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What a great idea, now I'm not so bummed I couldn't get Pleaser's 'Treasure Chest' heel to glam up and instead had to settle for regular clear platforms. I think this is just as cool.
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http://www.hulu.com/yoga-for-everyone
Free Shiva Rea vinyanas from her DVDs for all to try at home, was going to post this too but didn't want to be redundant. Hulu is 100% legal and with commercials for those unawares.
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Thanks or the recipes ladies, they look delicious and I plan to try them out. I'm all about clean, healthy and most important conscious eating. Eating conciously meaning knowing how and where your food was grown and it's holistic effect on the body.
EvaRut I think it is vital for you and every other person to know:
Washing your produce does little to remove the pesticides which have been engineered to NOT wash off for rain and irrigation purposes. Much of the pesticides seep into the produce anyway as their skin is just as porous as yours. Not only that, but non-organic goods are largely containing pesticides bred inside the crop itself through the use of genetic bioengineering (to those unfamiliar, please type 'Monsanto' into your search engine). On top of that, even if you do succeed somewhat in washing your produce (vinegar and water soak) you still have the agricultural pesticide runoff into our waterways, resultant soil degradation, superweeds that are bred by the use of pesticides, possible part and parcel of bee colony collapse disorder as well as genetic cross contamination with naturally occurring varieties of produce species.
These are very real issues that most people are too busy in their daily lives to notice. I think it is also important to note that a US 'Food Safety Bill' S510 recently passed that will aim to make it impossible for us to eat food that has not been irradiated, grown without pesticides or biotech genomes in the name of safety. It is equally important to note biotech foods are banned in several countries and the US goverment is hand in hand with the corporation that is responsible for this.
I hate to take a political soapbox here, but most people are completely unaware and I know the ladies here are good at taking a collective stand as consumers for what they believe in.
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sorry it's a bit hard to find on the main page so, http://www.hooping.org/category/tutorials/
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Don't forget to check out http://www.hooping.org too if you haven't yet already. Tons of great video tutorials and information.
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forgot to mention this free series currently available too: http://www.hulu.com/yoga-zone
I haven't watched it yet but I suggest checking it out before Hulu takes it out of rotation as they often do.
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I just want to second Angel's vote for Shiva Rea, when I first looked at her Yoga Shakti video a few years ago I was intimidated and turned away by her under stated style of teaching. But now that I am more familiar with the poses and different styles of yoga, etc., I watched her again last week and was enthralled. She's into dancing and surfing so yeah, she know's what's good. For beginners to yoga in general, I would also like to recommend Baron Baptiste. He's a great instructer and has a very well balanced practice.
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course I used the wrong math symbol but you get the picture..
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Jivite, I am of the exact same disposition as you towards dancing style preferences.
hoop > poi > bellydance but I also love liquid-pop style too so I mix things together a lot.
Actually, even more strangely, the first fire spinning buddies that inspired me to really get into it were from MO too. They were from Joplin though.
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Now that is just uncanny, I just found that website yesterday when I was looking up carnival/mardi gras (for artistic inspiration) and found these on google images to drool over http://www.amiclubwear.com/shoes-boots-funt-arena-2012blackmicfib.html
Sorry, no idea if they're reputable to shop from though…
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I'm not sure what the debate is because it's obvious this sort of thing does go on all the time. You can copyright a pattern, yes. You cannot copyright a style of clothing or garment itself. I know it sounds odd, but that's the law for you. If you take a Disney character and change it's eye color and hair color and call it something slightly different they can't do anything about it. It's not the same thing but you get the picture. Draft your own pattern and you win. You would have to somehow get to a designer's copy of the pattern itself to literally steal their design. Anyway, most designers do not wish to go around stealing other's exact designs because then they wouldn't be designers. Just imitators. That's not art, it's boring and lame (if that's your profession).
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Oh and Amy – don't you know that if you tell someone NOT to click something that's just begging them to take a peek!? https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_wink.gif Those are seriously hot undies, thank goodness for knockoffs!
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Nope, there is no such thing as copyright infringement on a clothing design unless the clothing has some type of new utilitarian functionality. You can copyright a pattern design however, so don't buy a pattern and then try to sell what you make from that unless it has been significantly altered. I know that for illustration copyright the difference has to be at least 25% but for patterns I'm not sure. It is fine to draft your own pattern from pre-exsisting clothes though. My mother went to fashion design school for a time and I learned from her and lots of books so I've researched this specific. I am planning to open an Etsy shop eventually myself but dance clothes will not be my only focus.
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I have long eyebrows too — really long! and what I do is pretty much what Glitter suggested:
First I brush them all straight upwards and then starting at the tapered end, using cuticle scissors, I keep the bent part of the scissor pressed against the brow bone for stability and carefully trim the excess. For me, as I get closer to the beginning of the brow, the less I have to trim to keep it looking natural. If I am in a rush and they are looking like a shaggy dog's brow, my savior is the brow brush and eyebrow wax. I brush them straight up and then carefully skim the top of the brows with the brush across the top of the line. Sometimes I have to do this a couple times to get it in place properly. If you can't find color matched brow wax, I have found that a very tiny amount of hair gel, pomade or wax works very well too.
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Love falsies, but I suck at putting them on too! I have something like five different styles in my train case but I never wear them because I always botch it. The only time I ever got it right was YEARS ago for Halloween once and they were big metallic rainbow ones; it must have just been luck! Oh, and thanks for the blog link, zsah, I hadn't seen that one before and I thought I had seen all the good stripper blogs by now.
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I'm thinking Pantera is another great show performer with her crazy character and outfits sometimes too.
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Well I had no idea they had new ones out, so thanks! Now I can drool too…
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Ditto horsecrazy, her Club Style Floor & Pole vid is a great summation of it’s own title. I’ve had her on my sub list for a while, but probably mostly because the studio where she’s located (Esteem Fitness) is right near where I grew up so she really stood out to me.
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Mora, until then, I suggest checking out http://www.worlddancenewyork.com and http://www.cheekygirlsproductions.com for inexpensive but comprehensive bellydance lessons. The issue with bellydance is that there are many styles that originated in different parts of the world, each with their own cultural history. The dance itself can be very complex while appearing to be simple and some students take it quite seriously – so if you ever come across a snobby bellydancer, just ignore it, and know that it’s just that they take pride in the culture that goes along with it. I am self taught through mostly World Dance New York productions which are amazingly full of information for the price. There is also IAMED productions at http://www.bellydance.org but they are pricier, though their teacher’s dance styles (Sadie, Kaya, Ansuya) may also suit you if you intend to mix bellydance with poledance.
In addition, I and many others first started out with the Bellytwins, Veena and Neena who have a three dvd set out and their style is a basic Egyptian-American blend which has been referred to by some as ‘Disney-esque.’
I hope this helps you in the meantime and sorry if I inundated you with information! https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_bounce.gif https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_study.gif https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_bounce.gif
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Hard to find new ones, you guys hit so many of them already. https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_lol.gif
You might be a pole dancer if:
your guy friend tells you that you’re welcome to bring your pole over because he knows why you’re staring slack-jawed at the ceilings in his new place
your guy friends ask you for workout, flexibility and tree climbing(!) tips
your guy friends are jealous/dumbfounded as to why you have more upper body strength than they do even though they still find you feminine and attractive
you turned down every rental apt. you looked at last summer because they didn’t have a proper floor/ceiling/space accommodations for a pole
your friends introduce you and the pole in your living room to new people when you’re out. "This is so and so; she has a pole in her living room!"
you’ve learned to descend gracefully from almost anything so you don’t squish your cats who like to pace around the pole.
you use doorways to align your back and hips to get the front split stretch even further
you’ve made your boyfriend’s family holidays uncomfortable because during the "lets look at funny youtube videos" time you showed the ‘Another Homemade Poling Accident’ vid and everyone got up in arms about it — AND you still thought it was funny anyway regardless of what the parent(s) covering the 10 year old daughters eyes thought. I mean, after all, I only spelled out the title to them as they typed it! https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_redface.gif https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_rolleyes.gif https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_twisted.gif
you consider dreaming about doing a pole move you can’t currently do a divine prophecy that you will eventually master it
you got all the patrons of the local strip club cheering and saying you outdanced the other girls there and you don’t even work there (or any club), you only got on stage at last call because the staff encourages it as a sly way to audition new girls – and you were offered a contract afterwards!
you share more personal trials and life achievements with online poling friends than your ‘real’ friends because the poling friends are overall, more supportive and less judgmental.
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This type of thing is right up my alley. I love many types of electronica, I miss the music from my club hopping days too and I’ve been asked to gogo dance on a couple of occasions at events. I’ve been playing at the idea of marketing myself for just such a thing in the greater DC/Baltimore area so if anyone has any ideas or leads please let us know. https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_DJ.gif https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_cheers.gif
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I also have been having video issues. I updated my Flash player as well. It’s so bad I can’t watch anything on the site. Any new performances Veena uploads I have relegated myself to only being able to watch on YouTube. As for the new lessons, I haven’t bought another month’s sub because of the issue, since pausing the video does nothing to help with buffering. https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_cry.gif
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Free, I would guess (and it’s only a guess) that it might be to protect the lower back muscles which can easily be strained since most people don’t exercise them very much. The hamstrings are connected to those muscles and sudden sliding into the splits could possibly cause some serious discomfort later if not done with care. I say this because I have a long standing (muscular) lower back injury and the only way to really relieve the pain is to stretch with various splits methods.
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I agree with Charley on this one. The patron should have sued the club, not the dancer; where I live the neighborhood club has an amazingly small and narrow stage and I know drinks get knocked over and patrons get kicked often. It happened to me once as I quietly informed a dancer that she was on her cycle and might want to change her outfit. A stiletto boot straight to the head as she jumped off the stage quickly. Some thanks, right? https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_lol.gif Anyway, I was under the impression that all dancers needed to be insured for situations like this. I’m guessing this is maybe a voluntary or state regulated issue.
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What a great, informative website! https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_study.gif Thanks! https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_cheers.gif
