Curious what S is all about? Well, Sheila answers 9 of your most common questions!
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Find out for yourself at our upcoming #SGathering retreat or join us online for the next Strip & Rise Journey. Head on over to the link in our bio…
One year ago, @stripdownriseup came out on @Netflix ! Did you start your S practice after seeing the film? How has your life changed or evolved this last year? As S moves out of the shadows with more stories being told about this transformational but largely hidden practice, what has been moving and shifting within you? What does it feel like to allow the light to shine on your feminine essence? Tell us about your journey this year in the comments below as we celebrate the one year anniversary of the Strip Down, Rise Up director @micheleohayon giving us a platform to share our voice and vision of the embodied feminine.
The world has cut you off from an essential part of yourself. But it's still right there waiting for you.
Come home to yourself in a practice that rekindles the feminine flame in a masculine world. And come learn what real embodied feminine presence and power looks and feels like.
Learn all about S Factor Teacher Training on this FREE live call with Sheila Kelley this Saturday, May 16
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Somewhere along the way, we were all handed a set of rules.
Most of us never questioned them — we just lived inside them, smaller and quieter than we were born to be.
"This is just how the world works," we'd say.
These are 3 big lies keeping women from their full power (and pleasure and joy). Swipe to see which ones you've been living from. 👉
S Factor Teacher Training is how you unlearn them — in your body, for real, and for others.
Become extraordinary in your power. Join @sheilakelleys and our Teacher Trainers now.
Presale ends April 30. Link in bio to save $500.
Right now, there are women in your life who are quietly aching for permission to take up more space, to break free from old habits and situations.
They just need a sign or a cue. They need to see that it's possible.
That's where you come in.
Not because you have it all figured out, but because you're willing to go through that door first and leave it open for others behind you. Your strength shows others what can change when feminine energy becomes powerful and confident.
And S Factor Foundational Teacher Training is the way there. In this comprehensive program, trainees do the deep work on themselves and develop the capacity to hold that space for others.
Across four immersive weekends, you'll develop a level of presence, magnetism, intuition, and embodiment that changes how you move through the world. Some women leave ready to teach. Others simply leave more fully themselves — and that too, changes everyone around them.
Either way, you become someone who knows the way back. And that matters more than you know.
If you've been feeling the pull toward this training, trust it. The women who need you aren't waiting for you to be perfect. They're waiting for you to begin.
Growth begins at the edges of your comfort zone, so jump in and join us and get started with the first module right away.
Access the presale in our bio, and save $500 but not for long.
Step into the fullness of your potential ✨️🔥
Imagine shifting the energy in a room simply with your presence.
Imagine knowing what someone else needs simply by witnessing the way they move.
And now imagine being able to guide others with a deep wisdom that shifts the energy in their bodies and their lives.
This is what happens when you go from experiencing the magic of S Factor in your own body to learning how to skillfully and artfully guide this movement for others.
❣️Announcing: S Factor Teacher Training 2026! The presale opens April 9th, exclusively for our VIP waitlist.
This is the only S Factor Teacher Training offered this year. Waitlist members get first access to enroll + a special payment plan that won't last.
✨️ Four live online weekends. ✨️ Exclusive video trainings. ✨️ Sheila’s teachings. ✨️ A complete curriculum. ✨️ Your certification to teach anywhere in the world as a powerful and intuitive somatic guide.
If you've ever felt called to lead — this is your moment. → Link in bio to join the waitlist.
#SFactor #TeacherTraining #FeminineLeadership #WomensEmpowerment #EmbodiedMovement
Every great practice has an origin story… ours is a little different than most 😉
In a small back house in Los Angeles, 26 years ago, Sheila cleared space in the middle of her husband Richard’s office, installed a single pole, and began teaching something no one had language for yet.
It wasn’t just movement.
It wasn’t just dance.
It was a reclamation.
What started in that room would become S Factor—a practice that has since awakened, enlivened, and empowered thousands of women all over the world, giving them their agency and sense of self back.
But the beginning wasn’t easy.
There were whispers.
Judgment.
Side-eyes from parents at school pickup.
A culture that wasn’t ready to accept that women have bodies… and that those bodies are meant to feel, to express, to experience pleasure—freely and unapologetically.
Still, she kept going.
Because something deeper was unfolding—something undeniable.
And from that tiny, unconventional beginning… a movement was born.
#SFactor #FeminineEmbodiment #WomenInMotion #Reclamation #SheilaKelley
Women don’t just get a day. And when International Women’s Day comes and goes each year, I’m reminded that celebrating this moment is about so much more than honoring individual women. It needs to be about honoring and celebrating the community and connection and safety that women bring to all of our lives.
In my relationships with women I feel held, nurtured, and seen. When I am with my women I exhale and soften. My true self emerges. That is the power of having a posse of women, a true feminine circle.
In our culture, we’ve become fragmented and isolated, told we must go it alone. We’re told to mistrust other women, to compete. But the power of women is the power of connection, support, and presence. This is what we all need now–desperately–which is why we need to spend more than just a day each year truly elevating the essence and energy of women in our lives.
Here are some amazing powerhouse women to follow.
When we come together we defy the separation of the feminine we are more powerful then when we’re alone. Women empowering women. My posse of women, you know who you are. I love and honor you!
Tag the powerhouse women in your life!
We’re taught that being emotional is a liability. That femininity is weak. That crying is embarrassing. That anger is bad.
When emotion doesn’t flow through the body - through action or reaction - it doesn’t disappear. It gets swallowed. It creates a blockage. It dams up in the body.
What if the shift is this: expressing emotion isn’t weakness, it’s a superpower.
When you learn to move emotion and direct that energy toward what you want, it becomes fuel. It’s like a giant magnet that attracts everything to you!
So the next time you feel anger, fear, or grief, don’t shut it down. Those emotions aren’t the problem. They’re raw power, waiting to be used.
Give it a try!
The first mistake in love isn’t who you choose. It’s how you’ve been taught to live inside your body.
When love keeps failing, it’s rarely a mindset issue. It’s a pattern of overriding sensation, rushing instinct, and asking the body to endure instead of respond. Connection doesn’t deepen through effort. It deepens when the body feels safe enough to soften, receive, and lead.
This is where love actually begins. 💜
What if love isn’t lost, it’s undiscovered?
We spend lifetimes searching for connection when the real journey is coming home to who we are beneath expectations and patterns.
Most of us have never learned how to receive love without fear. We’ve learned how to work for it, fix it, figure it out but not feel it fully.
This Thursday, fall in love with yourself and transform your relationships. Stop chasing love, let it meet you. 💜
Rise in Love starts in two days. Join at the link in bio.
