HoopPath: Florida (with Brecken Rivara) 12/4th-6th/2009!
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HoopPath: Florida-Warrior Path + Brecken Rivara
Friday, 12/4:/2009, 7 - 10 p.m.
Saturday, 12/5/2009, 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Sunday, 12/6/2009, 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Brecken Rivara: Sunday, 12/6/2009, 3-5 pm.
Roberts Recreation Center
1246 50th Ave N
Saint Petersburg, FL
Well, Hello, St. Pete!
Florida. One of my favorite hoop communities in the country. I am very excited to be invited by Abby Albaum of the Hoola Monsters (St. Petersburg/Sarasota) to return and teach the HoopPath one more time. This time around I will be bringing my new workshop series, The Warrior Path, as well as, my good hoop friend, Brecken Rivara, to Florida for a weekend of hoop instruction and Community. The last time I was in Florida we sold out with one of the biggest workshops I had ever taught at that time. Since that time, both the Hoola Monsters and the HoopPath have grown in students and classes. Yet, the connection between our two groups has grown even stronger and that makes this collaboration that much sweeter.
The Warrior Path Workshop Series:
The Warrior Path is a brand new workshop with new terms, techniques, and exercises intended to introduce hoopers to what we call “Warrior” style hooping. This concept combines on and off body techniques with rapid current and plane changes. The Warrior Path techniques are also integrated with internal, meditative foci, as well, to help the hooper open up to their own stillness and clarity.
The HoopPath has taught Warrior techniques since its inception, but this will be the first time that we have concentrated this much time and energy on this wonderfully beautiful and unique approach to hoop dance. We assure you that even those who have taken HoopPath classes and workshops before will come away with new terms and concepts to further their own hoop practice. This is indeed the long awaited second chapter so many of you have asked for over the last year.
Within the HoopPath Community, the term, “Warrior” refers to an indomitable attitude or spirit to which each of us has access and, through mindful practice, can foster and grow within ourselves. The techniques of The Warrior Path help us to explore and develop an inner calm and resilience that strengthens and improves our hoop dance, while also teaching us more about our own personal power away from the hoop.
While this workshop is very much a continuation of our past workshops, we have designed this series to be equally accessible to those who have never taken an HP class before. If you have not taken a workshop with us before, you will need to sign up for Day One. Day one of WP will be very similar to Day One of our other workshops. If you have not been to one of our workshops before, you should know that the skills covered in Day One are hardly ‘beginner.’ Day One sets up the terms, concepts, and foundational techniques upon which all the advanced teaching rests. Day One is easily the favorite day of most returning students.
Brecken “The Tsunami” Rivara
There are so many wonderful and amazing hoopers within the Hoop Community. The Community is growing so fast these days, that it is impossible for me to have seen all of them. That being said, of the hoopers I know, Brecken is one of the most unique, most amazing hoopers to emerge into the scene since I started hooping. I can not heap enough praise on her hoop dance. She, like myself, is committed to keeping the ‘dance’ in hoopdance and her style makes that abundantly clear. It is not so much the uniqueness of her moves or her techniques that set her apart (although no one hoops like her), but rather the Way in which her expression unfolds when she releases into her Flow that makes her so mind blowing and unforgettable. If you haven’t seen Brecken hoop, then you are in for phenomenal surprise. I might be the only one who calls her “The Tsunami” for now, but many amongst the Community who have witnessed her hooping understand the origin of my nickname for her. Look out onto the ocean of Hooping, and the next big wave is Brecken Rivara. I am honored to share teaching space with such a Channel.
Brecken and I understand that 5 hours of workshops in one day may sound intimidating, but our intent is to structure Sunday so that someone who is in reasonable shape should be able to endure it. Sunday of the Warrior Path deals with many of the off-body, less physically demanding techniques of Warrior-style hooping. Students who have attended both Brecken’s previous workshop and Day 3’s of past HP workshops believe that Sunday is going to be an amazing and enlightening in its chemistry.
Here is a word from Brecken describing her workshop called, “Bridging and Asserting Planes”:
If there’s one thing I’d like to impart on the hooping community, it’s a broader range of movement. There are a couple of planes we’re all comfortable with, and that’s fine because you need that point of origin. It’s home base. But the hoop can go ANYwhere, and it probably should: I think it’s the freedom to explore our impulses, with the hoop as a guide -or even security, that truly embodies that partnership, and it’s not that hard (honestly) to offer the same to more of your body. Then just knowing how to use that connection-letting it fall into new space and then owning it there; how to take the lead and let it go, and assert and release at will, on beat-that’ll really take it there. …aaand we’ll make it look good.
This class started a while ago as an answer to the question of horizontal/vertical transitions. (You’ll never be at a loss for that answer again, btw.) A year later, it serves as the basis for the majority of my hooping. Coupled with a variety of isolations, extensions, visual techniques and found pathways for being compelled into place… I’m pretty sure you’ll leave a better hooper with a stronger basis for exploration. Forget the planes; they’re always there when you need them. I’ll show you some stuff and we’ll have a blast. Fo shizzle.
Tickets:
So this may seem lengthy and tedious, but we are in a space large enough that we can accommodate many hoopers. This means we get to be “cool” and offer lots of ticket options and discounts. Please read the following carefully, to find the option (and maybe, the discount) you need. [**if you have any questions or problems concerning tickets, please contact me at baxter@hooppath.com]
Basically, there are three categories of tickets:
1. My workshops + Brecken’s workshop on Sunday
2. My workshops only
3. Brecken’s workshop only
Within two of those three categories (#1 and #2) there are many options which include:
1. Days 1-3 (3 day package)
2. Days 1 & 2
3. Days 2 & 3
4. Days 1 & 3
How The Discounts Work:
So all of the options have within them pricing discounts for multiple tickets purchased in one grouping. There are three ways to receive discounts:
1) If you have had an HP workshop before and you are coming alone (one ticket), enter “back home” in the ‘promo code’ box to receive 10% off my workshops.
2) If you are coming with a friend, select the “Bring-a-Friend” ticket option and choose “2″ on the pull down. Then, in the ‘promo code’ box enter “Bring-a-Friend.” This will reduce the price of each ticket.
3) If you are coming with 2 friends, select the “Bring-2-Friends” tickets and choose “3″ on the pull down. Then, in the ‘promo code’ box enter “Bring-2-Friends.” This will reduce the price of each ticket.Brecken and I hope you will come to all the workshops, so we have included an incentive: when you purchase all three days, Brecken’s workshop is only $30 with no service charge. When you purchase 2 days, her workshop is only 35 with no service charge!
You can also purchase only Brecken’s workshop for $40 and a minimal service charge. Brecken is also on board with Bring-A-Friend pricing. Just follow the instructions listed above for the packages. (When purchasing tickets to Brecken’s workshop, please note that there is a $4 service charge per ticket.)
The Prices:
Full Weekend (+ Brecken) = $200 [11 hours!], Bring-A-Friend = $360, Bring 2 Friends = $510.
2 Days (+Brecken) = $155 [8 hours], Bring-A-Friend = $270, Bring 2 Friends = $375.
3 Day package= $170 [9 hours], Bring-A-Friend = $300, Bring 2 Friends = $420.
2 Day package= $120, Bring-A-Friend = $200, Bring 2 Friends =$270.
Single Day= $65. (Will go on sale one week before)
Brecken Workshop = $40, Bring-A-Friend =$70 , Bring-2-Friends $90.
(***These prices do not include the etix service charge. You will save on this charge by purchasing packages).
The last time we came to FL, we sold out, so no pressure, but you know…
PLEASE READ CAREFULLY:
**I use an online ticket agent for all my productions, and the service charge goes directly to them. The software they use is not exactly set up for our pricing strategies, so I apologize if the “work around” seems tedious. I will be auditing the ticket sales to make sure everything goes to plan, and if there is any confusion or error in your ordering I will alert you so we can correct it. Just so you know, despite available loopholes in the system, you must buy 2 tickets to receive the “Bring-A-Friend” prices and three tickets to receive the “Bring-2-Friends” prices.
IF something doesn’t work, please let me know. I will correct it immediately. I. can. not. wait.
Now, I know it’s all lot, but be sure to look through the options carefully to get the one just right for you: