. have honestly moved on from most things "pole" although I do have a couple still in place and use at whim and into more actual "dance based" sensual movement studies: I find that even the slightest bit or more structured and true dance- information REALLY helps with the mvement be it S-style or other! Maybe take an actual dance class or explore other DVD options to help you deign your own style?
Music is also a major inspiration so play with the genres and explore which of them or any of them that moves you and your body will follow! I have never looked to my guy for validation or to "get" what I do and because I've been involved in sensual movement for quite a while,the "asking permission" part is null and void,LOL! It's a done deal and not open to discussion as to "how" I care for my self inside and out and although I have never met resistance from him,I truly understand what it's like to have judgement from others…give yourself permission first! Set some personal goals and try keeping a journal os how you feel and move on different days…maye a pattern you can build on will emerge?
Wishing you a beautiful journey!
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Happy in the House!!! Squeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!
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Yeah, Happy! Have long wondered where and how you've been. xoxo
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Hello my pretty ones! Honestly have evolved from purely pole into more chair and burlesque styling as they really ARE more doable by "every woman!" Will be visitng more often,many hugs to y'all!
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glad to see you HD 🙂
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Thanks again for all the replies! My oldest daughter had bene asking for dance lessons, maybe I will take her and join along! Hooking them together is my problem. I do one, then Im like- Ok- whats next? Need that flow!! STILL havent gotten a decent moment alone- busiy holiday weeek, but determined tomake this my new years resolution! NEed a way to to put allof these moves and tricks together into something worth watching- or… feeling! 🙂 Since I will be alone!
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Oooh, you should go to the S Factor website, because Shelia is holding a three-day retreat in Miami in Feb. Since you’re in FL, you might be able to check it out 🙂
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Is there anywhere that has demos of what this is? I haven't heard about it before now, and I'm curious, since a lot of my freestyle poling goes into that realm of "in the moment, musically-inspired movement." But the videos I'm finding on the website are just Sheila talking about S-Factor. But from what I've seen you say so far, it seems like it's sort of an individual/private thing and thus might not be the kind of thing you video-tape and share.
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@pancake- I know she has some trailers for her new soulfully sexy dvd's on you tube. I have all of her DVD's, she talks about the concept but the DVD has the moves but are set up more excercise based. She does show you how to flow out of one move and into the next when they change position. What I am trying to learn is how to take the moves she uses for workout and put them into a dance, use her transitions but instead of workout for be dance, personally inspired. I am now working on just going over and over the movement to place it in my muscle memeory so I feel confident enough w the move to incorporate it in my dance. Ive kinda figured I need the move in my head kinda second nature- then I can let myself go in the music and just move w out thinking so much of what move I am doing, but letting them flow out of me. I sooo wish there was a studio clse to me cause I know they do this in the studio w music. Since you already are musically inspired I am sure once you learned her movement, you would take off! I think you could share your dance w no problem- its getting the feeling and finding your inner EC that takes some privacy to feel comfortable w yourself. There are lots of s girls on here- I can ususally spot who they are by their slow fluid dances! They just seem so much more sensual and confident.
@jenniferp- I WISH I could go to that retreat- so bad! It is quite pricy!! I drove to Miami once for a workshop she held there about 5 years ago. My first experience!
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I'd LOVE to go on that retreat!!!!
I think that even sensual dancing and organic dancing need to be learned through loose choreography and practiced until it becomes a part of your movement. I teach a group class that is a follow the leader class and it's basically only transitions, all we do is switch up the way we go into them and we work on slowing up or moving faster and find seamless ways to get in and around the pole.
I highly recommend picking 3-4 transitions and using them in a dance – just those transitions – when the transitions become a part of your body then the tricks easily fall into place. I find I have to practice dance as much as I have to practice certain tricks.
If you have netflix see if you can get the Divine Movement DVD's they are very S Factorish.
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Don’t think, just LET GO. Let go of your mind and follow your body. Feel your surroundings and textures of the floor or wall. Let her move without planning or thinking of the next move. Feel your body and curves, play with your hair. Let your body be messy. Don’t think, just flow.
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@Charley, I don't have Netflix, do you have a link to the DM dvd's? I did a search and couldn't find them on amazon or otherwise…
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I didnt see the divine movement on Netflix either. I would love to see these too!
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I just surfed netflix and I can't find it either! I'll try to find the DVD today maybe it isn't called Divine Movement – although that is the name of the studio the woman who filmed the DVD's is from. From what I remember it's all off the pole moves but it was a really great DVD. I'll be back with more info soon I hope.
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