This is why we do what we do and why we do it with Love.

I am happy to share with you a talk that was presented by Sheila Kelley from the SFactor in Los Angeles. Shelia eloquently depicts the power of pole dancing for your own holistic health, that need to feel the void inside and how pole fitness completely fills it with the essence of you. Please take a moment to have a look at this video as it is words you may need to hear.

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Pole Dancing Will Improve Your Posture

Right now, go to a full length mirror and stand in side profile.

Look at the way that you naturally hold your body. If you are like many women, you might notice that you have poor posture. Your shoulders might slump forward; your chest sink inwards and your stomach might stick out.

Many women suffer from poor posture, as their core torso muscles are not strong enough to hold up their body in the correct way. Also, working at a job where you are hunched over a desk all day can only make it worse. When you naturally have bad posture, this is not only damaging on your spine and nerves but it also makes you look older and heavier than you really are as your back is hunched and your belly is exaggerated. Now try lifting your shoulders back, straightening your spine and tightening your abdominal muscles. See the difference in the look of your figure that good posture can bring?

Pole dancing is a fantastic way to improve your posture. Just like tai chi, yoga and other forms of muscle controlled exercise, pole dancing requires you to have complete control over your muscles and to move in a slow and steady, focused way so that you can hold your proper form on the pole. You need to use your core muscles to stabilize yourself during moves and engage all of your muscles when lifting yourself up onto the pole and swinging around.

The stronger your back and abdominal muscles become, the more your posture will improve. After a few classes you will find yourself changing the way you hold your body and carry yourself, looking slimmer, stronger, younger and more elegant.

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Health Benefits – Pole Dancing Creates Toned, Lean Muscle

When it comes to building muscle, many women tend to shy away from lifting weights at the gym because they are not looking for the large, bulky look which comes with traditional weight lifting workouts. Women want to be fit and strong, but want long, lean and toned physiques instead.

Pole dancing has been proven to be an excellent way to create this sort of flexible and lithe body, with muscles which are “cut” and toned rather than bulked up. Why is this? It is because instead of lifting increasingly heavy weights at higher repetitions, pole dancers are throwing their body weight up, down and around the pole. Many of the pole-dancing moves require dancers to hold themselves up with their hands, ankles and even the backs of their knees. Their body weight is usually unbalanced by the momentum of their spins and it is this type of movement which stretches and works the muscles through their entire range of motion.

Rather than repeatedly dead-lifting a weight, which only works on a specific muscle group on a limited way, pole dancing works all of the muscles at once in a dynamic and challenging way. Not to mention, it is also a superb cardio exercise which will help to burn fat and further define those toned muscles.

If you want a lean, strong, toned body leave the heavy barbells to the guys and grab onto the pole instead!

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Join my community at Sian Young The Pole Dancing Goddess, when you subscribe you get a complimentary copy of my e-book '7 Secrets to a More Confident You'

This book is packed with information and techniques on how to help yourself get to the place where you feel fabulous inside and out.

" I went away this weekend and when I came back all tiered and after challenging myself I really notice how amazing this e-book really is as I just step by step followed my own advice and then within a few hours I was feeling fabulous once more. It is a constant process but one that elevates you to the point where life just feels amazing!"

The 2012 British Isles Pole Dance Championships

The best pole dancers from all over the United Kingdom will be gathering in Essex on October 20^th to show off their twisting acrobatic moves at the British Isles Pole Dancing Championships.

This fantastic event is now in its fourth year and is open to pole dancers of all levels from Amateur to Professional to Champion. The final competition will be held in the Civic Hall on Blackshots Lane in Grays, Essex. Any pole dance school throughout Britain is invited to enter their pole dancers in the competition.

Also at this event, our very own Sian will be speaking on the main stage about the power of pole dancing for improving self esteem. She will also be teaming up with Pantera Blacksmith, the “World’s Most Famous Pole Dancer” and seeing what kind of fun they can get up to.

The aim of the championships is to promote pole dancing as a fun and exciting form of fitness and to recognize pole dancers for their talent and skill as athletes and performing artists.

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On a more personal note:

I have been working on my Professional Speaker identity and this is what settled with me in these last few months: Sian Young, The Pole Dancing Goddess, I hope you like it!!
The reason I have chosen this is because the work we do at Soul-POLE is about helping you to know that You are a Goddess, no matter if you believe it yet or not! My team and I want to help you to re-discover that confident, sexy, powerful goddess that you have been hiding all this time.If you go to my new website I have a FREE e-book '7 Secrets to a more Confident You' join my mailing list and you get it for free. Here is some feedback: Veronica Boswell Pullen Sian your eBook is incredible - I just read it from cover to cover and there are some very powerful strategies in there - well done you!

i want to share with you the fact that I to work on myself in the way described in this e-book, I have been healing this week an it is leading to great transformation... even though it is manifesting it's self as a pain in the neck and all the right side of my body. I letting go of the need to control everything as now my life is so much better than it was and I have so much love and friendship in it that I no longer need to be the man and the woman in my life I am supported enough to be the woman I am. SO even though the experience of letting this go is in the moment hard and painful I am excited to see the new that may enter my life now that I have created space for it!

Check out my book 'Teenage Kicks' if you have only just seen this blog it will be able to give you some background on what I mean when I say my life is better now. It is the true story of what it was like to be on the streets of Scotland as a young teenage girl.