The Warrior Path

On Sunday, I had the extreme pleasure of attending a workshop with Jonathon Baxter. He is a hooper who has taken his teaching to a place that far transcends the medium. I am so drawn to the work he calls The Hoop Path as it reaches in and touches the warrior within my body and soul.

Attending this event illuminated something within my heart and mind. I have been feeling a sense of ambivalence towards my teaching in the hoop recently. There is so much that I love about sharing the joy of the hoop with others; yet, I have felt a hunger inside of me to approach the work from a more conscious place. To truly begin to share how hoopdance can be about so much more than hoop tricks and self-expression. The hoop is a messenger of so much wisdom. It teaches me about what it is to be in relationship, how yin and yang merge to create harmony, and the rare of gifts of truth and humility found each time the hoop falls. Hooping is a practice. I know this... and Baxter helped me to remember that it is possible to share this work from a deeper place.

And so, I am ever-more inspired to co-create and develop HoopSHiNE BODY with the community of hoopers in Portland. So much is unknown about this class series, coming up July 9th. Nevertheless, I am committed to creating a space where each hooper walks away a visceral experience of the harmony and wisdom that the hoop imparts... in the body, and in relationship to self.

More on this as the vision develops...