Magic Bliss

Listening to thumping music and being around amazing people always seem to make me hoop better. Maybe I get in a zone and quit concentrating and the hoop just becomes apart of me and I just dance. YES… that is it, I KNOW that’s what happens!
I went out dancing last night and had such a blast! The theme for the party was “The Pisces Ball”. I knew it was going to be good; good DJ’s, good people and great people-watching of course. But what I didn’t expect was the room that we all had in the corner to be able to hoop our a**es off! I felt so inspired at one point and just hooped like no one was watching. It was truly what my soul was craving and what my body needed too.
I got to play with a small “PSI” hoop, a very bright but small LED hula hoop that makes everything you do with the hoop extra-cool! I want one….ahhhh,someday!
I was watching some other really amazing hoopers and became inspired so quickly. I am not a professional hoop dancer like these ladies, but I love to hoop and play and DANCE in my hoop. I dance with my hoop, not really “hoop-dance” like they do. I like my style, it’s different and I enjoy what I do. I enjoy how I feel while I am playing in my magic circle, and I feel like no one can see me. I love that about the hoop, I FEEL connected to it and I am apart of the circle, it’s quite amazing.
Being able to play with any hoop while at a large DJ party or event is always a treat. Unless the event is outside you rarely have the space to play, I was so thankful to have had that opportunity to practice just BEing in my hoop and not thinking about anything at all. That’s my problem I guess, I analyze my moves. Now that I am thinking about it, it’s stupid that I do it. I mean I don’t analyze how I dance when I am out at a club or just rocking out at the house, so why do it when I hoop? WHO CARE’S? I shouldn’t because I know people that watch me always seem to enjoy my hooping skills and that is enough for me! I love watching other amazing hooper’s, I get inspired and I feel the need to pick up whatever hoop is around and start spinnin!
I am really lucky to be able to go out and be in a crowd of such artistic and talented young individuals. Here in the Northwest we are truly blessed with art in any and all forms and I would probably die without all this inspiration going on around me! Thinking back at all the places I have lived, this is a great spot for art, music and GREAT partys!!
Amazing DJ’s are always spinning records (or pushing buttons on their computer…) at various clubs and every time I go out I get more and more inspired. I get better at hooping in public. I am just realizing lately that my style of hula hooping is all my own and I am embracing it, FINALLY!! I don’t know why I tried for so long to be like the others. I picked up hooping in the first place for the reason that I still do it today; I wanted to dance the same way I always have, but just add a hoop to my dance moves. Nothing big and fancy, no technical moves, just a smooth spiral going on around me as I flow across the dance floor. Now that I have achieved that, I now know I just need to work on one thing… I need to work on forgetting about all the other stuff that is outside my hoop. I am in my hoop all alone and I am the one thing that matters most, always, while I am dancing and in life, in general. It’s such a great metaphor for how I am trying to live my life. Play, love, dance and be worry-free, no cares(with in reason), and be more confident.
I love figuring this stuff out! I am really hyped for all the great music coming up here in the month or so. I am just hoping when I go to these partys that I will again have room to hoop there as well….
I am addicted to it for sure. It’s a big part of my daily life. Feeling blue? I go hoop. Mad or just plain in a funk? I hoop, “angry hoopin” to TOOL is something that I have learned to do to turn my anger right back around, and it works! I guess it’s more like hooping agressively, not really hooping angry… Anyway I feel great during and after a good hoop session, I am so glad I became a Hula Hooper in the first place!
I love that I have been able to teach a few friends some easy beginner moves. I was able to show them, and now they can do what tricks they saw me do, Awesome! Like I have said I am no professional performer but I love to hoop and play most of all and I think that is even more important.
I am getting quite excited for Spring time to actually arrive. I am feeling quite cooped up, all this indoor hooping, it’s nice but hooping outside in the grass under a blue sky with a warm breeze, well not much can compare to that! Add to that scenario a festival or even “jam band” atmosphere and you have the makings for Heaven on Earth(for me anyway!!)
Can’t wait for the sun! Send some our way folks!!

~Happy Hooping and Magic Circles of love~

Melissa Magic