It has been a whirlwind week, getting ready for the IDEA Fitness trade show. Tons of last minute details for the booth and training the girls, prepping our performances and seminar. I've been pracicing my presentation with several classes in the city and getting feedback from students. However, last night I had my mind opened at a level that felt sooooo good.

I had the opportunity to work one-on-one with the director of programming for Crunch in San Francisco and it was mind-blowing. (I will be teaching hoopdance at Crunch starting in the fall and am quite excited. I feel like I am challenged to bring hooping a whole new level, while still keeping the juicey art and creativity there).

I used to think I knew how to teach dance and how to be in the rhythm, but the more I immerse myself among experts in the fitness and dance industry, the less I realize I really know. I know how to "feel" it and how to "do" it myself and how to convey sensations and emotions and ideas and concepts through very specific languaging in class. But... there are standardized "rules" about the way things are done in the fitness industry. This new training I am getting now is a whole new level of awareness about how to guide people through movement. A language of numbers and counting and knowledge about vocal quality, connecting with students and how to push them to the next level faster. The ability to convey the rush of being locked into the rhythm more clearly... to sweat and rock out! Whoooo! I feel the intensity brings even more out of the hoop.

Not many friends seem to relate to what I am experiencing... the hoopers I play with are called on their own paths of transformation. I am obviously on my own quest to wholeness through this exploration. I feel so darned led right now I can't help it. It is like this quest is totally out of my control... I have to walk it.

I'll keep training with the Crunch crew and plan on taking the upcoming NIA FAB gathering on the topic of choreography. I feel like some information wants to come through me and I simply need the tools to let it flow. Also, dear readers, I feel like I need to say, I don't want to merge into the fitness industry. I just want to glean the most knowledge I can from it's "sciences" and take it on my own journey.

So I realize it was a totally crazy manuever, to not only go to IDEA for the first time, but also plan on having a booth, teaching a seminar, performing each day and attending conference sessions. But what the heck, I guess that is how I do things. The girls fly there tomarrow. Meanwhile I just landed in Ottowa, Canada, for an appearance tomarrow on a tv show called, "The Mom Show". I am here overnight , we shoot for 6 minutes in the morning, and then I leave before noon tomarrow to come back to the US straight to the trade show in San Diego.

Next time you are waiting for a plane seat assignment, remember to say this line in a playful way: "I guess I would be okay with it if you need to upgrade me to first class." It worked. It was a sweet ride from San Francisco to Toronto and I couldn't believe it actually happened. "The Last Mimsy" was playing onboard... a movie I really enjoy watching because it is so positive. A limo picked me up with a chatty Lebanese man who mentioned how he travelled the world doing trade shows, and now he owns the limo company. We passed some trees and he said, "look at those trees. I planted them." He told me that every years he plants a lot of trees along the corridors where he drives his car so he can watch them grow over the years. I thought it was so cool.

Everyone I have met between the airport and the hotel has been super friendly. Canada is so great. And so here I am, at the Hampton Inn with my laptop on my lap. I'm going to pull out my interview questions and practice my choreography for tomarrow. I should probably be nervous but I feel pretty relaxed, even though I haven't prepared much. I'm going with it... Probably has something to do with my inflight read, Swami Beyondananda's, "Driving Your Own Karma: A Guide to Enlightenment". I love Swami. He is absoluetly hilarious. I was bursting out in laughter throughout the flight and it just felt so good. My latest medicine has been laughter. I had promised myself this past New Years I would laugh more this year than in any other year of my lifetime... so I have been watching lots of comedies, stand up comedy, etc. It feels so healing to laugh.

on to the most important part of the blog! thanksgiving!

Thank you! Thank you for all the kind, generous mentors which given me so much guidance. It feels so wonderful to be supported and helped by such remarkable people.

I am so grateful for this opportunity to speak to millions of viewers in a whole new country about my passion. I am so grateful to have been so well taken care of during my journey! Thank you for surrounding me with so many smiling, nice people. Thank you for letting everything flow for tomarrow's appearence with joy, clarity and presence.

I am so grateful to live this life! I trust that everything is unfolding in the perfect way to fulfil the highest possible vision for my life. Thank you!