We southerners finally have an awesome fire festival/retreat! Check out FLAME festival 2013, it's a great time. I'll be teaching this year alongside some incredibly talented flow artists from all over the country. It's…

i started a new fascination with hooping after my friend rebecca and i saw safrie's lyrical routine with a hoop. from then on it was all up hill for hooping since!! we made our first hoops a little more then a month ago and now all i want to do is learn more.

i found hooping to be the one thing that no matter if i'm having a good or bad day, it's always fun. and that's how i've been treating hooping, is that's it's all in good fun.

i feel i've come a long way since day one (i…

So today I had a sour experience that left a bad taste in my mouth. I bought gum; it didn't help. I now cannot rinse out the taste of being disrespected by the fitness world. I was given the bitter reminder that hula-hoops, to some, are really just toys... and toys and business do not mix. Especially here in the Coal Hole. Well, here's my story;

I am an instructor of Hoop Dance Fitness. My latest attempt at getting the hoops spinning in my area has finally gained momentum and…

So the past few weeks I have been gathering resources (and confidence) to email some potential gyms and fitness studios around town about teaching a hoopdancing class.  Unfortunately, none of those people have replied, BUT I was talking with my bosses about it and they agreed to let me rent the building and teach classes there!!  After we discussed it, I went out and found a good waiver form (well actually, I created one by combining multiple random dance class waivers) and printed it off…