Jessica Towle - Hooping Teacher Classes, Workshops, Custom Hoops, Hooping Demos
onewhirled@gmail.com | 973-919-8173
Imagine a low impact workout that makes you feel like a kid again? Jessica Towle has been exploring the art and flow of the hoop since 2005. The art of hooping dates back centuries. Various cultures regarded the hoop as an ancient symbol of community, and connectivity. Towle sees it as a connector "within each of us individually, the human community, and the larger Earth Community."
This is not your grandma's hula hoop. "Hooping" is a term for hooping with large customized, sometimes weighted hoops. The larger, heavier hoops slow down the speed of the hoop allowing everybody, regardless of age, size or sense of rhythm to be able to hoop. Hooping is a low impact, highly fun, almost meditative work out while giving you a gentle massage around the middle.
Jessica Towle will be teaching a series of hooping classes at Breathing Room Center for kids to seniors, beginners to advanced. Late fall sessions begin mid November. Drop-ins welcome.
Beginners : Welcome to the Circle - In this class, you will learn many basic hoop techniques, and skills, that will take “hula hooping” to a whole new level. You can expect to leave feeling more embodied and more comfortable dancing. This class is so much fun, you wont even realize its a workout, so come prepared to sweat! Any body size or shape welcome. Hoops provided, but if you have one, bring it. Class size is limited to 6 indoors. The 7 week series runs Thursdays: November 12 – December17th from 6:15-7:15 pm.
Intermediate – Cultivating Flow – This class is open to intermediate hoopers. We will work on deepening our hoop skills, and exploring and experimenting with a wide variety of themes, including; hoop dance, partner and group hooping, multiple hoops, etc. Depending on the group energy we may also move into group-generated choreography. This course will run for 7 weeks. Bring your hoops. Class size is limited to 6. Thursdays November 12th - December 17th from 7:30-8:30 pm.
HIP Hoops 1 for Kids -This class is for children 8-11 yr olds who want to have fun, play, and learn various hoop tricks and skills. We will focus on honing our Jedi, skills, inside and outside of the hoop. For girls and boys. Class is limited to 8. 7week series Wednesdays: November 11th – December 16th –4:00 – 5:00pm.
Hip Hoops 2 for Tweens - This is an intermediate class is for children 10-14 yr olds who want to have fun, play, and learn various hoop tricks and skills. We will focus on honing our Jedi, skills, inside and outside of the hoop. For girls and boys. Class is limited to 8. 7week series Wednesdays: November 11thh – December 16th – 5:15 – 6:15 pm.
Each seven week session is $70 or $12 per drop in. Contact Jessica at OneWhirled@gmail.com or 973-919-8173 for more information on hooping parties, events, workshops and purchasing custom made hoops for indivuals or groups. Classes take place at Breathing Room Center, 735 Route 94, Frelinghuysen, NJ, next to Wilbur's Contry Market. For their schedule log on to www.breathingroomcenter.com.
Jessica has been actively involved in the Hoop Community since 2005, with her roots in the hooping town of Carborro, NC. She has worked, studied, and played with several hoop performers and teachers including Julia Hartsell, Vivian Spiral and Baxter. Towle has also brought hoops to children in orphanages in South America. Her greatest influences, however, have been "the Great hoop of life and the sustained spinning of the whirling dervishes." For Towle, "dance and celebration are basic foundations of flourishing communities and that working with the hoop not only cultivates this, but also brings joy, strength and healing." Jessica received her degree in Sustainable Community Development from Prescott College and also organizes wild plant gatherings.
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