Hooping.org

My website launched a few days ago, and a picture of me and some of my Cosmic Hoopers were featured on Hooping.org yesterday - I'm feeling right in the flow of things!

Tomorrow, Rebecca Sheir from AK radio is coming to do a radio show on my Hooping class, and I'll be teaching my first drop-in hooping class at the Studio. (Hopefully, it will be well attended!)

It's really amazing how hooping was just this fun little hobby a year ago, and now it's become my business and is getting so much great attention.

Amy Lowry of BlankSlateMedia helped me with my website, and I really appreciate her hard work getting my site up and running so quickly.

It's funny, I've done so many different things over the past ten years since college -- massage, graphic design, t-shirt designs, directing plays -- and this is the first things that's really just taken on a life of its own almost immediately. I think it means that I'm on the right path.

And that I'm aligned with something that is a deep part of me: dancing. After a major neck injury in high school, I wasn't able to dance like I had my whole life, so I spent a lot of time looking for other things I could do. Somehow, though after my son Spencer was born, I discovered hoopdancing and found a way to dance that actually helps my neck. The hoop automatically limits what you can do, as well as allows for a certain group of things. It's that limitation that's good for me and my neck - it means I won't go running and leaping off a stage, or swinging my head around like Tina Turner. But the hoops offers so much in the way of a dance partner that it doesn't matter that some options are out.

It's funny how you can't outrun your passions. I felt like I'd left behind the dancer in me, but then she came and found me again. Thank goodness she did.