I just got sent this link from the wonderful people who made the HoopGirl piece for Yahoo and Capessa. They made a short video reflecting on what it was like to make my story. They are so cute! I was so grateful for this opportunity.

mycapessa.com/members/storyactions.aspx

:)

Divine Source of All,
Brilliant Beauty in All Things,
Electromagnetic Crystalline Web of One-Ness~

I am so grateful!
I see myself walking a path of joy
Seeking joyful, playful bliss in every moment of every day!
Feeling joy, the body tingling, the efervescence, the zinging fun elation and excitement of the shimmering "YES!" to life!

I see myself having FUN and laughing and smiling and giggling
I see love surrounding me in a vibrating field of rainbow colored lights
I envision total peacefulness, divine perfection and a sense of connection
Thank you!!!

I see my skin clear, healthy, vibrant and radiant
My body is lean, healthy, strong and saturated with life energy
My thoughts are positive and always seek delight
My relationships birth wonder
My words and actions bring light and miracles to everyone
Oh, yes!

I nourish myself with foods which bring out my inner shine and choose wisely
Eating raw, brightly colored vegetables of green, red, orange, purple and more
Blessing my foods with healing images before consuming their wealth of energy
And worshiping water everyday through a personal hydration practice
Saturating the cells and space between my cells with precious liquid
The consciousness of my nutritional nurturing changes me at a cellular level
Uh huh!

I see myself experiencing personal growth through pleasure and ease
I see fantastic surprises of awareness and "aha"s!
12 strands of my DNA are vibrating with activation galore
I sense soothing sensations of Divine connection and guidance
I can clearly hear thousands of angels laughing and advising me in every moment
I easily transcribe uplifting messages from my guides which restore peace
I am so excited about this! Oh Yea!

I see myself starting each day, asking:
"Help me to perform whatever miracles you want of me today"
Moving into meditations of radiant geometric symbols, beings of light and soul quickening,
Emerging with a sense of "Oh! I understand"!
Walking through the day, amplifying my service to humanity
Bringing wellness to people, animals, and the Earth.
Laughing, laughing!

I imagine my Soul Family around me, I feel the strength of their purpose and focus, Absorbing the bounty of connection and high vibration,
I sense the light from the Central Sun, I feel the guidance of the Masters, I resonate with the accelerating diamond-like clarity of Source!
And so it is!

I feel the warm sunlight on my skin, soaking in the nutritious heat of purification
I swim in salty turquoise tropical waters with dolphins and whales
I slumber restfully under swaying palm trees, wiggling sand between my toes
Massaging rose quartz crystal spheres in my hands, feeling the divine pinkness
I climb super green mountains to cherished sacred waterfall grottos
Immersing myself in ultra-activated waters and feeling so good!
Pilgrimidge to spectacular sites which have absorbed millions of prayers
And play in the lightbliss of just sitting, breathing and being
Yes, I invite these experiences into my now!

Divine Wonderessence of the Universe, which runs through me and is me,
I see myself choosing personal growth over personal gain
Trusting the perfect process of emotions and unfolding
Seeking at all times ways of thinking and being which feel more joyful
Letting go and releasing anything which is not brilliant, bountiful and nurturing
Making friends with my ego and choosing a higher path with tender compassion
This is truely the way to live, being light, bringing light, birthing light
Thankfulness is here!

*Today's Art Source is unknown! If you know who created this image, please let me know so I can credit the artist. Thank you!

A lucky accident based on what was in today's fruit bowl!

Green Goddess Smoothie
1 apple
3/4 head of spinach
2 dates
1 3/4 cup of water
knob of fresh ginger

Wow! This is delicious! A nice way to start the day. The ginger is especially warming for a cool, cloudy day. Enjoy!

It certainly has been a while since I have blogged! For a while it was like a lifeline... but acceleration in life has caused pause....

Also, something else interesting has arisen... a question of what is appropriate to put on a "professional" blog... what is "too personal"?

I get so many thank you notes from customers for my brutal honesty and sharing of life experience that I literally screened nothing from my transcriptions. But recently this has come up as an issue when I had a potential client decide not to hire me based on a blog entry! Shocking, but true.

So... there has been a sudden shift in the force of my blogs. Now, suddenly I have this second guessing happening, wondering, "is this not professional enough?", "will I offend people by sharing my personal beliefs?". So I trimmed down entries to nutrition tips, promotional information, media, and mostly hoop practice.

Honestly, it is not as satisfying. Is it as boreing on your side as it is on mine? There was such a luminescent joy in sharing everything going on in my life. My business is honestly a part of me... and it is interwoven with many other aspects of my awakening, try as I might to keep boundaries in place.

The bottom line is that what moves me about hooping is how it has been a part of my own empowerment, transformation and unfolding as a woman. I value your input, my dear readers, about what feeds you most from my blogs so I can keep delivering what feels good!

Meanwhile I am loving the sunshine nurturing from the beach here. Went for a 2 hour walk this morning in a bikini (an awesome change after the many layers in 40 degree weather and rain in San Francisco!) just absorbing the lightness of being from the super turquoise water and white sands. Something of a lighter, finer vibration happens breathing in the humid, warm air. I feel supported and loved in every cell! I am SO grateful to be here! Thank you!

WOW! Thanks for your nominations! Can you take the time to vote for me for the final awards?

You can do so here: http://www.hooping.org/archives/001184.html#more

Apparently you can vote once per day, but no more than once in a 24 hour period or all your votes are thrown out! I'm not quite sure why that's the case, but if you have time on your hands, I'd appreciate it! More voting details are below...

Thank you!!!!!

Voting details excerpted from Hooping.org:
You may cast your votes once per day between now and Friday, January 18th at 9:00 PM Pacific Standard Time. This means you can vote as many as five times, but no more than once in a 24 hour period. Please note: our voting system automatically logs your IP address, the unique Internet Protocol (IP) address of your computer, so cheating is pointless. Nevertheless, we're requiring your name and email address to help simplify our efforts in maintaining fairness. This info is completely private, will remain so, and will only be used for this purpose. If we find that you've broken the rules, all of your votes will be thrown out.

;)
Christabel

Tonight was Day Two of the 12 class intermediate HoopGirl Workout Series. After having taken a 6+ month hiatus from teaching actual classes aside from Teacher Trainings, it was an absolute joy and thrill to be there. The class material has continued to progress and clarify over the years and it has finally arrived at a place of duplication which I can share at the next Intermediate teacher training.

I am so ridiculously amped by the material! I think in part because so much stems from my own deepened personal practice. HOnestly I have abandoned teaching general classes and performing over the last 6 months to focus on personal practice and deepening my own authentic skills. Now I am teaching what thrills me, and as a result I have lots of energy to share with students around it.

My Intermediate classes are at such a high bar - probably where many would place an Advanced class, frankly. I don't set up my classes around ego achievement so that someone who is not approaching mastership can be taking an advanced class... and that feels really good to me! That is probably why I have not really taught an"advanced" HoopGirl Workout yet... honestly I think I never owned being an "advanced" hooper myself until now! But after all this time, I finally feel real saying it. I'm an "advanced" level hooper! Yippie! And now that I can say that with confidence and I have a solid intermediate cirriculum, I'm ready to put Advanced classes out there. Sweet!

For me, hooping is so infinite in possibility that I am clear I must create a high bar for each level. That way, those who finally progress to the completion of a HoopGirl advanced class, obtaining mastery of both direction, have finally become "masters". I don't mean anything too status oriented with that word.. really it is just a recognition of what Baxter would call "flight time" or "grey feather". Someone who has put in the time to develop sweet chops. Someone you watch and immediately think, "wow!"

To me, the most rewarding achievement is to have played a part in someone else becoming and owning their own brilliance. Wether that means transforming something about themselves or owning mastery, it really doesn't matter. If I can help people feel good, I am blessed.

I LOVED watching students at their "edge" tonight, pushing themselves beyond where they would have gone practicing alone. To see the "a-has" and sweat and breakthroughs was a real gift. I am so grateful! I can't wait to teach more classes to this devoted group of hoopers. I live an amazing life. Gotta hit the sack. I am taking a 3 day Theta Healing course over the next 3 days and I am sure it will change my life.

xoxo!
Christabel

Although HoopGirl hoops and hoopdancing today is light worlds from the original branded Hula Hoop and the 50's fad, I still feel compelled to give a shout out to Richard Knerr, the co-founder of the Wham-O company who died today. I am so grateful for his work~ which introduced the concept of using a plastic ring for fun ~ to the mainstream world! Thank you for your pioneering work Richard~ blessings to you...

You can read his story here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,2242714,00.html

There were squeals of delight, giggles and lots of smiles at Monday night's rehearsal when we learned we won the 2008 Hoopie Award! Thank you so much for your votes! We will be passing the trophy around, on loan between our members each week, handing it off to one another at our weekly meeting. We hope that having the trophy for a week each will inspire us each to take our personal practices to the next level!

Thanks again!

It has been a fascinating ride, these last few weeks. I have been downloading a lot of information, working long hours and sweetly surprised by the brilliance which has emerged. It feels really good, but also exhausting. Drinking gallons of water with lemon to stay clear.

Meanwhile every day it seems my awareness bumps up a notch. Awareness of being one aspect of a soul in a human host-body, with other aspects living simultaneously across time and space. I have this sudden interest in past lives, realizing that past lives are not neccesarily in the "past", realizing that there could have been some lessons learned that I am unconsciously repeating and/or simultaneously learning all at once. Remembering that the "I" in "who am I" could be as multifaceted as a gem... with many more "who"s, "am"s and "I"s than I can even begin to imagine!

Having moments of crystalline awareness of contracts - loving agreements my soul has with others temporarily in other humans around me ~ agreements from before incarnation which are being carried out... sometimes through pain, sometimes through pleasure.

These agreements help me awaken, speak more truth, love and live more deeply and feel the joy. I keep reminding myself that awakening can be pleasurable if I allow it, but then I forget and get cranky or agitated by these human emotions or the trash truck waking me up at 6am when all I want to do is sleep. I float along for a few more days, oblivious to the eternal reality which is unfolding through and around me and there I am again, on autopilot.

Then suddenly, it could be a drop of rain on my face, a word someone walking by me says, the name of a book on a shelf, a movie... and kazaam I am wide awake again, blinking and wondering what the heck had I been thinking to have been so afraid .... my life swings on the continuum between love and fear... and just when I think I am living in the love for sure again, that's when I look away from the homeless person begging for money and feel a bit of disgust rise up and then think, who the heck am I to think I know shit about shit? I can't even look at this homeless person and see God in their eyes! Life is a trip. Meditation helps.

So tonight I was talking to my angels. I just sat down on the couch and decided to have a heart to heart. I sang their names and just let the hair start to stand up and the tingles surge through my body and figured that meant something was happening, so I just jumped in and talked to them like they were my therapists.

First I told them they have absolute permission to inhabit every microsecond of my life, in every precious moment, from now until always. Just wanted to roll out the welcome mat so they knew it was a-ok to just BE here with me all the time until I could wake up my superconsciousness one day to just know we are all ONE.

I kept staring at the ceiling, just chatting away about feeling overwhelmed lately and asking for some help... requesting massive Divine flocks of angels to just show up and provide support at a phenomenal level. I said I was ready for it to be easy and fun...

I also took a moment to give some super big THANKS for all the downloads that have been happening lately. So much has been coming through, like floodgates which have broken open, and I am so grateful! So many ideas, so much hooping, so much juicey spirit knowledge. I told them how I see things unfolding... and asked for a more Divine and perfect vision that would allow the highest good for all.

I asked for guidance, most of all, on being a more perfect vessel for light and love. I asked for a greater awareness of how I can transmit positivity to more people on an even larger scale than I could even imagine. Also, asking how can I purify the message so it can be more absolute? How can I distill, focus and alchemize all this soul awakening realization into a crystal clear something that I can share in a Divinely perfect way? For me... hooping is the path, not the destination. Hooping is taking me to this next step. Hooping is my chariot and my guide all wrapped up in one. I am so open and ready amplify living my life mission at an even higher, more fine and magnificent frequency!

So chit-chatting away here with the archangels and all the beings of light which I like to imagine accompany me on this human journey.. and I asked, how can I share this all with the world. Here I am, holed up in my small apartment in San Francisco with a monsoon happening outside and how can I connect to that crystalline grid -- that etheric connective tissue created by those holding the highest frequencies here on the planet. So I heard a pretty distinct inner suggestion that said, quite practically, "ok honey, why don't you just start with the world wide web?" Kind of took the dramatic orchestra music out of my high vibe new age vision, but I figured, what the heck. Sometimes I just have to laugh at myself! So here it is.

Hmmmm... tonight after Bay Area Hoopers I swung by Borders and picked up "Dance of Kama Sutra" DVD, by Hemalaya. It has been on my mind for a couple weeks... as I have been wanting to stoke the fires of my inner Goddess!

I'm so glad I got it! I just spent the last hour feeling like an empress while undulating on the living room floor to the wonderful images and tantalizing music. Luxurious... full of beauty, presence and wonder...

I played with sultry elements I want to add to my dance... sweet delicious movements of my arms, my thighs, my hips, my eyes! There is so much power that can be moved with the eyes and conscious looking, and looking away... and back!

Slithering and sliding on the floor with the help of this hipnotic, intoxicating teacher Goddess who helped center me into my presence and breathe. The rolling movements felt so feminine and empowering... especially devoting the dance to an opening of the heart! I am so grateful for the virtual teachers available to me in my life, even from the comfort of my living-room. I can't wait to play with some of these exercises while hooping....

Beauty and love! They really all the most wonderful things in the world!

Rock out with us at our new bi-monthly freestyle hoop jam party! No structure, no leading or teaching, ALL FUN! Our Saturday night hoop jam is a healthy alternative to the club scene. A great place to practice moves and meet friends. All ages and abilities welcome!

DATES: Feb 2 and Feb 9
TIME: 8-10p.m.
FEE: $5 donation to pay rental fee. Save $2 by coming in costume! SPACE IS LIMITED, first come first serve so arrive early!!
LOCATION: 1805 Divisadero (@Bush) Facilitated by Julie!

Hoops will available for use!

Also, gorgeous new hoops and DVDs will be available for sale!

Thank you for the medicine of personal practice... it's funny that I always tell my students to make it feel good and sometimes I get so militant with my own personal practice... forcing myself to go for a full hour which feels soooo long... feeling the impulse to glance at the clock interrupt my flow. So today with a mini revelation I said to myself, "40 always feels like the perfect length, why not just set the timer for only 40 minutes!". The time flew by as I brought my breathe into the movements, counter balances, sighing into floating movements, jumping, whirling, playing, feeling the emotions I have been teaching with moves in Intermediate class... what a sweet way to start the morning. No expectations or intense drills, just cruising along the liquid journey...

This is your reminder that today is the LAST day to get $100 off the Level One Teacher Training and $150 off HoopFit taking place in August in Birmingham, England! I have been astounded by the flood of registrations seven months in advance at this discounted rate. Don't miss out! Sign up today in the online store.

NEW HoopGirl Buff Bundles on Sale!

Celebrate your sense-ability by "Hooping in the Buff" with one of our gorgeous tubular headbands which can be worn in over 12 different ways! 100 percent polyester microfiber, which is wind-resistant, breathable, and wicks moisture. When washed, the Buff is colorfast, dries in minutes, and retains its elasticity. They transition from scarf to headband to blindfold easily. Fabulous for unsighted hooping exercises to build balance, co-ordination and presence. Collect them all! Orders will be shipped beginning on Feb 6.

Regularly $17.99 each. For the month of February, get 2 and save $5!

Order in the online store at www.HoopGirl.com

Rock on,
Christabel