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		<title>Songs for the Siren featuring Hawaii</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 18:04:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Faulkner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Smitten with the South Seas Eleven years ago, I became a South Sea Siren sitting on the tarmac at LAX on a Southwest flight bound for Oakland. Looking out the window at the Air Tahiti Nui plane, I sighed. My husband, Brian, asked what was wrong. I told him if someone made me an offer to board that plane and fly back to Moorea right then I’d do it. He thought I was crazy. We’d just spent eight hours on that plane coming home from a nine day visit in Moorea, Raiatea and Taha’a. He was right. I was smitten. Crazy in love. I’d never felt this way about a place before. Just like woman in love, I immersed myself in Tahiti through my senses with monoi oil, tiare soap, French bread, pineapple, poisson cru. And Rod Danny’s Hoara&#8217;i Ami du Ciel, a CD we bought at the Fa&#8217;a airport, became my summer soundtrack. Music, more than anything, transports me to a place and time. One of my favorite songs on the album was Molokai Sweet Home, a song about Hawai&#8217;i. . Falling for Hawai’i The following year we couldn’t afford a trip back to Tahiti so we visited Hawai’i [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Answering 30 Questions About Pole Dancing</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 12:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Faulkner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the May Pole Dance Blog Hop we&#8217;re answering questions we get asked when others hear we pole dance as well as some we have for each other. 1. How long have you been pole dancing? 7 years, 10 Months. I wrote about my first time for my 7th pole dance anniversary. 2. What’s your favorite song to pole dance to? Can’t. Choose. One. Song. That’s like asking me to eat only blueberries for the rest of my life. My favorite food when they show up at my local farmer’s market in mid May. I need variety. I have favorite songs for different moods, emotions, needs and desires. Here’s a list of ten go-to songs. Today I’d add: Dream On by Aerosmith to that list for sure. Get Big by Dorrough, Draw Your Swords by Angus &#38; Julia Stone, Storm by Lifehouse, Adorn by Miguel. Artists including:  Collide, Etta James, Lisa Marie Presley, Janet Jackson, The Weeknd and Christina Aguilera I Shall Be Free by Kid Beyond, my love-fire song. The song I chose to represent me on a CD when my long time class ended in January. 3. What’s your favorite pole dance move? Flying Half Pint (aka Reverse Stag) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Songs For the Sirens with San Francisco Teacher IH</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 21:38:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Faulkner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Introducing an Extraordinary San Francisco S Factor Teacher When my friend and classmate, IH, taught her first level one S Factor class, she invited me to attend. I enjoyed going back to basics and getting my dance on from walking and frisking only in week one. And revisiting the routine during week eight. Both were fun. Most of all I adored how her relaxing imagery and warm soothing voice made me feel like I’d immersed myself into a hot tub! If you’re looking for a fun, sexy, relaxing start to your Sunday morning consider trying IH’s next Sunday morning S Factor class on May 26. 1) What are three ways you discover new music? I primarily discover new music from the radio or tv, I love Shazam! I also appreciate all the songs that are posted by other S Factor teachers and on the S Factor Retreat Group Facebook pages. I also discover new music from attending as many classes as I can, and usually hear awesome new music played by my amazing and beautiful teachers, classmates and students at S. 2) How do you create your playlists? I start with a theme, usually inspired by my current mood. , [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Songs for the Siren with Kris Oster</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 18:27:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Faulkner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Introducing Kris Oster I smile and cheer at the end of each of Kris&#8217;s emails. MYTHIC RHYTHM with KRIS OSTER :: Music. Marketing. Magic. Mythology. Find your rhythm. Know your story. Take the PLUNGE. I adore how well this captures who she is. And what her business is about. My transition from academic educator to entrepreneurial one has been slower than I expected. And more challenging. Like many people I&#8217;m not good at sales. At least I told myself that. Tended to avoid it. When Kris offered a 4 week course called Sales + Soul at the end of 2012 I signed up. When I received the first module and saw the Mermaid Queen by Holli Alvarado on the dreaming BIG page, I knew I was right where I was supposed to be. Synchronicity continued. Within a few days of beginning the course my Call for Anthology Submissions was out in the world after months of planning. During the course I identified the core of my work as Sirens Secrets. Even now I see more magic. I&#8217;d used the mermaid queen image in a September 2012 post to illustrate insight 6:  Respond to the Call of the Siren Song. Sends [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Songs for the Siren with Kerry Anne Aldridge</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 17:30:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Faulkner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Siren needs Songs She needs to dance. To surf waves. Water waves. Musical waves. Emotional waves. All kinds of waves. And make tracks in the sand. To find our songs. The ones that inspire us and suit our souls we need to hear them. And test drive them with our bodies The infusion of new music is one of the things I miss from my weekly Thursday morning pole dance class. Each week my body discovered something new in my teacher’s playlist or my classmates dances. Or was reminded of a forgotten favorite. In an effort to meet our insatiable quest for new music, today is the start of a new Monday Music series:  Songs for the Siren I’ve asked some of my favorite teachers, performers, studio owners, musicians and fellow sirens/mermaids to share their favorite music with us. If you have questions about music, finding your soul songs or suggestions for who and what to feature please contact me. I&#8217;ll do my best to answer your questions or feature your favorites in future weeks. Introducing Kerry Anne Aldrige Kerry Anne Aldrige is an S Factor teacher and founder of Sisters In Motion, LLC,  an independent company offering Sheila [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unleash the Sexy Siren Within</title>
		<link>http://poledancingprofessor.com/2013/04/unleash-the-sexy-siren-within/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 23:07:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Faulkner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Lessons from the Pole]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[emotion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Erotic Creature]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[. Have you met your inner siren? What Clarissa Pinkola Estés calls the Wild Woman. The one who knows. When women reassert their relationship with the wildish nature, they are gifted with a permanent and internal watcher, a knower, a visionary, an oracle, an inspiratrice, an intuitive, a maker, a creator, an inventor, and a listener who guide, suggest and urge a vibrant life in the inner and outer worlds. When women are with the Wild Woman, the fact of that relationship glows through them. ~ Clarissa Pinkola Estés What Sheila Kelley refers to as the Erotic Creature. Her definition and other quotes appear in my post:  Honoring the wild nature of women. Your inner siren is your sexy side. The primal part of you that’s hidden away like Pandora’s box. For safekeeping. Safety. And, because it’s presumed evil. As women we’re shamed and blamed because our basic nature is sexy. We turn men on without even trying. That’s scary. . But it doesn’t have to be. . The more we relax into our bodies. Move in ways that feel luxurious. Adorn ourselves how we like it. The more erotic we become to the male gaze. And the more we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What’s in My Beach and Pole Dance Bags</title>
		<link>http://poledancingprofessor.com/2013/03/whats-in-my-beach-and-pole-dance-bags/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Mar 2013 05:50:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Faulkner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Lessons from the Pole]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Beach]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[gear]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the last two months my favorite friday nights have included dancing on Ocean Beach at sunset followed by freedom pole (aka open pole, flight club, etc.) at Steel Heart Dance. The poles there are 20 feet high and often ice cold. Recently, while searching for reviews on Mighty Grip Ankle Protectors for these Mt Everest poles, I stumbled into a blog hop and facebook group of pole dance bloggers. I joined and committed to particpate in the March Pole Dance Blog Hop on products and companies. In addition to what’s pictured, there’s a notebook, a regular pen, ipod, headphones, iPhone 4—chosen for it’s camera (With Smugmug’s Camera Awesome app it provides most photos for the blog), lara bars and other routine items. Most what&#8217;s in my bags is devoted to fun. If this is your first time here, you may not know that playfulness is my essence when I dance. Play is my path to bliss. In the studio I play in, on and with poles, wall, floor, chairs, daybeds, stools, platform bases (super fun toy), curtains and even shadows on walls. On the beach—the sand, wind and waves provide wonderful energy to feel and explore. And with playmates—their movement, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Magical Cures for Soul Loss:  Dance. Story. Nature.</title>
		<link>http://poledancingprofessor.com/2013/03/magical-cures-for-soul-loss-dance-story-nature/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Mar 2013 17:46:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Faulkner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Dance]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[After my ‘letting go’ ceremony on Baker Beach, joy and ease filled my life. I sang along to music in the car. And in the kitchen while cooking and doing dishes. Delved back into stalled projects. Writing flowed. Even difficult tasks, often avoided, were accomplished without angst. I enticed two more sirens to try sensual movement in the sand at sunset. Then attended freedom pole at Steel Heart Dance, straight from the beach. (Don’t worry—baby powder magically de-sanded my feet and I changed clothes to avoid tracking sand into the studio.) Watching all the female bodies sigh into their curves fed my soul. There’s that word again: Soul I thought I’d been speaking metaphorically when I said, &#8220;I left a piece of my soul in the studio&#8221; and then described the pain in my core as a &#8220;black hole from a collapsed solar plexus.&#8221; Something extraordinary had happened on that beach. When I read these words in Sacred Ceremony by Steven Farmer I knew it was real: In shamanic cultures, it’s believed that when a person is wounded through a traumatic experience, it results in “soul loss,” where a piece of that person’s soul leaves his or her body. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reclaiming a lost piece of my soul with dance on Baker Beach</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Mar 2013 03:01:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Faulkner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After receiving an extra long hug from Brian, my husband, when he arrived home from work on that Thursday, “It’s worse than I imagined. I cried all afternoon. It hurts deep inside from here to there,” I said pointing to the base of my sternum and belly button. “I almost can’t breathe. I left a piece of my soul in that room.” He hugged me again, commiserating, “Now you know what I feel like when I have to take down the Christmas decorations.” As we separated I half smiled and chuckled. “It’s not funny.” He smirked at me then stepped into the next room to look through the mail on our dining room table. Full body laughter erupted in me. “It is funny that you don’t think it’s funny.” He mock glared at me. “Is it okay if I go get changed.” He walked through the kitchen to our bedroom at the back of the house. As I reheated leftovers for dinner I said a silent prayer of thanks for his teasing and ability to make me laugh even on my saddest days. It lightened my mood, easing some of the pain flooding me after having our last class in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>12 Days of Christmas Giveaway Winners</title>
		<link>http://poledancingprofessor.com/2013/01/12-days-of-christmas-giveaway-winners/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jan 2013 00:53:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Faulkner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Love & Joy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[All winners have been notified by email. If you haven&#8217;t received your email please email poledancingprofessor@gmail.com so I can get your prize. I hope you enjoy them! I apologize for the tardy announcement. I&#8217;d expected to post winners last Friday. The end of my SF S Factor era on Filbert &#38; Fillmore hit me harder than I imagined it would. A healing transition ceremony I conducted on Baker Beach yesterday helped. I&#8217;ll share the story of how soon. In the meantime here&#8217;s the playlist I used on spotify for your listening pleasure. If you live near Baker Beach join us for Sirens in the Sand on Sunday!]]></description>
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