You probably already know that a lap dancer is a personal, on-on-one version of a strip tease. For a fee, some exotic dance clubs offer this to their customers upon request. A client requests a private dance with his favorite performer. She dances right in front of or even on top of him, but he’s not allowed to touch her or have intercourse with her.

There’s nothing that can light up a guy’s passion and get him super charged for action like a lap dance. If you’re looking to spice up your relationship, offer your guy a treat, or if you want to be the only woman he fantasizes ever about, learning how to lap dance is one sure-fire method of getting his attention. Here’s how you do it!

Step One ~ Music

Knowing how to lap dance means using the right music to set the right mood. Performing an effective lap dance takes special music to get in the right mood. Not just any tune will do, it has to make you feel sexy.

R&B, hip hop, sexy ballads, if it turns you on, it will help you to turn him on! Burn a CD with a sexy mix, and set the stereo so it’s ready when your guy gets home!

Step Two ~ Wardrobe

Be sure to wear some sexy clothing. Many men like black or red lingerie, which is one way to go. But a little creativity in the wardrobe department can really make for an interesting lap dance experience for your man!

School-girl plaid skirts with bobby socks and Mary Janes might not be as revealing, but a man’s imagination is his most powerful sexual organ. Pick an outfit that will set his mind spinning for maximum effect! Other possibilities include a cheer leading outfit, French maid uniform, or sexy black cat suit with leather boots, gloves and accessories for a dominatrix theme…. Just let your imagination run wild!

Step Three ~ Personal Preparation

Spending some time and effort to get in the mood is a big part of how to lap dance. Spend a couple hours bathing, fixing your hair and makeup. You’ll want to look your very sexy best, so that you can portray your sensual side with confidence. Prepare yourself mentally by listening to your favorite music.

The more comfortable you are, the more you will enjoy yourself, the more he will enjoy your performance, so take the time and effort to look and feel your best while dancing for your man.

Step Four ~ Set the Rules

Depending on your mood and theme, establish your character by directing him to sit in the chair you’ve previously set up for him. If you’re going for sexy sweet, gently lead him to it and have him sit down.

If you’re doing the dominatrix theme, treat give him his orders! Make sure he knows the rules you’re set, and make sure he keeps them until you say its OK! It will be worth the wait!

Step Five ~ Tease Him Seductively

If you know how to dance at a night club, you know how to lap dance. You don’t need a sophisticated, choreographed routine. Move with the music, swivel your hips and run your hands over your body. If he’s a breast man, lean over him and let your breast hang as close to his face as possible without letting him touch you. You can touch him if you want, after all…you are in charge. So have some fun bossing him around a little. But know where to draw the line!

Many women look to celebrities for the best exercise programs. Beyonce is one of the top, if not the top, due to her incredible muscle tone, beautiful abs, and let’s face it… the most bootylicious buns in Hollywood.

Step 1: To drop some of her initial weight, she followed the Master Cleanse Diet for a week. This detox diet requires you to cut out solid foods. Instead of food, you drink a mix of lemon, water, maple syrup and cayenne pepper.

The problem with this is that the body cannibalizes muscle tissue (literally eating away at your muscle tone), and down-shifts you into hybernation mode making you burn less calories throughout the day. It’s a starvation diet wrapped in the dressings of health.

Beyonce could get away with this because she has the money and time to afford all of the toxicity that you release when you cleanse. If you’re a parent or have a full-time job, a cleanse can be a beast. The most effective approach for your nutrition is to change one thing a week. Here’s a schedule I suggest:

Week 1: displace any coffee and start drinking black tea instead.

Week 2: eat a big breakfast one hour after waking including 1/3 your bodyweight in grams of protein.

Week 3: make your lunch “all green” – salads, stirfry or soup – heavy in complex carbs, and throw on some fish or beans for protein.

Week 4: exchange any pastries, candy or chocolate for banana chips, dates, or mango slices.

Step 2: Exercise 5 days a week. You can’t have bootyliciousness by sitting on the couch all day long. There’s no magic pill, but there are secret strategies to make it stick! Every morning get out there and put in the roadwork – walk or run 40 minutes. Start with walking. The duration is the issue, not the speed initially.

Here’s an example of how she circuit trains, but offering Circular Strength Training substitutes for the movements. Don’t count reps. Do each move for one minute and hold the last rep for as long as you can. This will give you the time under tension you need to cause lasting transformation to your body.

Minute 1: Crunches (basic Be Breathed spinal rocks)

Minute 2: Bicycle Crunches (twisting shinbox Be Breathed spinal rocks)

Minute 3: Rest

Minute 4: Core Twists (hurdler Be Breathed spinal rocks)

Minute 5: Core Twists (straddle Be Breathed spinal rocks)

Minute 6: Rest

Minute 7: Plank Hold (quad squat FlowFit)

Minute 8: Rest

Minute 9: Plank Hold (quad squat FlowFit)

Minute 10: Rest

Minute 11: Captain’s Chair (swinging plank Forward Pressure)

Minute 12: Captain’s Chair (swinging plank Forward Pressure)

Then, Beyonce adds in a 20 minutes session with free-weights. Target the basics: arm casts, shoulder casts, head casts, and flag presses. Use the clubbells, of course.

Step 3: Work on your butt. Duh. Beyonce is considered bootylicious because of how hard she’s worked on her legs, thighs and bum. When trying to get a body like Beyonce, you have to do exercises that target the butt. She mixes it up with 2-3 sets of lunges, squats and leg lifts. Here’s a “Translational Series” from Circular Strength Training System to carve your own bootyliciousness:

1. Lunge forward right

2. Lunge forward left

3. Side lunge to the right

4. Side lunge to the left

5. Rear lunge right

6. Rear lunge left

7. Squat bum to heels

8. And jump as high as you can

Repeat for 2 minutes; rest for 60 seconds, and then perform 2 more sets.

Step 4: Spend time playing… Beyonce practices her dance routines each day, which are inherently athletic. Dancing can provide a high impact cardio workout.

So you have to remember that whatever you’re doing throughout the day, you want to be a “little bit active” in everything that you do. Start playing more consistently, and you’ll transcend the boredom of merely “working-out”. It’s not survival of the fittest, but thrivival of the fittest. Want a great booty, then start shaking it. Not only will you feel great, but you’ll look great too…

Bootyliciousness is as bootyliciousness does.

Copyright (c) 2009 RMAX INTERNATIONAL

Blackpool is the UKs most popular seaside resort and is known for being the entertainment capital of the North. There are many family attractions in Blackpool and lots of shows and events throughout the year. However, 2009 is bringing two particularly popular shows to the resort. Blackpool is proud to be hosting Strictly Come Dancing in November and the Royal Variety Performance in December.

Strictly Come Dancing is BBC Ones dance spectacular show featuring a host of celebrities and the BBC has confirmed plans to host an episode of Strictly Come Dancing in Blackpool’s Tower Ballroom. Strictly Come Dancing is returning to Blackpool with a special one-off episode. The show is to be filmed at the seaside town’s famous Tower Ballroom after local people asked for the show to come back to its roots. A campaign led by local MPs and backed by judge, Alesha Dixon, persuaded bosses to revisit the landmark.

Blackpool’s famous Tower Ballroom will play host to a special edition of the show on Saturday 7 November 2009. Hosts Bruce Forsyth and Tess Daly will be joined by the nine remaining couples in the competition, as well as the judging panel of Len Goodman, Bruno Tonioli, Craig Revel Horwood and Alesha Dixon. The Controller of BBC One has said “It’s great that this year Strictly Come Dancing is going back to the home of ballroom. Our night in Blackpool will add extra sparkle to this series.

The famous destination was the original venue for Strictly’s popular BBC predecessor Come Dancing. The ballroom dancing competition, which was hosted by presenters including Michael Aspel, Judith Chalmers, Rosemarie Ford and Angela Rippon, ran from 1949 to 1998. Strictly Come Dancing has previously broadcast from Blackpool too. The last time was the final of series two in 2004, when actress Jill Halfpenny and her dancing partner Darren Bennett were crowned champions.

Blackpool is thrilled to be hosting Strictly Come Dancing again. There are many shows in Blackpool but it is great that the BBC have decided to bring this fantastic spectacle back to the home of ballroom dancing. Blackpool’s world-famous Tower Ballroom will once again look fabulous on TV and, as November 7th is the last weekend of the illuminations, all the dancers and celebrities will be able to enjoy the wonderful atmosphere. It is fantastic news that the BBC is once again bringing the show to the Tower Ballroom. The ballroom will certainly add to the atmosphere and give this year’s contestants the opportunity to dance in magnificent surroundings it really is a welcome return.

Later in the year, Blackpool will also be hosting the Royal Variety Performance for the first time since 1955. The show will be held in the Blackpool Opera House and will be broadcast on ITV1. Winners of this years Britains Got Talent, Diversity, will be appearing.

Blackpool is a wonderful holiday resort and home to many attractions. Strictly Come Dancing and The Royal Variety performance will be two televised shows not to be missed. However, they are just two of the many wonderful shows in Blackpool.

Within the breathtaking beauty of the Maldivian Island, there is a rich culture that is both enticing and intriguing. Among the many traditional rituals that adorn the essence of the Maldives, song and dance stands out. The area has its very own music and performances. Dating back several decades, these traditions are unique to this island. A visit to the Maldives must include a touch of music and dance in one’s agenda.

Although modern dance is slowly blending into its culture, it is the traditional folk dance that carries with it the heart of the Maldives. There are several names when it comes to folk dances in the Maldives; depending on the island you visit you will find one more commonly performed than the other. Perhaps the most famous type of Maldivian folk dance is the Bodu Beru. It is performed in almost every island and is characterised by the beating of drums. Traditional instruments such as coconut shells are also interestingly part of the musical instruments used to perform the Bodu Beru. Then there is the Bandiyaa Jehun which is another traditional folk dance that has a touch of Indian to it. The Bolimalaafath Neshu is one of the few folk dances that is actually performed by women, as most dances in Maldives are actually lead primarily by men. This dance is performed mainly in occasions like the religious festival of Eid. The Dhandi Jehun is also a name popular throughout the many islands in the area but in each island the performance is slightly different from the other. Other names of dance performances include the Fathigandu Jehun, the Gao Odi Lava, the Kadhaa Maali, the Langiri and the famous Thaara, a dance with a unique Arabian touch to it.

For being such a tiny island, the country certainly has a huge range of traditional folk dances. To absorb the full essence of beautiful Maldives, stay at the Maafushivaru Maldives. The name Maafushivaru is associated with one of finest resorts in Maldives. All the delightful facilities and unmatched surroundings, makes this stand out as the best of the Maldives island resorts.

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I persevered in my quest to conquer the slopes of Mount Kyaiktiyo in southern Myanmar. It wasn’t a mountain to be approached lightly. The devotion-charged Golden Rock at its pinnacle was the reward.

Most Burmese people pay homage to this wish-drenched balancing boulder–a miraculous pilgrimage site they must visit before they die. Legend has it that a dragon serpent princess found this rock at the bottom of the sea and with her supernatural powers she transported it to heaven. Many believe that touching this gigantic sacred stone allows wishes to be granted. Men struggle up the mountain just to apply more gold leaf to enhance the rock’s already magnificent gilded glow. But all is not fair. While women are free to ascend these sacred slopes, none of them can touch this breathtaking, stupa-graced wonder once they’ve arrived at the top. In a gesture of solidarity I, too, chose not to touch its shiny surface. Who made such rules? I bet the dragon princess is furious. I’ll find other ways to make my dreams come true.

Myanmar is filled with wonder. In Bagan more than a thousand magnificent stupas were built about the same time the Renaissance was happening in Europe. Sunlight brilliantly reflects from the shimmering golden spire of the much revered Ananda Temple, built in the year 1090 AD. There are about 997 other stupas nearby, but Ananda’s towering, and perfectly proportioned edifice, is the one that heralds the stylistic end of the early Bagan era. When I was there, a blast of rainbow celebrated the stupa’s existence.

Why have so many people never heard about this marvelous place?

The piece de resistance, however, surely must be the glitter of golden spires and shiny Buddhas that cast an ethereal glow over Myanmar’s most sacred pagoda, Shwedagon Phaya, which looms above the country’s commercial capital, Yangon, or Rangoon as it was known in a former existence.

Shwedagon can take your breath away.

Myanmar Buddhists dream of visiting here at least once in their lifetimes. No one, even tourists, ever forgets such a visit. It’s said there is more gold laced on Shwedagon’s surface than exists in the vaults of the Bank of England and perhaps even more than the mega tons stored at Fort Knox. Perhaps such overstatement is justified when setting the tone. This is an amazing place.

Long ago Rudyard Kipling waxed lyrical about this gold-swathed icon, “A golden mystery upheaved itself on the horizon–a beautiful winking wonder that blazed in the sun . . . ”

Allow me to put this explosion of glitter into perspective by describing just the top portion of the main spire which is clad in 13,153 plates of solid gold measuring one square foot each. The top-most vane of this tower is sliver-plated and studded with 1100 diamonds totaling 278 carats with 1383 other precious stones embedded nearby. At the very top of the vane is a golden sphere enveloped with 4351 diamonds, weighing 1800 carats. And at the very tip of this orb is a single 76-carat diamond perched more than a hundred meters above worshipers below. There’s a telescope off to one side for those wishing a closeup view of the jewels.

My photo below shows only a handful of the hundreds of Shwedagon’s shimmering spires that encircle the complex where Buddhist monks circumambulate to pay homage. Perhaps I should add that the gilded glaze you see was granted by an overcast sky. Imagine the spires when the sun shines brilliantly. Your eyes could launch into pain.

I allowed myself to be held spellbound.

Shwedagon has existed for two and a half millennia. Perhaps myth makers of ancient times visited here for inspiration. Clustered around the mighty golden stupa of Shwedagon is an awesome array of temples and zedis and shrines and pavilions and gilded Buddha statues in altars that defy description. One’s imagination can fail in comparison to what exists here. Temple walls are adorned in an endless display of reflective glass mosaic tiles laced with azure-tinted grout that lured me into a fit of mind-boggling amazement.

Go there one day and you will understand. This place really exists. Kipling was not lost in a dream.

After Yangon I made my way up-country on “The Road to Mandalay.” Mr. Kipling wrote about this, too, in his book of the same name. Today, the city can be a bit scruffy around the edges but its magic can still be found. The royal palace reflects in shimmering sunset-lit waters and you can climb Mandalay Hill to see its commanding golden Buddha with outstretched arm.

The lotus is associated with Buddhism because its flower signifies the law of “Cause and Effect” or karma. The lotus has the rare quality of manifesting the blossom simultaneously with its seed. More symbolically, the magnificent lotus flower flourishes most when it rises from the muddiest of swamps. When we find ourselves trapped in such muck, Buddhism promises that our lives can still blossom.

Burmese enchantment envelopes the country despite staunch military repression of the people.

On Inle Lake in eastern Myanmar fishermen deftly balance on one foot at the tip of their small canoes while their other leg is wrapped around an oar with one end tucked under their arm. They pivot and row in a one-legged corkscrew fashion while their hands are left free to manage the net. With permission, I climbed aboard one of these tiny boats mid-lake for an insider’s view through the net. In the process I almost caused capsize. But the agile boatman executed perfect counterbalance to my photograph of his precarious stance.

Toward the end of my visit to Burma I found myself at the remote Buddhist pagoda of Yan Aung Nan Aung Hsu Taung Pyi. It’s a quiet place; I was the only one there. No crimson-robed monks were nearby. It was just me and the huge outdoor Buddha sitting there in a moment of ponder. I lingered for a while, then carefully folded my umbrella and put it away. The rain had finally departed, perhaps signaling it was time for me to bid farewell to this incredible land. Reluctantly I slipped back into my sandals and turned to leave. Then, off to one side I spotted a sacred pond whose waters appeared not to be clear.

I drew closer and found rain droplets dancing on lotus leaves that had defiantly risen from the muck.

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