Energy soup I have been drinking once a day:
1 tomato
1/2 cucumber
1/2 avocado
squirt of braggs liquid aminos
pinch cayenne
2 cups spinach
1 cup water
fresh dill
fresh thyme
fresh cilantro

Put all in blender. Blend, put in bowl. Eat raw soup.

Today in hoop practice I test drove some sample LED hoops custom made by Patrick of psihoops.com. There were various pipe thicknesses, from 1 inch to 1/2 inch, all in a diameter of 37.5 inches. I casually tossed the 1/2 inch hoop aside, unopened from the shipping packaging it arrived in. "I know I won't be interested in that one," I had written to Patrick in an email.

I tried the others. They felt heavy and sluggish. He even offerred to drill holes in them to make them lighter but all they did was abrade my skin, even when covered with tape. The response time lagged. I looked over at the unopened 1/2 inch hoop on the couch in the corner of the dance studio. It looked like a typical traditional skinny hoop. Why didn't I even want to try it?

After sawing the packaging away with my keys for 10 minutes, I tried it out. It zipped around like lightening. The response time was amazing. It was light as a feather. It flew arund me easily and hand held isolations were a breeze. Tosses were high. Jumps with immediate stops were easy.

But there was something about it... something about it's skinniness and similarity to toy store hoops that irked me. I kept hooping. There was no feeling of resistance against my body. I noticed that right away. The larger diameter hoops have a certain resistance which allows me to play with the push and pull relationship to create mesmerizing floats and thunderously pumping dance action. The weight catches with the rhythm of my dancing and creates a very powerful pulsation which feels and looks solid. But this little hoop flew more like a whisper. Is that a good thing or a bad thing? Does this mean I should take a risk and try something new? I crave and celebrate that root-chakra relationship with my hoop... that primal pulsing feeling when we are in the same rhythm with eachother. The 1/2 inch hoop is faster than my rhythm, faster than my body's vibration. I have to work to keep up with it. I like that I have to work again! But the gifts are it's speed...

30 minutes later I was still working the 1/2 inch hoop. Obviously by body liked the this one the best. But my mind was still struggling. Would it be as bright and visible as the 3/4 inch tubing? What is it about the hoop getting smaller that I am resisting? Somehow it feels so chinsy. Is it in my mind?

Or maybe it just reflects my own lightening of self? Letting go of a heaviness I have needed to comfort myself for years... not sure. But I'm ordering two 1/2 inch hoops from Patrick to find out.

xo
Christabel