Buy your tickets today to support World Hoop Day bay area.  Only $8 gets you in to a fabulous time with flow artists and more!  Hugs!

Join me in the challenge to get your confidence out there, to hoop for yourself, for your health, happiness and for others. Show others that every body type and genotype hoops. We are more than our bodies, we are our minds, our hearts and souls. Our country is full of life and happiness and people want to share in ours, too. Let’s give them what they ask for, a little piece of us. Find a great piece of music, listen in your head, edit and send it in. You could win a free trip to a Hoop Event!

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Much love to all who are a part of hooping dot org.  More love to the man behind the dot org.  Mega love to anyone who hoops, has ever hooped, wants to hoop and makes their dreams come true.

This year’s 12/12/12 is a fruition of my dreams.  7 years ago, I had a dream.  This dream was to create world peace through hooping, by giving hoops away to everyone who could not afford one.  My dream has become a dream shared by nearly a million people around the world.

I feel blessed, happy, whole, solid, stellar, a muse, a gift of light energy, buoyant, deep, earthy, magnetic and sacred.  I feel that the world has listened to me and we still have more to do.  Our mind energy, body temples will make the world a peaceful planet.  Hooping creates inner peace, sanctity, wholesome connectedness.

World Hoop Day has been on the TV news, internet news, in newspapers, in a documentary supported by the United Nations, given to hundreds, received by thousands, represented by the Peace Corps, Michelle Obama, the United Nations.  It has spread to every single continent and across the seven seas.

This year, we have an opportunity to be represented at TED talks on 12/12/12.  I am encouraging all of you to get out there and spread your love of hooping to everyone you meet.  Hooping is an ice breaker, an inspiration, motivation, therapy, dance, art form, creative outlet, form of revenue, love, and color.

Sometimes while hooping, as with life, we get hurt.  After hoop camp, I had a huge bruise on the back of my leg from legs, legs, legs.  It was a bruise that turned yellow and green after the black and blue faded.  The hugeness of it meant it was about 6″ long and 2″ wide.  It made me feel proud that I took a difficult class and learned the skill that I still have to master.  Life gives you bruises, and many of us stay the same.  If we take care of our bruises with ice, arnica and solid meditation on how and why these bruises came, we change our lives for better.

Hooping has changed my life forever.

My mom says I have fans.  It’s strange to think how many lives my simple idea has benefited.  Several other wonderful hoop charities have started after World Hoop Day began and I am proud of their work.  Every single one of you can change your life, and others.  All you have to do is dream.  Then dream bigger, and bigger and bigger.

After WHD has covered the planet, we are going inter-stellar.  Hang on for the ride and you will be glad you did.  Please get involved this year.

12/12/12 is Wednesday.  Have a small hoop jam or a grand party.  Stretch the peace and love through the weekend, as we will in the Bay Area.  Flash mob to spread the word.  Host your fundraiser, teach your friends and neighbors how to hoop, how to make hoops, how to love one another peacefully.  Honor your family, friends and strangers.  Show your best hoop dance, video yourself doing the choreography.  Take photos.  Give love away.  It is free to love.

After 12/12/12 the world is our ocean.  Our dreams will continue and love and peace prevail.  My dream is huge.  I’ve shared it with all of you.  You have lived my dream and now we must pay it forward.  Until time ends, the hoop lives on!

In love and light,
Annie OK

• HoopChi has donated 3 packages each including 1 travel hoop, 3 DVD set, 1 travel tote, 1 collapsible water bottle
• Hoop Camp has donated a room upgrade, which will be in an online auction starting in September
• Hoopnotica has donated a Complete DVD Set 1-4 as well as our Newest Hoopnotica Mini’s Training
• SuperHooper has donated a full color collection of their polypro hoops: 16 amazing colors, something for everyone
• Teton Hoops has donated from their unique collection
• Cressie Mae Hoops has donated one of her amazing colorful hoops
• TrinityStarr has donated a travel hoop from their wonderful collection
• Cynthia Elaine Designs has donated some of her amazing hand crafted jewelry
• Holistic Hooping has donated from their fantastic collection
• Candy Pie Burlesque has donated a set of fire pasties

If you have items you would like to donate to add to our auction, please contact us.  You will receive a tax deductible receipt, coverage in our newsletter, and Hoop Camp’s news, on our site and our social media feeds.  We love donations and this is a really cool way to help.

Life is good. Love the hoop.

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The Hooping Life team will support you every step of the way. Host The Hooping Life, a film that helps grow awareness about entrepreneurship, inspires kids in the inner-city, and celebrates the healing power of movement. With original music by Basement Jaxx. Introduced by Shaq O’Neal. Is there a revolution in YOU?

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BUT are helping World Hoop Day in the process

Shop from July 1-July 7 in their Etsy store and get great deals on hoop goodies. $9.99 for cute hoop-centric shirts + tanks (originally $25-29) and 50% off buttons, stickers and accessories!

In addition, they’ll give 5% of all sales during this BLOWOUT to the World Hoop Day Organization! Fo sho ~ for every purchase you make, they’ll be able to help us give away hoops to children around the world!

SO you’ll get their cute hoopy goodies at a discount AND help children around the world discover the awesomeness of hooping. Sound good? Mmm hmm.

Please help by purchasing something, tweeting about the sale, or by sharing this sale on Facebook!

My name is Tisha Marina. I am professional hoop dancer, Bully Prevention Specialist and youth advocate. I would like to offer a call to action to my fellow hoopers. A call to action with the aid of World Hoop Day as a platform to educate and raise awareness.

The cause: Prevent and End bullying

Suicide is the third leading cause of death among young people in the United States. 2010, Mexico City, 109 kids took their lives to end bullying. The countries and numbers go on; these are just representations on how bullying is a world wide epidemic. Bullying is not just a school and family problem, it is a community problem. This is a call for all global citizens to take action. As many of you know, the movie BULLY is out and starting conversations. It does not mean the work is done. It has in fact, just begun. This is where we, the hoop community, can immediately step in.

I have been in over 88 schools across the country in the last few years, leading bully prevention workshops in schools. Through this time and experience, I have learned solutions needed to create safe schools for children. They are low cost and highly effective. There is no reason whatsoever that our children are fear for their lives when going to school and taking their own lives when we could be helping them.  What I have seen on this journey, as an educator is scary, life changing and too hard to look away. I am on a mission. I ask you to join me.

What we model as a hoop community is a powerful statement. We can gather at a hoop jam, all ages, sizes, and colors and get along. We can travel the world “couch surfing” with hoopers, having the hoop in common being simply enough to love each other from the start. We model what is possible in a classroom and on the play yard.

The positive energy alone cultivated by World Hoop Day is bound to bring love and peace into the hearts of our children and give them a reason to keep living. We can use this special day to raise awareness about the bullying epidemic serving our own communities, which ultimately serves the whole world.

I ask that we stand in solidarity on 12-12-12 for peace. Peace for the world, peace for families, peace for schools, peace for our children.

My intention is to personally be hooping in solidarity World Hoop Day on at the White house lawn. For the last 3 months I mail letters once a week to the following people: President Barack Obama, Bill, Secretary of Education, Lady Gaga (anti-bully supporter) and other important decision makers. I am asking for their support as well, along with their time to hear my solutions and experiences. I will now be available physically to be in their faces 12-12-12.

I have seen personal transformation take place in my anti-bully hoop workshops. I watch bullies and their victims let down the walls of those dynamics for a few minutes as they  “play” together. Again, evidence that the hoop is a tool for peace. Hooping brings down the hard exterior children must wear just to survive these days. For a few minutes, it gives them back their childhood they may have missed even though they are still children.

Our children enter the battlefield everyday. Even away from school, they are in the war of cyber-bullying. Our children are crying for our help and support.

I simply want to remind us of the powerful leaders we all are. By taking responsibility individually, we are better collectively. Imagine how we can shake up the consciousness of the world, as hoopers? 2012 is when we can hit them like nothing they have ever seen before. We have the opportunity to be a part of history my fellow hoopers.

Thank you for your time and dedication. I appreciate you.

Respectfully,

Tisha Marina

“If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other” Mother Teresa

*I am always available for any questions, comments, concerns, etc.

Email: change@preventbulyyingtoday.org

Start the SUPPORT HERE:

Every day in America, 160, 000 students stay home because they are too scared to got to school.  Your signature brings them that much closer to safety and right to their education.

http://www.change.org/petitions/stop-bullying-tell-congress-to-pass-the-safe-schools-improvement-act

The Safe Schools Improvement Act ( S.506 and H.R. 1648) will ensure that:

- Schools and districts have comprehensive and effective student conduct policies that include clear prohibitions regarding bullying and harassment, including LGBT youth;

- Schools and districts focus on effective prevention strategies and professional development designed to help school personnel meaningfully address issues associated with bullying and harassment;

- States and districts maintain and report data regarding incidents of bullying and harassment in order to inform the development of effective federal, state, and local policies that address these issues.

Don’t just be a signer — be an organizer. Turn your signature into hundreds more by asking your friends to sign. Then they’ll ask their friends. That’s how we win.  (Peace Alliance)