Basically, I bought the S Factor DVD's not because of a new style of dance I want to learn, or a new trick. I got them because I've read multiple accounts of women who take the classes changing utterly in their perception of themselves and what they are capable of.
So I bought the DVD's and my friend and I committed to getting together at least once a week to practice it together. And it's funny, but even after only having gone through the movement series three times I already feel changed. I find myself doing hip circles in the bathroom while I'm brushing my teeth. I luxuriate in the feel of my hand playing with my hair while I read. I appreciate my body in a way I didn't before. And I've only done this three times!
The founder of S Factor, Sheila Kelly, has a mission: To make women feel better about themselves, right now. To help them realize their worth, not after losing 10 lbs, not after changing themselves, but as they are, right now. She says S Factor is like 'Fight Club' for women. The boxing in fight club was a way for men to regain their feeling of masculinity. S Factor is a way for women to reconnect to their feminine side. Or as S Factor puts it, their 'Erotic Creature'.
And this is especially important because we have a problem. I'm going to put a quote from another blogger here because he says it more succinctly than I ever could (and I'll include the link at the end of my post if anyone wants to read the rest of it).
'We have a problem. Women are ugly. Women are fat. Women are bad mothers. Women are bad wives. Women are bad daughters. Women have too much cellulite in their thighs. Their abdomens are too flabby. Women are stupid. Women are scatter-brained. Women don’t dress well enough. They don’t have clear enough complexions. They don’t have skin that is soft enough. Women are too dominant. Women are too passive. Women are nothing but doormats. Women aren’t good enough. Women will never be good enough. Women are, simply put, worthless.'
It's an epidemic, and I bet that any woman I know or have ever met has felt this way at some point or another. There is no escaping our culture, and we compound it by bringing each other down. We've all been trained so well by what is acceptable and decent that any woman who steps outside that and dares to celebrate their sexuality or wear something revealing is branded a whore by other women. And that is what is truly sad.
They say that women celebrating their sexuality for the enjoyment of men is a degrading thing. Perhaps, when women celebrate their sexuality for themselves, in the context of only having other women there will be different. Perhaps it will allow us to celebrate our power and hold each other up instead of tearing each other down. And that is what S Factor is about. That is why I get more from a practice done for three weeks with a friend than I get from pole classes for the last two and a half years. This is why I love it already. And why I want to share it. Every woman should try S Factor just once to see what a difference this innocuous fitness routine can make for them.
The article: worthless women:
http://www.danoah.com/2010/10/worthless-women-and-men-who-make-them.html
the other article: the campfire theory:
http://www.sfactor.com/sheila_kelleys_workout/archives/11/about_smagazine_article.asp
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