“In a world obsessed with and run by technology, fun, like everything else we do, has to be scheduled,” said Travis Heath, a clinical psychologist specializing in human behavior. Professional hoop dance instructor Anna Stone ofHoopVive (pictured) knows what fun is all about and she’s well versed in getting adults playing again. She told the Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel that hooping “rekindles how it feels to play. It’s uplifting.”  Read more: 

http://www.hooping.org/2012/11/adults-who-play-live-longer-healthier-lives/#

[Hooping.org columnist Lara Eastburn gets schooled on hooping.]

by Lara Eastburn

I hooped the night before labor began with my first daughter. Now Navi is five-years-old (going on 6, as she says!). She is the daughter of two hoopmakers. Piles of tubing were leaned against her crib and she has never known a life outside the hoop. But it wasn’t until Rayna’s article last year about hooping, self-esteem and girls, that I realized I was part of a community of parents raising the first generation of children that would be raised from the very start with hoopdance as a part of their lives. It will be several years until we know how Navi’s crib-to-hoop generation will influence the grownup world of hooping. But to get a glimpse, I sat down with my kindergarten graduate and asked her about her hooping life. Her answers are here unedited and I hope they inspire you as they have us. Read the rest of this entry →