I love a lot of things. Hooping, Peru, yoga, dancing, singing, guitar, music, my family and friends, my dog, chocolate, and laughing, just to name 11.
Hooping it up at Machu Picchu with a glow raspberry hoop!
I teach yoga in Winnipeg, Canada, I take a lot of yoga classes here, and I also am a designated accountant. …an interesting combo I think. I got a hula hoop as a gift from a friend about 2 years ago. When I brought the hoop home I was hooked. I would walk past it on my way to work, as it leaned up against my kitchen table, and just have to hoop for a few minutes before I left. When I would get home from work I would walk past it again and well…hoop. Hoop again and again. …and again. Crank some music and unwind.
I started making hoops for friends and family last year and taught a beginner hooping class in Winnipeg so people could learn that there is much more to hula hooping than just twirling it around the waist.
I bring my hoop with me everywhere I travel to, whether it’s to work, the cottage, the park, Alberta, on the beaches in Hawaii and Mexico, hiking up the Andes, or through the Amazon jungles of Peru. I now hoop while walking to work and even while walking my dog. Over 5 kilometers! While I am travelling, I always give my hoop away to someone I have met along the way. Spreading the joy that the hoop shines open in me and passing it on to others.
11 things I love about hoops and hooping: (in no particular order):
- Creating color combos and designs to tape on the hoops.
- Testing each hoop by dancing with it and blessing it.
- Each hoop is unique. Just like every hooper!
- Hula hooping tones my abs and my whole upper body. Yay for hooping above the head.
- When people say “Aren’t you a little old for that?” For having fun? Um, no.
- Watching people hoop after they say they can’t. …and they are even smiling too.
- Putting on some music, connecting with the hoop, and dancing with it. I love that.
- Hooping outside…even when it’s -30 degrees.
- Learning new hoop tricks and flowy hoop dancing. You can do so much more than hoop around your waist!
- I can bring my collapsible hoop with me anywhere in the world.
- When people call me ‘the hoop lady’.
My Intention:
I'm in Lima!
My intention is live in joy. Joy is in everything, in everyone. Hoops bring joy to those who use them and joy to people recieving funds from your purchase. Joy in the power to rebuild their communities, live their dreams, and perhaps a sense of ease to their lives from not having to worry about money. Other forms of joy are from hooping itself. Laughter, smiling, opening up to the inner child in all of us – from stepping into a hula hoop and swirling it around. It offers a lightness, an opportunity to surrender and have some fun.
Enjoying the sky near Pisac, Peru.
I chose to do this because I realized that I wanted to make hula hoops, and one night there it was in my head. ‘You have to raise money for the people in Peru.’ It was in that moment, I thought…it is so obvious to me that the way to do that is with hula hoops. To connect all 11 of the things I mentioned that I love. Shanti~~~
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