Teacher Bios
Jahsah is a multi-faceted transformational healer. He has been sharing his gifts internationally to support people in their awakening process for over 10 years. His Alchemical experiences and training fuses a wide spectrum of Sound Healing, Massage/AquaSsage, Energy Modalities, Crystals, Essential Oils, Conscious Music, Creating Sacred Spaces and Ceremonial Facilitation/Consultations.
Jahsah Sunbird Transformative Sound
Jocelyn was called to the dance a long time ago. A student of massage and movement from the age of five, she continues to be inspired by the expansive creativity of the healing arts. She uses her natural gifts and integrative training to help clients/students deepen their awareness, connect to joy, and shift from inhibited expression to authentic movement. Jocelyn is a wife, a mother, a mentor, an artist and creator of Bhakti Boogie™ - a practice integrating yoga, dance, devotion and intention. You can find her sharing love and movement internationally as a teacher trainer for Hoopnotica and for her company, LoveMovement Healing Arts
Learn more about Jocelyn at
www.lovemovementhealingarts.com & www.hoopdancedc.com
"It takes a special teacher + energy to facilitate typically inhibited people into an uninhibited, fearless space to explore themselves - inside + out." Natasha Hennessey - Owner & Creative Director of Pure Prana Yoga Studio
Check out Jocelyn's informative and fun tutorial on waist-hooping and digestive health here.
Jocelyn Gordon Hoop Dance Yoga-Bhakti Boogie
KaRa Maria is the founder of Mandala Hoops and has been facilitating HoopDance and HoopYoga workshops and events for 7 years. She has over 13 years of experience in the healing art fields of massage therapy, craniosacral therapy, cranio-H2O, vibrational healing, conscious birthing, ecstatic dance, leading sacred circles, herbalism, living/whole foods, and movement arts. KaRa is facilitator of playful and intelligent hoop circles on the Healing Art of HoopDance, HoopYoga, Sacred Geometry of Hooping, and the Sacred Alchemy of the Hoop.
"KaRa is like the spiritual hooping philosopher who is able to bridge the symbolic gap between cutting edge physics and the inner experience of hoop dance."
- Hoop Student 2009
Learn more about KaRa Maria at
Read KaRa's article on Core Hooping for Lymphatic Massage here.
KaRa Maria Mandala Hoops
Kandice Korves-Kaus is the founder of Holistic Hooping™, and the co-creator/author of 1the book “Holistic Hoopology” to be released Summer of 2010. Combining a lifetime of dance training and experience with her Bachelors in Psychology, previous work as a CMT, current studies of Nassim Haramein’s Unified Field Theory and her career in hoop and fire hoopdance instructing and performing- she cultivates a philosophy/theory/modality that integrates hoopdance with elements of psychology, metaphysics, and spirituality.
For the past 9 years, she has performed and taught internationally, nationally and locally in Northern California, where she currently resides with her husband and partner Andrew Kaus. She performed with her troupe, Liquid Fire Mantra, at the Bali Spirit Festival in 2008. And this year, she returns to Bali to facilitate the Fire Hoop Alchemy workshops at the Sacred Circularities Hoopdance Retreat. The famous Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health will be hosting her Holistic Hooping Retreat July 16-18, later this year.
It is her mission to share the hoop’s holistic healing potential, and spread the love of the hoop worldwide.
Find out more about Kandice at
