A Positive Rant about Hoop Dance Flow : 5 tips to help you access "IT"

[@ChristinaS24]

We are so lucky to have you in the hoop world. I really mean that. Thank you for all the wisdom and inspiration you share with us so often.

[@buterflyza]

Aloha Deanne! I started Hoopdance in June! You have been a great part of my hooping journey! I’m hoop crazy now🤪❤️ I turned 50 in August so this is my new chapter!

[@kathrynburgess6558]

I'm 55 and just starting. I'm very slow at picking it up, but I get totally lost in moving with my hoop and find myself laughing out loud. I LOVE HOOPING 💖

[@lianapilar224]

Accessing the flow state has been the closest experience to sleeping that I’ve found (that isn’t actually sleeping) that moment when you stop is literally a “wake up” and “snap” back into reality! It’s almost an out of body experience sometimes! The part of my brain that controls all the thoughts and anxiety quiets

[@Meeeeeeeeeeeeh34]

Hoop dance flow to me is when I get lost in the moment, nothing else matters. Flowing from trick to trick and trying new tricks ( and not caring if I get them wrong and hit myself in the face ).

[@DeanneLove]

Ouch but YES! Just keep moving! Love it

[@ogashcheeksdubvee1315]

I constantly smack myself in the face arm leg ankle haha and i laugh and try again

[@mindymelindy]

To me, when I find my flow I feel freedom. Like I was a caged bird and I'm being set free. Some days I get frustrated and try to focus on the tricks but when I just lose myself into the hoop and just let it all go. It's therapy for me.

[@trinityconklin5335]

fun fact about today... It has been exactly a year since I got my first hula hoop to try dancing with. I remember it being a crappy plastic one from the dollar store but it still worked (It lasted a week). My mom said it was stupid until I got her to hula hoop. Now I have a few good/better dance hoops and I have my first performance this summer! You were one of my inspirations!

[@kirapiper9967]

When I'm in my flow I feel like Saturn :)

[@carolblue9945]

Being lost in the own dance. No thinking-no trickcombinations, no sorrows. A natural high. Being in perfect balance with the world. Focused on your own world. No checking out others or wondering if you look stupid. No time feeling. A total bliss

[@LacedWithOreos]

I FINALLY UNLOCKED IT after about 5 months of hooping! Set your phone landscape mode using the BACK camera, play a song you groove with and just start recording. Before I was doing portrait with front facing camera and I was so concerned with what I looked like that I couldn't just focus on hooping. Go nuts. Don't worry about what you look like, just jam with your wonderful, circular dance partner. You aren't just showcasing tricks, move ya legs, wiggle your booty, bob your head. Let the music flow through you. I don't know very many fancy tricks but when you're moving all over and spinning left and right, it doesn't matter! Just have a blast!

[@lovemac95]

oh my god!!!! this video has literally just helped me unlock a load of flow!! going out in the dark in my garden with headphones just dancing and not thinking about the precision of the moves just make me focus on the enjoyment of it and then i felt as if i was performing and that i was using my face and not stuck with the look of concentration oh wow thank you so much i'm gonna do this when i can in the evenings and flow like no one's watching!!!!

[@summerseesstars]

This helped me so much - I recently picked up my hoop again after a break from a few months and was feeling very discouraged (I’m still a beginner). This helped me re-center - thank you so much for everything you do!

[@bdgsharris]

I just started hooping a month ago... flow is something I am not comfortable with yet... so I started with a list of tricks I wanted a learn and that looked more my level. I practice those in order a few times a week when I have time- I’m a mom and work full time- I have noticed that the more I do the same tricks and in the same order it is becoming more of a “flow”. I’m excited to keep going and learning.

[@bluejean500]

i just started my hoop journey & visit your videos often. very often! thank you for all you do!

[@CookingAtPamsPlace]

I've found my flow several times but only when doing lassoing. I got so involved that I was almost doing a back bend. This was even with a weighted bulky hoop. It felt really really good though. I'm getting ready to order my real dance hoops I just hope I get it right because there are just so many places and information out there. But as always you are the best! Thank you because these tips can be used in all areas of life too. Love you!! 💕 Chef Pam

[@seethagovindaraju]

Thank you so much for making this video Deanne, it really breaks down what "hoop dance" really is because I find so many hoopers mistake flow for something like perfection which needs to be sought, when it really is so much about exploration and enjoyment. Many do not even realise flow is a state of mind which can be applied not just to dance but also any exercise like yoga or running, or study or even relationships! You are an inspired soul, to whom I owe a lot to since learning hoop dance 8 months to teaching others also. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and joy with such passion and vigor :)

[@Stephymoo]

omg thank you! I get so discouraged because I'm new and don't know how to do a bunch of tricks yet . This video is so helpful

[@lelafruitee]

Same for me

[@timmytubes2580]

Yes! You just described it perfectly!!!

[@TrNdke]

Hoop dance flow feels like me and the hoop and the music all in tune with the rhythm of the universe. I am the atom and the cosmos. 😁 🦄 🌌

[@jessicafunaro2114]

I love all of your videos, they are so inspirational! This helps in hard times xoxo Thank you

[@rosiedhoopun6594]

Yes! I gave myself a huge challenge to do a burlesque course and do hooping and I'm a beginner I came across a video how to hoop dance with a hoop with only 5 tricks and it was a revelation . I had fun and am so excited to keep learning and keep dancing. Hoop love right back at ya xx

[@SandyHrdzS]

Woow! i really love this mindful and freely approach to hooping dance flow 💗 thank you!

[@geethashetty1]

Hi Deanne , I had bought a loop after I saw a video of yours by chance, It looked so wonderful to be able to move so fluidly i would say . I started practising watching your videos and I love it . I had lost few months in-between due to lack of time, but now i have decided I want to get back to it . It makes me feels very happy and child like , carefree. Thank you for your videos. God Bless.

[@soberbunniee]

I needed to see this video. I been struggling to access hoop dance flow and this gave me the inspiration

[@bippity_boppityyy]

Thank you Deanne!! You've been my greatest mentor in hooping so far, I am immensely grateful to have you as a resource!

[@hairlear1020]

Thank you 💕💕💕appreciate!VERY!

[@VivianQueenV]

Thanks for these great tips.very helpful

[@angelheart678]

You are so wise!

[@Zoidoc]

Hoop dance flow feels freeing ...just started it a week back

[@Elizabethfreeborn]

Biggest recommendation I would give for accessing flow is take magic mushrooms. First few times i ever hooped was on mushrooms and I accessed flow state so easily, incredible.

[@dh.151]

even microdosing helps me connect w my body and flow more! also; yoga 🧘‍♀️ stretching out can help those weird tight muscles and get you more fluid

[@kayte3172]

I love your tips! Especially the 5th one.. I just realized the other day when watching my practice videos (this helps me alot watching my OWN practice sessions) that when I dropped the hoop I'd usually stop the video. I'd be like no! You were doing so good tho.. on videos where I dropped and kept going its neat to see the bounce back.. that it's not supposed to frustrate you.. like u said its proof that your challenging yourself and just try to smile when it happens and keep going because it really does have a better look to it that way!

[@krystalravegirl]

This video really spoke to me :) been struggling with "stuck/bordum" went to hoopy happenings and now this and im really looking for to flowing more!

[@DeanneLove]

Beautiful! It can go in waves like that and then totally pick up again and you feel beautifully refreshed! So happy you are on the upwards spiral

[@torifahrenheit5794]

Hoop flow to me is the perfect balance between surrender and discipline ♥️

[@puisakura]

Thank you so much Deanne for this video, it means so so much because this is one of my problem as in I don't feel as flow as I should. Mentally I focus too much on how I have to know a lot of tricks to look good, but this video gave me so much encouragement. THANK YOU!!

[@ClumsyHulaHooper]

I have trouble accessing my flow, but you know what? I try not to let it bother me. I've reached it a few times in the ten months I've been hooping, and I know I'll reach it again, so no worries. If I were to try so hard to get into a flow state every time I hooped, I'd miss out on the enjoyment of my hooping journey in other ways. Right now, I'm enjoying drilling and memorizing specific flow sequences (flow sessions) and being able to perform these in both directions. There are many ways to get to the top of the mountain. Whether it be through a flow state or a specific choreography, the view from the top is beautiful.

[@ogashcheeksdubvee1315]

Maybe dont try to flow just do it just let your body do the work and your mind relax like yoga but with a hoop

[@jbeezy8245]

I'd love to see a video about moving my body more than my hoop. I enjoy dancing and I enjoy hooping but I'm really struggling with how to move my body while hooping

[@silkehein5681]

Flor me flow feels like I am dancing with myself in my own world. Only feeling into the music. Almost forgetting about the hoop... at least if flow catches me while waist hooping.

[@krystalravegirl]

"In the moment"

[@DeanneLove]

Yes the PERFECT way to describe flow. Right there, present, in the moment.

[@lisagrabill8092]

Thank u! ❤️love you back. Keep rockin!

[@MariaA-ni6hg]

Thank you very much for this words! So powerful, thanks!

[@oldschoolhulahooper]

Shared to Fab Hoop Community. ❤️

[@DeanneLove]

Thank you Nellie! xx

[@jadamarine3738]

As soon as I started hooping I felt the flow I didn't want to put the hoop down just learn MORE! ❤️

[@natasha80181]

Love this video thank you! 💕

[@nicolemasters2925]

Thank you for this, I came across this video at the best time ❤🙏🏼

[@__v_e_r..1948]

BLESS THIS LEGEND 😭✨✨✨ WE LOVE YOU

[@lelafruitee]

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[@lisaeades2914]

Hi Deanne, first of all, I'd like to say how helpful your videos have been to me. I am a teenager just starting hooping and I'm hoping to soon start to do some circus lessons . Except I'm unsure if I should use an adult size hoop.

[@marilynrichards3551]

This is such a great video Deanne! Would love to meet you one day! :D X

[@DeanneLove]

Thank you! I would love to meet you too!

[@marilynrichards3551]

Deanne Love Deanne are tickets still available for the biggest hoop workout? I'd really love to get there. If I can't make it can you suggest any other hoop events that you are involved in? I live in Northern NSW and would absolutely love to go to a hoop jam but there's none in my area :o You rock X

[@EarthAngel_Daughter_Of_GOD888]

💕💗💓Hoop dance flow for me is a meditation exercise and experience for me...the ultimate thing that i absolutely love when i hoop and the sun is setting and i my mind body and soul is what you call is flowing and i close my eyes and everything feels so balanced and ever so right and my mind starts to get my soul aligned for an excited erotic out of body experience and i Have been blessed with a naturally release of DMT and man oh man that is such an ultimate gift and such a blissful feeling and everything after that experience is set back to zero and i feel ever so light and refresh and renewed💕💗💓 love n live life for the love of hooping

[@emmamullazahi131]

Thank youuu

[@DeanneLove]

Thank YOU!!

[@vidagonzaga4611]

Gud pm, where can i buy polypro hulahoop, tnx

[@kypaige3860]

I LOVE YOU

[@jbates725]

How do you wear headphones and have a music device attached to you all while hooping?

[@DeanneLove]

I either wear wireless headphones or I tuck the wires into a hat, headscarf or bra

[@lilubach1662]

Jocelyn Hridaya I wear a pocket belt and feed my headphones down my back through my shirt

[@samanthaoneal4996]

Expression

[@sian2101]

Confidence

[@isamendo8826]

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