HOOP YOGA

Is a unique practice to either deepen your existing Yoga experience or begin your journey anew.

Philosophy

Yoga means to yolk, or unite. Hoop Yoga is a true Yolking of two cultures: That of the storytelling and symbolic nature of Native American Hoop Dance and the modern day Asana Yoga practice on the mat.

Hoop Yoga offers a 3-step approach in method and re-evaluates form & technique.

I. ChakravalAyasan: Learning each pose and meaning/interpretation

II. Storylines: Stringingpostures together Vinyasa style to learn our Basic Storylines to become better acquainted with this practice

III. Self-expression: Pick and choose a handful of poses from the 30+ ChakravalAyasan to thread a meaningful story of your own.

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Style

Hoop Yoga as taught by Pippa Dorfman of Sacred in the Round, in northern Vermont, is a unique experience and offers a creative way to explore a Yoga practice and sacred Self-expression.

We would like to train other Yoga teachers to instruct this specific hoop-assisted style of asana practice, so contact us to let us know you are interested in a training.

Experience it for YourSelf!

You really have to try it in person to feel it for yourself. Yes, we have a YouTube channel with a few tutorials, but to learn from Pippa in person will help give you a clearer sense of what Hoop Yoga will mean for you in your life.

Hoop Yoga

16 Iris Lane, Jeffersonville, VT 05464, US

(802) 323-9555

Home Studio

Sacred in the Round

Past workshops:

Stepping Stone Yoga Studio

Frendly Gathering

Vermont Dance Fest

Chico, CA

Created at Sacred in the Round in 2011, this style of Yoga is Pippa's most unique offering as a Yoga teacher. Working intimately with her hoop dance as a form of meditation and the practice of Yoga as means of positive self-transformation, she developed Hoop Yoga, the expressive power of symbolism and form..

Hoop Yoga empowers and challenges the practitioner by adding the dynamic of the hoop, the "sacred circle", to asanapractice in order to remind us that our new Yoga prop is here for support, transition, growth and expansion. Hoop Yoga is a practice in the art of storytelling as influenced by the Native American hoop dance culture.

Technique: In Hoop Yoga we bring our awareness to graceful movement in postures and fluid transitions as the breath guides us. To find stillness in motion, the emphasis is on holding postures then opening in more fluid ways. In Hoop Yoga, however, we refrain from spinning the hoop as we see in modern day hoop dance techniques. Ultimately the hoop does not spin around our body without our guided control so that we may focus more intently on the meditative and empowering quality this particular practice offers us. The idea is to honor our traditional Yoga practices while utilizing the hoop as a support and challenge.

The flow of yoga postures, a.k.a. vinyasa (*see below), is accompanied by the hoop as a constant prop. It is a way to inspire your asana practice and offer contemplation on the concept of the circle as a symbol for the encompassing Universe and the Universe within.

"CakravalAyan-virabadrasana"

"comet pose"

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