HOOPOSOPHY: Intuition Leads. I Follow.

Welcome to, HOOPOSOPHY, my weekly Vlog on the elements, symbolism and experience of Hooping, dancing and musicality. Each week, I expect to tape one of my Hoop sessions and share it on social media.  I will include tenets of Shamanism, intuition, psychic awareness, therapeutic interventions, music, dance and healing. 

I live my life as a Shamanic Medicine Woman in the Cherokee tradition, Healing Touch Certified Practitioner, Certified Intuitive/Psychic, Master Hooptress, Spiritual Eclectic Performance Artist, Classically-trained Vocalist, Jazz singer, Dancer, Dee Jay, Wellness Counselor and Occupational Therapist.  Please enjoy the writings of this multi-sensory scribe.  

HOOPOSOPHY: Intuition Leads.  I Follow.

Denise E. Williams, Subtle Woman/Medicine Woman and Master Hooptress

January 14, 2018

Ella Fitzgerald's vocal rendition of Mack the Knife was my choice this week.  Ella's phrasing, musicality and tonal quality hits me in the right place.  Forgetting the lyrics did not stop her musical stride.

Hooping and dancing to Ella's vocal stylings shifts my rhythm and footwork to syncopated patterns of jazzy, joyful movements.  As I am moving, I garner a sense of confidence, akin to riding a wave.  Ella's vocal strengths bolsters my Hooping savvy. I feel at ease to sustain a one-foot stance.  From that movement, I segue into linear and anterior catches of the beat with my right hip.  Intuitively, I morph into a Basic Balboa rhythm i.e. 1-2-Three-4//5-6-Seven-8.  Albeit, the music creates a slow pulse for the alternating and accented feetwork, the mastery of the Downhold beats, three and seven, makes me smile.  A Lollie with a modification--shoulder-shaking Shimmies is the next transition.  The extended right leg Lead with subtle weight-shifts and crossing over midline pair with the cadence of the music.  

At this point, I attempt a Shorty George.  Ordinarily, the Shorty George starts on the 8th beat of the phrase.  In my haste to include it in the Bal-Lindy demonstration of this Hooping vlog, I, inadvertently, initiated the step on beat three vs. eight.  Oops!  Let me pretend like I meant to do that [so, not true].  Anyway, I muddle the off-beat error with a series of moves, including Ball-changes, lateral weight-shifts, Fall off the Logs, an Uncle Willie (a shuffling of a heel-to-toe pattern that transitions through a grand plié), Charleston place kicks (lands on the floor vs. mid-air), a tap sequence of heel-heel-toe-toe, brush toe-heel, a flap heel-heel, combo of flap heel-heels, Fishtails, Tacky Ann's, chasses, soft jogging, jumping jacks, simulated rope jumping side-to-side and forward-to-backward--resulting in a significant dalliance with gravity, right foot crossing over left with a counter-clockwise turn to a stop-time closing.  

My improvisational Hoop Journeys give me a chance to think on my feet--no pun intended.  Intuition is the Lead and I am the Follow.  This outflow of Internal Guidance surprises me in my later viewing of the Hoop session.  None-the-less, I sustain a soft fluidity to facilitate smooth transitioning.

I surmise that the importance of my Hoop Journey is to reinforce the tenets of Shamanic healing, Psychic-Intuitive guidance, Therapeutic modalities, Dance fitness and Jazz musicality.  Learning and evolving through symbolism, interoceptive awareness and subcortical processing will always be something that I enjoy and seek.           Aho.

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HOOPOSOPHY: Intuition Leads. I Follow.

Welcome to, HOOPOSOPHY, my weekly Vlog on the elements, symbolism and experience of Hooping, dancing and musicality. Each week, I expect to tape one of my Hoop sessions and share it on social media.  I will include tenets of Shamanism, intuition, psychic awareness, therapeutic interventions, music, dance and healing. 

I live my life as a Shamanic Medicine Woman in the Cherokee tradition, Healing Touch Certified Practitioner, Certified Intuitive/Psychic, Master Hooptress, Spiritual Eclectic Performance Artist, Classically-trained Vocalist, Jazz singer, Dancer, Dee Jay, Wellness Counselor and Occupational Therapist.  Please enjoy the writings of this multi-sensory scribe.  

HOOPOSOPHY: Intuition Leads.  I Follow.

Denise E. Williams, Subtle Woman/Medicine Woman and Master Hooptress

January 14, 2018

Ella Fitzgerald's vocal rendition of Mack the Knife was my choice this week.  Ella's phrasing, musicality and tonal quality hits me in the right place.  Forgetting the lyrics did not stop her musical stride.

Hooping and dancing to Ella's vocal stylings shifts my rhythm and footwork to syncopated patterns of jazzy, joyful movements.  As I am moving, I garner a sense of confidence, akin to riding a wave.  Ella's vocal strengths bolsters my Hooping savvy. I feel at ease to sustain a one-foot stance.  From that movement, I segue into linear and anterior catches of the beat with my right hip.  Intuitively, I morph into a Basic Balboa rhythm i.e. 1-2-Three-4//5-6-Seven-8.  Albeit, the music creates a slow pulse for the alternating and accented feetwork, the mastery of the Downhold beats, three and seven, makes me smile.  A Lollie with a modification--shoulder-shaking Shimmies is the next transition.  The extended right leg Lead with subtle weight-shifts and crossing over midline pair with the cadence of the music.  

At this point, I attempt a Shorty George.  Ordinarily, the Shorty George starts on the 8th beat of the phrase.  In my haste to include it in the Bal-Lindy demonstration of this Hooping vlog, I, inadvertently, initiated the step on beat three vs. eight.  Oops!  Let me pretend like I meant to do that [so, not true].  Anyway, I muddle the off-beat error with a series of moves, including Ball-changes, lateral weight-shifts, Fall off the Logs, an Uncle Willie (a shuffling of a heel-to-toe pattern that transitions through a grand plié), Charleston place kicks (lands on the floor vs. mid-air), a tap sequence of heel-heel-toe-toe, brush toe-heel, a flap heel-heel, combo of flap heel-heels, Fishtails, Tacky Ann's, chasses, soft jogging, jumping jacks, simulated rope jumping side-to-side and forward-to-backward--resulting in a significant dalliance with gravity, right foot crossing over left with a counter-clockwise turn to a stop-time closing.  

My improvisational Hoop Journeys give me a chance to think on my feet--no pun intended.  Intuition is the Lead and I am the Follow.  This outflow of Internal Guidance surprises me in my later viewing of the Hoop session.  None-the-less, I sustain a soft fluidity to facilitate smooth transitioning.

I surmise that the importance of my Hoop Journey is to reinforce the tenets of Shamanic healing, Psychic-Intuitive guidance, Therapeutic modalities, Dance fitness and Jazz musicality.  Learning and evolving through symbolism, interoceptive awareness and subcortical processing will always be something that I enjoy and seek.           Aho.

For FB muted vlog, please view the following link: https://www.facebook.com/denise.e.williams

HOOPOSOPHY: Intuition Leads. I Follow.

Welcome to, HOOPOSOPHY, my weekly Vlog on the elements, symbolism and experience of Hooping, dancing and musicality. Each week, I expect to tape one of my Hoop sessions and share it on social media.  I will include tenets of Shamanism, intuition, psychic awareness, therapeutic interventions, music, dance and healing. 

I live my life as a Shamanic Medicine Woman in the Cherokee tradition, Healing Touch Certified Practitioner, Certified Intuitive/Psychic, Master Hooptress, Spiritual Eclectic Performance Artist, Classically-trained Vocalist, Jazz singer, Dancer, Dee Jay, Wellness Counselor and Occupational Therapist.  Please enjoy the writings of this multi-sensory scribe.  

HOOPOSOPHY: Intuition Leads.  I Follow.

Denise E. Williams, Subtle Woman/Medicine Woman and Master Hooptress

January 14, 2018

Ella Fitzgerald's vocal rendition of Mack the Knife was my choice this week.  Ella's phrasing, musicality and tonal quality hits me in the right place.  Forgetting the lyrics did not stop her musical stride.

Hooping and dancing to Ella's vocal stylings shifts my rhythm and footwork to syncopated patterns of jazzy, joyful movements.  As I am moving, I garner a sense of confidence, akin to riding a wave.  Ella's vocal strengths bolsters my Hooping savvy. I feel at ease to sustain a one-foot stance.  From that movement, I segue into linear and anterior catches of the beat with my right hip.  Intuitively, I morph into a Basic Balboa rhythm i.e. 1-2-Three-4//5-6-Seven-8.  Albeit, the music creates a slow pulse for the alternating and accented feetwork, the mastery of the Downhold beats, three and seven, makes me smile.  A Lollie with a modification--shoulder-shaking Shimmies is the next transition.  The extended right leg Lead with subtle weight-shifts and crossing over midline pair with the cadence of the music.  

At this point, I attempt a Shorty George.  Ordinarily, the Shorty George starts on the 8th beat of the phrase.  In my haste to include it in the Bal-Lindy demonstration of this Hooping vlog, I, inadvertently, initiated the step on beat three vs. eight.  Oops!  Let me pretend like I meant to do that [so, not true].  Anyway, I muddle the off-beat error with a series of moves, including Ball-changes, lateral weight-shifts, Fall off the Logs, an Uncle Willie (a shuffling of a heel-to-toe pattern that transitions through a grand plié), Charleston place kicks (lands on the floor vs. mid-air), a tap sequence of heel-heel-toe-toe, brush toe-heel, a flap heel-heel, combo of flap heel-heels, Fishtails, Tacky Ann's, chasses, soft jogging, jumping jacks, simulated rope jumping side-to-side and forward-to-backward--resulting in a significant dalliance with gravity, right foot crossing over left with a counter-clockwise turn to a stop-time closing.  

My improvisational Hoop Journeys give me a chance to think on my feet--no pun intended.  Intuition is the Lead and I am the Follow.  This outflow of Internal Guidance surprises me in my later viewing of the Hoop session.  None-the-less, I sustain a soft fluidity to facilitate smooth transitioning.

I surmise that the importance of my Hoop Journey is to reinforce the tenets of Shamanic healing, Psychic-Intuitive guidance, Therapeutic modalities, Dance fitness and Jazz musicality.  Learning and evolving through symbolism, interoceptive awareness and subcortical processing will always be something that I enjoy and seek.           Aho.

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HOOPOSOPHY: Choose to Let Go and Allow the results to Evolve with Ease.

Welcome to, HOOPOSOPHY, my weekly Vlog on the elements, symbolism and experience of Hooping, dancing and musicality. Each week, I expect to tape one of my Hoop sessions and share it on social media.  I will include tenets of Shamanism, intuition, psychic awareness, therapeutic interventions, music, dance and healing. 

I live my life as a Shamanic Medicine Woman in the Cherokee tradition, Healing Touch Certified Practitioner, Certified Intuitive/Psychic, Master Hooptress, Spiritual Eclectic Performance Artist, Classically-trained Vocalist, Jazz singer, Dancer, Dee Jay, Wellness Counselor and Occupational Therapist.  Please enjoy the writings of this multi-sensory scribe.  

HOOPOSOPHY: Choose to Let Go and Allow the results to Evolve with Ease.

Denise E. Williams, Subtle Woman/Medicine Woman and Master Hooptress

January 7, 2018

This afternoon, I processed my Hoop improvisation through my terminology of Intuitive Musicality.  Miles Davis’, “It’s Only a Paper Moon” featuring Sonny Rollins musically supported my efforts.  *No Copyright Infringement Intended. *

Again, I created this Dance Hoop segment with the use of two 3lbs. Hoops.  In the back of my mind was the Synchrony of Duo Hoop/Rhythm/Flow without the triad’s faltering and resultant falling of the Hoops.  However, it was unwise for me to project these concerns, because the Energetic Disconnectionwas more prevalent and possible.  Okay, fake it ‘til I make it.

I start with a stirring motion of the Hoop to the left side.  [In the tradition of Shamanic Healing, the left side connotes the emotional/feminine/intuitive/Yin element].  I gave a strong Swoosh with accompanying finger snaps to augment the beat.  What’s done to one side must be done to the contralateral (opposite) side in the Bilateral Experience.  [The right side connotes the intellectual/masculine/logical/Yang element.] 

Visually, I discerned a less impactful Energetic Portrayal.  [What concerned me?]  Well, of course, my issues of control and avoidance of failure wafted up.  That weaker portrayal created an energetic void within the Hoop!  So, what did I do? I stabilized the Friction Brushing of the two Hoops as they rubbed and spun past each other.  I gathered the disorganized and detached energy within the bilateral union and initiated a midline presentation of my feetwork.  I become Still, so that the Hoops could realign.

I resumed a moderately complex footwork pattern until the glisser (the slide and subsequent disengagement of the Hoops) lessened.  However, not for long, because the Hoops began to spin in opposing elliptical patterns.  As this Tent Effect of the Hoops persisted, they finally gave way to gravity and fell.

I quickly assessed the situation and retrieved the fallen pair.  [In Occupational Therapy, the estimation of Force that is required to grasp, hold, manipulate, attach and/or disassemble objects—hand occupations, become another aspect of Hooping].  I was thinking vs. sensing the movement and beat, thereby disallowing adequate connection of my intuition/core/motor control.  In order for me to align the bilateral Hoop experience, I will infuse a Knowing, relaxed state and an Assured Expectation for a successful connection in the Hoop Experience. 

And, so goes the Lesson of Hoop Praxis (motor-planning) i.e. the Dance of Lead and Follow.  The Hooper can choose either role—Leads evoke the change in choreography and Follows respond to the change.  As the Master Hooptress, I frequently choose the role of Lead in my Hooping practice.  In Hooping, the complexity of mastering choreography mirrors the tenets of an Energetic/Shamanic Healing i.e. Grounding, Assessing, Balancing, Clearing and Mindfulness.

When the Hoop falls, pick it up and start again.  A Japanese proverb asserts, Fall down seven times, Stand up eight.


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HOOPOSOPHY: Added weight requires an Energetic Adjustment and Attunement for Achievement.

I am resuming my HOOPOSOPHY Vlogging series today. Each week, I expect to tape one of my Hooping sessions and share it on social media.  In addition, I will portray my intentions with an accompanying blog, including tenets of Shamanism, intuition, psychic, therapy, music, dance and healing.  I live my life as an Shamanic Medicine Woman in the Cherokee tradition, Healing Touch Certified Practitioner, Certified Intuitive/Psychic, Classically-trained vocalist, Jazz singer, dancer and Occupational Therapist.  Please enjoy the writings of this scribe.   

HOOPOSOPHY: Added weight requires an Energetic Adjustment and Attunement for Achievement.

Denise E. Williams, Subtle Woman/Medicine Woman and Master Hooptress

January 1, 2018

I chose the song, Hum-Drum Blues by Marianne Solivan.  The music commences with a strong bluesy character.  Marianne belts out, Life can be mighty monotonous.  We always battlin’ boredom; Where, tell me where has it gotten us? Everything’s still so doggone hum-drum!  Stuck in a rut, getting’ nowhere fast!  Mmmm-mmm, I got the hum-drum blues.

I enter stage right moving upstage Southeast to Northwest i.e. the four elements in the Cherokee tradition—the cycle of Beginning a Process to the Attainment of Wisdom.  In my right hand, I carry two 3 lbs. weighted Hoops while dance-walking slowly to her poignant recitative.

Gradually, I take my wide-legged stance and begin the challenge of Blooping (Hooping to Blues music) with two weighted Hoops.  In my mind and body, I enjoin with the Energetic Flow of the two Hoops.  Subtly and rhythmically, I gently pair my movements to the music.  Immediately, they take on a life of their own—separating and spiraling away from each other.  I garner control as they slide against each other.  The French verb, glisser i.e. to slip, slide and glide, pops into my thoughts.  I adjust my motor delivery and torque for a refined rotational adjustment.  The friction of the two Hoops provides a point of stability before I can resume the ease of Hoop mobility.  (A tenet in therapy, stability before mobility is required to facilitate movement).  

I, tentatively, roll my trunk laterally off my axis to merge with the beat of the music.  The rolling rhythm unfolds to a two-step pattern to the right.  Now, the music calls for a series of Heel Pops.  My inner Tap dancer wants a turn in the Hoop.  Well, why not?  Four Pull Backs seem in order, again-tentatively, so not to jar the faint connection of the Hoops.  [I am responding to this added weight like an apprentice Hooper vs. Master Hooptress.  The uncertainty of the Hoops’ accuracy has softened my intentionality in my usual Hoop expertise.  Hmmm…]

I gesticulate Ms. Solivan’s message through my hands and head movement with a staccato flair.  I look down onto the two misbehaving Hoops, as if to make eye contact with the culprit Hoop.  At this point, I engage my fatiguing abs to whip those Hoops back into shape.  I augment my ab work with an Energetic Fingeringtechnique to temper the discordant Hoop movement.  Voila!The Hoops steady!

Later, the elevator panel rings to indicate its arrival and possible emergence of an occupant.  I quickly dart my eyes to the right.  The Hoop registers this somato-energetic break in the Hoop Flow.  Mischief resumes with the Hoops tandem detachment and resultant cascading to the floor.  I retrieve the recalcitrant Hoops and continue my improvisational explorations.

As the music is wrapping up, the Hoops and I unravel with the floor-bound Hoops finding their target in an asymmetrical circular disarray.  In my haste to gather the Hoops, my Pork Pie hat topples to the floor.  [Life’s events are completely coming apart at the seams].  None-the-less, I regard my composure, realign, attune and resume my flirtation with the Hoops, vocalist and rhythm.  Not to be outdone, one of the Hoops has one more chance at its folly, thereby falling to the floor.

Decidedly, I drop the remaining blue Hoop (akin to dropping the mic) and make my clamoring statement.  I vacate the stage with the Heel Strikes of my boots providing the exiting sound.

C’est tout.  That's all.  Aho.

 * No Copyright Infringement Intended. *

HOOPOSOPHY: Added Weights requires an Energetic Adjustment and Attunement for Achievement.