“Power is the strength and the ability to see yourself through your own eyes and not the eyes of another. It is being able to place a circle of power at your feet 
and not take power from someone else’s circle.” 
- Lynne V. Andrews, Flight of the Seventh Moon

The word mandala originates from the ancient language of Sanskrit and means "sacred circle". In Hindu and Buddhist symbolism, it is a geometric figure of based upon concentric circles that represents the universe. Mandalas are used in many spiritual traditions as a meditation and healing tool. The mandala in art, healing, meditation, dance, and spirituality facilitates the deeper unfolding of spiritual development and consciousness.

The hoop is a circle. The circle is a foundational shape of sacred geometry seen throughout nature and the universe. The circle represents universal oneness. The calm center of consciousness where everything is one. From the circle, all other shapes are born. The circle also represents community, family, unity, wholeness, and eternity. In the circle is the potent void, from which all may be manifest.

Hoopdancing is a creative and healing movement art in which the individual dances the mandala and consciously experiences the meditative, healing, and trance-formative union of the sacred circle. The dancer embodies the mandala, dancing in the sacred circle. The hoop dancer is always at the center of the mandala, thus the experience of hoopdancing is inherently centering.

The spinning of the hoop creates a spiral. The spiral can be centered around the core, and as time hooping grows, the spiral changes. The spiral is representative of proportional growth and transformation. Everywhere in nature that spirals are seen, in plants, DNA, seashells, and galaxies, the spiraling shape is evident of change and growth. The spiral of the hoop continues to offer new challenges, joys, and healing.
 
The rhythm is central to the hoopdance. The rhythm is the heartbeat of the hoop and it is what makes the dance come alive.  The rhythm of the hoop spinning around the central axis of the body creates the mandala in motion. The rhythm and beat of hearts, drums, and dance are known to create trance, the altered state of consciousness in which one may experience peace, oneness, and connection with the divine.

The undulating rhythm of hoopdance creates waves in the spine. When a stone is dropped into a pond, it creates numerous concentric circles that ripple out from the center. The circles move throughout the water as perfect circular waves. The wave is the movement of the circle and the movement of water. The natural wave motions of the spine created through hoopdance are healing movements for spinal health. Undulations of the spine naturally enhance posture, mobility, and strength through the vertebrae, muscles, fascia, and central nervous system.

Dancing the hoop mandala, is being at the center of the spiral. Every spiral has a center, it is the calm at the eye of the storm. The modern world is distinguished from past eras as being a time of accelerated change, transformation, and potential in humanity, nature, technology, and consciousness. Hoopdancing shows us how to remain calm and centered in the eye of the spiral, regardless of how fast things spin around us. Hooping is a meditation in transforming our selves - our bodies, hearts, and souls in growing in awareness of how our movements create waves that ripple out from us to touch everything.

The center of the spiral is literally within your heart. At the core of the human heart is a spiraling muscle that creates a vortex of movement within the blood. The new science of neurocardiology has discovered that the heart contains 60% neural cells, formerly thought only to be housed in the brain. At the Institute of HeartMath, they have researching the role of the heart's brain, and how the heart's rhythm entrains with other systems through it's electromagnetic field, which extends 8 feet around the human body.

Hoopdancing is a celebration of sacred geometry, somatic movement, creativity, trance-formation, and peace. Hooping is a wonderful practice for children and adults, and there is always an infinite amount of potential movement to co-create with the hoop.

The hoopdancer becomes a shapeshifter, co-creating an infinite mandala in motion with the changing rhythms and motions of the circle around the core. In this embodiment as a shapeshifter, the dance of the hoop may elicit alternate states of consciousness including joy, bliss, divine creativity, oneness, healing, and peace while creating evolving spiraling geometric mandalas.

"Remember what you have seen

Because everything forgotten

Returns to the circling winds.”

- Navaho Chant

Dancing with the hoop creates a vortex in which energy is transformed, recycled, and created. The hoop is a torus, and toroidal shapes in nature are dynamic spiraling fields of motion that create vortexes of motion. When hooping we tap into the primal movements of the torus and torsion - the hoop and the spin.

Everything in nature moves in spirals. Nassim Haramein, of the Resonance Project, is a physicist who has developed a Unified Field Theory based upon an understanding of torsion - the primal spin of the universe and everything within it. He proposes that the primal force of the universe is the power of spin.

The universe, galaxies, planets, elements, atoms, and everything are all spinning. When nature becomes out of balance, it is the spiral that alchemically transforms energy into something new. Spiral forces are the potential of growth, and are creative, transformational, and energizing.
In our modern world which is precariously out of balance we are witnessing the increase in nature’s powerful spirals to transform this energy through destruction and then re-creation.

Within the center of the spiral is the stillpoint, the calm eye in the center of the storm. Dancing within the hoop trains us to access our inner center no matter how fast the world around us is whirling. Through dancing the mandala, in the alchemical vortex of the hoop, we can transform chaos, sadness, and discordance into beauty, peace, joy, and coherence.

Through conscious dance in the vortex, we access our center and the infinite creative power within our core to transform our hearts, minds, bodies, and spirit. It is within the dynamic center that we find the stillpoint. The knowingness of our deep internal connection to the whole of the cosmos and the inner recognition of the holos through the hoop. Holos recognizes that the whole is holographic, and that through accessing any point of the whole we can download all the information we consciously choose.

The hoop creates physical and energetic spiraling movements around a conscious center.  When you step into the center of the hoop with conscious intent of spiritual connection, physical mastery, or creative brainstorming, and then release your focus into the vortex of the hoop, then the dance will transform your desires, ideas, intentions, and visions, and from within yourself will bloom forth the concepts or ideas to lead you on the next route of your journey.

Through conscious dancing with a clear mind, creative leaps of thought and innovative ideas may appear in one’s head. Emotions may bubble forth, anything from laughter to frustration. Physically, you may find yourself moving in ways you had never tried or thought of before. These are all examples of how within the vortex of the hoop dance, through intention and surrender, the soul is able to bring forth the healing and empowerment for you to fully reach your potential in all aspects of one’s life.

Hoop Dance is a powerful tool for personal transformation and healing because it utilizes the Sacred Geometry of Nature to create a primal resonance for expression, movement, and meditation within a clear boundary. Within the defined comfort of a circle - entirely round with no hard edges, one can feel safe within their own space.

Within the sacred circle one is able to fully surrender to the dance, to deepen the consciousness into pondering the divine and the mundane through the incredible mystery and cosmic synchronicity of Sacred Geometry. Hooping is a portal to accessing the mysteries of the primal spin and the dynamics of Energy.
 

Through Conscious HoopDance we can alchemically transform our bodies, minds, emotions, and spirit through tapping into the electromagnetic field of the heart. The energetic field of the heart is shaped as a torus, a torus is the shape of a donut - or a HOOP. The heart creates a large energetic hoop radiating around the body, only the center of the heart’s torus is very small and the circular radius extends up to 10 feet around the body.

The hoop facilitates the opening of heart awareness because the hoop’s geometry resonates with the geometry of our heart’s electromagnetic field. The heart creates the strongest electromagnetic field in the human body, which is 5000% times stronger than the electromagnetic frequency of our brain.

The science of neurocardiology, the intelligence of the heart, is being conducted at the HeartMath Institute. They have discovered that over 60% of the heart is neural cells, previously thought to exist only in the brain. HeartMath research shows that our positive emotions create strong regular coherent electromagnetic heart waves while negative emotions create incoherent irregular weaker electromagnetic heart waves. Our emotions create immediate changes in the electromagnetic energy of

Their research has also shown that positive emotions cause our DNA spirals to relax and unwind, while negative emotions cause the DNA spirals to coil and tighten, thus showing that our emotions directly affect our DNA, as well as our heart.

“Each of us centered within our heart 
is as much the center of the universe 
as any other creature or point, 
with equal access to all that exists.” 
- Joseph Chilton Pearce, 
The Biology of Transcendence: 
A Blueprint of the Human Spirit

The torus shape of our heart’s energy field resonates with the torus shape of all life. Physicist Nassim Haramein of the Resonance Project theorizes that the entire universe is the geometric shape of the double torus, and all planets, stars, cells, atoms, and life has this primal geometric energy field. The torus is a holographic shape, thus our heart field resonates with other heart fields, and the energy fields of all other life forms, the planet, the galaxy, and the universe. Our hearts emit a torus shape very similar to the torus shape of the electromagnetic field of the Earth.

Through consciously bringing our awareness to our heart’s energy field and radiating positive coherent energy waves, of love, appreciation, gratitude, and wonder, we can increase the frequency of all other energy fields we entrain with. Entrainment is the natural process in which two oscillating frequencies will come into synchronization together. This is the primal patterning that calls life into being, through the entrainment of babies to their mothers hearts while in the womb. This entrainment continues throughout our whole life as we resonate energetically with all life, constantly broadcasting electromagnetic frequencies transmitting our emotions and feelings to the universe.

“When the heart’s electromagnetic field 
and any other organism’s electromagnetic field, 
whether it has a heart or not, are in close proximity, the fields entrain or synchronize, and there is an extremely rapid and complex interchange of information.”
 - Stephen Harrod Buhner, 
The Secret Teachings of Plants: 
The Intelligence of the Heart 
in the Direct Perception of Nature

When you step into your hoop, let the torus shape remind you to dance from your heart. Bring your awareness the center of your heart, where a spiraling muscle vortexes your blood with its rhythmic pulsation. Become aware of the muscles around your heart, in your chest, in your upper back, and your breath. Deepen your breath and notice how your heart area is softening and warming. Expand and activate your heart energy and frequency by focusing upon the feelings of joy, happiness, gratitude, wonder, and love.

Visualize love entering your body and filling your heart with radiant light as you inhale. As you exhale visualize waves of gratitude radiating out from your heart to the universe. Like ripples in a pond, your heart waves radiate out throughout the universal waters.

As you hoop, imagine the spiraling energy waves of your heart field being vortexed. Through the natural spiraling movements of these energy waves you can clear and charge up your heart field while hooping through your intention, visualization, and feeling.