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Annie O'Keeffe
BRING OUT YOUR INNER BEAUTY: THREE MOVIN' AND GROOVIN' INTENSIVES:
1. Makeup Magnetism: Learn tricks of the trade, like how to wear make-up for day and night hoop performances, photos, videos, and different light. Bring your make-up to try new skills. Adding glitter, eye-lashes, jewels. Identify what to avoid by all means necessary!
2. Costume Creativeness: Learn how to put together a flattering outfit from what you already own. Dress well for YOUR figure and hoop show-flow. Deliver the crowd your unique style. Avoid costume malfunctions! Bring your favorites. We can edit for one great look.
3. Styling Sensation: Do you already have a good idea about what works well? Do you make your clothes and accessories? How do you wear your hair? Is it important to match your hoop with your costume? Bring your favorites to share, while we put together complete looks from H2T.
Hoopin' Annie
www.worldhoopday.org
Pacifica
BIO:
Annie O is the creator and founder of World Hoop Day, co-founder of Kostume Kult and Burlesque Star. Her previous work includes costume and make-up designer and for films, TV, theatre, commercials, fashion shoots, and private clients, in addition to producing several fashion shows. Performing in the arts since she was three years old, currently Annie shakes it as Candy Pie in the world of Burlesque. With her Masters work in Costuming from Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT), she knows what's what and who looks good as is, needs a minor alteration or a full-blown H2T make-over or make-under. She loves styling people of all sizes to flatter, enhance figures and to be able to perform flashy moves and smooth grooves. Above all, Annie teaches confidence, fit and functionality.
Casandra Tanenbaum
HOOP DANCE FLOW AND THE FIVE WISDOM ENERGIES: How does our authentic flow style define our range of expression and shape our hoop dance practice? This discussion is an exploration of styles of movement, flow practice habits, and expression across the spectrum of the five wisdom energies, or five Buddha families, in the principles of Tibetan tantra and vajrayana Buddhism. Co-facilitated with Rainbow Michael Haynes, with assistance by members of the Pema Osel Ling community, this discussion will highlight techniques for turning ‘stuck’ movement patterns into flow, while emphasizing the dance of the wisdom energies in our everyday lives (in and out of the hoop) and appreciating the variety of flow experiences possible through hooping. Learn how to fine-tune your awareness to support yourself and your students in broadening dynamic range of movement and developing a practice as well-rounded as your hoop!
www.hoopsofly.com
Lake Worth, FL
BIO:
Casandra Tanenbaum created Hoop So Fly in 2009 to bring quality hoop dance instruction and expertise to South Florida. Casandra is a life-long dancer and an avid practitioner of yoga, Capoeira, and West African Dance, infusing hoop classes and personal practice with deep knowledge of creative movement and dance technique across many cultural and fine art forms. An educator for over seventeen years, Casandra will complete a Masters degree in Contemplative Education at Naropa University (Boulder, CO) in June 2012 with a thesis project describing the relationship between flow and the five wisdom energies in hoop dance. Additional recent projects include Florida Flow Fest 2011 & 2012, HoolaFit Teacher Training program co-creation with Abby Albaum, and Cassie Squared: Concepts in Action workshop tour January 2012 with Cassie Mckenney.
Christabel Zamor
GODDESS BLOSSOM CIRCLE: This gathering will join our community together in an intimate way to melt open hearts with sacred yummy aliveness! Connect with your retreat family outside the hoop to deepen authenticity, presence and vulnerability. Explore nurturing, invitation, tenderness, wildness, opening, trust, and desire as “super powers”. Explore your body as a temple holding spiritual energy. Lavish in the delicious divine feminine... Yes, men are enthusiastically welcomed!
BREATHING OPEN: This hoopless workshop uses the ancient practice of circular, connected breathing to activate aliveness, awareness and awakening. The whole body is saturated with life force energy. Group breathwork opens up the energy channels within each participant and softens the illusion of separation. A safe, loving environment is created for complete surrender into feelings, sensations and the present moment. Your journey is supported by music, sensitively guided instruction and healing touch. Participants often experience intense clarity. There can be profound insights and a sense of extreme openness. Some people have visions, mystical experiences and connection with the Divine. This journey of self-discovery helps you release outdated beliefs and make space to feel the Love that is your true self.
www.hoopgirl.com
www.christabel.me
San Francisco, CA
BIO:
Christabel Zamor, M.A., is an empowerment coach, speaker and facilitator. Her life-changing events help you blast through inertia, make powerful choices and align your entire life with your core values and dreams. She is the founder of HoopGirl, a worldwide hula hoop movement and the creator of 5 instructional DVDs, a book, and a vast teacher training network which has credentialed over 700 instructors in 16 countries. She has been featured on Dr. Oz, Live with Regis and Kelly, and in many magazines such as Time, O, Prevention, Shape, Spin, and more. She has been trained by the Coaches Training Institute and The Hendricks Institute, and is in the process of certification by the International Coach Federation. She has also received training by Clarity Breathwork, The Institute for Ecstatic Living and A Feminine Feast and has taught in dozens of venues, including the University of California, Yoga Tree, YogaWorks, Bhaktifest, Lightening in a Bottle, and the Kali Institute. She holds two master's degrees: One in Mythology and Depth Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute and a second in Anthropology from University of California. She takes Pacifica’s school motto to heart, “Animae mundi colendae gratia”,for the sake of tending the soul of the world.
Erica Keller 
BUILDING AND NURTURING A SPIN COMMUNITY: An informative session and discussion with handouts, tips and steps to beginning a spin community in your area and nurturing a current one. Mini topics include: Starting from scratch Spin Jams Hosting workshops Performance Community Outreach Avoiding competitive and negative directions Keeping the momentum Networking
www.hoopconnections.net
St. Louis, MO
BIO:
Keller is a passionate lover of moving and feeling good! As the founder of Hoop Connections she can be seen performing with hoops (her favorite is a 72” LED) and fire all over the St. Louis area and even comical trickery at the local Renaissance Faire! In 2011, Keller was blessed to be selected as a member of the inaugural Electric Forest Hoop Troupe. In addition to her love of performing she is the coordinator of the Hoop Connections Panama Retreat and The heART Empowerment Project. Keller has also organized a tour of outreach projects that will education youth on using art, music, dance and movement as a way to a healthy mind, body and soul. This has grown to an international project, with support from the World Hoop Day Organization and will donate over 100 hoops in 2012
Isa GlitterGirl 
REVITALIZE YOUR FLOW PRACTICE: Ever get bored with your practice? Looking for ways to invigorate your relationship with your tools? This discussion forum will be an opportunity to explore various ideas to help you reinspire, reinvigorate and reconnect with your passion for flow and play with your toys and tools by revealing the techniques I've been using to stay inspired for 12 years in my personal flow practice.
temple of poi
templeofpoi.com
san francisco
BIO:
Isa “GlitterGirl” Isaacs has been a professional flow fire dancer and instructor since 2002 when she established her first flow arts education company, Temple of Poi, the premier poi school in the world. She has been featured on 2 Circle of Lights DVDs (produced by “Home of Poi”) and has traveled around the world teaching and performing flow arts, concentrating in her San Francisco studios. Temple of Poi has won several Best of the Bay awards, including Best Dance Studio. As part of Bay Area Dance Week, GlitterGirl has produced 6 fire dancing expositions featuring internationally renowned fire and flow artists in San Francisco’s land mark Union Square.
Jahsah Ananda 
SPIRALING SOUNDS: A SOUND HEALING CIRCLE FOR HOOPERS: Experience a sound healing circle to tap into the spiraling flow of universal life-force energy and explore how certain sounds enhance the movement of energy in the body through vibrational synergy. Explore the practices of emotional clearing, moving energy, and energizing the body, mind, heart, and spirit through toning, sounds, and conscious music that can be integrated into your hoop flow. Enjoy a discussion on the art of sound healing for hoopers, followed by a vibroacoustic healing meditation featuring the live music of the didgeridoo, crystal singing bowls, Celtic Harp, Native American flute, and hoop drum. This is a rejuvenatory and relaxing opportunity to recharge through sacred sounds and vibrational healing.
Conscious Leap
www.consciousleap.com
Sedona, AZ
BIO:
Jahsah Ananda is a Healer, Artist, and Musician with a life purpose to support people, communities, and nature through transformational rites of passage with empowerment, art, and awareness. Jahsah has been working in the healing arts since 1998 as a massage therapist, transformational facilitator, spiritual life coach, and sound healer. His musical journey with the shamanic sounds of the didgeridoo, crystal bowls, harp, Native American flute, drums, and more have brought him opportunities to share his sound alchemy at events, retreats, and ceremonies in the US, Egypt, Japan, Bali, Thailand, Mexico, and Europe. As an artist he creates digital alchemy art and videos, as well as crafting healing tools and landscapes with natural materials. Jahsah's creative and healing talents fuse together to bring inspirational support and energy to people for wisdom guidance, transformational healing, creativity boosting, emotional clearing, and spiritual upliftment. Find out more online at: www.consciousleap.com.
Kara Ananda 
HOOPDANCE FOR SACRED FEMININE VITALITY- A circle discussion for women on hoopdance as a practice for feminine health, vitality, and sensuality. How hooping can help us to dance through all the cycles of our lives. Learn a new perspective of the female pelvis and womb related to conscious hoopdance for women for feminine health and longevity. Discover how conscious dance, breath, and movement with the hoop to embody the sacred feminine circle and spiral can increase your feminine vitality, physical energy, balance your emotions, invigorate your sensuality, and tone your body. A soul nourishing women's circle integrating anatomy, physiology, mythology, women's healing arts, and embodywork practices for the female hooper.
Mandala Hoops
www.mandalahoops.com
Sedona, AZ
BIO:
Kara Maria Ananda is a Women's Embodywork Practitioner, Conscious Birth Emissary, and HoopDancer. She integrates her experience as a massage therapist, craniosacral therapist, birth doula, women's health educator, holistic healing arts practitioner, conscious living consultant, and movement artist into her presentation at Hoopcamp 2012. You can find her diverse offerings online at: www.mandalahoops.com | www.sacredfemme.com | www.birthemissary.com | www.mamatribe.com | www.consciousleap.com.
Kaye Anderson
HOOP-DANCE THERAPY: Emotional Healing and Empowerment in the Hoop.
Hooping can have profound effects on our bodies, minds, and emotional states. I have been using Hoop-Dance in my practice as a psychotherapist for the past 4 years and want to share my methods with the hooping community . I'll give an overview of Hoop-Dance Therapy, and we'll spend time talking and moving through hoop exercises to expand your awareness and allow for healing in all areas of life.
www.hoop-power.com
Berkeley, CA
BIO:
Kaye is the Founder of Hoop Power, based in Berkeley, CA. A certified Hoop-Dance teacher through HeroHoops, she teaches classes and workshops in schools, summer camps, family camps, after-school programs, community organizations, and teaches weekly adult classes in Berkeley. Kaye is a child and family therapist (LCSW) with 15 years experience, and uses the hoop as a therapeutic tool with her clients. She experiences hoop-dance as a powerful form of mind/body connection, as well as a method of emotional healing through authentic movement with the hoop.
Sandi Rechenmacher
FEEDING YOUR HOOP: EATING FRESH AND WILD FOR FLEXIBILITY AND FLUIDITY.
In an entertaining presentation, Sandi Rechenmacher, nutritionist and Food for Life instructor, offers food for thought regarding optimal dietary considerations for any hooper interested in keeping her/his routine fluid and flexible. Sandi will cover the latest in cutting edge nutrition news, debunk deadly pop culture nutrition myths, and share daily dietary pointers for the flexible and fluid hooper ‚that is you! From this session you will: Understand the best food-energy sources to power your hooping skills, learn how to get the most from your foods, optimizing your nutrient intakes while avoiding empty calories. Glean ways to navigate through a culture of less-than-healthy food options and to plan ahead to meet your specific dietary needs ‚ Most importantly, get smart about eating for disease prevention and quality living All told, your hooping skills will be the proof of your Monster Banana Pudding!
BIO:
Sandi Rechenmacher, NC, HHP, MH received her certification as a Food For Life Instructor from The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, Washington, D.C. and nutrition credentials from the Global College of Natural Medicine. She is a nutritional consultant and holistic health practitioner in the Santa Cruz area and currently writes nutrition notes for the SC Grey Bears. Her passion for nutrition education and whole foods cooking blossomed in the early ‘70s as an owner of a natural foods store in California's Sierra foothills. Recent research has focused Sandi's attention on the science of fats and lipids, especially omega-3 essential fatty acids. "The 'foundational' nature of these special nutrients can't be overlooked in creating a healthy, vibrant lifestyle," she says. You can't help but glean some cutting-edge knowledge of these from her lectures. Sandi especially enjoys creating yummy, seasonal meals out of her backyard organic garden. "There's always a surprise awaiting with each day!"
Shellie White
Meggz Abernathy 
THE HEALTHY HOOPING BODY: In this informative, participatory, and enlightening discussion, students will learn all about how to to properly feed, hydrate, stretch, move, strengthen, loosen, calm, repair, care for and enhance their bodies, minds, and spirits! Shellie White (The Healthy Hooper) and Megz Abernathy (The Hooping Body) are two of the leading pioneers in the industry of hoop, health, and integration of the physical and emotional. Join this dynamic duo for some seriously informative fun and cutting-edge education in the following realms: organic/sustainable food, body strengthening, injury prevention and recovery, body mechanics, spiritual connection, tools for transformation and creating the healthiest hoop practice for your body temple!
Shellie White
The Healthy Hooper
Kindread Flow
www.thehealthyhooper.com
Hawaii
BIO:
Shellie White, founder of The Healthy Hooper, has been in selfless devotion to The Circle since June 22, 2008. This four year dedication of daily practice has led to infinite discoveries, deep self-realizations, and profound insights on life, the universe, spirituality and creative flow. As a practitioner of Massage, Yoga, Qi Gong and Breath Work, Shellie has created a unique hoop technique focused on the cultivation of inner fire, physical strength building, flexibility, spinning, balance, endurance, and empowerment in the form FULL EXPRESSION. Her forte as a teacher is reminding students how to let the hoop lead, allow the force to flow THROUGH you, and sharing her many tips and tools that she has acquired from studying with many Masters & Teachers.
GroovinMeGzz
www.thehoopingbody.com
Portland, OR
BIO:
Megan Abernathy has had a strong passion for nutrition and fitness for many years. In Dec. 2007, she graduated with her Bachelors of Science degree in Foods and Nutrition from Radford University in Radford, VA. After graduation she relocated to Portland, OR and began working as an ACE certified personal trainer, following her dream to inspire others. Now she is currently a NASM Corrective Exercise Specialist and a certified TRX Suspension trainer. She runs group exercise programs incorporating agility, strength, endurance and resistance training. Her specialties include functional fitness, rehabilitation exercises, and fat loss.
Ted Brancu 
CHICKITY-CHECK YOURSELF BEFORE YOU WRECK YOURSELF: Injury Prevention for the Hasty Hooper. Any hooper who's suffered an injury or dealt with nagging pains knows how hard it can be physically, emotionally and psychologically. And if you're a professional, financially. Nobody wants to end up begging for nickels on Larkin Street with a tin cup because of a bum knee that wouldn't take one more night on stage at Ruby Skye. Heal your temple! We'll discuss: * Which moves are putting you at risk for injuries. * Common afflictions like shoulder impingement, hoopers hip and spontaneous volcanic hoopitosis. * The 8 keys to hooping safely. * Understanding unconscious pain avoidance (abstaining from jumps, behind the back moves, talking about your ex, etc) * The new Lunaberry Swirl Coconut Bliss, OMG! * My addiction to sweets. Kidding. Maybe. * The 3 shoulder stretches everyone who uses twins or minis needs to know. * Reducing stress on your joints, muscles, and poor, worried mother. * Why warm-ups are your friend, and Grubby's my friend too. * Why Ted looks so sexy with lip gloss and eyeliner Learn to heal & strengthen your body from the inside out! Appropriate for all levels, ages, and species.
r2rhoops.com
Long Island, NY
BIO:
Ted is a hoop educator, performer, & all around loveable dude in New York. He's also a certified fitness trainer. In 2011, he tried on a new hat as community leader, helping to organize Return to Roots Hoop Gathering - the first major hoop retreat in the northeast. He found that hat fit snugly and matched his shoes perfectly. Ted has been rocking the hoop since January 2007.
Top photo: Kara Krone
