 Customized hoops ensure that EVERYONE can hoop! Students hoop througout class, sweating and smiling while learning to hoop on the hips, arms and torso.  - Loosen up and shake off your day - - Tones the core without crunches - - Heart pumping cardio workout - - Increases low back strength and balance - - Promotes flexibility and healthy alignment - - Releases pelvic tension - - Boosts agility and stamina -  It's FUN and feels good...Hooping is contagious! The massaging rhythm is calming, while the movement is sensual and energizing! Classes are focused on interaction, creativity and guided performance. - Releases stress - - Increases focus, decreases anxiety - - Encourages playfulness and impulsive smiling - - Increases sense of rhythm - - Supportive atmosphere encourages creativity - - Boosts self esteem and confidence - - Increases libido! -  You can learn more about Sadie "Spins" Yancey, a licensed HoopGirl instructor and seed of the Toronto hooping revolution here. What students are saying... "Hooping is the most fun I've had with clothes on!" " The perfect release after a long day of work. Good exercise and good fun!" "It's a practice, a dance, it's radically democratic, it's learning to walk for adults, it's doing more than you can do and enjoying it, it's thrilling learning, like a toddler leraning to walk, falling, and laughing." "I have had terrible body image my whole life. Hooping is opening up for me the experience of my body as capable of creating and emanating dignity, grace and beauty. My experience of my body is becoming more multidimensional. I've always been able to be strong, able to bear heavy burdens and take punishment, always been able to grunt, labor, and toil. Now, in addition to all those, I'm beginning to experience my body as an axis of grace and beauty. Its lovely and transformational for me to experience my capacity for strength and grace and beauty together." "'[In the hoop is] the perfect place to just feel free and silly and sexy or whichever you want" "Motivated me to get off the couch and out of the house" |