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 [...]

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 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 [...]

Today is the last day of the 2009 Hoop Convergence in the beautiful town of Carrboro, North Carolina. I am amongst over a hundred other passionate hoopers from all over the U.S.A., as well as a handful of folks from Canada and even Europe. Many of these powerful movers are not only spreading love through [...]

One thing that I like to share with others and try to remind myself of often, is exactly why the hoop is such a powerful mechanism for experiencing joy, clarity, and creative expression in a relatively safe place: inside the circle.
Most folks who’ve hooped before (as adults) recognize fast about the pure fun and [...]

This is the fourth year that my family’s joined the annual Race for Hope in Washington DC to fight against brain tumors, remember loved one/s lost, and actively support brain tumor survivors. For the first couple of years we called ourselves Team Mimi, in honor of my dear mother Mary Ann who passed away in [...]

It is not too late to sign up for my fun-filled adult hooping class taking place at Glen Echo Park’s Hall of Mirrors over the next six Saturday mornings! The class is designed with beginners in mind, and covers basic waist hooping, isolated body hooping, traveling, hoopdance, tricks, and overall fluidity of movement. I will provide weighted [...]

This past Sunday morning, the 7th of May 2006, I walked with my family in the 9th Annual Brain Tumor Race For Hope 5k Fundraiser in Washington D.C. We walked (and ran and hooped) in support of and alongside my mother, Mary Ann Powers, who is a thriving survivor of Glioblastoma Multiforme, a level 4 [...]