Preface:
Today is the first day of the 30 day challenge. I am relaying my experience of hooping for 30 minutes each day to all of my fellow hoopers on the HSH facebook page. This daily hooping is supposed to push us into the waters of developing a self focused practice. One that leaves behind distractions (hopefully), pushes our boundaries, helps us incorporate a little smidge of our 12 hour wakefulness for one on one time with our hoop, and overall make us better patrons of the world and our own lives. That's alot for 30 minutes of hooping a day to live up to! Somehow I think it will succeed!
Day- Friday 1-07-11
Time- 4:45-5:20
First let me identify my first of many mistakes for this initial foray into daily hooping...
I set the timer.
Bad bad bad girl! I know better than that. It doesn't matter what I'm doing or what type of feeling it evokes...I'm a time watcher! That's one of the reasons I hated working in the hospital. I had 12 nonstop hours of constant time checks. So my 30 minutes was broken into the first 20, the next five, and finally- measuring the last of my time by the remaining two songs and ignoring the buzzer. So technically speaking...I went above and beyond into the land of minimal over achiever by a measly ~5 minutes.
My second mistake...
I was feelin' kinda funky already. AM coffee high dropping me down, computer sucking my life away, darkness settling over the town, so motivation was difficult to find. But I found it....not enough to make me change into more appropriate hoop clothes. Ahem...jeans... bad idea number 2.
Alas...I prevailed and was able to enjoy some of the tunes on the hoopcity playlist and make the most of my scheduled rotational time. Initial work on doubles, trying not to think of each move before attempting it. It's getting remarkably easier. Not that I have mastered all or have stopped learning, but I have dropped out of the "learner" description lately. I forgot how it's hard to fall into your own rhythm. It takes a lot of time, practice, devotion to yourself and your hoop and mostly forgiveness to bust it out. I so easily go with what is familiar to me, what feels good. It was nice to break my mold.
Then I broke into the "body rocker"- with doubles and the only goal to keep them in sync. Bigger hoop with outflow of chest hooping. Reminding myself to be the oil. But what about my feet? They were moving crazy! Ah!
Lastly...just trying to move and forget and relax, and not think about the time.
And so my 35 minutes ended on a beautiful song by Bonobo (Stay the same) which makes me always feel very open and introspective and sensitive and probably at the right time of the month- very teary eyed as well.
A good intro... and my funk is gone
Awesome!
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