Today I had the pleasure of spreading KandiKreations hoop love to a Freshman Elements of Visual Thinking class held by Kirsten Hollander. Kirsten and I met on the trip to Nicaragua, she is an Amazing artist, woman, mother, yoga master, individual (the list goes on.) She invited me to bring some hoops and teach her 20 students how to hoop, she stresses the importance of not only the art on paper but the artist's body awareness throughout the creative process. Hooping is a great way to become aware of one's own body and balance. I taught the very basics of how to keep the hoop spinning and then the students were encouraged to experiment and really play with the relationship of the hoop to their own body. It's amazing how much fun everyone had just playing in the lawn with a whole bunch of hoops.
The hoops acts as a window to one's body. It allows one the understand their own body as it moves through space. This concept probably sounds pretty silly to people who haven't hooped since they were very young so please go out and try it, really practice and see how long it takes before you can toss the hoop from one hand to another or spin around in the hoop with it gliding around you. We think it's a feeling that everyone should experience.
Lots of love to everyone out there
Kandi Kreations
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