HoopPath: Steamboat Springs, CO (1/9th-10th/2010)
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HoopPath: Steamboat Springs, CO
Saturday, January, 9th, 2010 (12:30-3:30 pm)
Sunday, January, 10th, 2010 (12:30-3:30 pm)
NW Ballet
326 Oak Street
Steamboat Springs, CO 80477
(970)871-1880
Hello, Steamboat Springs! I’m looking forward to meeting you.
I am very happy to be coming out to Steamboat Springs on the very weekend of my birthday. I’ve never been out to your neck of the woods before. I want to think Jennifer Harlan for hosting me for what should be a nice, intimate workshop series. I will be teaching in a smaller venue than usual, and I’m really looking forward to the opportunity to connect more directly with a smaller number of attendees.
Having never been to your town, you might have some questions about the HoopPath and what it is that I teach. I have been a teaching hooping for almost five years and have sustained myself professionally on hooping alone for well over two years now. I won Hooping.org’s first ever “Teacher of the Year” award in 2008. The HoopPath is a hoop dance curriculum that encourages and teaches a Way of moving with the hoop intended to help us become fit physically, mentally, and (for some) Spiritually. Some cringe at the word, “Spiritual” and can’t imagine how a hula hoop could be anything more than a party favor. I understand that it is a great leap for many to consider this round “icon” of the 1950’s as a tool which can lead one toward a deeper understanding of themselves. Sounds crazy at first, but movement and it’s exploration is, and has been since nearly the dawn of time, revelatory. Sure, the tool we use may surprise some, but the fact remains that hoop dance is movement and expression and the interplay of those two parts is illuminating for those wishing to learn more about themselves. Movement as meditation isn’t the Hoop Community’s invention. That concept has been around since papyrus. We just use a hoop to set us in motion.
Over the two days of our workshop in Steamboat Springs we will go over what I consider to be essential building blocks of hoop dance. We will work on hooping on the core (weight-shifting, balances, shoulder hooping, Angle hooping, etc.) as well as some off body techniques and moves. I do my best to balance hoop technique with room for personal growth with and without the hoop in hand. If you don’t know this about me, let me be the first to admit that my workshops are outside-the-box. Don’t worry. I’m not into embarrassing someone into growth. To the contrary, I work hard to build a safe, non-judgmental space in which we can all feel comfortable to express and learn new things about hooping and ourselves.
Hooping has changed my life and taken me all over the U.S. and into Canada. Even though my personal approach to hooping is as a meditative practice, I like to think that I keep an access open to anyone who wants to take their hooping to the next level. I don’t teach to hear myself talk and I take a LOT of pride in the growth many attendees experience. I teach/train students in order to make them better hoopers. Period. Whatever your motivation for picking up the hoop, you are welcome in my workshops. All I ask (and this is a lot for some) is that you show up ready to learn and give each exercise, whether it be technical or meditative, your full effort. My hope is that you will trust me and my method and suspend any disbelief you may have about hoop dance’s potential to grow and transform you.
Because our space is limited in size, there is only one ticket option and that is for both days. *If* there are any spots left unsold as of Jan. 6th, 2010, then we will open up single day tickets. We are blessed to be on a current string of sold out workshops and I hope that will continue when I come to Steamboat Springs. For the record, there are only 15 spots for sale.
If you have been before to one of my workshop in another town, or if you are coming with friends, we have installed some discounts to make this workshop an even better deal.
If you have any questions about the workshops, please feel free to write me at baxter@hooppath.com.
I look forward to meeting you and sharing some hoop space!
***HOW THE DISCOUNTS WORK:
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 (or more) tickets” on the pull down. Then, in the ‘promo code’ box enter “Bring-a-Friend.” This will reduce the price of each ticket.