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great hOOPCLASS today - thanks Sonie & Cheryl
worked on revolving doors - more floating up / down variations - kicks - passing -
i have so many ideas - just figuring out the progression of concepts -
want to do more group activities -
asked Suzanna Choffel today if we could do a hoop routine for the
Austin Music Awards - I think we're going to go for it -
b/c we'll be performing there - big stage - lots of PEEPS
I've been sick for the last few - but happy to sweat it out today at Alisa's
having SUCH a blast...
and making more hoops too...
updated HOOPCiRCLE.COM last night - able to accept payments for hoops there now...
getting the designs nailed down... more tape on the way...
hoop parties coming up... Spring in Austin! oh bOY! Spring FEVER!
April 4 Hoop-OUT at Central Market -
lots of FUN on the horizon... I think this 2009 is a good year...
regardless of all the FALLOUT around / bad news / tough times.
I'm just not shopping for therapy anymore. it's perfectly fine.

hooPMAKiNG

mAKiNG HOOPS
PRETTY HooPS
sO TiME CoNSUMiNG
BuT I WANT EVERYONE TO HAVE...
so I MAKE.
and it's OKAY!
.....
hoopiNGsmorefun
than MAkiNG EM

back in AUSTiN - back in HOOP EFFECT --

yey! i'm so glad to be home!
Switzerland / Denver was awesome -
I didn't hoop as much as I would've like due to space / weather constraints...
tho I eventually did hoop for my Oma - and she was quite happy -
she enjoyed spinning the hoop in a circle with me - and passing it off, holding it, having the lights around her.. she can no longer walk and no longer knows who I am.
it seemed that she did enjoy just the simplicity of playing with a "toy" in a sense - rather than looking a photos and being told "this is you!" "do you remember who this is?" - it's so hard to be 93 and just not know anymore... :(
but the hoop made her laugh and it made me so happy!



thanks to Sonie and Cheryl for making my first HOOPCLASS back so awesome -
on Valentines Night after my gig at Momos I hooped it up to Dan Dyer - and I just felt like a huge load was lifted of me - the joy and power that hooping brings to my life is so exceptional. I'm constantly in awe of it and giving thanks for this activity that truly brings me so much joy.
I'm making hoops for my new beginner class peeps and looking forward to Saturday -- not only to teach hooping - but to PLAY the NinA SimONE TRIBUTE (i've been practicing soooo much PiANO!!!) yey!
happy day!

hooping in Switzerland?

a little bit... some...
not as much as I would like - my time here has been shelling out items from the attic, closets, boxes, chests.... essentially cleaning out my Oma's (grandmother's) house and history... deciding what my mom and I should keep or not...
We collect so many things... and in the end they're just things... and we forget so much anyway... It's just a wake up call to not always hold on...
I haven't been hooping because of the small space I'm living in... even though I
brought my 2 new matched pair of LED hoops that I made... they're a bit mean though - the tubing is hard! sometimes very... owieee! too heavy maybe...
and I brought a larger hoop that I haven't pieced together...

I don't know what's with me. My enthusiasm here is a little sadly faded...
I'm jet lagged.. and visiting my 93 year old Oma that can't remember anything from her life, let alone us... it's really hard... Bless her heart... :'(
Being old is tough. It really really is...

She will see me hoop before I go. I'm determined. It will happen. and she'll love it!
I'm just easing in slowly to the Swiss nursing home vibe...
it's super conservative here.
ahh... small towns... they're the same everywhere...
gossipy and kinda?! boring...
HoopLOVE from
Stein am Rhein

looking forward to getting back to Austin in hOOP effecT

Kansas City was cooL!

I dropped the hoop motherload in KC. awesome hoopcircle on Saturday at Sunshine Yoga. Had a lovely 6 piece class that was inspired and fun. Brie and a couple of her fabulous hoopgurlz showed as well as a couple newbeeez. It was rad - I really enjoyed facing the group and making the eye contact and watching them. I think when we have a mirror in front of us we focus so much on ourselves.
"what does it look like" thoughts....
hooping is much much much more on "feeling" it that seeing what it looks like. We have to feel the move, or the "pe-a-ce" - the grounding and control within. I think we can discover more by listening to these sensations than by "watching" ourselves.
I realized that I needed to learn how to communicate "right" and "left" reversed (when not facing the same direction as the class) that took some thinking...
It was fun - thanks to Kelli Austin at Sunshine Yoga
and Brie "Breeze" of http://www.kaivalyahoops.com/
THanks YA"LL.
I'm about to be taking off on a family venture in Switzerland.
Hoops and hoop practice are joining the trip. Of course.
Collapsables are very handy! just fixed up a matching LED duo last night!
HOOPON>>>

i spent hoop time today hooping 20 minutes with my neighbors, then watching them hoop for an hour as I taped up more hoops. prepping for Kansas City this weekend. Looking forward to doing a couple workshops. HopingHopingHoping some peeps will show for it... Gotta start somewhere.. then realized i goofed the dates on the flyer... it's Saturday & Sunday 24/25 ... duh...
I was very happy though today to kick it outside in the gorgeous Austin weather... beautifUL!

Blogging

Blogggg - ok i will... out of hoop commitment.
committed to hoop every possible day in 2009. yes!?
Obama began his speech - "i stand here today - humbled"
i felt humbled too by the hoop today. in outflow - working on my knee hooping --
eek - very humbled...
gggrreat tho because a commitment to
controlling the hoop is discipline and reward to me... no doubt...
i'm tripping out a bit because since starting the hoopclasses
twice a week - i'm already stronger in my arms, back, abs - I feel
it!! - and i'm just so stoked - to be teaching - to be working out -
to be pushing more and going for it! I hope everyone is spending the time
to give themselves the hoop love!
i'm so thankful for my 2009 push into more hoop commitment -
and the classes are an amazing help! and thank you to those who've been coming!
yey!!
I'm going to be posting here - my personal hoop practice / performance / work / class / freestyle / whateverrz / experiences.
Just for fun! I encourage everyone to make a hoop blog that
they can share with their friends and families and hoop peeps.
Show your commitment! pics! videos! experiences in your own hoop blog.

I wannna read!!! I wanna see!!! let's SHARE! POST!!
I'm posting a video from 2 days ago - some slow motion hoop action.... some of my trippy music too!

happy inauguration day ya'll!!!!!!