Oh my gosh, Brecken is coming to town!!! Read on for an amazing opportunity to study hoopdance in San Francisco with an emerging rock star of the hooping world...

You can purchase here or email Brecken to reserve a spot at brecken77-AT-aol-DOT-com

When: Mon & Tues., August 24-25, 2000
8:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m. (1.5 hour + break and jam time)

Where: The Margaret Jenkins Dance LAB
301 – 8th Street, 2nd Floor, Studio 200
San Francisco, CA 94103

Monday: Bridging Planes
The first class is an exercise in broadening the range of planar possibilities and accentuating the ones of your choosing. Designed initially to uncover horizontal/vertical transitions, it utilizes a somewhat visual holistic approach in creating a personal terrain for exploration that subverts the rigidness of the plane mentality, but allows for use of those planes when technical elements are applied.

Tuesday: Poise & Finesse
We can direct our breath toward forming channels to create lines as …let’s call them “emotional highways” for promoting elongation, lightness, and torque when it comes to the hoop. Pulling in to isolation techniques, it’s another method for expanding the range of focus, pairing explosive movements with more intimate ones and making everybody jealous. Several of the exercises are inspired by modern dance (a.k.a. you tube), but applied to hooping over a few months of trial and error. Time permitting, I’d like to tie it into the methods of the previous class and initiate the baddest hoop jam ever did doned. Teehee.

Brecken add’s:

"It’s gonna be the bee’s knees and I’m coming from Jersey, so be there, bitches!! Kidding. Just kidding. But seriously, it’ll be cool and I’m really excited to be there, so a tremendous thanks to Rich and Christabel for all their work. It wouldn’t have happened at all without them."

Note: This is the first of several articles answering questions from Licensed HoopGirl Workout instructors. Let me know if you have other topics of interest. I am happy to address them in future entries.

Showcasing your HoopGirl Workout classes on TV is an exciting opportunity! I have promoted HoopGirl on television several hundred times and have learned many things through trial and error. Save yourself time and energy by learning from my experiences. Read on for my advice...

On Friday I was delighted to appear on ABC7's View From the Bay for the third time. In this segment I shared my new book, Hooping, with Janelle and Spencer. It was so much fun! Click here to watch the video. Enjoy!

Last night I attended day 1 of Brecken's hoop workshop here in San Francisco. I've watched Brecken before and been intrigued by her movements so it was GREAT to get a step-by-step explanation of her techniques! There was a super sweet assembly of hoopers present: Shakti Sunfire, Khan Wong, Rich and Lauren Porter, Ariane Conrad, Kerrin Lanahan, Julie Greicius, Jennifer JennaLuna Anderson, Krista Borst, Jan Camp and Cassandra... so it felt like a sweet family gathering. Read on for the details...

Click here to check out a great new article out about hooping in San Francsico! I really feel that San Francisco is a massive nexus for hoopers and am so grateful to live here with so many visionaries and leaders. I encourage anyone wanting to amplify their hoop studies and inspiration to move to this wonderful area!

Click here to check out out this mention in VIV Fitness Blog about the Hooping book and hoop fitness! It is amazing to see interest in hooping exponentially expanding across the entire country!

Last night was day two of Brecken's hoop workshop in San Francisco. (Read about Day 1 here). What a amazing evening.

Being an artist, Brecken strongly encouraged us to embrace our other artistic inclinations and apply elements from them to our hooping. She emphasized that this is very important so we can each express our own original style. For example, her passion for painting inspires her to think of hooping in terms of texture, color and spatial depth. She encouraged us to be self-accepting and to make the most of what we have: matter what emerges from us, even if awkward, go into it fully...