Archive for the ‘Exploring The Path’ Category

• Growing

  Date: 2010.10.05 | Category: Exploring The Path | Response: 0

  Students are beginning to find me and my heart is full of joy after each class.

  I’m worried about how to make a living at doing what I love.  Bills still come in and the cash flow isn’t keeping up with the outflow.  Do I find new places to teach?  Teach more classes through Parks & Rec? Am I promoting myself the right way? What is it that I want to pursue?

  It is simultaneously exhilarating and terrifying…but that’s a good thing, right?!

• Hmmmmm….

  Date: 2010.09.21 | Category: Exploring The Path | Response: 0

  

  Wonderful hooping space in need of wonderful hoopers!

  So I felt I did the leg work but no one showed up to my first class last night. It is an incredible space, one with some sentimental attachments for sure. It’s the cafeteria/auditorium of my elementary school.

  Now I’m offering up some incentives so please spread the word!
  If you pay cash, you get $12 off a 6-series class. If you get 2 friends to sign up, I will make you a custom hoop!

• Hoopin’ Down the Road

  Date: 2010.08.26 | Category: Exploring The Path, HulaHoopla | Response: 0

  Heading out to Burning Man for some needed rebooting.  So many lovely hoopers will be there and I hope to find and play with all of them!

• HoopTastic!

  Date: 2010.08.18 | Category: Exploring The Path, HulaHoopla | Response: 0

  Holy smokes! Just got back from 10 days in San Francisco attending my HoopGirl Level 2 Teacher Training AND HoopGirl Performance Training.  It seems strange to be back at home and not walking to the studio every morning where I was surrounded by strong, supportive goddesses!  I feel a shift in myself…hard to explain…but this morning I am going to take my boyfriend to my studio and perform for him for his birthday. *prrrrrr*

• Eeeeeeee!!!

  Date: 2010.04.09 | Category: Exploring The Path | Response: 0

  My hooping life is looming large! Had a wonderful coffee chat with my hoop wife and she had amazing ideas about a hooping hub for PDX.  My head is swirling with possibilities.

• Hoop Biz

  Date: 2010.03.25 | Category: Exploring The Path, HulaHoopla | Response: 0

  My mother is helping with the rent on the studio.
  Talked to a very helpful woman at the school district about renting a school gym for classes — lots of steps and timing.
  Waiting for FedEx to bring my new custom iPod which I intend to load with inspirational music for my students.
  Making a custom hoop  for Rick Nielsen of Cheap Trick today! Fire hoop training on Saturday!
  Gotta do taxes…lots of write-offs this year.  sheesh.  not even out of my pjs yet and I’m exhausted! but in a good way.

• Took the Plunge!

  Date: 2010.03.25 | Category: Exploring The Path, HulaHoopla | Response: 0

  

  Summer of Hoopla Happens Here!

  Negotiated a lower rental rate for the studio and booked it for the entire summer!!!!!

  This beautiful studio is location on N. Shaver @ N. Mississippi. Open and bright, marley floor, mirrored wall, view of garden through large windows, lots of natural light.

  Schedule will be posted soon.

• Could This Be It???

  Date: 2010.03.21 | Category: Exploring The Path | Response: 0

  Looked at a beautiful studio today.  Will this be my space for hoop classes?
  I did some number crunching and think I will have to fine a part-time gig in order to follow my bliss. dang!
  It’s not the end of the world, just a little reality check.  It’s still an amazing space and could be very inspirational for my students — and me too!

• Gimme Shelter

  Date: 2010.03.18 | Category: Exploring The Path | Response: 0

  I’m sending out good vibes this morning in hopes of finding a wonderful space in which to teach hoopdance long-term. Inner east side would be ideal, weekday evening availability would be lovely. A school gym? A church basement with very, very tall ceilings? I’ve been looking at Portland Parks & Rec, neighborhood studios and dance halls, big-name gym classes, etc. but would love to find that perfect fit. Any parents out there have access to their child’s gym year-round? Is there a new, cozy dance studio I haven’t discovered that needs one more tenant?
  Let’s chat!

  I know I will find that space…the space filled with amazing people spilling exuberant energy out into the room.

  Happy Hooping!

• Hoop Space?

  Date: 2010.03.18 | Category: Exploring The Path | Response: 0

  Going to see a space on Saturday.  It looks GORGEOUS!  And it’s close by.  I envision myself riding my bike to my lunchtime hoop classes during the spring and summer greeting my happy hoop students and filling the dance studio with positive vibes that radiate out into the neighborhood!!!!