Having recently increased my amount of time writing and therefore my general sitting-still time, I am realizing more each day how important the pure physical movement of hooping is in my everyday life. Our bodies are simply not designed to be so sedentary. How perfect an outlet is hooping for our modern day “sit-tense-and-staring” style of life that so many 9-5ers, computer users(!), factory-workers, writers, & students, etc. tend to employ on the daily. As children, we instinctively know the importance of play and movement. Youth who go into the average, western-style school system become fast-acculturated to the ways of sitting still and quiet in order to ‘learn properly.’ After years of this lifestyle, our bodies are typically prone to poor posture, inflexibility, tension you don’t even want to mention, and a host of other unpleasantries. Hooping is an easy and inexpensive way for people to feel comfortable to get up, stand up, and stretch up, inside our bodies that are carrying around so much stress and often many insecurities, and literally hoop the ‘nor-maladies’ out of you~ leaving much of the good stuff: the positive feelings, the utilized muscles, the neural pathways firing, the broad movement paths, as well as the more subtle, specific, and delicate movements paths, too. You can hoop yourself into your true height and body size and style of being in your particular skeleton. You can hoop yourself into the dancer that you already are~ as frequently the hoop acts rather magically like a security blanket for your inner movement artist to be born and to flourish forth. Loosen your hips and shoulder-tips more than you ever thought possible. Strengthen and increase flexibility anywhere you spin~ including around the commonly-overlooked hands and wrists, so often pained with carpal-tunnely ‘office-ness’ syndrome that many of us know all too well. The gifts just keep on giving as long as you keep on spinning… so do as the ol’ song says and don’t stop til you get enough! With your very own and very special Hooping Powers. It is truly a wondrous thing~