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The only alternatives that I am aware of would be other herbs that are varying shades such as indigo, oak gall and woad or chamomile, calundela and tumeric for blondes, (or most any other dye bearing plants) but if you are sure you are using pure powdered herbs with no additives besides basically other edible things then it should rinse pretty clean. Perhaps I'm not too clear on what you mean by 'coats the hair'. You could follow up with a diluted apple cider vinegar rinse to clarify.
The only other safe 'natural' hair color I know of is temporary but looks amazing – is called hair chalking. Basically you use chalk pastels (not oil!) and a bit of water to color the hair. Like I said, it washes out though.
Good luck on your hair journey, I'm sorry to hear your mother had a bad reaction but I'm glad to see people becoming open to something other than the norm. https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_cool.gif
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Thank you for sharing! I have a persistent back injury from a couple of years ago that physical therapy and massage have helped tremendously but not cured completely. Hopefully this will be the final straw that fixes my back. https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_biggrin.gif
I'm a petite and temperature-sensitive type, maybe this will also help me train past that.
Also, coincidentally enough, today's Dr. Mercola newsletter headlines featured a similar sounding cold palm therapy that appears to work on the same premise. (maybe he or his employees lurk on SV, lol)
I haven't read your documentation yet, I am off to do that now. Should I proceed (probably will), I will let you know the results. Thanks again!
@ Devika, you are right about that. I used to dry skin brush before my shower and tone my skin all over with a blast of cold water at the end of the shower but my bf thought it was stupid/crazy so I fell out of the habit. I need to get back into that as my skin looked like it was blingin' from doing those two ancient detox practices.
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It is very sad indeed that racism still fuels violence, I deal with racist comments shouted out of windows and being turned away from looking at apts based on a once over in this area of the country but Florida is just as bad in some places. The problem is partially that no one wants to admit there is a problem, when someone brings it up no one wants to hear it. It's like they stick their fingers in their ears and sing as loud as they can hoping it will go away. It won't go away until horrible things like this keep happening and we choose to conscientiously evolve away from it. And is it just me or is our justice system is need of some kind of tremendous overhaul? Petition signed btw, and post anymore that you might have, please.
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In my experience, in a strip club, guys do not care what you are wearing so long as you're going to take it off! https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_mrgreen.gif But seriously, if it looks good on you, wear it!
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Ah, lab tech sounds way more interesting than billing any day but you can have the phlebotomy, seeing blood extracted makes me feel weak. Good luck in all of your endeavors!
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@ DedeJoy: Yep. That all sounds like what I remember reading in health class, lol. https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_geek.gif
I think it's fine if you're not being excessive, like most things in life.
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Haha, not everything we don't understand is BS. I just cannot stand the lack of scientific research/terminology some people put into things. Anyway, as I've mentioned before on the site, my younger sister competed gymnastics competitively her entire young life, so from that experience I do know that their constant training (and possibly inverting) DOES mess with their flow. Sometimes quite badly (delayed puberty, cysts, etc.). I know that the rigorous physical work creates extra testosterone in their systems but chi and all of that nonsense translates to endocrine system and hormones. Anyway, I personally don't invert when I'm on my flow because I can literally feel stuff moving around and it is uncomfortable but every lady is different! Do what works for you.
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I might have to ask my mom about how she likes her job, she has been in that field for over 25 years and is now doing consulting for medical billing systems so I'd say the long term potential for career advancement is definately there if you want it and don't mind traveling. 🙂
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Confirmation on calluses helping your grip. I can remember looking at my younger sister's beat up hands from the uneven bars and her remarking about how she was glad they were there so she had a better grip in practice and competition. So, gymnasts are trained to welcome them. I don't like the way they look so I scrub/shave them off and my hands are soft but slippery again. Also more tender to pain. The same goes for dancing on releve and pointe. Toe calluses look yuk to me so I'll take the trade-off for pain. I gave up on using tools to get them off and just use my nails after softening my skin in the hot shower.
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Sanbar, I am so glad you brought this up because I feel passionately about it but food can be very political, so I tend to shy away from creating conversations about it unless asked. Pesticides are a bigger concern than a lot of people realize with the genetically engineered crops like corn, soy, canola and recently alfalfa (in an attempt to get rid of 'organic' grass fed meat by GE cross-pollination) saturating our food supply, it is important to read labels and shop conscientiously where we can.
Organic is more expensive but I feel better with the smaller exposure to carcinogens (i.e. cancer risks) and sometimes organic has denser nutrient qualities. Local butchers (we have a few good ones since I'm near Amish country), CSAs (mine is a tad too far away), and farmer's markets (ask the sellers questions) are all helpful ways to reduce cost but my favorite DIY.
Rixi, I encourage you to try to start a small window herb garden, nothing beats homegrown. You know that, I'm just saying, it can be done. 🙂 🙂
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Now before we get too cozy and think I'm just summing the weird stuff up into "positive thinking", Cymatics (the study of visible sound) makes things more interesting. For the curious, here is a direct example of how sound affects matter both living and non-living, using a tonoscope:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KU84ckD1AcA&feature=relatedThere are other, more complex demonstrations using speakers and high frequencies but make sure you turn your speakers wayyy down if you look:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sz1AuS-qA1c&feature=related'OM' intoned though a couple of pvc pipes onto a stabilized tray of rice, salt or sand (tonoscope) allegedly makes a Sri Yantra (intersecting up and down triangles) and Hebrew letters toned through the device appear as they are written but I haven't seen a video of this replicated yet. Some say the pitch is more important than the word itself. Since the cymatic patterns are also recreated in water, one is easily left with the notion to contemplate the effects on living beings.
Hope I've invited some food for thought about the "weird chanting" issue, if nothing else.
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LOL, I feel ya on that. Think of it like a song. I think I might just sing "I feel happy" over and over in my head and that will get the same results. https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_wink.gif
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Since I'm a latecomer to the topic, most of what I've tried has been mentioned. Rodney Yee, Shiva Rea, Baron Baptiste, YogaJournal, YogaToday, Alethea and Felix are all superior teachers for the home dvd education.
I also really enjoy the P90X Yoga DVD for intense workouts and showing guys that yoga is hard. WDNY also has a lot of yoga in their bellydance dvds. http://www.thesecretsofyoga.com has some informative articles about many of the different styles out there.
Now please forgive me for this, I thought about putting it in a blog, but it is in direct reponse to this topic so please bear with me:
The chanting or spiritual aspect of yoga can be off-putting and strange especially if you don't expect or understand it in the most literal sense. To call it silly, as someone stated, can however, be offensive to some people. It is matter of respect to other's practices and cultivating a sense awareness instead of ignorance.
As I said though, it can be a total WTF moment for the unprepared and I know that feeling intimately. My first yoga DVD/practice was Ana Brett & Ravi Singh – following unknowingly into the hardcore spiritual-style Kundalini Yoga. I just watched in shock and confusion. Which is saying a lot because I'm the "meditative" type but I don't like being bombarded with something unfamiliar just as much as the next person. I had a subtle repeat of the experience in subsequent DVDs like Shiva Rea's.
My first issue with the chanting is the lack of translations. It is not good practice to just adopt spiritual components into one's life without even having a clue what is being said. Most people aren't apt to and I find it rude that anyone would ever expect someone else to. The packaged New Age fluff explains nothing in most cases and makes me push the chapter-skip/ff button with a vengeance.
I've heard it argued by yogis that you don't need to know how it works for it to work; just like you don't need to know how a car works for you to use it successfully. I do not accept this philosophy because people who know nothing about cars eventually end up in need of help from someone who knows more and/or getting ripped off because of their ignorance. The same premise applies to the chanting and spiritual.
So to get off the soapbox and wrap this up, let me just clarify what I have come to understand about the chanting in yoga.
1. It works on the principle of resonance and brain wave entrainment. It is just like some software out there that people use binaural beats/frequencies to relax with. The concept is explained in thousands of places all over the net but covered with reasonable intelligence here: http://www.healingsounds.com/articles/sonic-entrainment.asp
2. It does not have to be in Sanskrit language. You could chant whatever you want really. But different sounds will create different results for different people. Just like all music does. There are too many variables to say this or that one sound is what someone needs to relax or whatever. The only rule is that 'like attracts like' – just like in normal, everyday speech.
3. It can be extremely helpful to yoga and the mental-emotional aspects of life if applied within reason. By reason, I mean to say, you should know what you are chanting and why. It is not nessecary to make more out of it than this unless you choose to study further into it.
4. It is not absolutely necessary to the yoga practice.
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Goofy, I also have both dvd sets and would have to agree with Kobajo. Felix's teaching style is very much "Just do this; now watch a replay 3x" and Jamilla has a style that is articulately broken down into comprehendable and individual steps "Place your foot here, lean forward, tilt your hips". For safety and lack of frustration, Jamilla first. Felix is fun but second. 🙂 Your milage may vary. 🙂
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https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_wink.gif Poledanceromance, I listed that my first post, it's 'Stan Knows Best' S1 E3
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More American Dad (yeah I'm a fan https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_geek.gif)
S1 E21 – Helping Handis: Handicapped pole dancing at 'The Ramp'
S3 E1 – Vacation Goo: Roger is forced to pole dance at 'Senoritatas' in Mexico
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Addendum:
Reno 911!
S5 E12 Strong Sister: features possibly one of the worst pole dances in all of TV and movie history, performed by Kerry Kenney-Silver (Trudy). It's kind of hilarious.S5 E13 Wiegel's Dad Returns: Background strippers pole dance while a group peyote trip begins stageside.
Also, Niecy Nash (Rayneesha) does a little sarcastic pole dance in the fifth season's opening credits.
Correction: Family Guy's 'Business Guy' episode actually DOES have pole dancing in the background, a non speaking character does a Martini Spin.
The Family Guy, Stewie does 'Showgirls', clip linked above is from, "The Blind Side", S10 E11.
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Since my last post provided no current help for you, I did a little searching around and came up mostly empty handed. You could try saving/printing the pose pics from yogajournal.com in b&w for a quick & dirty reference guide @ little cost for the time being until another resource becomes available?
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I am actually (as a lifelong illustration hobbyist) producing something like this for a tenative weblog I am working on conjuring up; but not just for yoga/stretching! https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_wink.gif Hm, nothing new under the sun, as they say!
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I think most of us girls here would like very much to have your ceiling height for a custom pole. Ceiling height envy lives around here.. Best of luck finding your X-Stage Lite!
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I think Seth McFarlane has a thing for strippers as they featured frequently his animated series. The ones I can recall are:
American Dad:
Stan Knows Best S1 E3
Black Mystery Month S2 E13 (Old Glory, the nation's first stripper pole)
G-string Circus S5 E8Family Guy:
Business Guy S8 E9 (no pole, but contortionist style lap dance)Also,
Jessica Alba as Nancy in Sin City has some nicely executed body waves but unfortunately does no aerial tricks on the pole.Arrested Development, S1 E20, where Lindsay starts off protesting the war in Iraq and ends up swinging on a pole instead.
What a fun thread topic! 🙂
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Dunno how I missed this post before but I've been a self taught bellydancer for 6 years and have found my personal style is of a tribal fusion persuasion. I also love carabet style (which I would not call the original style of bellydance because the original style is ethnic and historically unknown but I digress. https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_wink.gif)
I came from a liquid/hip-hop dance background prior to that, also learned in a non-professional setting but bellydance has taken so many fusions and forms these days it's a great time to be involved in the dance. As long as you understand the fundamental movements of a style you can learn to transition gracefully and blend with almost any other styles you may have mastered.
Some of my favorite teachers and bellydancers are Sadie and Kaya, Sera Solstice, Ansuya, Anasma, Asharah, Irinia, Elisheva, Fayzah, Sarah Skinner, Aziza, Sharon Kihara, Kami Liddle, previously and oft mentioned Suhaila Salimpour , Zoe Jakes and Rachael Brice. Neon is a great 'foundations' teachers IMO and Nadira Jamal has several excellent podcasts on improvisational dance that translates quite well across all dance styles. I could go on all day as my dance dvd library has grown to monstrous porportions over the years and there are just so many wonderful and talented dancers out there but know this: bellydance is for EVERYONE.
That's right, even men dance the 'raqs sharqi' in the Middle East. It is a dance that defintely honors womens bodies in special ways though, much in the way pole dance does (even though it too is in actuality unisex) but also in deep psychological and physiological ways. Enjoy it with abandon and forget all the hype about the belly size. Bellydance is sort of a misnomer anyway. 🙂
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I love my TG Xpole 50mm and have pretty much the exact experience that Veena has on hers. It is very grippy, especially if you or the room is warm. I have had my pole for 3 years and my coating has not come off at all *knock wood*. On that note, I would absolutely LOVE to see X-pole do maybe a limited edition run of a multi-color titanium finish. That's always been my favorite 'color' so I would buy a pole like that in a heartbeat. I hope you enjoy your new brass pole Stacy!
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Hi Lucy, the DVD looks fantastic! Thanks so much for listening to our feedback, especially with regard to providing so much content and new tricks presented in a gender equal format. 🙂 One question though; what makes this release 'Gold Limited Edition'? Is it going to be discontinued soon? I hope not! 🙂 Thanks again for your continued time and expertise.
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I believe the Divine Movement dvd being referenced is actually called "Strip To It: Core Moves and Fantasies". It is important to get this title in the 'Strip To It' series and not the others because this is the only one taught by Divine Movement Studios based in Seattle.
