About Us

DC Hoop Collective started on the ride back to Washington, DC from Hoop Path 3. Shanna, Noelle, and Jaguar Mary (me) were blissed out from all the high energy hoop antics and lessons and friends and well, everything. We started talking about how to enliven and unite hoopers, poi spinners, and other object manipulators (also known as "flow artists") in the DC area. That was the initial idea; to bring us together to share information about each others' classes and events. Somebody said that maybe we could all sell our hoop designs from a collective site. It was all good and the ideas kept bubbling up. The Hoop Path experience got our creative juices flowing BIG TIME.

When we got home it was almost business as usual except, not. I really wanted to push on with the idea of creating a community website. I'd been talking to my friend and fellow hooper, Noelle about hooping and spirituality. We were making the connection between personal happiness and hoop dance. When we hoop we feel better physically and emotionally. When we hoop, there isn't anything else to think about except what we are doing (which is a surprisingly simple activity). We're moving a tubular piece of plastic around our bodies, throwing it, catching it, jumping through it. Hooping for us is play, dance, and meditation all rolled into one joy-inducing activity. And just like when I sit and meditate, hooping opens up my mind. As corny and old school as it sounds, hooping is MIND BLOWING.

Which brings me to why I created this website. Many of us (poi and staff spinners, hoop dancers, and other flow artists) believe that playful activity brings JOY and that joy spills out into ones' life on the day-to-day. In short, we're all about inviting people to create their own flow, their own joy. This site specifically focuses on toys for joy but all players (this means YOU) are welcome to join the discussion. Look to this site for tutorials and updates on happenings locally, nationally, and internationally. We'll also have profiles of DCHC members as well as articles on health, dance, and spirituality. We'll be using the website to launch our big ideas about worldwide joy activation and to offer you ways to get involved.

We're in an exciting time in human history where we're seeing the melding of intelligences from diverse sectors.

Science and Spirituality(((((((meld))))))

Family and Tribe(((((meld)))))

Ancient and Contemporary((((((meld)))))

The spin is what we're in.

Flow is the new Change.

With my deepest love and respect,

Jaguar Mary