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Moving Meditation: A Pole Dancing Party
Sheena LaShay, January 13, 2012
I recently attended a private dance party where beautiful women moved in the emotionality of their vulnerability and magic happened. I was asked to work as the photographer and videographer - in between dancing - and this short video below shows what happened at this wonderful party. Some of the women at the party had never touched a pole in their lives. There were others who have been students of various studios for many years, most of which study at Sheila Kelley's S Factor, including myself.
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Women Hating Women: A Recipe for Extinction
Guest Author, November 12, 2011
Introducing Sheila Kelley, the genius behind S Factor, with what we think is one of the most amazing articles of the year.
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Nia: Embody The Skin You’re In
Lissa Rankin, October 31, 2010
When I heard that Debbie Rosas, founder of the Nia movement classes was going to be teaching a dance class at Mama Gena’s School of Womanly Arts, I thought “Sign me up.” I grew up taking dance classes and was in a ballet company in my younger years. Someone told me Nia was part dance, part martial arts, part healing arts, and as a dancer/doctor, I thought, “Perfect!”
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Pole Dancing: Empowering Or Just Slutty?
Lissa Rankin, September 21, 2010
Six days until the release of What's Up Down There? Questions You'd Only Ask Your Gynecologist If She Was Your Best Friend! Our big launch party will take place in Chicago at Sheila Kelley's S Factor on Sept 28, and we couldn't be more thrilled (and hope to see some of you there!). But Lissa's connection with S Factor has inspired an interesting dialogue -- check out this fabulous blog post on pole dancing, owning your sexuality, and the NEW feminism.
This year, I have become friends with the mind-blowingly wonderful Sheila Kelley, founder of S Factor, the empowering women’s exercise class based on pole dancing. To support my book launch of What’s Up Down There?, Sheila has invited me to participate in a whole host of activities with the S Factor community. My book launch party will be at S Factor’s Chicago studio, I’m speaking at the S Factor retreat in San Diego, and we’re trying to put together events for the LA, San Francisco, and New York S Factor studios while I’m on tour. I’m so in awe of Sheila and her work that I’m truly honored to be doing this. Which is why I was so surprised to receive this letter from one of my friends.
Read More...Ooh La La: 6 Ways To Improve Your Sex Life
Lissa Rankin, September 12, 2010
Do you long to have a juicier sex life but simply don’t know where to start? Have you quit even fantasizing about spicing up your sex life, moving beyond the missionary position, or feeling hot for your partner and yourself again? If you feel that way, you’re not alone.
After giving birth, suffering through my Perfect Storm, and completely losing my mojo, sex was the last thing on my mind. Plus, I tend to be so cerebral that I lose touch with my body completely for hours, even days on end. Then I started exploring ways to enliven the sexual creature within me. I took a class at Sheila Kelley’s S Factor (the pole dancing exercise classes that teach you to “feel your fur” and move like the sensual being we all are) and attended Mama Gena’s School of Womanly Arts.
Have my efforts transformed me into the evolved, divine sex goddess I long to be? No, not yet. But I’m getting closer. (Just ask my hubby.)
Read More...Let's Collaborate, Not Compete
Lissa Rankin, July 11, 2010
Yesterday I got some very disturbing news. A doctor who used to be my teacher sent a letter (via her lawyers) ordering me to stop using the phrase “What’s Up Down There” -- which just happens to be the title of my upcoming book. This doctor claims that she has trademarked this phrase, although her name never popped up on Google when former Editor-in-Pink Joy coined the catchy book title (after my publishers nixed the title I wanted to use -- Coochie Confidential). In fact, if you Google search “What’s Up Down There,” Owning Pink comes up on the first page, and this doctor doesn’t appear at all.
Read More...Owning Your Dreams- Never, Ever Give Up on YOU
Lissa Rankin, December 1, 2009
When we started Owning Pink just over six months ago, I set a personal goal- I wanted to write books. I had already written a memoir that Barbara Poelle, my literary agent who I lovingly call Monkey Barbara, shopped around. A whole slew of editors took the book to editorial boards, where it got shot down by a whole slew of marketing departments who didn’t know how to put it in a box. The glowing rejection letters piled up.
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