I was talking to my dearest on the phone today about the concept of closure, and I quickly made mention of “opensure,” ’cause that’s where my goofily mercurial mind traveled… We both had a minor chuckle, but later I got to thinking more seriously about how much hooping & in particular full-bodied hoopdance truly captures [...]

This coming Thursday I will be donning my fishnets and grabbing my hoola hoop for a short performing appearance at Tango Mercurio’s Fishnet Fete party to raise money for this wonderful dance company spreading the beauty and passion of the Tango tradition throughout DC and beyond. Reception begins at 7pm and I will be hooping [...]

Just sayin… in case any of you DMV hoopers are extraordinarily hard core~ that I, am not. And Joe’s is closed. See you post-snowsanity! In the meantime, if I may suggest: make some hot cocoa, move some furniture, and getchur home-hoop a’spin! What better way to enjoy the day? With Love & Blinding White Light~ [...]

The hoop jam originally scheduled to take place tomorrow, February 7th from noon to 2pm is now rescheduled (due, of course, to the Blizzard of 2010) until Sunday, February 28 also from noon to 2pm at the same location. Enjoy the winter wonderland and please come out on the 28th to hoop, fun-raise & fund-raise [...]

You can play ‘Seek The Circles’ in this one, like ‘Where’s Waldo?’ for hooper-geeks.

Organized by local and fabulous movement artist Jocelyn Gordon of Love Movement Healing Arts, we will be hooping with a purpose on Sunday, February 7th from noon to 2pm at the Carderock Springs Swim and Tennis Club in Bethesda, MD. The proceeds of this donation-based hoop jam will go to Water Missions International~ helping folks [...]

This is a new hoopLog series in which I’m posting circular-ish imagery I’ve captured, mostly from my less-than-awesome camera phone and occasionally also a Canon Power Shot. Low end hoopLove-flavor at it’s finest. Here’s some love for the littlest hardcore wheels of the world!

“SuperPowers!” This is my family and friends’ amazing team name for the Race for Hope to fight against brain tumors. As many who are close to me already know, my family’s been doubly affected by brain tumors recently, and we’ve therefore been active in the DC Race for Hope fundraiser for the last four years. [...]

Having just settled back onto the soil of my country of origin after a long hooping sabbatical in the forest, I’m finding myself in the midst of this big city life where it can be difficult to find environmentally-friendly-hoopspiration & SPACE TO HOOP! Walking the streets of DC, Metro’ing through the Bethesda suburbs, or driving [...]

Hoops are mandalas, circles, portals, wheels, clocks, rings, irises, and symbols of sacred geometry. The circular shape of the hoop makes it an ideal addition to altars, meditation nooks, sacred spaces, and decorations on/in homes, temples, buildings, barns, etc. Many modern (& European-descended) hoopers are beginning to see what indigenous American people and hoopdancers [...]

Today is a big day. On this eve of 2010, we are experiencing a rare celestial occasion, with the combined forces of not only a new year upon us, but also the powerful energies of both a ‘blue’ full moon, and a partial lunar eclipse (at 2:12pm EST). The *astrological significance of a blue moon [...]

This is a video of an excellent Ted Talk about how our education system as it is today, around the world, is basically killing creativity. In this lecture made by Sir Ken Robinson, he champions a radical rethink of our school systems, to cultivate creativity and acknowledge multiple types of intelligences. I think it’s perfect [...]

Every once in a while you meet an instant convert to the joyful revolution. You know it the minute you put a hoop around their hips or hand that they’re hooked for life. It’s an incredible sight, bearing witness to someone’s discovery of the hoop’s super magical properties. This past fall/early winter while living in [...]

Lately I have been combining my practice of hooping and my practice of writing into one two-sided coin freshly tossed into the air spinning freely and highly above the ground, often to the accompaniment of positive-centric, medium-tempo’ed hip hop and r’n’b~ where the lyrics seep straight into your soul even if only your body hears [...]

La Christine and I took a pause from tending to the bees one afternoon to hoop in our bee costumes (I mean, bee-suits!). Que divertidisimo y un poco raro tambien…how hilarious and and little weird, too!

Este es el primer “upa” yo hice de solomente material natural y organica! Estoy emocionada para mas exploracion en el construccion de upas sin plastico. Este upa linda es de Colihue (un primo de bamboo) y vid de la selva de Sur Chile , y es super funcional, tambien. Que vakan y divertido y bueno [...]

This past week I had the great pleasure of working with my talented friends Karin and Ricardo from Valparaiso on the creation of a new hoop-dance-music video piece about home; one of both documentation and art. At the end of the week, we’d traveled great distances with hoops and cameras in tow, through and around [...]

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 [...]

Hola Amigos Del Mundo~ While I usually write posts in the English language, right now I am finding home to be in the Southern part of Chile- where I will be holding my first hooping workshop in the coming weeks. Therefore, what follows is a description in the Spanish language for Chileans (or any other [...]

I have had an almost entirely new hooping world of sorts open up to me in the last few weeks of my practice~play, and that is: behind the back-space hooping on hands with mini (or larger) hoops! Some of my biggest positive role models in the hooping world have acquired great skill in this [...]

I have been in the countryside of southern Chile for nearly a month now. Here’s a shot of me just before a gay parade in Santiago my second day in South America~ donning an “I Love Myself” sign in Spanish- “Yo Amo A Mi Misma!”~ with my hoola hoops happily overhead. The modern hooping movement [...]

Yesterday’s WORLD HOOP DAY ‘09 on the Monument grounds proved to be the beautiful time we’d all dreamed of- and the rain held out completely! There were so many familiar faces to greet, I hardly had time to hoop! But I did manage to get in some tips from the incredibly talented poi-artist and teacher-breaker-downer: [...]

Attention all hoopers and folks in want of hoola hoops! I am selling off many of my used hoops that are in good condition and need new hooper homes~ most of these hoops will be between $5 and $25- depending on the size and condition. Additionally, I still have a gang of brand new, shiny [...]

I awoke this morning knowing how busy my day is going to be and before I let myself feel any stress about it, I picked up a hoop and went outside to my deck to move with it. I began with my normal stretching~ using the hoop as a tool for a deeper warm-up than [...]

As I reflect on the last few years of the still furiously-burgeoning world of hooping, I continue to be impressed (but not at all surprised) by the sheer positivity and power of the circle.  Communities filled with love and peace and connection are springing forth literally all over the world~ including our oft-hardened hometown of [...]