Overwhelmed with fullness. Inspired. Empty from pouring. HoopGirl has grown beyond me. Today's culmination of the fourth teacher training showed me that it is now a movement of community beyond anything I could have anticipated. I talked about community before. I wished for it! And now it is manifesting. Now it is real! HoopGirl is a real, live, growing, conscious being which is birthing itself onto the planet as a cohesive international network of gifted hoopdance teachers! It feels wonderful.

10 students gathered for this training here in San Francisco. Amazing, talented, unique students. Each with amazing vision, clarity and open hearts. 9 women. 1 man. 1 deaf woman. Myself. Spectacularly insightful co-facilitatior/assistant Candice. Results? MAGIC. Insights. Realizations. Connection. Inspiration. Seeds.

More soon. Gotta rest.

A massive cosmic THANK YOU to the All that is!!!

Garlicy Raw Hummus from last night
2 packaages of sprouting raw mixed organic beans
1.5 cup raw tahini
1/2 teaspoon salt
juice from two large ripe organic lemons
big splash extra virgin olive oil
generous shake cumin
1/3 cup water
4 cloves garlic

Put all ingredients in food processor and process! Eat with big carrots for a satisfying munch! Yum!

Dear Creator, I see myself moving into a place of radiance and clarity. Thank you for sending peace, rest, energy and compassion. Thank you for helping me know when I can help others to help themselves and when it is time to retreat to protect my own wellbeing and serenity. I am so grateful that you are helping me realize that it is okay to walk away when I need to take time for me. Creator, thank you for downloading all the ways I can renew my spirit. I listen and act in response to my inner guidance. I let the negativity of others roll off me because it does not belong to me. The only thing that belongs to me is light. I am grateful you are helping me speak honestly and from my heart to those I love, even when it is uncomfortable for them. I speak my truth with love. Thank you! Thank you for reminding me to pray to come back to myself. I welcome the vast interconnected wisdom of the Universe into every cell of my being! I am a generator of harmony and nourish my body with it's goodness. I thrive and am rejuevinated with the positive feelings I choose to feel about all situations. Thank you!

Last night I made this amazing pesto which I put on some organic black quinoa from the bulk section at Rainbow Grocery... it was amazing!!!

Super Pesto
Three big handfuls of organic basil
super splash of extra virgin olive oil
juice from 1/2 organic lemon
2 cloves garlic
1.5 cups organic raw hulled hempseed
1/2 teaspoon salt

I booked a bunkbed at Wilbur Hot Springs for myself too! I'm going to go find a super book to bring and bubble a few days away in the woods to come back to center. I'm so excited! Sometimes when you have a life partner, you wait on doing things until they want to as well.. I'm so glad to take some time for me!!!

Thank you Universe for inspiring me to go for it and book myself a vacation! I now take lots of wonderful vacations!

Just back from a delicious weekend alone at Wilbur Hot Springs. So much to share! But first, the passion phrases I worked with. Thanks to Firegroove for reminding me to re-read, Excuse me, Your Life is Waiting! because it inspired me to practice this!

While sitting in the pools and watching the steam and rain, I breathed in deeply. Every time I breathed, I said a new phrase and felt the vibration of each one saturate my entire body. I felt the phrase deeply for a few moments, saying it again and letting it strike a new chord in my body.

My thought was to create an affirmative phrase to quicken my inner energy level, thus amplifying the magnetic potential of my thoughts. WOW! What an undertaking to overhaul self talk! I emerged from the pool feeling so connected and high! There is such a magnificent variety of enlivening phrases which we can integrate into our daily lives. I call them Passion Phrases because for me, these phrases specifically amp my energy levels up to manifest... thanks to Cafe Gratitude, which I thought of while sitting in the waters as well... they use affirmations such as these for the name of every dish in the resturant and inspired specifically, the "I am vivacious", and I am sure subliminally a few others as well. I used this list again this morning after the gym and felt the same full body refreshment. I invite you to print out this list and use it as needed!

Passion Phrases
I am happy.
I am joyous.
I am exhilerated.
I am jubilant.
I am inspired.
I am connected.
I am energetic.
I am enthusiastic.
I am radiant.
I am abundant.
I am jazzy.
I am generous.
I am euphoric.
I am nourishing.
I am grateful.
I am nurturing.
I am healed.
I am whole.
I am rejeuvinated.
I am renewed.
I am youthful.
I am magnetic.
I am passionate.
I am amazing.
I am elated.
I am activating.
I am delicious.
I am vibrant.
I am vivacious.
I am allowing.
I am awed.
I am fulfilled.
I am thankful.
I am optomistic.
I am beautiful.
I am welcoming.
I am wealthy.
I am loving.
I am open-hearted.
I am energizing.
I am thriving.
I am thriving.
I am spirited.
I am juiced up.
I am sourced.
I am giving.
I am awakening.
I am vitalized.
I am euphoric.
I am sexy.
I am cheerful.
I am smiling.
I am alive!
I am glowing.
I am blissful.
I am ecstatic.
I am divine.
I am celebrating.
I am generating.
I am blessing.
I am attracting.
I am delighting.
I am gleaming.
I am shining.
I am brilliant.
I am bliss.
I am genius.
I am luminescent.
I am excited.
I am magical.
I am playing.
I am fun.
I am appreciative.
I am precious.
I am gleeful.
I am reverant.
I am good.
I am elevated.
I am positve.
I am fabulous.
I am spunky.
I am pleasure.
I am wonderful.
I am cherishing.
I am co-creating.
I am flowing.
I am adoring.
I am glorious.
I am recieving.
I am receptive.
I am glorious.

Thank you Radiant Inspiration, self aware World Soul, Cosmic Intelligence of the All that is! I am SO grateful for the beautiful journey to the springs and the deep refreshment and download of information. I am so excited to walk within this new vibration every day and resource myself in all the ways I was gifted. Thank you!

Well, since I've been playing with the Law of Attraction, I want to just put it out there that I am open, available, ready and already feeling the wonderful vibration of being on the Oprah Winfrey Show!!! I already know how wonderful the flight to Chicago will be to get there to tape. We stay at the Hotel Alegro, a hip Kimpton boutique hotel. The night before the show, I will be completely relaxed and beaming with joy and excitement. Kramer will be with me and we will have a wonderful light dinner and sleep like happy puppies.

I'll have a wonderful outfit to wear on thw show that is professional and fun and a bit sexy in a sweet way. The makeup assistant in the dressing room will be fun and chatty. Meeting Oprah, I know that I will feel chills running through my body as I get comfortable in the chair across from her. I will see Kramer in the audience smiling reassuringly at me. The whole audience feels supportive, interested and enthusiastic. The lights are bright, but I feel comfortable in them.

The sensation as Oprah reaches her hand out to shake mine will be of deja-vu. Her skin is soft, her nails perfectly smart, her hair is radiant, her eyes are sparkling and she has a strong presence. When the countdown until taping begins, I will feel completely at home in front of so many cameras and people. I will be visualizing myself connecting with millions of amazing people around the country, sending them love and joy. I will center myself with my breathe. I will know I have been brought there divinely.

I am teaching Oprah a few hoop moves, having a blast laughing with her, and then sitting down and answering all her questions flawlessly and with passion. B roll from my instructional video will be shown, and she will remark positively about my hoops, directing millions of women hungry for empowerment and fun fitness directly to my website. If my book is already done by this time, I see this also being a part of the show as well.

Afterwards we stay in Chicago an extra night at the Allegro to celebrate. We have an amazing time! I arrive back home and it all seems a bit surreal. Thousands of messages and inquiries await Annie and I on on computers as financial success flows in at a level of extreme abundance. I must expand the Los Angeles staff as online orders create an entire shop of craftswomen working under Elaine's direction until the manufactured hoop is available. I see my entire life transforming and expanding as a result. A much larger support staff of talented and inspiring women is brought in to HoopGirl, we purchase a spacious, bright dance studio/office, and I am able to delegate more and more to women who flourish while taking on responsibility.

Kramer is now able to quit his office job and provides part-time assistance to us with graphics and audio/visual work, and also gets time to deeply rejeuvinate and clarify his life path. We both can now create more time to spend together. We now own a wonderful house in San Francisco's Cole Valley and are contemplating buying some ocean front property in Costa Rica and developing an eco-villa for vacations and rest and relaxation. We effortlessly find the perfect property with sparkling blue ocean waters. We are able to hire Kramer brother, Matt, to come down and help build the entire center. We also recruit a lot of local assistance and the project is carried out beautifully. We train a talented and trustworthy staff to run the property, including villas, retreat center and resturant, and we come and go as we like, knowing that all is well tended and growing more beautiful every day. We have plenty of time to play, author best selling books, eat healthy food, do yoga, and celebrate life. Meanwhile, the life projects we create are nourishing and healing millions of people around the world and we are able to create more and more properity for those around us. Life is amazing! I am so grateful.

Thank you! It is done! This is amazing.

Another great suggestion in Excuse Me, Your Life is Waiting, is to do a 30 day mental cleanse where you remove your focus from anything which can cause fear, distress or agitation and establish the ability to flip the switch of your focus on demand to a new topic of self appreciation.

I have been having some VERY challenging situations being around people who are severely depressed, don't want to make any significant changes to get out of it and have been real downers! It has been hard for me to know when as a friend I should just listen, when to say 'Wake up!" and when to just take space. So I'm trying out this approach and will see if it works!

The assignment in the book was to write down 30 things to appreciate about one's self. Each day, if you experience a situation which is challenging your high frequency, you flip your attention to your one focus for the day. Quite a task to sit down and write 30 things about yourself which you appreciate!

Here's my list. I wrote it very quickly right after I decided to do this, wanting it to be spontaneous. I'm on day 3 today and I've noticed improved resiliance already. If you have been experiencing any downers, I encourage you to give it a try! I am determined to make happiness a state within that I can access at all times, regardless of whatever drama surrounds me. No doubt these difficult situations have been given to me to push me to the next level of growth...

Christabel's Mental Cleansing Self Appreciation List:
Day # Appreciation
1. I love my curly hair.
2. I love my great body.
3. I love my gift to teach.
4. I love my writing skills.
5. I love my integrity.
6. I love my spiritual practice.
7. I love my open-heart.
8. I love my ability to dance.
9. I love my imagination
10. I love my ability to download from Creator.
11. I love my determination to be in balance.
12. I love my beautiful eyes.
13. I love my leadership skills.
14. I love my passion to empower others.
15. I love my business genius.
16. I love my devotion to feeling good.
17. I love my choice of friends.
18. I love my marriage.
19. I love my skin.
20. I love my ability to resource myself.
21. I love my optimism.
22. I love my ability to hike.
23. I love my love of hot springs.
24. I love my passionate creativity
25. I love getting messages given to me in my dreams.
26. I love my devotion to raw food.
27. I love all the amazing women I work with.
28. I love my ability to speak truthfully from my heart.
29. I love my faith in the Universal Life Force.
30. I love my ability to effortlessly magnetize whatever I need.

Expanded Self, thank you for helping me to know my own truth on a deeper and deeper level every day. I recognize the Cosmic Intelligence within every event and am so glad that I can cleanse my own mind instantly at any time. I am smiling, knowing I can download Creator's definition of "happiness" whenever I need it. I can live in that high vibration of goodness and positivity, regardless of what surrounds me. I welcome the life force energy which comes to me from speaking my truth as needed and also respecting myself by taking space as needed. Thank you for all these opportunities to grow and catapult my awareness.

I was playing with my twins (two hoops) yesterday and really grooving with how the lighter hoops open so many possibilities for actually stopping the rotation and holding the hoops at moments. Also the bliss of doing snake and a horizontal lasso at the same time. They seem to levitate on their own so freely it is amazing! I am endlessly fascinated by double handed stalls, switcheroos, matrix and "o".

Something about double hooping really stimulates my body. I love having to soften my gaze and simulatenously view almost around my own back so that I can immediately compensate for wobble. It requires not just one, but two areas of my body simultaneously moving in call and response to the hoop, sometimes at different rhythms... almost like playing my own body like a drumset with both the down and up beat! I feel an increased full body awareness, almost as if another sense has been awakened. A fully feel body sense I would almost call, "anticipation". Other words which come to mind -- expectation, readiness, presence. Interesting, since I have also been playing with affirmations along the same lines in terms of consciously creating my reality.

Meanwhile, I have been thinking about re-programming my nervous system with conscious languaging. Reading, A Thousand Names for Joy, by Byron Katie. Just the title makes me realize that we have a throusand names for negative things in our society, but how much time do we really spend discovering and actively creating a vocabulary of celebration and joy? Creating and practicing the words will help us encode the feeling frequency into our nervous system. To help me with this vocabulary-prayer-practice, I picked up an amazing program called the "Visual Thesarus". For only $40, you can download it and it creates dimensional webs of words around your search word, and you can click on any other word in the web to create a new web- fanatstic for us visual learners. (Thanks Candice!) If you are a wordie, I highly suggest checking it out. I intend to create new neural pathways and increased connections within my brain and body by energizing my word choices and usages. Fun words I have been searching using this program: joy, fun, happiness, bliss, etc...

Meanwhile, I am so excited to be on the FOX Mike and Juliet Morning Show on monday! I've been spending time watching some archives and imagining myself interacting with them. They seem very real and like lots of fun. I feel so blessed! This is going to be fun!

Thank you Divine Universe. I am grateful for everything!

Things are so accelerated! It was an amazing show. I flew all the way back to New York, got to the hotel at 10pm, got up at 6am their time and was on the show at 9, flew right back here to drove straight to an AllStars rehersal afterwards. I felt so calm and present, it was great! You can watch it here:
www.mandjshow.com/videos/how-to-hula/

But also, I had so much more to say. I wanted to tell about hooping and sensual empowerment for women, hooping and building connections between the physical body, emotional body and spirit and so much more.... how spectacular it feels to be caught in the moment of high intensity hoopdance, as if you are plugged into pure Source energy .. what a rush it is to reach a peak hooping experience, what I like to call "Hoopgasm"... how hooping can open up all of your senses, your intuition, ability to love yourself and enjoy pleasure. It made me realize I need to update my site to be more informative! Working on that...

All of this success has been exhilerating, but also so fast. Hundreds of emails have been pouring in and I am delighted that so many people are getting turned on to hoopdance. I'm bringing two more people onto staff and absoluetly MUST focus on manufacturing the hoop so we can meet the growing demand.

I'm here in San Francisco for two days, catching up with my husband, friends, dental apt and work for a bit then off to Portland to hang out with my hoopy sisters Jasmine and Candice.

I feel so grateful that hooping has brought so many radiant, inspiring goddesses into my life!

Reading some great books right now. Present Moment, Wonderful Moment by Thich Nhat Hanh and Way to Wealth by Brian Tracy. So much to learn on so many fronts! I feel like a sponge ready to absorb...

Had some wonderful present moment experiences today... walking by the Golden Gate Bridge and watching lots of dogs run around, farmer's market by the Ferry Building and sampling lots of organic yummies, unpacking my long awaited Excalibur dehydrator and feeling a bit baffled by it's complexity, an amazingly brilliant orange sunset while walking with Kramer, back from the bookstore tonight... and now off to make us dinner. While I prefer raw foods, I realize that to share meaningful meals with my love, I do need to eat some cooked fare. So I'm making fresh organic shitake mushrooms, greens and tofu. It should be yummy!

Thank you Divine Source for all the simple wonderful pleasures in life. Each new day of 24 hours is so full of possibilities and miracles. I am so excited to be on this soulful life path of awakening and ecstatic celebration! Thank you!

Wow. I was in a bubble bath reading Present Moment Wonderful Moment, by Thich Nhat Hanh. What a gorgeous book. Exactly what I am needing to ground during these accelerated times. It provides Buddhist poetic verses called gathas which can be recited throughout the day during activities to welcome a more meditative state of presence.

I love them all and find myself taking deep breaths after reading them, just soaking them in.

Here is a neat one from the book for brushing your teeth:

"Brushing my teeth and rinsing my mouth,
I vow to speak purely and lovingly.
When my mouth is fragrant with right speech
A flower blooms in the garden of my heart"

I am inspired to be more aware of the miracles which surround me at every turn. The joy of turning on lights, washing one's hands, taking precious steps, putting on well made clean clothes, eating wonderous nourishing food, being able to speak on the phone with relatives who live so far away. All these things are gifts that are easy to take for granted. Wonderful gifts and opportunities which invite me to think of others and wish the same wealth of experience upon them. Life is filled with so many gifts. So many opportunities to feel happy. So many opportunities to open the heart.

Thank you!

Can we re-program ourselves to not only notice the miraculous, but be conscious creators of it? Why not!

I've decided to embark on a personal journey of discovering.

Designing my own little "course in miracles", you could say.

How can we not only magnetize miracles to us, but birth them into being?

My visual thesarus defines miracle as: "A marvelous event manifesting a supernatural act of God". While I am not such a fan of the "G" word, when I slip "Universe" in there it works quite nicely. So I am creating extraordinarily good events which reveal the presence of universal connection beyond the laws of physical reality.

Wow! Sounds like hooping allright. Creating a sense of connnection which is felt within the body, beyond the ability of the rational mind to explain....

Amidst the phone calls, emails, organization and other tasks, this is what I am playing with today...

What an amazing experience! I was just sent these pictures by Heart in the UK who created a hula hooping ad campaign with me. In I pretty much went directly to the photographer's studio right after my 12 hour flight to London to take these pictures and I love what they have done with them! They had me hooping across a large studio again and again, doing as many moves as I could while they flashed a blindingly bright flash over and over again. I had to try to look into the light and look energized and happy while wearing the outfit from the commerical. I never would have imagined one day I would be hooping on bus stops and the sides of double decker buses! Thank you!

For years, I have contemplated now and again how amazing it would be to hoop with women in prison. Hooping is such a freeing experience. It makes me feel so liberated and sensual and happy and connected that I imagined it could be good medicine for women locked up. It was always an idea I pushed to the back of my mind. Could be too "scarey". What if they are "mean" or don't want to participate. What if someone came and found me after they got out for some reason? What if?

I got the email this morning.

It was from a Restorative Justice Program Manager for a program which brings classes into prisons. "I have a group of eager women ready to hoop here. Any of your teachers willing to travel here? ". I got goosebumps, like this experience could be the brink of something pretty transformational. I wrote back yes. We will see what she says.

I'm meditating on Kuan Yin, the Chinese Goddess of Compassion, and her mythical power to relieve the suffering of those needing loving kindness. My rap as a hooper has always been that I want to create peace and bring more happiness to the world. It seems like this could be a real, honest opportunity, minus the glitz and glam. I'm a bit afraid and excited at the same time.

Divine Creative Intelligence, I breathe deeply knowing that all is well. I trust the divine path laid out before me. I trust that everything happens in the perfect way. I trust my intuition. I trust in my power to create wonderful experiences for those in need!

I am in beautiful Portland, Orgeon. I arrived yesterday morning and had an amazing 3 hour meeting with Candice about developing the HoopGirl Workout program. She is such a spectacular consultant and somatic dance whiz! We are so on the same page about hooping being a tool for vibrant health, happiness and wellbeing, and not neccesarily the destination in and of itself. Delicious synchronicity in our approaches!

I showed her my material for the new intermediate and advanced programs. Why did it take me so long to birth these programs!? Meanwhile brand new hoopers have thrown out beginner, intermediate and advanced programs within months of teaching... it took me 5 years I guess because I wanted it to be an honest flow from my own insights. Now, I am finally ready to put it out there! So more work on that while we are together. I am loving the integration of gratitude, radiance, delight and so many other passionate ways of feeling into this dance cirriculum.

Then I hooped it up with Candice and Jasmine..... what a fun playtime! I was so inspired by all the moves we played with:

Butt bump (one person lays down on the floor and a second person rolls a hoop which the first person bounces up off their butt and back and then catches)

Holly Tree (one person stands with their arms up in the air while each person takes turns whirling a hoop around their body)

Spin and Jump (flick the hoop out in front of you and then squeal while you jump completely over it with spread legs as it zips back towards you .. but of course you need someone behind you to grasp it and then continue dancing with it).

Double fisted weave (as from poi spinning)

Double handed under arm toss

I also got into this complete trance state linking my two hoops together and dancing while holding the matrix in one hand as a large orb. The newer lighter hoops allow my to whirl the orb like matrix all around my body with grace and ease. I can also toss the entire orb, one hoop held in the other entirely by pressure, high in the air, and then catch it and continue swinging it around. Also, it was fun to hop into the orb and hold it sort of between my legs so it was like wings coming out from my pelvis surrounding my entire body. I also discovered that I can spin the matrix orb around my body like atomic twirl which makes for a stunning rush like feeling as the air makes sound around you.

The ladies mentioned that they have been working with move flash cards! I had always thought this would be an excellent tool to use with dancers, allowing you to weave together new dance stories with moves in combinations you would never have imagined before. Jasmine said the magic word -- delegate! Get some help making them. So perhaps, another join project on the way...

Then took a Nia class with Carlos... great fun!

Then this morning I took Baxter's Hoop Path seminar. I have to say that I can't remember the last time I took such a transformational class. Actually, I can say that it is the most inspirational hoop class I have ever taken! It felt so amazing to be able to walk into a class as the student with a teacher who welcomed me (some teachers have insecurities about advanced hoopers coming to class). It was a wondeerful experience to just be a student and absorb from this MASTER teacher. His philosophy is incredibly profound, in depth and unique. His deep practice, which emphasizes, "flight time", the concept of working both currents and honoring the parts of ourself which are not as strong by working them directly with exercises is spectacular.

I finally got hooping on my second current (weaker direction) in the limbo position (which he calls sky). It was awesome. I also grasped for the first time how to do "paddling" and reversals both inside and outside the hoop. It is addictive once you get a taste of it! I was never able to do it comfortably with my 160psi hoops. But when you use a 100psi one, it becomes possible!

It was like a whole new world of possibility cracked open for me. It is not every day that I get to have this gift, so I savored it! Thank you!

Also inspiring was that Baxter taught through myth and re-claiming familliar words so that they were re-energized. I cannot wait to put these new gems into practice. I am on fire with delight and look forward to more.

His level of schwag afterwards was also inspiring! It is amazing how just having tee shirts with a company name on it lends to one's degree of professionality. Of course I got one in bright orange... note to self...I've got to get myself together in that way and get some new HoopGirl tees together.

After that awe inspiring experience, I had a meeting with Candice and Jasmine about designing our new, long awaited performance training program. It was so juicey and vibrant! I wish I could share our ripe ideas here... but they need more form and shape befoe we put it out to the public. All I can say, is that this work is the work.

Now, I've got to get ready... Candice and Jasmine are hosting a new event they have created called a Hoop Trance ... a facilitated hoop journey which has more structure than a jam, but more freedom than a class...

Meanwhile, all this is happening at the gorgeous Nia temple, also known as headquarters, here in Portland. A sophisticated, gorgeous, spacious temple-like dance studio beyond anything I have ever experienced. What a treat.

These are exciting times!

Thank you!

Delight continues for me here in Portland. This morning I started the day off with an invigorating walk through the rain and caught the bus downtown to the Nia Headquarters so I could take class with Carlos, one of the two founders of this remarkable movement form.

Class started off in a sort of moving meditation. We kept our feet planted while Carlos guided us through moving from our skin and the whole body, then alternating that with moving from the joints. It was a sweet opening. There is a power in contrasts and super slow movements which is so deep.

Then we did dances which seemed like versions of Indian Temple dancing, alternating with synchronized steps around a clock. Also muscular contraction of the arms and back. Alternations with free dance where I tried to let my body lead me (instead of me leading it)... letting the forearms lead, then the pinky, then wrists, then the space between my fingers, letting myself cascade to the floor and be led by my lower back around the space. It was so freeing! Fun pelvic thrusts and arm tosses. I wish I could remember the luminous phrases which made me feel like my whole body was waking up. The moments which transformed it from just being a dance class to being a moment of healing... but they all blurred together as I got lost in the dance. Lots of imagery that opened the movements even further and a wonderful dance with our yoga mats as an extension of our body towards the end, followed by pelvic rolling on the mats and stretching.

At the moment when class ended, I had a smile on my face a mile wide. I honestly feel like Nia is the deepest, most profound body based education I have ever experienced. There are SO many parallels to hooping. So many pathways and exercises which can be applied to deepening body awareness, opening and unlocking. I feel like moving to Portland just to have unlimited access to Debbie and Carlos!!!

You can find a Nia class near you at www.nianow.com

Thank You Divine Creative Force for drawing me up here. What a wonderful weekend. I am so grateful!

I did it! At the advice of my friend September of Rawkstar Raw food, I just signed up for the Conscious Eating Level One Intensive at the Tree of Life Rejuvenation Center in Patagonia, Arizona! I'll be there from July 22-29. WOW! It feels quite thrilling to take a leap out into the unknown, claim a wonderful opportunity for myself and have something to really look forward to and prepare for!

Right now, I vascilate between 50-70% raw food each day. I want to increase the percentage of this and be able to maintain it effortlessly. By body feels so much cleaner, lighter and is functioning at a much higher level. Eating is so central to an experience as a human being! I want to really push that boundary as far as I can to alter my consciousness in a healthy way. Exploring conscious eating as a spiritual practice... maximize inner and outer radiance!

It IS a challenge for me to do this living in San Francisco. It is colder here. But in truth, it is almost as if my body gets trained to run at a higher heat level. Plus it gives me more inspiration to visit hot springs, which is always a delightful treat. I also think that eating raw food, or what David Wolfe calls a Sun Food diet, is helping me infuse myself with the spiritual nourishment of the sun that living in a darker city can't always provide. Eating these light filled packets of food may be my way to keep shining brightly when I may not really be feeling so bright...

Gabriel Cousens, who founded the Tree of Life Center, has written many books. In Spiritual Nutrition, he touches on the six foundations for a spiritual life.
1. Nurtrition
2. Building Prana (life force)
3. Service
4. Spiritual Guidance and Inspiration
5. Silence
6 Kundalini Awakening

These are the six foundations of the Learning Center where I will be going and the schedule every day provides time for each. I am looking forward to being in an actual community of people exploring these ideas along with me. Sometimes I feel so alone in this quest.

Among other books I am working on, I really feel the need to write Hooping in the Raw, a raw food recipie and inspiration book for those seeking hoopdance as a path towards full body transformation.

So many people are approaching me with a limited understanding of the word "workout". They are thinking only of burning away calories in the fastest way possible without any consideration of the body's energy system, conscious thinking and languaging and lifestyle change.

Though HoopGirl, I am reclaiming and redefining "workouts" to be bliss filled purification opportunities for the body, emotions, mind and spirit... NOT just an aerobics binge. I consciously use the word "workout" because it has resonance with the popular culture... BUT I want to educate people to look at the bigger picture. (LOTS of website changes coming soon to my site to help with this... stay tuned).

The word "work out" can be replaced easily with "let go" and still convey this precious work of alchemical transmutation (although honestly, how could I advertise, Hoop Let Go Series? We revolutionaries must be much more strategic with words when trying to change the world! )

Putting food, thoughts and experiences in the body with intention, amplifying life force, altering the nervous system and building new belief and cellular structures, and moving forth into the world with a new frequency is what this work is all about! Then pulsing that new whole body vibration out with intention and vision to change the world. New frequency meaning a new way of feeling, moving, talking, relating, and being in every sense of the word. An evolution...

You can learn more about the Tree of Life Center at:
http://www.treeoflife.nu

Thank you Brilliant Inspiration which is ever present in my life! Thank you for the ongoing flow of wonderful people, places, experiences and information which is available to me, always at the perfect moment! I am grateful that gratitude is habituated into my cells at nervous system. I am full of wonder, awe and anticipation and the next level of unfolding! I ask the Universal Connectedness to help me weave together this amazing web of interests -- raw food, transformation, hoopdance, spirituality, radiance, and world service, at a level never before imagined. Thank you for giving me all the time I need to integrate these revelations instantly~ Yahoo for life!!!!