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.

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