Today was day two of the HoopGirl Dance Teacher Training for Level 1 here in San Francisco. Amazing! What a phenomenal group of women from so many backgrounds and interests! Annie and I held space for the teachings and all unfolded in beauty.
There was time for seated learning, lecture presentation, shopping at the hoopbooth, professional photography of all our participants, and hours of hooping on the dancefloor working through the material, moves and class structure. Sweaty bodies, breathless smiles and lots of laughter! What an honor it is to be able to hold space for this event. Lots of networking and community building... I have a feeling this group will be staying in touch for a long time to come!
What I loved sharing most today was...
speaking about how personally transforming teaching hooping can be. In our training we provide specific skills and tools that can help you instantly download exactly what to say in any teaching situation... an actual methodology you can use to get in touch with your intuition and guide your class. What I love most about this process is that this skill can be used in every aspect of life, even outside of the hoop studio. The reality is that life is full of change. Learning to embrace that, go with the flow, stay in your witness and hold your centerpoint is key. We talked about this for some time, also identifying everyones area of brilliance which they want to transmit through hooping. Here's more about our talented crew...
Holly: Gorgeous, talented, athletic and passionate about hooping her way to health and empowering larger women in the hoop to feel strong and beautiful. Thank you so much for opening up to all of us and sharing your own story of working with your weight. Your classes will provide a beacon of positivity for so many women here in San Francisco, I know it!
Lisa: Pole dancing diva from Reno, Nevada, dancing your way through life with tango skills galore and your daytime archeology expertise! Your sensual expertise will inform your hoopdance classes and you will deliver a true experience of sexy radiance to your students.
Jackie: WOW! Your'e 14! That enough earns you a bounty of gold stars!!! Our 3rd HoopGirl Licensed teenager with a background in hip hop music and dance. The training and your classes will provide you homeschooling credits representing true life experience empowering others to get fit, feel sexy and have fun. PLUS I have to mentioned you super enthusiastic mom who visited us a lot in class, bought my new DVD and ran back to the hotel to watch it all during our session before picking you up. With this kind of support, nothing can stop you! Watch out Santa Clarita!
Ewa: Polish yogini and venture capitalist! Ewa will be bringing her expertise on the body's flexibiltty and combining it with insights on the mind's flexibility to her classes. She glows with the luminosity of spirit and will be sharing so much more than hooping through her hooping! Thank you so much for setting a fire under my buns to follow through with the Hawaiian hooping and dolphin-swim retreat!
Allison: You bring a background in Gender Studies, a passion for women's empowerment and girlpower to the table! Your teaching style already brims with positive languaging and fascinating insights into stereotypes and ideas about how we can free our minds. All the way from Toronto Canada. I am so humbled and flattered by the mere distance you have travelled to study with me. Thank you!
Melissa: A psychotherapist with a well established practice, seeking to teach hoopdance as a way to heal the mind, release stress and instill wholeness. You bring so much expertise in the realm of synaptic pathways in the brain, gyrokinetic stimulation and emotional release. Your classes will be so unique and transformation and will inform an entire field of practitioners in a new method for health. Another traveller-- all the way from Idaho! Thank you for investing yourself into the journey.
Kelly Jo: Your experience teaching ballet will give your teaching a wonderful edge in balancing, extension, and precision. You are a firecracker - pure and simple, on fire! From the East Coast, who drives regularly between North Carolina and Maryland. Again, thanks for embarking on such a phenomenal trip to arrive here.
Susan: Fitness instructor and emerging metaphysician with an interest in the work of the soul and trance dance, I can't wait to see what your classes look like! In addition to bringing order to our office, your presence at the training really opened my eyes to the power and presence that you have to share with our students. I can't wait to see more! Thanks for all your extra support to help this training flow smoothly.
Jennifer S.: a rock and roll singer in a band with her husband by night, graphic designer by day. Her energy sparkles and shines and she wears towering high heels every second of everyday! Including every moment in our teacher training... her Braziliian mama says she came out of the womb with them on. What an inspiration you are! I am so excited you are joining our bay area HoopGirl staff!
Jenn: a metaphysician/healer/psychologist who will be teaching hoopdance to share a sense of wholeness and personal transformation. Wow! Your enthusiasm and excitement is contagious and I can't wait to have you on staff at HoopGirl sharing your luminosity with the community. Your smile is so wonderful and your body transmits joy.
In short, a sweet day. I feel so lucky. Even though I ran out of the house in a flutter with a zillion bags swinging from each hand, feeling a bit overwhelmed and worried I would be late, everything unfolded on time and with ease and all was well. I love trusting the universe!
The tentative dates for our next level 1 teacher trainings are March 6-8 in Baltimore and March 13-15 in San Francisco. I hope you will come play with us!
xoxo
Christabel