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Don't miss a beat.
Hooposophy (Hoop-ah-seh-fee) is updated weekly with articles designed to help you expand and hone your
unique hooping style. Visit often for hard-hitting questions to ask yourself about your hooping,
outside-of-the-box hooping exercises, and reflections on our growing relationship, as individuals and as a
community, with the most ancient symbol known to humankind -- the circle.
Don't miss a beat.
Hooposophy (Hoop-ah-seh-fee) is updated weekly with articles designed to help you expand and hone your
unique hooping style. Visit often for hard-hitting questions to ask yourself about your hooping,
outside-of-the-box hooping exercises, and reflections on our growing relationship, as individuals and as a
community, with the most ancient symbol known to humankind -- the circle.
You're So Vain...You Probably Think This Blog Is About You. Forget the hoop makeover, this
week we're making over the hooper! Every once in a while dolling up the outside can go along way towards
expressing the changing hooper on the inside. It's time to shed your inhibitions and put on the glitz - you've
never indulged yourself so deliciously!
February 2010
The Dervish at the Center of Your Whirl While some might be hesitant to call our preoccupation
with what we do an obsession, only a very few of us would call our dedicated hoop-love a "hobby." In this
week's two-part series, we take a cue from the Order of the Whirling Dervishes to explore just what exactly
keeps many hoopers coming back for more. A series: Click here for Part Two!
Labyrinth Hooping: How to Hoop Your Way to a Solution In its more recent resurgence in our
culture, modern labyrinth makers have put a great deal of focus on labyrinth walking as an effective tool for
intuitive problem-solving. My own intense interest in these ancient patterns has brought me to think about how
we might borrow this idea and turn our hoops into powerful problem-solving tools
When All the World's Asleep ... A Gift You Can Give Your Hooping Tonight. My eyes lifted
from the computer screen and looked about. The street was asleep. I had a glass of wine, a pile of hoops,
and the night all to myself.
January 2010
Three Full Minutes of Hoop Bliss With Parts On and Two of this series under your belt, put what
you've learned from yourself into action by creating a narrative that is uniquely your own. Part Three of a series.
Dance Hoopless!: Putting your hoop down may change the way you pick it up next
time If you've read Part One of this series and have already put it to work, you're moving faster and thinking
less. You're beginning to understand how some hooping moves fit together and which combinations make
sense and feel good for you. Part two of a series.
One Beat Wonders: Work Smarter, Not Harder Every once in a while, does your hooping start to
feel like just an endless loop of "what trick next?" Part one of a series.
Taking Stock: Two Revealing Hoop Exercises Did you know that your "hooping body" is
inextricably linked to your "hooping mind?" Try on these parallel exercises for size and your hoopdance will
reap the rewards.
December 2009
The Path of Least Resistance: Sustained Spinning in Hooping For me, hooping on-body
while standing still feels odd and uncomfortable. It feels as if I'm fighting the hoop, providing it with an
opposite and competing force, an obstacle. In short, I'm a believer in sustained spinning. Discover what
constant turning can do for you.
A Word About "Tricks" and "Trick Hooping" The modern hooping community, it seems,
universally refers to the things we do with a hoop as "tricks." And for good reason, it would appear. Some of
the things we do can certainly be "tricky," taking multiple bruises and hours, if not months, to accomplish with
some relative ease. And frankly, it's always kind of rubbed me the wrong way.
November 2009
Who Do You Hoop For? Turning Inward Do you hoop to impress? Because if you do, it could be
the biggest obstacle there is between you and the hooping you know is in you somewhere, the obstacle
between you and the hooping that will make someone else, someday sit in awe asking themselves, "Why
can't I do that?"
week we're making over the hooper! Every once in a while dolling up the outside can go along way towards
expressing the changing hooper on the inside. It's time to shed your inhibitions and put on the glitz - you've
never indulged yourself so deliciously!
February 2010
The Dervish at the Center of Your Whirl While some might be hesitant to call our preoccupation
with what we do an obsession, only a very few of us would call our dedicated hoop-love a "hobby." In this
week's two-part series, we take a cue from the Order of the Whirling Dervishes to explore just what exactly
keeps many hoopers coming back for more. A series: Click here for Part Two!
Labyrinth Hooping: How to Hoop Your Way to a Solution In its more recent resurgence in our
culture, modern labyrinth makers have put a great deal of focus on labyrinth walking as an effective tool for
intuitive problem-solving. My own intense interest in these ancient patterns has brought me to think about how
we might borrow this idea and turn our hoops into powerful problem-solving tools
When All the World's Asleep ... A Gift You Can Give Your Hooping Tonight. My eyes lifted
from the computer screen and looked about. The street was asleep. I had a glass of wine, a pile of hoops,
and the night all to myself.
January 2010
Three Full Minutes of Hoop Bliss With Parts On and Two of this series under your belt, put what
you've learned from yourself into action by creating a narrative that is uniquely your own. Part Three of a series.
Dance Hoopless!: Putting your hoop down may change the way you pick it up next
time If you've read Part One of this series and have already put it to work, you're moving faster and thinking
less. You're beginning to understand how some hooping moves fit together and which combinations make
sense and feel good for you. Part two of a series.
One Beat Wonders: Work Smarter, Not Harder Every once in a while, does your hooping start to
feel like just an endless loop of "what trick next?" Part one of a series.
Taking Stock: Two Revealing Hoop Exercises Did you know that your "hooping body" is
inextricably linked to your "hooping mind?" Try on these parallel exercises for size and your hoopdance will
reap the rewards.
December 2009
The Path of Least Resistance: Sustained Spinning in Hooping For me, hooping on-body
while standing still feels odd and uncomfortable. It feels as if I'm fighting the hoop, providing it with an
opposite and competing force, an obstacle. In short, I'm a believer in sustained spinning. Discover what
constant turning can do for you.
A Word About "Tricks" and "Trick Hooping" The modern hooping community, it seems,
universally refers to the things we do with a hoop as "tricks." And for good reason, it would appear. Some of
the things we do can certainly be "tricky," taking multiple bruises and hours, if not months, to accomplish with
some relative ease. And frankly, it's always kind of rubbed me the wrong way.
November 2009
Who Do You Hoop For? Turning Inward Do you hoop to impress? Because if you do, it could be
the biggest obstacle there is between you and the hooping you know is in you somewhere, the obstacle
between you and the hooping that will make someone else, someday sit in awe asking themselves, "Why
can't I do that?"
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March 2010
THIS WEEK:
Ding, Dong. The "Fat" Girl's Dead: This One's for the Plus-Size Hoopers and It
Ain't About Losing Weight. I'm a plus-size hooper. There it is. Whew, that wasn't hard
to write as I thought it might be. Why would it be? Because the hooping community
wrestles with the image and goal of an ideal body no less than the rest of our culture.
THIS WEEK:
Ding, Dong. The "Fat" Girl's Dead: This One's for the Plus-Size Hoopers and It
Ain't About Losing Weight. I'm a plus-size hooper. There it is. Whew, that wasn't hard
to write as I thought it might be. Why would it be? Because the hooping community
wrestles with the image and goal of an ideal body no less than the rest of our culture.
| Looking for more serious writing about Hooping? |
| Yearn for other hooping blogs that offer more than an event calendar and the last trick they learned? Here are our picks. |
isopop Rich Porter authors this
frequently-updated blog. He is
always thinking about hooping
and, lucky for us, he shares those
thoughts with us!
frequently-updated blog. He is
always thinking about hooping
and, lucky for us, he shares those
thoughts with us!
Hoop Path You will have to scroll
through details of Hoop Path
events, but there are real gems to
be found here. Look for Ann
Humphrey's story and an exquisite
narrative about hoops and religion
from an anonymous Hoop Pather.
through details of Hoop Path
events, but there are real gems to
be found here. Look for Ann
Humphrey's story and an exquisite
narrative about hoops and religion
from an anonymous Hoop Pather.
Revolva Hoopdance Revolva's
stellar writing style leaves us
hoping she keeps this new blog
going. Just three entries, but we're
breathless with anticipation.
stellar writing style leaves us
hoping she keeps this new blog
going. Just three entries, but we're
breathless with anticipation.
hooping.org Define "blog" as
you will, but if it's going on in
hooping, you'll find it daily at
hooping's online news
headquarters. Philo keeps us all in
the know about where we're
headed as a hooping community.
you will, but if it's going on in
hooping, you'll find it daily at
hooping's online news
headquarters. Philo keeps us all in
the know about where we're
headed as a hooping community.
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