http://www.hoopingpowers.com/blog Sat, 14 Jan 2012 07:18:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Join the world famous Pontani Sisters, the Maine Attraction, Strange Powers, and more special guests for a romantic holiday evening set to sultry jazz favorites with a beauteous burlesque bent. Hooping like you've never seen sexy hooping before: set to live jazz music! At the Birchmere Music Hall. Show details: ... http://www.hoopingpowers.com/blog/2012/01/14/valentines-day-2012-the-birchmere/ Contact the Hooping Powers team from our CONTACT page TODAY to order your hoop for the holidays or in time for the super pop New Year's Resolution of more exercise (read: PLAY!). Hoops for tots to elders are available in many colors, weights, and designs. Mini hoops start around $12/each ... http://www.hoopingpowers.com/blog/2011/12/21/get-a-hoop-or-two-for-the-holidays/ Friends! Hoop-Lovers! Holiday-Lovers! Burlesque-Lovers! Come out to Baltimore's Ottobar club this coming Saturday for a rare B'more treat: The World Famous Pontani Sisters from NYC will be gracing the stage in all of their foxy adorableness. The italian stallionettes will present their seasonal revue: BURLESQUE-A-PADES, HOLIDAY INN! And, in addition ... http://www.hoopingpowers.com/blog/2011/12/07/ottobar-show-this-saturday-12-10-11/ A beautiful, striking shot my friend Ricardo captured during my stay in Valdivia, southern Chile, a couple of years ago. The seagulls (las gaviotas) were migrating and can be seen as a wispy shadow above my hoops (mi palabra= upas) held high, with the moon (la luna) prettily peering out, ... http://www.hoopingpowers.com/blog/2011/11/30/fotocircular-8-las-upas-las-gaviotas-y-la-luna/ The revolution may or may not be televised, but it will most definitely be social-networkified, and it will ONE HUNDRED PERCENT be hoola hooped! Hooping was, is, and will always will be for me a true act of revolution~ not only of the physical variety (which is so infinitely ... http://www.hoopingpowers.com/blog/2011/10/08/hooping-for-social-justice/ I cannot believe that I did not know about spin art until this week of my life. Not only am I a hooper (so naturally obsessed with mandalas and all things that orbit) but I had never set mine eyes on a spin art machine, much less even heard of ... http://www.hoopingpowers.com/blog/2011/08/21/spin-art-is-hooptastic-fun/ Over the last few months, no doubt thanks in large part to the incredible musical offerings of the MXP drum circle players on Sunday afternoons, I have been able to fuse my hooping with my dancing more and more seamlessly each time I enter the ring. Hoop-Dance fusion has always ... http://www.hoopingpowers.com/blog/2011/08/20/musically-inspired-hoopdance/ My dear friends were such good sports taking the back seat of my auto with hoops monopolizing most of the space en route to our afternoon park-time. Tis the life of the hoop lovers~ we've gotta share our space and hoop love, at pretty much any cost. : ) http://www.hoopingpowers.com/blog/2011/07/17/squashportation/ Recently I was lighting some cleansing sage (a.k.a. salvia apiana) in my oh-so-woo-ish way and popped outside for a quick spin with the hoop~ I kept the burning sage in my hand as I twisted within the infinite ring~ spinning my torso both counter-directionally from it- and then also conjoined ... http://www.hoopingpowers.com/blog/2011/07/12/sagehooping/ Those of us in the hoop-know are also likely well aware of the hoop-feel-and-release phenomenon. Hooping & hoopdance help to process emotions quicker- just like movement in general...so that when we feel not only physical lethargy or stiffness, but mental anxiety, confusion, depression, or fear, we can literal step into ... http://www.hoopingpowers.com/blog/2011/06/14/hooping-for-emotional-alignment/