Tonight I taught a practice class to prepare for my presentation at the upcoming IDEA conference in San Diego. WOW! What a wonderful breakthough. I have had a lot of new ideas from the fitness world lately, and tonight was the first time I could integrate them into a live hoopdance class. I had six wonderful volunteers show up and experience the highest pace/intensity class I have ever taught. Everyone was challenged, at every level, and was smiling and pouring with sweat afterwards. I feel so much more confident and aware of how I can make the material even better. It is so wonderful to be embarking on a fresh new teaching journey, learning new things and expanding. :)

One great things that I played with in this seminar was use of the words, "inflow" and "outflow' to describe hooping in the "primary" or direction an then the "opposite" direction. It flowed so beautifully! The words were short (only 2 syllables each) and there were lots of fun plays on words to use.

Ideas I explored during class relating to inflow and outflow:
Inflow is about moving in the direction which comes naturally from inside. We take our intuition and draw upon that for our our individual, inspired and instinctual movement flow. We relax into our dance, led by our inner guide. We feel the indestructible strength of our natural abilities and instinct and mine that for knowledge about how to move out ito the unknown.

Outflow ("opposte direction") is about pushing out through our boundaries. We push the hoop in "the other" direction and experience the pleasure of sensation outside our immediate comfort zone. We turn our inner knowledge inside-out and experience an outer-space experience -- re-learning our relationship with space between our bodies and the hoop. Outflow is when we can give back to ourself, pouring into movement all our insights from the inflow.

The ultimate goal is to merge the experience of inflow and outflow, so that we can simply move in flow, lost in the hipnotic undulations between both spectrum so that there is no distinction between in and out. Like the breathe, when deepened and used a tool to increase awareness and presence, the in becomes the out, the out becomes the in, and we merge with with a sense of connection and oneness.... so that is what I enjoyed this afternoon.

Finally, last thing to share was tonights' Conscious Bookeeping class which I took (after I taught my hoop class). My breakthrough realization was that bookeeping and Quickbooks is an actual language. It is a living language which is understood around the globe by people of all ethnicities, backgrounds, walks of life and religions. It is an actual language, just like any other which I was forced to learn as a youth (but never use now). Like any language, it takes time to learn. But fluency brings the kind of heightened senses awareness that understanding someone speaking to you in a foreign language brings. It is like an "a-ha". But the language being spoken reveals things to you about yourself which you never knew before. It is like this langauge is a tool for harnessing your own power and energy and focusing it towards your true visions. A language which is absoluetly invaluable to being an incarnated human being. Why resist? What am I resisting? Isn't it a waste of energy to resist reality? Reality is. Where is the logic in living in it and ignoring it at the same time?

It is not enough that my new bookeeper is maintaining meticulate records for the company on quikbooks. What has presented itself to me as a practice of awakening is doing my own personal books for a while as a way to gain awareness of how I am using my energy in this world to manifest with consciousness. Keeping every personal reciept. Writing down every penny spent as a way to "check in" at the "check out " (as Bari says). Money leaks are energy leaks. I am building up my inner strength to become fully aware.

Thank you!!!