The Last of SensUal 2007

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I don’t know about you, but when I looked back at year 2007, my heart overflows with gratitude.

There is so much to be thankful for.

• The vision I worked hard at,
  
• the acknowledgments my clients very loving bestowed on me,
  
• the support you have given me,
  
• my body that has miraculously held together in spite of my mad schedule and
  
• among the endless list, the love my family gave to me.

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As legendary famous for (humor me lah!), work consumes my every waking and yes, non-waking hours. It has been real fun daydreaming of concepts. I love it when inspiration hits and you get a fabulous and/wacko idea such as The MAN EATER Program. Yeah baby!

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There are moments of despair when paranoia overwhelms you and you question about your own beliefs and vision. That’s when the loved ones get hits the most I guess. They probably roll their eyes and go “There the diva goes cuckoo again.” Haha! Anyway, to set the record straight, my loved ones are really sweet to me always, although I’m sure they will prefer if I go more cuckoo-less. keke.

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Love Program Exclusive Group Live Coaching: Bootcamp Live!

Love Program Bootcamps are always such heartwarming affairs when you bring nervous strangers together, learning from scratch, laughing at each other’s mistakes and emerging out from the studio hand-in-hand, a little stronger and with a new powerful secret.

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The Fun*Flirty*Fantasy Parties

The 3fs parties, ah, our infamous escapades from real life! Always a blast with or without the stripper! I’m pleased as punch when shy clients warm up to their own parties and outshine me! Or when the girls are wild enough in their personalities and I can have real fun with them without worrying too much about getting them to have some actual sexy fun together.

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Love Program Live Coaching – Private Coaching

As a Private SensUal Coach, I’m telling you, I loved these one-to-one interactions with my clients. We have become fast friends and many will confide in me with issues that they have to grapple with. I feel honored and blessed with their friendship. I learnt from my clients as much as they learnt from me. If you ever enter the studio and there is something new, probably inspired by the client who came before you. *smile*

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Blogging

Blogging took up so much of my time it has caught me off guard! I would never imagine that I had to go from one blog and multiple it by five to satisfy everyone’s interest and needs! Still, I have to admit that it grows on you.

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It is indeed a wonderful tool for any cause that is worthy generating attention for. Just to blog a decent entry takes up much time. From the title, the research, the content, the pictures, the editing, the final checks, the little details, it IS a full time affair!

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Love Program Blog allows me to share my baby, the Love Program (Live Coaching and Online Coaching) lovingly developed to encouraged ladies to lead a Happy, Healthy and SensUal life together.

Fun Flirty Fantasy Blog lets you into my exciting world of sexy ladies parties where we celebrate life, important events in a women’s life, the unique friendship between ladies and hey! do you need a reason to party? *wink*

Pole Dancing Asia Blog is where pole dancers and people who share a love for the dance comes together to appreciate the beautiful and often misunderstood art of pole dancing.

Dance Drawings Blog is dedicated to Professor John Matthews from NIE, NTU. I have grown and learn so much about art fusion and art appreciation from this incredible man.

Inspired Joy Blog is my private blog where I share my thoughts about anything and everything under the sun.

These blogs are become different sides of me and it is such a delightful gift to be able to write and share. Even more so, is the privilege to have what I have penned read by others.

Thank you for reading! :p

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Media

Interviews and more interviews. There is always all sorts of requests going on and it is a pleasure to accommodate. Although sometimes it can be painful when you have to juggle that with real work and commercial commitments. Still, it is nice to be able to contribute your insights into a well-thought out article. And always a compliment to receive a friendly call from the press.

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Commercial Projects

Commercial projects are pretty ad-hoc and I’m careful to select those that goes along well with what we do. We had the privilege to work with FHM for two consecutive years, Girl Next Door 06 and SuperBad Girls 07.

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Many of these girls have since been our clients, dancers &/ close friends of the studio. Of course, we also have the Model Hunt 2008 that we are sponsoring to look forward to.

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Competitions

Joining the Arts Central/Artlander competition is something that is very close to my heart. It has been my desire to create more awareness of the beauty of art fusion and dance drawings is one such excellent example. It has since garnered much attention. Your VOTES are very much required and I urged you to support and to be a part of this cause. My many sincere thanks in advance.

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Overseas Trips

There were many trips overseas too to run away from the studio and the country. Hongkong, Macau, Tokyo, Thailand, KL, Bali and god knows where! All really necessary just to clear my head and take a breather from the madness. Some of the trips were sprinkled with work, visiting studios, strip clubs, pole dance clubs and so on. It has been quite an eye-opening journey.

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Family

So you see, it has been a wonderful 2007 for me peppered with sad episodes to make me stronger such as the passing of my grandfather. With me ramblings about work you would imagine that that is why I feel that 2007 has been awesome. The irony of it all is that although I had grown so much through my work, it is still family that outshines work.

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Reflections

As I grow more mature and develop a surer sense of who I am, there is a lesser need for me to justify myself or even to prove a point with my work. Without that internal pressure, your mind seems clearer and you realize really simple truths about life. As cliche as it sounds, home is truly where the heart is. I see my parents growing old before my eyes. And my sisters growing up without me.

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That’s when you realized all the glory in the world will never be enough. All one really need is a loving family who is with you and for you as you are with and for them. Interestingly enough, it is that love that spurs me to want to bring my work to new heights for the year 2008 and to make even more difference to the lives of women all over the world.

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Love from family overflows. And perhaps you can love others more through your work now.

Welcome home Joy.

Goodbye SensUal 2007.

Hello Sexy 2008.

Meow!

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The Future of Pole Dancing … No Longer in Shadowy Men’s Clubs?

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In popular perception, pole dancing is almost impossible to remove from the context of a gentlemen’s club, where it is performed for the titillation and arousal of .. well, now that investment bankers and their clients can get into trouble for going to them, most classes of well-heeled (and often distinctly not-so-well-heeled) men. However, signs exist that this is changing, and that pole dancing will continue to make inroads into the mainstream. Questions remain however as to what form that will take …

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Pole dancing and its antecedents are wide and varied. The two that most readily spring to mind are Maypole dancing, which by some accounts has its origins as a pagan fertility ritual, and Chinese pole, which appears to be approximately two thousand years old, and is the basis for acrobatic performances by highly trained artists. Both have by now largely shed any overtones of the sexually risque, with one regarded as a charming eccentricity and the other a display of athletic prowess. They contain interesting clues as to the ultimate fate of the pole dancing genre.

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Modern pole dancing – popularly understood to have originated in Canada – has morphed in the two or more decades since its inception into several distinct forms: the original form, which is largely performed in gentlemen’s clubs, remains a vehicle to entice men to either tip or to agree to a lap dance. It is overtly about seduction although it appears to have become more acrobatic (a bit of an arms race – literally – in the genre). However, what practitioners call “pole-styling” appears to be more important than the ability to perform difficult physical maneuvers. While the ability to preen seductively using the prop as prop is important here, it is not likely to be where the genre is going.

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The pole fitness movement, which gains in respectability daily, is probably the other most publicized context into which this form has entered the popular consciousness. Practitioners laud the physical benefits of this activity, as well as the physiological benefits. Detractors point out that the benefits from this may be had by less controversial forms of exercise. Whether or not pole fitness is going to be around is no longer at issue… its continued ability to attract paying customers should ensure that in some form or another, it will survive. Soccer mums will soon be hitting the pole for the day’s aerobics after dropping off their brats; it’s probably already happening.

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Pole dancing competitions now abound, and it is here that pole dancing is gaining grounds as a performance art. Owing allegiance to no formal rules (girl, pole, you’re there!), competitive pole dancing appears to draw inspiration from ballet, Chinese pole, and gymnastics, and has moved to a place where overt sexuality appears to have little role to play. The undeniable athleticism and grace of its most skilled proponents elevates it to an art form, albeit a controversial and frankly surprising one.

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In dance clubs, pole dancing performances remain popular, and while some of these performances retain elements of burlesque and the gentlemen’s club, dancers are pushing the boundaries, with the same fusion of different schools and philosophies of dance and acrobatics which have appeared in pole dancing competitions. That the arena of the competition and that of the dance club will cross-pollinate is certain.

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The conclusion one arrives at – very gingerly, because the history books on this are yet to be written, if at all – is that pole dancing will move increasingly out of gentlemen’s clubs, and into the world of popular dance clubs, will move increasingly onto the competition stage (don’t hold your breath for pole dancing as an Olympics event, although the ancient Greeks would probably have approved), will colonize the fitness clubs and gymnasiums of the future, and gain acceptance as a legitimate performance art genre.

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As a true and old school aficionado of the burlesque and the older form of pole dancing, I sigh wistfully, order another whiskey and soda, relight my (by now) extinguished cigar, and settle down to watch another pole dance in my gentlemen’s club, lamenting its emergence from the shadows. I wonder if I should get a lap dance…

-Changeling

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Getting Out the Vote (Every Vote Counts, and Yours is Required!): Art Central/Artlander

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Dear SensUal Joy fan and supporter,

SensUal Joy Lifestyle Studio has, among its many aims, that of promoting acceptance of exotic dance in Singapore. To that end, we have submitted a video entry for the Artlander/Arts Central contest. If you are curious, the criteria for the contest may be found here:

http://artscentral.mediacorptv.sg/2007/Front3/artlander.htm

As is the nature of these competitions, the winner will be decided by popular vote. You can do your bit to promote SensUal Joy and the people who have worked hard to make the studio and its objectives a small but hopefully significant staple of the Singapore dance/fitness/lifestyle studio scene.

Vote here!

It is a very simple voting format and by voting for Joy Leng, founder and principal instructor of SensUal Joy, you can help raise the profile of SensUal Joy Lifestyle Studio and exotic dance in Singapore.

Please take a minute to vote for June Joy Leng: its a vote for exotic and pole dance in Singapore!

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Closer -Julia Roberts & Natalie Portman

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Natalie Portman scene in a strip club as a stripper:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQHTYEw-wYM

This is a wonderful show overflowing with difficult situations, complicated relationships and heart breaking dialogue.

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Both actresses Julia Roberts and Natalie Portman have awesome facial features. This is probably one of the considerations for the actress roles bearing in mind the amount of close up shots that is required.

There were basically two main scenes of her in the strip club. Though she doesn’t do much pole dancing as far as I’m concerned, she did carried herself off very much like a stripper, all the clean yet suggestive mannerisms in basic body language.

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Having been to strip clubs in Los Angeles, Tokyo and Hong Kong, I have noticed that strippers irregardless of the style and status of the club they work for have certain identifiable mannerisms.

For instance, the deliberate way that they move when they are with a customer, the angle they face the customer, the way they tease and so on.

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Natalie was in true stripper fashion and I especially love the way she sat on the table in a kitty manner leaning forward to listen to Clive Owen in his feeble attempt at seduction.

And of course, the whole world celebrates the fact that she was suitably naked not once, but twice for Clive’s (sorry, not yours) viewing pleasure. Haha!

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The lines in this movie are often filled with subtleties and come across as cold and calculated to me most of the time. Makes it a movie that have you hanging sometimes for the response of the other party in conversation.

As what Peter Travers from Rolling Stone would say, it is indeed a show vibrating with eroticism.

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From Dusk Till Dawn – Hot Exotic Moves

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This is a really old movie and you know it the moment you see handsome and awfully young George Clooney. I especially love his lines. Simple, forceful, to the point. I like it. ,op.

There are NO pole dancing scenes (sorry!) but plenty of split second shots on the exotic dancers doing their thing. There are quite a number of them grooving at the same time.

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Some half naked, some in interesting attires and one doing her shadow dance. The scene that I care most about is obviously when sizzling Salma Hayek did her hynoptic snake dance in the seedy Mexican bar.

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And she did her item to a song I really love, After Dark by Tito & Tarantula. That infamous whisky leg feeding scene have probably blasted many a male viewer’s mind right into outer space! Check out that kiss my own beautiful leg act too. True diva in her self obsession. haha!

Salma Hayek Foot Fetish Scene: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djfPz6e_c9Y

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Quentin Tarantino was a credible act too as a sick psycho rapist. He is wonderfully talented I must say. The rest of the movie is in its typical good old fashion choreographed ways. Bloody and too organized in its chaos actually!

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From Dusk till Dawn: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_Dusk_Till_Dawn

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” I had a great time expressing myself on the pole. Joy’s thorough teaching made learning the moves so much easier. A fantastic experience. THANK YOU!

- Eric Stephen (Perth, Australia)

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