Intensive hooping weekend 

with Baxter of the Hoop Path!

Friday July 3^rd 6:30-9:30 pm

Saturday July 4^th 1-4 pm

Sunday July 5^th 1-4 pm

Cost:

9 hours (Friday, Saturday, and Sunday) 160 US, ~ 190 Canadian

or 6 hours (Friday and Saturday) 120 US, ~140 Canadian

Location:

OIP Studio, 190 Richmond Street at Jarvis

In downtown Toronto, a 7 minute walk from Queen Subway Station.

Class description:

The HoopPath workshop series is designed to help hoopers of all levels strengthen fundamentals and deepen their practice with the hoop, whether it be performance, fitness, or personal meditation. Ours is the only hoop curriculum with an exhaustive lexicon of terms that make both logical and poetic sense. In our introductory shops we guide hoopers through extended core exercises that improve balance, rhythm, feel, and full-body movement with the hoop. We will practice all techniques in both Currents (directions), extending the movement vocabulary and confidence of beginning and experienced hoopers alike.

20 people max! Register now!

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We will have community gatherings on that weekend – potluck and jams and fire oh my!

Let me know if you are coming from out of town and want a couch to crash on, or if you’re in town and can offer a couch.

What is this?

Intensive weekend with the HoopPath! This is for hoopers of all levels, who hoop for all reasons (performance, fitness, or meditation). This is not a teacher training. The intensive weekend is great for bumping up your skill quickly, deepening your personal practice, or climbing out of a (hooping or emotional) rut. You will be shocked with how much you can learn, grow, and laugh in one weekend!

Jonathan Baxter (video) of the HoopPath. If you’ve seen hoopers switching directions fast (including myself), they’ve probably studied with Baxter. HoopPath technique goes from fast, furious, and powerful breaks, to slow, graceful, meditative contact hooping. Their music selection crosses all genres.

What will it be like?

Baxter knows how to do multi-level right. HoopPath workshops attract everyone from beginners to teachers to retired pros. It’s about guiding each hooper along their path, not competing or compromising. There will be lots of laughing and flying hoops! For beginners, it will be about feeling the basic technique. For advanced, it will be about pushing your limits.  Much of the time is blindfolded, great for focusing on sensations to improve skill, meditating on life, love, and all the rest, and decreasing competition (with others or self!).

Testimonials

Last year 5 of us road tripped from Toronto to North Carolina to attend the annual HoopPath retreat. The experience was transformative for me; I experienced it as guided moving meditation. Baxter helped me feel comfortable in the hoop, dancing and feeling and grooving, instead of juggling. In the classes, I had a beginner on my right and a super-star pro on my left, all three present, progressing, and learning together. Hoopers are wonderful people and I am thankful to be surrounded by them

From Mo:

i went to the hoop path retreat last year and it was incredible. it was so fun to have that many hours of hooping shared with the group. the energy was stellar.

bax has a very chill approach to hooping. he has a lot of creative range of motion that he touches on. there was a different theme each day: yesterday, today, tomorrow. each day we focused on a different type of hooping, from fast aerobic stuff to really slow meditative stuff. we do a lot of hooping blind which is great! i was sceptical at first but now i hoop blind all the time.

his philosophy is not about what tricks you can do or how long you've been hooping. it's all about how you FEEL in the hoop. i find it very refreshing.

this is all about your personal hoop journey. getting 9 hours of SOLID hooping in over a weekend is incredible! i felt like a completely different hooper by the end of it.

i will definitely be there and i'm unemployed. worth every penny : )

if you have ever felt like you have been in a hooping rut this is the weekend for you! i promise amazing energy. there's a great toronto hooping community! we love to play ♥

From Cindy:

Attending a Hooppath workshop lead by Bax is an amazing experience. He leads you through a journey of self discovery, new ways to express and move your body with a smile, he makes you giggle at yourself and with others in the class. By learning to hoop blindfolded you are faced with challenging yourself to depths you were afraid to get to alone. I've learned a lot about myself during the weekend and toned my bum and legs at the same time! His workshops are not to be missed!

From Alison: