http://www.hoopingpowers.com/blog Sat, 04 Sep 2010 13:56:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This is one of my all time favorite hoop shots for so many reasons (thank you Christine for taking it! and Carol for sharing!). The composition & lighting= my cup of tea. It a picture of my oldest friend on earth, Carol, whom I have known since the ripe young ... http://www.hoopingpowers.com/blog/2010/09/04/hoop-kisses-joes/ Many thanks Erin [Doh!] for sending along this fabulous femme-fantastical hoop shot in my general direction. Love to hoopers all over the world! It's already been brought'en. : ) http://www.hoopingpowers.com/blog/2010/07/28/fotocircular-4-bring-it/ While I have yet to take a formal class on the New Zealand-born art of Poi, I have increasingly amp'ed up my own exploration of poi-inspired hooping techniques in recent months and it has proven more powerful for bilateral brain strengthening than most other movement paths I have explored in ... http://www.hoopingpowers.com/blog/2010/07/03/the-infinite-power-joy-of-poi/ Here's a mildly fuzzy yet still super fun shot from De'Arra's recent 3rd year of life birthday party in which I facilitated a HoopingPowers Hoopy Birthday jammy-jam-dance session of bliss with HOOPS! This particular moment captured was when we were driving around with hoops as our steering wheels, whirling up ... http://www.hoopingpowers.com/blog/2010/04/25/dearras-hoopy-bday-jam/ Here's a powerful double hooping shot from a recent afternoon with my talented dancer and photographer friend Isaac Oboka. Thank you so much Isaac, for the lovely images & and for the laughter-filled time in the studio. I will be sharing more from this hoop-shoot in the near future so ... http://www.hoopingpowers.com/blog/2010/04/22/april-hoop-shoot-with-ioboka/ I will be hosting a Mandala & Hoop-Making Workshop this coming Sunday the 25th of April in Baltimore City (Waverly neighborhood)- complete with tons of education & materials at your fingertips, refreshments, and the house cat, Ellsie, who rather likes herself a hoola hoop. A hoop is an example of ... http://www.hoopingpowers.com/blog/2010/04/19/mandala-hoop-making-workshop-this-sunday-4-25-10/ Anyone who's ever stretched and moved about with hoop in hands is sure to have felt the incredible benefits of this simple & most gloriously deep shape in ever-expanding one's range of body movement/s. I have danced throughout my lifetime, but only in the last five years and more intensely ... http://www.hoopingpowers.com/blog/2010/03/24/strr-r-r-e-t-c-h-with-your-hoop/ Hoopy St. Patty's Day, friends! Here's a stunning Celtic Mandala created by Barbara Clare Goodwin that I feel well represents the beauty & majestic power of this ancient art form recently experiencing a surge in popularity~ no doubt thanks in part to spiritually conscious hoopers all over the world~ http://www.hoopingpowers.com/blog/2010/03/17/mine-irish-hooper-eyes-are-smiling/ Hope we all get a chance to spin it up today: the 14th of the 3rd month of the year (3.14), or annual "Pi Day!" Pi is the mathematical constant that represents the relationship between a circle's diameter and circumference. As hoopers (and even more as hoopmakers) there's a chance ... http://www.hoopingpowers.com/blog/2010/03/14/hoopy-pi-day/ A belated and genuine thanks to the lovely Revolva from PDX for highlighting our DC Hoop Collective in her 2009 Revolvies, commending solid and extraordinary folks & happenings in our ever-growing hoop community. And of course, gratitude goes out to Jaguar Mary (who's currently in BALI for a Sacred Circularities ... http://www.hoopingpowers.com/blog/2010/03/11/dc-hoop-collective-revolvie-award-2009/