During this morning's hour long practice I hooped to Baba Maal. So much of his music is upbeat and celebrational, what a treat! Again, I did a lot of double hoop reversals, breaks, floats, bounce, spring, flip-offs, and lots of breaking while in limbo and booty bump. I just let the flow carry me this morning... not so much conscious thought or habitual drills... I love that I am naturally drawn to work with two hoops as opposed to just one now a days... new body sensations which are quite fun.

I realized while I flowed that breaks have become very important to me. I used to have so much resistance to breaks and going "the other way".

The Hoop Path teachings really helped me break through my resistance to these places, and now I find myself almost worshipping "the other way". I have been also teaching the value of hooping in the more challenging direction to students and find myself stumbling on how to express it. Many times I have said, "As they say in the Hoop Path, first current and second current" but I keep stumbling on this explanation. I feel the deep need to find my own languaging which can express my own truth about it.

I have been trying different approaches to find the words:
While hooping, I just opened my mind and tried to let something channel in. Nope. Nada.
I just closed my eyes and meditated, inviting emptiness and a message from my higher self. Nope. Nothing yet.
Then I tried the divination using a visual thesarus. I love words so I often let the thesarus bring new concepts in based on my initial ideas.

Again, what I was looking for was my own way to uniquely language "the easy way" of hooping and what people typically call "the hard way", aka first and second currents from Hoop Path. That languaging is nice because it already speaks to the movement of things (like water, air and hooping). However, I actually find that gaining mastery over the "other" direction unlocks certain feelings which are not comparable to the first direction... it is as if the first direction is the key and the second direction is the doorway.... or something to that effect... Finding another set of words with resonance feels like a fun challenge! I am open to any feedback anyone has by the way.

Here are some possibilities I am playing with for each. I have them written on a dry erase board and am having fun trying them in different combinations.

the "Easy Way" words:
Key
Elemental
Primal
Instinctual
Inflow

the "Hard Way" words:
Open
Entrance
Mystic
Natural
Outflow

I like that some of them have so much potential for metaphoric explanation of the experience of switching directions...

Anyways, I have a zillion things to do and I'm off...

Thank you!