what the heck is going on!??

fun interview!!

anah — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 21:14:17 GMT

Hi everybody! First of all isn't this as great peice of art! I wonder what the angels are whispering to her.. maybe " change your ourfit and get a bigger hoop" hee hee! Anyway.. I am slowly getting my feet back in the hoop so to speak and had the opportunity to do a fun interview for a great new website and wanted to share it.. http://thenewmediaartist.com/ hoopiness~ Anah

Finally.. I have some classes to offer!!

anah — Thu, 22 May 2008 19:38:41 GMT

Greetings everyone! Finally the time has arrived! Dust off your hoops and head down for a Hoop Series, Specialty Workshop or Hoop Jam! The New space is HUGE and beautiful(check out the photo)! I have updated the website and classes start in just two weeks(June 4th is the first class) .. Here is the direct link for more info and to sign up: http://hooprevolution.com/classes I am so excited to share some quality hoop time with you all. This summer is going to ROCK!! xo~Anah aka Hoopalicious www. hooprevolution. com (323)369-1494

Dream 5/8/08

anah — Mon, 12 May 2008 03:43:26 GMT

I had a really interesting and powerful dream a couple nights ago... It involved someone I used to work with, which upon splitting paths I allowed myself to hold back conducting any business in their area or really doing anything that could possibly be construed as "copying" her. Of course she never asked me to do this and wasn’t holding back in this same way for me. Consciously I thought that I was doing this out of respect and a desire not to compete. Unconsciously (this dream shows me) I was doing this out of intimidation and feeling like I COULDN'T compare so why try. I am calling her MS Hoop so as to not cause drama. Ok, so here is the dream: I am watching a performance by MS Hoop and it is really powerful (I actually thought of calling her to share the idea because it was so great, but we are not really on the friendliest terms right now so I thought it might come across as weird..). She is on a big stage and there is a contraption that she is drumming on. This Drum machine is capturing her rhythms and looping them so as she stands up to hoop the song keeps playing (cool, huh?!) She has a slim black and white outfit on with pretty chains going across the cutouts in the outfit, and long black nails. She looks smokin! While I am watching her hoop I hear a voice in my right ear saying that she really isn’t that great. The voice is breaking down her bio and negating it in a very matter of fact way. I am kind of arguing with this voice saying, but she has such great energy! The voice goes on and not to say this voice I heard was right in any way, but it had a wonderful balancing effect. I feel that on some alchemical level it was disintegrating the sky-high pedestal I had put her on. In putting her so high I had unwittingly put myself way way down. I am shocked by this and drawn into another part of the dream where I am saying out loud, while the voice cheers me on, "I have something of worth. I am equal to all. I refuse to be intimidated any longer. I will move forward fearlessly. I will fulfill my dreams in anyway I deem is within my own integrity and for the good of all, regardless of where, or if anyone else is doing it!" The dream culminates with another voice saying to me and myself picking it up as a kind of mantra; “I have to work out to wake up, I have to work out to wake up”, While doing sit ups, crunches and push ups. This last part is a direct message to get my body back in order. I have been the most out of shap EVER for the last 6 months or so and it has been really effecting me on many levels. I have been having serious issues with performing. Feeling like I lost my Mojo and its time to do something else. My allergies and related asthma has been out of control lately, and I just feel plain creeky and old.. I'm too young to feel old!! So, I have been asking for guidance with this and yet again, the answer comes in my dreams.. I love it! Apparently I need to attend to my physical fitness, strengthen my self-esteem and be bold! Upon awakening I felt so empowered and free. After this I hooped for a couple hours (the next day) and felt some serious shifting of my energies. I am so Grateful for the continued guidance I receive in Dreamtime! I wanted to share this… well just to share it.. xo~Anah

Purge

anah — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 06:28:04 GMT

How is it that one persons perceptions of the past can be so radically different then anothers? Am I in the wrong here? Or have I fallen prey to a very clever and manipulative deflect artist? Why is it so important to me that people see the truth as I see it? How can I move from here into peace, wholeness and love? How can I TRULY let go of this ugliness? I feel toxic. Filled to the brim with useless and meaningless crap. I want to trust that those that are important to me and my path will know the truth. That I am on the path of my own true destiny.. which is outrageously wonderful! I want to trust in my guidance and follow my heart in all things. What does my heart say to do now? In the name of justice I have gone down the path of trying to prove someone wrong. Even if they are wrong this opens the door to much mental riff raff and drama, SOOO beneath my purpose here on earth. What good can I bring out of this? How can I cleanse this toxicity? How can I clean up my mark in the world? I want to always conduct myself with aplomb and reason. I desire to uplift others. I want to trust that I will attract those with similar ideals and morals into my path and experience, and that I will recognize these qualities both in their presence and absence. I want to trust that I will find a way to gracefully distance myself from those my guidance tells me are not as they seem. I want to feel ok about choosing to love some close and others far. I seek always to find understanding, sometimes at a high cost to my own good. I want to know when to say when and know that a timely retreat is the mark of a true spiritual warrior. My conscience is clear. I know who I am. I know what good I do for people both close to me and far. I trust in my integrity and love for all people. I love my high standards, I want to be at peace in knowing not all people can live up to them, and feel love in my heart for them anyway. I trust in this. I trust in my purpose, my flow and the flow of all in my experience. I am grateful for all experience that paves my lifes path. I KNOW that one way or another, around one bend or down the next hill, the universe ALWAYS conspires for the greatest good of all, mine neither above or below any others. I accept letting go. I accept moving on. I accept the healing power of words on a page. I welcome the healing power of others reading these words even if they may not know the impetus. THANK YOU!

magical dreams

anah — Thu, 31 May 2007 05:43:09 GMT

I had this magical dream a couple of years ago and I realized that it relates directly to some trouble I have been having embracing my femininity.. Duh, right? Well here it is I thought I would share it since it was so vivid and CLEAR as to it's meaning.. At least to me anyway... what do you think? It starts out with myself standing at the bottom of a small mountain. On the mountain (taking up it's side in entirety) is the visage of a terrifying goddess. Her eyes are squeezed shut and a terrible scowl mars her features. Then I notice that there are tribe’s people (ya know, loin clothes, spears, small and tan) striding up and down the mountain thrusting their spear in the face of this 'monster'. I start running to them one by one, begging them to stop before they wake it up. I was TERRIFIED. They don't listen and just kind of ignore me, continuing to stomp and shout and shove their spears in to the face of the mountain. I realize then that they are TRYING to wake it up. All of a sudden a rumbling shudders through the mountain and the eyes start to open and I can hear a roaring. Again, I am TERRIFIED. BUT, as soon as the eyes open, my perspective shifts and all I can see is the face, that is now the most loving and beautiful goddess I have ever seen shining directly at me. Even now years after this dream I am overwhelmed by the powerful love, peace and radiance in that gaze. What I took from this is that the very essence of that which I doubt and am afraid of within myself is in fact the most beautiful and powerful aspect of myself. And the tribe’s people poking and prodding are life's experiences pushing me to wake up.. While I moan and complain in objection and fear, surrender is what I truly need to undertake. In my life I have always wanted to be the soft and supple female archetype. I know I am not that but rather, I am a powerful warrior goddess, all sharp edges and sinew. A fact that has both depressed and exhilarated me in my life.. Where will I find a man that is un-intimidated by the authentic me in all my muscle, brashness and spunk? Yet, if I do find him, won't he be FANTASTIC? Will he see and be equally equipped to handle the paradoxical and infinitely tender core to me that wants to be nurtured and protected despite my tough exterior? The answer is YES, of course.. This dream tells me that it is OK to reveal my love. That there is equal, if not greater power in the full expression of love as well as might. And that no matter how much I kick and protest, life will have its way with me anyway, so why not surrender? The feeling I had when the goddess awoke was of the most profound love I have ever felt and If that's what I can be if I allow it, I say bring it on!! xoxo~Anah

WMC 07 here I come!!

anah — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 19:18:58 GMT

Hi ya'll! I am going to be in Miami performing for the Winter Music Conference(I'll post a schedule when I get it)! If anyone is going and wants to get together to hoop and play e-mail me(I'll be able to get that on my treo lickity split)! I'll be there from the 19th till the 26th... info@hooprevolution.com see ya in the sun!! xo~Hoopalicious

Hoopalicious Updates!

anah — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 21:12:40 GMT

I have the most fantastic three weeks ahead of me! I have a two gigs in the Dominican Republic on the 20th and 21st, then I go to New York for a week with a gig there the next weekend, then I have another gig in the DR on the 28th, then I come home.. hold it not done yet! I am home for a few days, then I go to Hawaii to teach and perform, back for one day then back the New York for another gig to be home on the 9th of November.. <whew>. I love it!! I truly would not choose any other way to live right now! So, below is the notice I sent out regarding my classes and such.. just thought i would share it here as well! Greetings everyone! My apologies that this is so late in coming, my performance schedule has recently hit a new high, which is great, but it means I have had to make some tough decisions regarding my classes. What I have come up with is this; until further notice I will no longer be able to do full 3 week or 6 week series. Why don't I just have someone else teach the class? Because it is not enough for me that I just get people into the room. I want to impart on you the deep and sometimes hidden benefits of hoop dance. I feel the gift I have to share comes from having watched hooping for so long that I have developed a very precise awareness of it. So, until I have the time to fully train someone (which will take time, indeed) in my unique methods of teaching, I feel it would be against my integrity. However, It is important to me that I continue to be a source of accelerated learning for all you lovely hoopers so, I will continue to offer power packed three day intensives and private coaching packages! Intensives: The great benefit of the intensive format is that your body literally has no time to “forget" your newly acquired skills. By repeating any activity for a set period of time you commit it to body memory and have a much deeper understanding in a shorter period of time. The next intensive is next week! Beginning Two. Oct 16th; 7pm-8:30pm, 17th; 7pm-8:30pm and 18th; 8pm-9:30pm Cost: $85 **A word about beginning two; It has come to my attention that the levels that I teach tend to be accelerated in comparison to other hoop teachers, so by most standards Beg. Two is actually an intermediate level class. Private coaching: You are a unique individual and as such, you will have unique strengths and weaknesses. In our private sessions I will be able to tailor the lesson to exactly what YOU need so that you can quickly advance and get the one on one attention you need. If you are wanting to get deep and learn rapidly in a private and beautiful environment, private coaching is for you! Call or e-mail for rates and availability! I will be bringing everything I am learning from hooping around the world to the table in all of our sessions so you may continue to benefit and grow as I do! I look forward to seeing you in the circle! Anah aka Hoopalicious www.hooprevolution.com 323 465 4667

Soulmate, O Soulmate, wherefore art thou Soulmate?

anah — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 19:45:06 GMT

Hello community, I have been looking for my soulmate.. have you seen him? He is looking for me too so it is only a matter of time, I know. I thought I would post this in case any of you run across him you can help him out by pointing him in my direction. He is gregarious, fashionable and artisitic so he definitly sticks out! It is very likely that he has helped you with something or other as he is very generous and compassionate. You may have seen him on an airplane or in an exotic location as he loves to travel. Then again you may have met him through a creative business strategy meeting as he is also ambitious and passionate about his business and mission in life. Perhaps you have seen his more romantic side and been charmed by his chivalrous ways(c'mon he's had to practise on a fair number of lovers to be sure he knocks me off my feet!) on a date? Or maybe you have seen him workin it out on the dance floor (wow, what a great dancer!) or perhaps in performance taking the audience to a transcendent place. Possibly you have practised next to him at yoga class or met him in a spiritual workshop.. he is very committed to his body and spirituality and besides, he is hot, so I know you couldn't keep your eyes off him!. You may have laughed your head off at his hilarious antics.. what a ham! You could have seen him at the tailers getting his pants lengthened(he has such a hard time finding pants the right length as he is over 6 ft) or buying magnums at the 7-11. =?)) Anyway, if you see my mischievious Soulmate please direct him my way. We will both repay you in showers of love and much rejoicing! You see, we have been preparing for eachother for some time and are finally ready! in Love and Gratitude, Anah

thank you everyone!

anah — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 23:19:30 GMT

wow! I am blown away by the incredible amount of support that has been pouring in since I performed on the show "America's Got Talent"! The whole process was fairly trying and stressful (though extremely rewarding), so the fact that everyone is so behind me makes it all worth while. So thank you, I have the best community in the world!! oh yeah, and if you missed the show, someone has put my performance up on youtube, not sure if thats legal or not, but here it is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91mgabWKf14 happy veiwing! Anah