Whip on your hottest neon colors and come and hang out with us in the super chic Le Baron the Friday night, June 26th for the Neon Nation party.
I will be amping up the glow around midnight!! Would love to see you and give you a big hoop hug!
There is a whole lot of excitement surrounding the evolution of Spin Matsuri. Today tickets go on sale, so a new adventure begins!
Purchasing Tickets
Tickets to Spin Matsuri are currently available for purchase.
Please contact Spin Matsuri via email spinmatsuri@gmail if you wish to purchase tickets.
Your email should include:
Single, Double or Group in the Subject.
If group, the No. of tickets you wish to purchase.
Name(s) of all the participants.
How you would like to purchase the tickets – PayPal or Bank Transfer
If you select the PayPal option please include the email account you would like the PayPal invoice to be sent to.
Upon receiving your mail we will send you payment details (either a PayPal invoice or furikomi instructions) and a questionnaire. Please pay promptly as tickets are limited to 34 people and will be assigned and confirmed in the order payments are received.
Exuberant, articulate and always an inspiration, Christabel AKA Hoop Girl has released her latest book – Hooping A Revolutionary Fitness Program. Written in partnership with Ariane Conrad, the book Hooping includes 50 original hoop moves and a 50 minute DVD. Hoopers from all around the world (including ME yay! – thanks Christabel) are featured offering their thoughts about hooping.
My copy is in the mail and I am waiting for it with excitement. Buy yours now on the Hoop Girl site or on Amazon.
Check out the two parts of an interview Christabel recently did on SF radio K-FOG.
Wanted to share with you a beautiful moment of peace and surrender that came over me during a very special Nia Workshop, here in Tokyo yesterday.
I was very blessed to have the opportunity to attend a one off Nia workshop by Toronto based Nia trainer, Roberta Mohler. Held in a small studio at the Yoyogi Olympic Center, the class of 15 members (plus Tokyo based instructors Yuki and Su) was warm and welcoming as I turned up just in time for the warm up (9:30am is early for me) Roberta lead us through the gentle and yet stimulating Nia warm up. With very little verbal direction but full and complete physical guidance, Roberta kicked us into full Nia action.
Bodies started to move and groove to the carefully selected tracks, sweat started to drip, muscles started to warm and elongate and heart rates rose. Moving through various forms inspired by martial arts, capoeira, tai chi, salsa and other playful dances, verbal expressions and sounds indicated the level of joy and gratitude in the room.
Nia had been on my radar for so long, I had heard so many positive rants about it and researched it’s technique but could never sync up my schedule until returning from Australia earlier this year and finding Tokyo based teacher Yuki. I wonder why I had waited so long to connect to the Nia power. Spooky, as I look down at my very worn key board there are three letters that have completely worn off the white keys N I A , ha ha.
About 15 minutes into the guided class yesterday I started to feel my physical body release, I mean really release, muscle tension I had been holding, rigidity I had embraced and troubling thought patterns left my bubble. It was then that my mind started to drift, into the beat, out of my body and latched onto floating dreams and sparkling thoughts. The only way that I know how to describe it is it was as if I was consciously and yet without force or structure connected to source, my higher self and true spirit. A feeling of pure bliss. I was aware of my surrounded and kept my physical place int he class, yet I was not there in that space. My movements became light, like floating, my physical form connected to the sounds, beats and energy around me and a great realisation came into my awareness.
I have consciously and subconsciously been dealing with some “stuff” recently relating to the questioning of my values, worth, abilities and quality. Comparisons have been made and walls have been built. In that moment yesterday, that Nia moment, clarity was at an all time high.
Freedom. Uncontrolled, free flowing, body loving movement, a chance to open up, to let go, to release rules, structure, form and closed thinking. That is what hoop dance is for me. That is why hoop lovers was created and they are the values that weave through all classes and workshops held by hoop lovers. My belief in open expression, connecting to true self, higher self and our bodies natural flow is a positive pattern of thought that has allowed me to transform and help others to do so.
It was in that moment that I saw my full purpose more clearly than ever before. As a receiver of such beautiful guidance I feel the need to share the joy of moving freely in life, dance and play. As I attract positive, playful and spirited beings into my life I am reminded time and time again of the joyful power of releasing form. This is my way, a way I want to share with others, those others who are wanting to step outside of boxed in structure and thoughts. It is time to play, more than ever before. It is time to connect, give and receive.
My gratitude for yesterday’s class, Nia, Roberta, the music (it was actually Ben Harper’s – You Look Like Gold that was playing during the powerful experience) and all of the other beautiful dancers in the studio yesterday, is intense. A very special Nia and me moment!
(from the Hoop Lovers June newsletter)
Hi amazing Hoop Lovers! Thank you so much to you all for your feedback, questions and support. It always helps when constructing the monthly schedules and working to provide hoop dance and movement workshops in Tokyo that cater to a diverse group of creative and hard working individuals! Thank you!
This month is a really busy one, in all the right ways. Join me in a personal challenge to increase balance, flexibility and range of movement. Do you know the best way to do all of that? Move more!! It is as simple as that. So let’s do it together, it’s fun and does wonders physically and mentally! Our bodies are so amazing and capable of such rapid change and healing, when we give them the right signals. Let’s move it!
Class：Dance! Move! Play! Workshop
SIZZLING SEQUENCES (Beginner’s to Intermediate)
Place：Claska (Meguro)
When：13th
Time：2~5 PM
Instructor：Deanne
Price: ¥4000 members ¥5000 non-members (includes 3 hours of instruction and refreshments)
**SPECIAL Dance! Move! Play! price come to both Dance! Move! Play! workshops in the month of June and pay only ¥7000 (available to members and non-members)
This class will begin with a moving hoop meditation focusing on strength, balance and finding your beat in time with the hoop. This practice can be used daily for improved balance, strength and timing. This lead session can easily be taken away for your personal practice.
After finding our hoop center we will work through a series of sequences, bringing focus to dance, play and smooth transitions. Then it is your turn to connect some hoop dots and work on your own hoop sequences with guidance and support to extend, create and move more. You will leave this Dance! Move! Play! workshop feeling more confident, alive and in control of your hoop dance!
This is a 3 hour workshop and will include snacks and break time.
Class：Beginner’s Hoop Dance Class
Place：Claska (Meguro)
When：14th
Time：2~4 PM
Instructor：Deanne
Price: ¥4000 non-members ¥3000 members
The 2 hour workshop is designed to provide you with the skills and tricks you need to Hoop Dance for fun and fitness.
The HOOPLOVERS Beginner’s workshop will explore a variety of Hoop Dance skills, tricks and moves that you can take away and enjoy. Beginner’s Hoop Dance workshops include a warm up, hoop conditioning, turns, skills and drills, hoop circle and warm down, each day. In addition to the basics you will also be supported to explore your natural hoop dance style.
No previous experience necessary.
Class：Dance! Move! Play! Workshop
Poi with Togo
Place：Claska (Meguro)
When：20th
Time：2~5 PM
Instructor：Deanne & Togo
Price: ¥4000 members ¥5000 non-members (includes 3 hours of instruction, practice poi and refreshments)
**SPECIAL Dance! Move! Play! price come to both Dance! Move! Play! workshops in the month of June and pay only ¥7000 (available to members and non-members)
A very special collaborative event has been created to support the cross pollination of these two beautiful flow arts – Poi and Hooping.
You will make your own practice poi (included in price) and learn basic flow techniques and foot work from one of Japan’s most outstanding poi performers, Togo.
This workshop is open to hoop and poi dancers as well as beginners in either or both arts.
What is Poi?
“Poi is a performance art employing a ball or balls suspended from a length of flexible material held in the hand and swung in circular patterns. Poi originates from the traditional performing arts of the Māori people of New Zealand.”
The physical and mental benefits of spinning poi according to Temple of Poi.
Who is Togo?
Togo, one of three members of the Japanese spin team POISM, is a fluid, experienced and powerful poi dancer. Often found practicing for hours on end or alongside his performance partner Yuta, Togo is a humble master of the art of poi.
Watch POISM in action at the Singapore Art Festival BORNFIRE
How do Hooping and Poi blend together?
Here’s how…
Cari of Hoop-Active shows the jaw dropping flow that is created by combining poi moves with hoop action.
Class：Beginner’s & Beyond Hoop Dance Class
Place：Claska (Meguro)
When：21th
Time：2~4 PM
Instructor：Deanne
Price: ¥4000 non-members ¥3000 members
Over the course of 2 hours you will learn not only how to keep your hoop spinning while you move and groove but you will also be supported to master fluid and mesmerizing on and off body moves.
Class：HOOP LOVE Dance Class
Place：Claska(Meguro)
When：28th
Time：2~4 PM
Instructor：Deanne
Price: ¥4000 non-members ¥3000 members
These classes are designed to take your Hoop Dance to the next level. During Hoop Love classes you will be encouraged to explore your natural dance style. Enhancing body awareness and hoop control these classes will focus on dance transitions, dance sequences and fluid movement.
The intention of Hoop Love classes is to guide you towards embracing your inner dancer, allowing you to develop your personal style.
Hoop Love classes explore breaks, isolations, multi-level hooping, jumps, turns, angle hooping, reversals, stalling and more! During Hoop Love classes you will also have the opportunity to work on a range of tricks that suit your personal style.]
BIVIO Disco Hoop Dance
Every Tuesday 9:15pm -10pm
Every Sunday 5:35pm – 6:35pm
BIVIO Natural fitness center (ladies only) offer very reasonable day pass prices. Come to the center and enjoy a hoop dance class as well as full use of the machines and perhaps a hot yoga class, Zumba or any of the other amazing classes on the full schedule!
Please contact me for Friends & Family passes available to HOOPLOVERS members – unlimited day passes until August 31 for only ¥1500 per visit (regular price ¥5250)
CIRCLE Spin Jams (twice a week)
●Place：Inokashira Park (Kichijoji Tokyo)
When：8th,15th,22nd and 29th.
Time：6PM~
Class：CIRCLE
Price: FREE!!!!
●Place：Yoyogi Park
When：3rd,10th,17th and 24th.
Time：6PM~
Class：CIRCLE
Price: FREE!!!!
I really do have the best job in the world! Today I had the pleasure of going to one of the most colorful, cheerful, well organized and play filled kid’s parties. What was most exciting was that I got to play with everyone.
There is nothing quite like the look on kid’s faces when they spot me with my big bundle of sparkling hoops, I get to watch eyes light up all over the city; going up escalators, on the train, on the street – they all stare in wide eyed wonder and I can see exactly what their brains are imagining. Spinning, whirling, free flowing, colorful fun! Hula hooping!
So you can imagine the level of giddy giggling and excitement I am greeted with when I bring my big bundle of sparkling hula hoops to a kids party. Woah! I love it so much because the way that children express themselves with squeals, eagerness and almost a greed to play is exactly how I feel inside when it comes to hoops, movement and a joy filled life. I also love how kids instinctively understand how important play and dance is! A beautiful reminder to us all.
The kids today were absolute mega stars inside the hoop! I love hearing, “LOOK AT ME!!!!!”
Sadly I don’t have any photos of today’s party in the park but coincidentally hooping.org’s video of the day is a gorgeous story about the Trinity Children’s Center in Burlington, Vermont, who are having a hooping extravaganza. A great report that shows how powerful the magic of the hoop and movement, when introduced to the center, helped to build community, raise the joy levels, allow the children to express themselves and benefit in so many ways.
Hi Hoop Lovers!
The June Hoop Dance Classes schedule has been updated adding three new classes for this month.
As the weather is warming up there will be two CIRCLE spin jams every week for the month of June. More information on location and the events will be available soon (as soon as I figure out Google Earth)! Tomorrow evening from 6pm I will be in Yoyogi Park for a CIRCLE Spin Jam. If the weather is great come on out, bring your friends and your toys!
Please not that the BIVIO classes are for ladies only, sorry fellas 
Bivio is a women’s natural fitness center!
You might notice that there are two Dance! Move! Play! workshops scheduled for this month. The details are being finalised VERY soon, some very special guests will be coming to play so keep a look out for the updates this week and get your reservations in early as these events fill up very quickly!
Looking forward to getting into the spin with you soon!
If you have suggestions or requests please get in touch hooplovers@gmail.com
Hoop Love,
Deanne
xx
More hoop love coming soon….
If you haven’t checked out Pecha Kucha in Tokyo or any of the other 199 cities it has spread to then you simply MUST! A hot bed of creativity, innovation and fast paced delivery; presenter get 20 slides each with a time limit of 20 seconds to present their idea to the hungry audience.
I was lucky enough to be invited along to present at the May 2009 edition of Pecha Kucha Tokyo.
Thanks to Jean Snow for the write up on Pecha Kucha Daily.
Arriving to a completely packed Super Deluxe was exhilerating, whipping up some hoop action after my presentation in the little space the crowd left me in the corner was an exciting challenge!
Always an exciting adventure. Pecha Kucha is a monthly event here in Tokyo held at Super Deluxe in Roppongi. The next night will be #63 on June 24. Get there early to grab a front row seat, you don’t want to miss the action!
The June schedule is up and filled with a wide variety of movement activities to keep our bodies busy this month!
This month’s schedule is designed to bring joyful, powerful and playful events to the Hoop Dance community here in Tokyo. Find a combination that is right for you, your body and your schedule.
There will be CIRCLE spin jams two times a week (unless the rain continues!) in Yoyogi Park and Inokashira Koen. Open to hoopers and spin dancers of all levels these jams are a great (and FREE!) way of connecting with other dancers, learning new moves, enjoying the outdoors and gettting a great workout. Watch for location updates and wet weather plans on the Hoop Lovers Blog.
Not all classes on the June schedule with be lead by me but many of the other classes are held at Bivio Natural Fitness in Ebisu. Please contact Bivio to find out about their full schedule and Hooplovers members discounts. Very reasonable day passes are available giving you full access to the stunning center.
More details on the June Dance! Move! Play! workshops coming soon! Exciting!!
Do you ever have those days when you just feel like things are getting away from you? Days when time seems some how much faster? Times when it just feels like you have so much to do and it is truly never going to get done?
Yep, me too! Today is one of those days. You know what the beauty of that rushed, exhilerating feeling is? Knowing that we will never, ever get it all done.
When I go through moments like today’s feeling I have such gratitude pulsing through me when I stop and feel, really feel, how full and exciting life is. I feel true peace with where I am right now even as I look at the 15 or so tabs I have opened on firefox, each containing a job/adventure I need to complete. I am happy in the knowing that each of those ‘tabs’ offer a journey, big journeys. As I gaze up at them I see words like dance, spin, welcome, ecstatic, add, links. So many journeys to be grateful for.
Yuta the poi master turns into a Hoop Goddess @ CIRCLE
Living such a bliss filled life means connecting with some of the world’s most creative and positive people. The CIRCLE Dance! Move! Play! Gatherings have been a wonderful experiment in attraction. It has been interesting to watch the connections being made and the beings who find themselves attending. I have made some lovely friends and am excited to continue CIRCLE in an outdoor setting for the month of June so we can play with connection to Mother Earth.
A quick explosion of gratitude before I head off to whip up a yummy salad for Masao and I.
- I am grateful that I have beautiful women in my life who offer their guidance and help, I feel intense gratitude when I see how much they support and share with me. I love being able to share life with them and support them in many ways.
- I love our gorgeous apartment. I feel so appreciative that we have such an open and light filled space in Tokyo that easily houses all of our hoops, toys, comforts, office and Tokyo Made stock.
- I feel so lucky to be part of a rapidly evolving community in Tokyo. It is exhilerating to watch as body consciousness grows within the group.
- I am so excited and extend intense gratitude to the huge adventures in the near future. I am so lucky to be a part of global gatherings like Spin Matsuri.
- I am excited for the workshops coming up in June. I am so blessed to be collaborating with such talented teachers to share movement with the Tokyo community. I am excited to share new hoop dance moves with the hoop lovers and introduce them to new forms of spatial awareness via other movement forms.
- I am excited and grateful for creative and lucrative performance opportunities that I have recently been offered. I look forward to working on these projects with other hoop dancers in Tokyo. I feel a rush of abundance when I think about the offers I have been made, the groups I will be working with, the venues in which we will perform and the sponsors of these events. WoW!
Thank you!
Hoop love,
d
xx
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ABOUT 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!) -
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ABOUT DEANNE
Tokyo-based hooper Deanne fell in love with the art of Hoop Dance many moons ago and has not spent a day without her hoops since.
Early in 2008 she took her hoops on a magical journey down under to meet with mentor and hoop idol Bunny Hoop Star. Together in Sydney they shared the Hoop Love, Bunny imparted her wealth of circus hoop and hoop dance knowledge culminating the teacher training with a divine LED and Fire Hoop jam on the shores of Bondi Beach. Deanne soaked up all the hoop juju and returned to Tokyo to share the love and passion for hoop dance with the movers and groovers of the illuminated city.
Now a qualified Hoop Dance instructor Deanne can be seen lighting up dance floors in Tokyo clubs with her LED hoop light shows. When she is not burning up the dance floor she can be spotted sharing the tricks of the hoop trade in parks and dance studios across Tokyo, teaching young hoopers in after school clubs and helping new hoopers explore their limitless bodies and get their groove on.
Deanne recently returned from California where she spent two weeks hooping, connecting, dancing and sharing with other hoopers from around the world at Hoop Camp and Harbin Hoop Jam. Filled with new hoop passion and inspiration Deanne continues to connect the Tokyo hoop scene with the global hoop community.
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