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We’ve probably all had the experience at least once: that moment of bliss, of ecstatic communion when our body, our breath, our heart and our hoop are one with the beat of the music (or no music). Do you remember when you first felt it? When you last felt it? Is there a particular moment that stands out for you?

The hoop moment that stands out for me (the moment that I sometimes feel like I’m chasing after all the time) was at Lighting in a Bottle in 2008 during a set by the band Kan’nal. They were playing on a beautiful stage in an oak grove, and I’d found a spot away from the crowd, in the middle of a ring of big, old trees. Kan’nal is my kind of music: primal, tribal, trippy. There’s something about hooping to live music that makes it such a richer experience than hooping to a DJ (although I’ve enjoyed hooping to DJs too).

Anyhow, it was such an intense experience of *now*. The trees spoke to me, the music was in me and the hoop was whirling whirling whirling.

What’s your stand-out moment?

This weekend I went to the Oregon Country Fair, (www.oregoncountryfair.org) selling hoops. I started my business HooptomyLoo (www.hooptomyloo.com) a year ago because I love hooping so much, but too often I get sucked in by “business” by crunching numbers, posting things online, and so on, and sometimes days will go without me hooping. This weekend woke me up, the sun was shining, great music was playing and I entered that moment. That-life-is-no-better-than-this moment. I’ll remember that hoop for a long time.

My most recent serious intense flow moment in the hoop was at Glastonbury music festival. I was high up on the slope of the hill facing the famous pyramid stage, the sun was setting, the crowd was jumping, the birds were singing…..it was pure bliss (even without a hoop). They have this song off their new album called “Tweak your Nipple” and I was dancing inside of my hoop without fear, I was on fire with creativity, truth, integrity, flow, presence. I mean every cell of my body was singing the song of the creator and yet I was the creator simultaneously. The whole set was awesome for me. I felt so alive… makes me go all goose bumpy just remembering the deliciousness of it.

I have felt this flow element each time I have been able to take a class with Baxter, at the time the blindfolds go on. It is a centring moment. A time when I stop worrying about what I look like.

But the last time I had a true, complete, alive and laughing flow session was early this past summer. In the garden, to a fast rock and roll track by The Baseballs. It just rocked! I could do no wrong. Jumping, moving, using my legs like a dancer, it was all there. It was exhausting because of the high energy required, but afterwards I lay in the grass and smiled at the sky. I could smell the earth and feel the sun. The memory is still clear as a bell.

I can so relate to the starting a business because you love hooping and then realising it has taken over and you actually don’t have time to hoop anymore. At least not the way you used to hoop or want to hoop.