Thank you Shakti for such a thorough recount of the transpirings of HoopCon 2009. I’ve been fearful of starting to write about HoopCon because I have a feeling it might be as long as the novel she has written here.
Brecken. Wow. Brecken. Hands down Brecken takes the cake for repeatedly blowing my mind. Going back through notes of the weekend she appears on virtually every page. My aerial trainer/dance teacher once said; ‘there are no transitions in dance,’ and Brecken’s workshop and dance style both were testament to that statement. Breaking out of traditional horizontal vs. vertical plane structure, Brecken led us through a series of visualizations where the hoop was allowed to move ’sphere-like’ through space like a coin wobbles on the rim. Once the sphere passes through, say a vertical space, we worked to seize that opportunity to pass seamlessly into that movement plane and back. Rather than 2-D flowers and spirals I imagined my hoop carving 3 dimensional spheres in the etheric field. I am looking forward to more of the wealth of information and inspiration Brecken has to offer.
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