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Table of Contents - Quick Clicks
Intro & Welcome
Certification Conference Online Store
Giveaway Winner
Hoop Dance Classes
Upcoming Events
Spa Tour in Mexico
Planning an Event?
Recent News
Chiva Som
Spa Tour
New Video Clip
Spotlight
Allasandra of Ojai
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Welcome to BodyHoops Spring 2006 eNews!
We’ve had quite an exciting Winter and are looking forward to sharing our hooping news with you. Following are details on our BodyHoops Certification Program, Spa Tour, Giveaway winner, upcoming events and more…
Certification Program
The hooping movement is happening and the potential to create a career as
a hoop instructor is totally possible…
The date is set for
the Bodyhoops conference and some amazing guest teachers will be joining me on August 4-6 in Ojai, CA. This is a hooping retreat combined with an opportunity to become Bodyhoops certified, enabling you to become a part of an organized and successful hoop company with a mission to share the benefits of hooping world-wide.
This conference is also perfect for classroom teachers, fitness instructors, youth and retreat directors, dance and movement therapists or anyone who believes that dance and movement is essential to total well-being. Join us for hours of hoop instruction and demonstrations as well as for fun movement classes and other special surprises. Discounts and limited scholarships are available. Please visit www.bodyhoops.com for complete details and to register for the Bodyhoops Conference and Certification Program. We also have a brochure - if you send us your mailing address to info@bodyhoops.com, we’ll mail one out to you. Click here for more Certification information.
Spa Tour
Our visit to the Chiva-Som Spa in South Thailand was a wonderful experience. Chiva-Som (www.chivasom.com) offers some of the best in spa treatments and a wide variety of classes and activities. I enjoyed teaching Cardio Hoop Dance to the guests and providing daily classes for the fitness team. It was a lot of fun to introduce hooping at the Chiva-Som spa and I look forward to returning as a regular guest teacher.
Next, Bodyhoops will be visiting the Rancho La Puerta Spa in Tecate, Mexico in late May. This spa is located on 3000 acres of mountains and meadows only 4 hours from the San Diego airport. My week long visit will include daily hoop dance classes and private lessons for the guests and staff and a nighttime firehooping presentation on one of the evenings. (www.rancholapuerta.com)
If your spa or fitness center is interested in having Bodyhoops come as a guest instructor, please contact me at info@bodyhoops.com.
Giveaway Winner
We had 1,443 entries in our Bodyhoops Giveaway. Wow! It was very exciting to see the enthusiasm for our drawing and the interest for our instructional hoop DVD. Our winner is Mikaelanne of Fontana, California who enthusiastically confirmed her prize and is excited to start hooping it up! Congratulations Mikaelanne! We really enjoyed the large response to our Bodyhoops Giveaway and have decided to have another drawing in September.
BodyHoops Products
Our custom hoops and Dance Fusion DVD make wonderful gifts and are also available at wholesale prices. If you have a retail store, are interested in sell the products at special events or on your web site, let us know - there are price breaks for large quantity orders. Click here to visit our store.
Bodyhoops in the Media
We’ve had lots of fun appearing in various forms of the media over the past months. Articles were published in Spa Destination and Day Spa magazines recently, as well as fun articles in the Santa Barbara Independent and Ventura County Star. We also had a really fun time hooping it up with the anchor ladies of the KEYT morning news at 6 a.m. this past March. Visit our press room for more information.
Upcoming Events
Spring and Summer are the best times to enjoy the hoopla, especially for all of you hoop enthusiasts that live in the cold areas of the country. The next few months are quickly booking up with fun and exciting appearances at various schools, parties, community events and the festival season will soon be upon us. We’ve enjoyed presenting hooping for fitness and fun during health and fitness week for several schools and will be busy for Earth Day which is coming up. New classes and playshops are forming, and our spa tour will take us to Mexico in May, while our weekly spa class at the Oaks Spa in Ojai continues to be a big hit. Yes, its time to enjoy the spring with your friends and your hoop, so get outside, breathe in some fresh air and soak up some sunshine, while you laugh and play. Happy Spring!
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Hoop Dance and Movement Classes.
Looking for some local classes or fitness sessions? BodyHoops classes are available in both Ojai and Ventura or you can schedule private lessons. Click here or call (805) 640-7216 for the details.
Thinkng of hosting an event?
Planning something special for a birthday or other event? Let us share the world of hooping with you and your guests with our fun hoop parties and Fire Dancing Performances. Click here for more information.
Spotlight
Allassandra of Ojai is our spotlight hooper for this quarterly newsletter. A fun friend and fabulous hooper, here is her contribution on her hooping experience…which is really great! Thanks Allassandra!
You can’t change the body without changing the mind, and you can’t change the mind without changing the body. –-Moshe Feldenkrais
I was drawn into the world of hoola-hooping through the sheer joy of play and movement. The hoop invites me to engage with chance; I find myself guiding the hoop in one turn and then again responding to its gravitational whims on another turn. I have also found this sort of reciprocal relationship in terms of my own body/mind connection.
When first I attempted to hoopla hoop around my shoulders my motions were disjointed and jerky. I had the distinct impression that I needed to loosen my body through stretching before it would be possible for me to maintain momentum around this part of my body. My hoola hoop taught me otherwise, however. Through the involvement in hoop-dance new areas of my body continue to relax and open. I now experience my body weight resting more completely on my heels and the alignment of my spine continues to reach more fully upright. This physical shift stretches throughout my days as my upright self feels more powerfully present in the world. I am discovering and re-discovering physical balance at my core, the axis around which the hoola hoop spins. As I find this physical balance, so too I am finding the mental space wherein I realize how much I create my own reality.
If you‘re interested in being our spotlight hooper for the June newsletter, please send us your hooping photo and written blurb about your hooping experience to info@bodyhoops.com.
Bodyhoops Tips
As a beginner, the only thing a hooper wants to do is keep the hoop up. But it‘s important to realize that the hoop falling down is totally part of the practice and always will be. Enjoy the process even when you have to keep picking up your hoop, make this a part of your hooping practice. Such as life, laugh at yourself, be silly and be positive with yourself. Tell yourself positive affirmations and believe it. Also, remember to move from your center if you feel the hoop falling down put more intensity to make it go faster or use your hip to bump it up, while keeping the top of your body upright.
Goodbye for Now!
Our next eNews will arrive in Summer, in the meantime please share this one with your fellow hoopers and have them sign up at .
If you’d like to send us any hooping news or if you have a web site or retail store and would like to become a BodyHoops distributor, please send me an email to info@bodyhoops.com.
Have a happy and productive Spring.
Diana Lopez
www.bodyhoops.comFor more information on hooping demonstrations, classes and our new certification program, please call 805-640-7216, or explore this website some more!.
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