SeaHeart

I've been really tapped into my own mortality lately in a very good way--it all began with Beethoven leaving. I'm a pretty in-the-moment kind of person to begin with, but I've been so...well, even more aware of everything. We never, ever know how much time we have on this beautiful blue/green planet. Never. I could be gone tomorrow, I could be gone a hundred years from now, and I will never know that time or place or day...but while I'm here, in this body, in this time and in this place, I will never have it be said that I didn't live with all my heart. I've been so much more aware of that lately, so tuned into that...that every moment, every breath, every second of this existence is to be lived, and it's this incredible, immense blessing. I'm so grateful for everything...for the blue sky and the blossoming earth and for everything in between. I'm more in the moment than I've ever been before, and I relish that.

I don't put off much in my life, but there are definite things I've postponed until "circumstances are better" to learn them. I love tribal belly dance with all my heart. I can do devil sticks pretty well, and learned them so that I could incorporate them into dancing, but I've ALWAYS wanted to learn poi and hooping to add to my dance practice and into my own dances. I think they're both so wild and intense and grace-ful and filled.

So, you know...no time like the present to learn. XD


by J.Boswell

I have a child sized hoop, which is really not doing the trick for me. I've been practicing very LAMELY on and off for about a year, but last night, I began to dedicate chunks of time to the training. I got, in the almighty words of Darkwing Duck, dangerous. XDDDD Since it's child sized, I can't spin it around my hips very well, but I've been concentrating on arm work, spinning it on arm and hooping it in patterns. I'm pretty graceful when it comes to actual dancing (thank the ever living GODS), so it's not too difficult yet. I'm so sore this morning, though! Apparently, when you begin to dedicate an actual practice to it, you get super bruised up to start with. Joy. XDDDD

I've never been so excited about buying piping in my entire life. XD It's totally possible to make your own hoop, inexpensively, that--you know--actually works for you.

Last night, after drills, I began to do a bit of actual dancing--very simplistic, but it was darkening, the stars were beginning to come out, and the lingering and failing last rays of sun were causing the most incredible colors to spill across the sky... I began to think about different dance Goddesses, and star Goddesses, and as I hooped, I realized I was doing an invocation. The energy from the hooping, the dancing and the perfect twilight spiraled together into perfect beauty. It was transcendent~

I came across this today, and thought I would share~ <3

Many purveyors of heavier hoops have a decidedly spiritual take on hooping, including myself! What I experience when I hoop (fondly referred to as “the hoop zone") is like an alternate dimension, a place of no thought, high vibration frequencies and limitless potential. It seems that whatever I am focused on creating in my life, whatever is the most true intrinsic I is magnified a thousand fold when the hoop spirals into motion. This holds true for negative thought patterns as well! If I am dropping my hoop it is usually because the “I can’t do it” bug has slipped in. So, the more I let go, the more I drop negative personal judgments, the more I just allow myself to BE within the hoop, the higher and more powerful my expression and ability to hoop magnificently and simultaneously manifest my dreams!
~ from HoopRevolution.com