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Shakti Sunfire – Elephant Journal

May 19th, 2010
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Have I ever mentioned…. Shakti Sunfire is damn gorgeous and brilliant. If not, I should say it more often. She’s recently started writing for elephant journal and her post today was on, “what is hooping to me?” She’s doing a lot of things at the moment that I’m excited to see come to fruition. One of the statements in her post today that struck me most was her assessment of the process that many of us experience as we’re sucked into the hoop.

The pattern at-a-glance is this: discovery > unbridled joy > attention and affirmation of others (input) > community building via proliferation and sharing (output) > radical self-acceptance (centering) > inspiration > growth > input > output > growth > input > output > growth…and it spirals upward and onward…

More from Shati Sunfire on Elephant Journal: here

Vesica Sister at the Rothbury Festival

Jul 13th, 2009
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Shakti and Luna pull out all the stops for this performance at the Rothbury Festival. They even incorporated some of the Native American Hoop Dance techniques shared with us at Hoop Convergence by Alley’Oop. This is one of the most original hoop performances I’ve seen.

Founding members of the Kaivalya Hoop Dancers, Shakti Sunfire and Luna Breeze, sisters by birth, return to Rothbury 2009 to awe and amaze inside the circle. Synchronizing multiple hoop acts with contact improv, modern dance, sacred geometrical shapes, and statue-like stillness, Vesica Sister seeks to weave story, myth and ceremony into their feminine duet. Look for them in the depths of the Sherwood forest and beyond.

Check out Shakti’s Blog on her experience at Rothbury here. She writes:

The goal? To push beyond familiar territory. To wipe the word ‘ambiant’ from our contract. To step it up like we never have before. Vesica’s debut added an electric undercurrent to the tingling expanse of uncharted water. In that way we as individual participants matched and contributed to the artistic infrastructure that is Rothbury.

Vesica Sister: Myspace

I’m going to try and recap some of the many memorable moments at Movement Play tonight. We had such a great time really settled into the space, playing for four full days. More on that soon…

Rich at FireDrums

Jun 11th, 2009
by rich.
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Thank you Ken for posting this. This is the only clip I’ve seen of me spinning the double mini’s at FireDrums this year. Unfortunately the camera is 90 degrees off of where I was performing to. These double mini firehoops are available through Cosmic Fire.