Hoop-Soup!

So I've been waiting to post this until I got a bit better at it, but over the last month I've been obsessively Hula Hooping. This isn't like the Hula hooping you remember doing as a kid. This kind of "hooping" or "hoopdance" is done with a custom made hoop which is much larger and heavier than the kiddie kind, and which makes it possible for almost everyone to quickly get the hang of it, and keep it up. It's more than just standing in one place though, you can have lots of fun moving and swirling with it, dancing, doing tricks and moving the hoop off and around your body.

Maia, the owner of the herb shop "The Apothecary Garden" organized a hooping workshop with the lovely and talented Marlena this past weekend and in preparation for it I made myself a hoop and started to practice. OH MY GOODNESS!!!!! I don't want to sound crazy, but this just might be life-changing for me. It is SO addictive and fun and meditative and stress reducing and not to mention a great full body work out.

The first 2 weeks I was hooping every chance I got, I averaged about 3-4 hours daily and lost about 5 pounds that first week. Then I had a health issue which kept me from hooping about a week and then started back up again last week and I am feeling great again, hooping at least 2 or more hours a day.

I have been enjoying this so much that I decided to start making hoops for sale! and I recently opened an Etsy shop to sell my hoops. www.HoopSoup.etsy.com "Your Recipe for Fun and Fitness!"

The shop is now open (although there is not much there yet, I'm still working on it.) Eventually I will be creating a regular web-page, and I'll be adding to it as I create things. You can order custom hoops in the size and color of your choice and I'm hoping to make and sell hooping garments (Pretty clothes that hug your curves and swirl with you.) I've already sold a few hoops to friends, and have a few custom orders to fill. THANK YOU GUYS!!! so I'm really hopeful that this will be successful, and help me pay back those durn student loans all while having fun too! I'm terribly excited about all this and I hope you will give it try too, and pass my name on if you know someone who would enjoy hooping.

Anyway.. I'll leave you with a few videos and some pics of our day of hooping in the park. The first one is of me at about one week into hooping (hopefully I will work off some of that booty, YIKES!)and the second one is from this past week. (about 4 weeks of hooping) ( I won't subject you to the video's of the first few days.) seriously though it's amazing how fast you can learn this and it's so much fun!!

Enjoy!

Me at week one


Me at week four


Hooping with my chicken LOLA! (I don't think she was amused)



Pics from the Hooping class this past weekend.