HOOP DANCE
HOOPDANCE
What are the benefits of Hoop Dance?
The benefits of the art of Hoop Dance are endless. With each practice, performance or back yard session you will explore more deeply the advantages of bringing hoops and hooping into your life. The following are just a few of the superb rewards you will gain from becoming a hooper.
* A complete work out for the mind, body and soul
* Stimulates self-confidence and sensual awareness
* Arouses consciousness in all areas of the body
* Tones and sculpts the body
* Promotes play and childlike, spirited celebration
* A fun and energetic cardiovascular work out
* Improves flexibility and endurance
* Strengthens and tones abdominal muscles
* Calming, relaxing and stress relieving
* Mind altering fun!
* Enhances coordination and balance
* Activates speedy weight loss
* Boosts creativity and self-expression
* Intensifies energy levels and vitality
* Creates communities
* Stimulates laughter and joy
HOOPLOVERS Hoop Dance classes have it all!
Want to add some sensual style to your daily life?
Need to tone up those abs, tighten those buns and burn off extra calories?
Looking for a way to express yourself with super funkiness that challenges your mind and body?
Looking for something new to relieve stress and invoke joy and laughter?
Want to rock a hoop with your own powerful style?
Thinking you need to add a new party trick to your already outstanding repertoire?
Searching for interesting, positive people to mingle with?
HOOPLOVERS Hoop Dance classes are a creative collage of fitness, self-expression, laughter and dance. Our Hoop Dance classes are designed to nurture and challenge all fitness and skill levels. Classes offer something for everyone.
Discover and embrace the dancer and child within. Meet new hoopers. Nurture your greatness. Challenge your body and mind. Have a rockin' time doing it!
CONTACT hooplovers@gmail.com
HOOPLOVERS
HOOPLOVERS
Hoop Lovers was created out of a love for a life filled with joy, strength and passion. Inspired by hoopers worldwide and individuals in search of greater awareness and body consciousness, Hoop Lovers provides the inspiration to move more, laugh longer and love the life that you live.
Hoop Lovers is a hoop dance community that offers hoop dance classes, interactive entertainment, hoop performances, hoops and dance accessories. Hoop Lovers is a space in which we share life experiences, celebration of spirit, hoop dance resources and dance like the Universe is watching (because it totally is and loves every funky move we make!)
BIO
BIO
Deanne, a qualified hoop dance instructor and elementary school teacher, is passionate about bringing the art of hoop dance to the diverse international scene in Tokyo. Her desire to connect people through dance, music and fun fueled the creation of Hoop Lovers www.hooplovers.com. Deanne's mission is to inspire global beings to find their true potential through movement and self-expression via the all encompassing benefits of hoop dance.
Deanne currently teaches weekly Hoop Dance classes in Tokyo, including active and creative lessons for adults and children. She has taught in schools and dance studios both in Australia and Japan and brings her passion for international education and life long learning to every class she is engaged in. Deanne regularly performs Hoop Dance shows for corporate and private parties as well as kid's events and a variety of celebrations. She has traveled the world sharing her individual style of hoop love and performed on stages in Sydney, Thailand and Tokyo.
Japanese Hoop Dancer MIKORI has recently returned from the Hoop Dance mecca San Francisco. As a model in San Francisco and New York MIKORI found that regular hoop dance sessions kept her in shape physically and brought peace to her busy life. Taking Hoop Girl classes with hoop performer, instructor and costume designer Annie, MIKORI developed a smooth and sexy hoop dance style. MIKORI has returned to Japan to share her unique style of hoop dance with the international hooping community.
FAQ
FAQ
What is Hoop Dance?
- Hoop dance is an expressive form of dance using an adult size hoop. It is a powerful way to get in touch with your own beat, your playful spirit and your core. Hoop dance is a mood altering, body shaping, action packed way to move and groove.
I cannot hoop can I still come to a class?
- Of course! Many people tell me that they cannot hoop but once I pass on a few little tips they are spinning all around the room/park with a huge smile on their face. The beginner classes are an ideal way to gain hooping confidence as well as explore your body and it's capabilities. It will surprise you!
I have tried to hoop with kids hoops and I am not good at it, what am I doing wrong?
- When you were a child your body was smaller and so were your hoops, now that you are all grown up you need a bigger, grown up size hoop. In the Hoop Lovers classes we use hoops with a diameter of 95 - 105 cm. You will feel the difference straight away.
Can I come to a Beginner's Hoop Dance class more than once?
- Yes, of course you can. In fact it is a really great way to form a solid foundation for your hoop dancing. During a Beginner's class we work through a series of moves, tricks and styles, some of which you will possibly not master in one class alone. Each time you come to a Beginner's class we will build on what you have already learned to have you moving and grooving fluidly through the range of tricks and dance steps.
I have a kids hoop at home should I bring it along to class?
- HOOPLOVERS classes provide you with hoops to use during class. They are adult sized hoops and make Hoop Dance and other circus style tricks much easier to tackle.
- If you would like to purchase your own HOOPLOVERS Dance Hoop be sure to check out our shop (coming soon).
What should I wear to class?
- Get ready to sweat and burn off those calories! You will need to wear something that is comfortable but will not get caught up in the hoop. Body hugging cotton is great! Something sleeveless is ideal for shoulder hooping.
What can I expect from a HOOPLOVERS Hoop Dance class?
- You can expect to have intense amounts of fun, work muscles you may not have worked in a long time and have a fabulous laugh! Of course you are going to get back what you give, so coming to class with a positive approach and an open attitude is going to allow your body to do wondrous things.
- During class we will explore body awareness, spend some time conditioning your body through a hoop style work out, work on hoop tricks, moves and combinations that will have you tearing up the dance floor, living room space or park in true hoop star style!
MEDIA
MEDIA
On the cover of Being A Broad, Japan 2009.8
Spinshell.TV Hula hoop dance classes
I Want To Be... A Hoop Dance Teacher! - iCiNG - galadarling.com
Interview in Deja Vu International Magazine.
Body and Soul in Metropolis Magazine
Written by Melissa Feineman (Thank you!)
Being A Broad
Featured on Funk Builders Blog
hooping.org Save the Rave Hoop Up in Shinjuku
hooping.org Light Up
Velours Hoop Up on Hooping.org
Hoopaholic of the Month
HOOPLOVERS in The Weekender Japan
My first pink hoop is now a cover girl!
Hooping makes an impression on the Japan Today readers.
