Sarah “Lotus” Hurwitz of Peaceful Yoga Practice is here with a quick lesson on how to be present while hooping and not taking the moment for granted. She’s on a mission to teach people to realize happiness in their lives and she lives in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
Mindful hooping is the antidote to hoop burnout. I was just thinking about this very phenomenon last night, when what do I see on my favorite website this morning?! A video about the very topic on my mind. Amazing!
“I never get tired of hooping” is what I used to say, but recently, I found myself dragging, a little bored even. I was burning out. I had heard other hoop professionals talking about this syndrome. When hooping became a job for them, it began to really feel like work. “That will never happen to me because I love it so much,” I thought. But here it was, burnout. What was going on?
I realized that during my practice, I was thinking about hooping videos I had seen or a move I came up with the other day or a performance I wanted to create. After a practice, I no longer felt that blissful emptiness that once made my hoop time so rewarding. What was happening? Well, I was checking out mentally during the hooping session. All those thoughts about other hoopers and my hooping future were taking me out of my hooping moment. I was not curiously observing the hoop and body sensations. I was not present in my body. My mind was trying to hoop. Well listen here, Mind. Hooping is none of your business. We’re going to try the techniques from this video today and I am going to have FUN again without your help.