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The Circle has healing power. In the Circle, we are all equal. When in the Circle, no one is in front of you. No one is behind you. No one is above you. No one is below you. The Sacred Circle is designed to create unity. The Hoop of Life is also a circle. On this hoop there is a place for every species, every race, every tree and every plant. It is this completeness of Life that must be respected in order to bring about health on this planet.” ~ Dave Chief, Oglala Lakota

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Entries from January 2009

Hoop Convergence 09 !!!!

January 26th, 2009 · No Comments

I am very much looking forward to this incredible event. I just hope I can save enough money to go before all the tickets are sold. I was worried that the dates would conflict with state wide testing at school. However, it appears that Convergence is a week before testing so this should work out [...]

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Tags: Hoop Dance

And they said I could never be a hand model!

January 25th, 2009 · No Comments

Well I’ll teach em! Just because my hands take a bit of abuse at work does not mean that career option is obsolete!
Here is my latest invention, an adapted utensil. Made with simply a hair tie! Which I might add is being modeled by no other than, ME! Ok, so I’m not a professional hand [...]

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Tags: teaching

Have your cake and eat it too!

January 22nd, 2009 · No Comments

Ok, so what’s the point of cake if you can’t eat it. That would just be silly. So here I am in NC, in what I am discovering is one of the few hooping meccas! How did I get so lucky?
I’ve been blessed with the opportunity to attend workshops and take classes from some of [...]

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Tags: Hoop Dance