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Get your Maidan on at Hoop Path Brooklyn

February 20, 2013 hoop dance classes, hoop dance events No comments

So the Maidan. If you don’t know what they are you have probably never attended a Hoop Path workshop with master Hoop Pather Jonathan Livingston Baxter. While I’ll leave the in-depth teaching metaphors to him, I’ll tell you that the Maidan are part of a myth that Bax uses to teach you how to connect to your hoop.

Like Baxter, I usually encourage my students away from the “gotta get tricks” approach to hooping. Besides that, I don’t know that we have that much else in common, besides a weakness for Puma sneakers. But I love his classes and you should check it out of you’re in town. Tickets for this weekend’s workshop in Brooklyn are on sale now.

Learn to hoopdance or recapture your flow! – Workshop Nov 8th!

October 26, 2012 hoop dance classes, hoop dance events, hooping practice No comments

***Please note the 11/8 workshop will be postponed to 11/15 due to transportation issues caused by Hurricane Sandy.***

Join us for the next fundamentals workshop for beginners and those who want to recapture their hoop flow.

TWIRL Hoop Dance Fundamentals Workshop – Find Your Flow or Recapture it!

Thursday 11/8, 7-9PM  

Thursday 11/15, 7-9PM

311 W. 43rd St., 8th Fl.(near 8th Ave., Times Square)
Description
Whether you’re picking up a hoop for the first time or have been hoopdancing for years, you’ll work up a sweat and have a fabulous time with a friendly group of hoopers!

In this extended two-hour workshop format, we will go over the foundations of movement within your hoop, along with tips that can be applied to learning new hoop dance movements down the road.

Expect a small, focused, intimate class where you will get the attention you need to sharpen your hooping skills.

What if I don’t have a hoop?

A small amount of loaner hoops will be available on a first-come first-served basis.

Hoops are also available for purchase for an additional $42. Each hoop is made to order by hand. Hoops ordered in advance may be picked up at class.

Hoops are available in cobalt blue, ruby red, amethyst purple and emerald green, as pictured on our hoops page and TWIRL Hoop Dance Facebook page.

How do I sign up?

Class size is limited so reservations must be made in advance. Class fee of $55 will cover include the two-hour workshop and use of a loaner hoop (based on availability). You may send your payment via PayPal to j_yen16@hotmail.com.  You will get a confirmation when your payment is received then you are all set!

Class policies

Please pre-register as space is limited. Your space is guaranteed only after payment is received.

A limited number of loaner hoops are available on a first-come, first-served basis.

No refunds or make-up classes available at this time.

Hoop Camp 2012!!!

October 11, 2012 hoop dance events One comment

For weeks I just loved saying it.  I loved telling people:  “I’m going to Hoop Camp.”

“What camp?”  “Poop camp?”  “What’s Hoop Camp?”

Here I’d like to share with you my favorite, fairly unedited impressions of my first Hoop Camp Retreat:

Hoop Camp, Day 1:  Getting the Lay of the Land

Baxter opening session.  To be honest, some of the teachers at Hoop Camp were names I didn’t recognize.  But as a fan of Baxter’s Hoop Path retreats, I looked forward to his opening session.  As I pieced together my arrival into Hoop Camp, I told myself that as long as I made it to that workshop, I would be happy to to spend the rest of the week hooping under the trees by myself, enjoying the solitude and quiet away from the city.  As it turns out, quiet solitude is not quite what Hoop Camp is about…

Best bear paws.  As we wheel our luggage up the hill to Hoop Camp central, Philo Hagen passes by, holding a giant pair of rubber shoes shaped like bear paws.  I am delighted to meet Philo after reading his hooping.org posts for years but become fixated on his rubber shoes.  He directs me to the vendor tents up the hill.

At the vendor area, everyone else is trying on sexy hot pants with ruffled hems and sparkly jewelry that hangs down to their shoulders.  I pick out a pair of pink rubber bear paws from a plastic bin sitting in the dirt.  I cannot imagine these shoes seeing the light of day in NYC.  Nonetheless, I consider buying a pair for all of my friends in New York, starting with my boyfriend.  My new Hoop Camp friends discourage this practice.  Eventually I agree that maybe you can have too much of a good thing and one pair of pink bear paw shoes is a whole lot of good thing.

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