HoopChi, a combination of dance and Tai Chi-inspired movements with a hoop, founded by Betty Lucas. Contact us to bring HoopChi to your city. Visit our events to purchase a HoopChi workshop ticket. HoopChi Teacher Training Details
In HoopChi, rather than spinning the hoop around your waist, HoopChi moves the hoop off your body using the frame of the hoop to stretch and tone your muscles through a series of sequential movements. HoopChi FAQs
You can practice the movements in a slow, more meditative fashion, or speed the movements up and turn HoopChi into a dance. In addition to improving your posture and balance, practicing each movement also exercises your mind and keeps your joints fluid. For a computer focused, sedentary society, HoopChi is an energizing, toning experience not to be missed! HoopChi also provides hoop dancers new moves and pacing to incorporate into their dance. HoopChi Photos: DC,BEND, PORTLAND, EUGENE, SANTA CRUZ, HOUSTON, TOKYO, VENICE, BAHAMAS
Have Hoops, will travel
HoopChi Background Developed by Betty Lucas over a period of years, HoopChi™ draws on her background as a ballroom dance and certified hooping instructor and integrates her innovative use of Tai Chi-inspired movements. The result is HoopChi™, a blend of dance and Tai Chi-inspired movements with a hoop. Rather than spinning the hoop around your waist, HoopChi™ moves the hoop off the body to tone and strengthen your arms, shoulders, thighs, waist and other parts of your body. The sequence of movements in this low-impact, weight-bearing exercise also can help improve or maintain balance, posture, mental acuity and joint fluidity. Betty Lucas has taught HoopChi™ in the United States, Bali, Sri Lanka and the Maldives. In March 2011 Lucas launched a new U.S. tour in which she is teaching HoopChi™ across the country in five states, with more being added.
Testmonials:
"Finding an exercise program you can stick to and enjoy is critical to health in our modern world. HoopChi is fun and challenging, and can be made to work for any level of fitness. It can improve balance, muscle tone and strength. It can increase flexibility and help maintain joint health. And it takes the boredom out of repetitive exercise. It's more like playing. Why not enjoy movement and get healthy at the same time? Judith Hanson Lasater, PhD, San Francisco, CA
"HoopChi is great for those seeking an alternative to Yoga or Pilates, also excellent for tennis players, golfers and officers workers. Your workshop helped validate that HoopChi is for me." Janet, Alexandria, VA
"Something about HoopChi really moves me. I don't know what it is. I feel connected to my core." Sally. Alameda, CA
"I really like the gentleness and spirituality in your hoop flow, since it is aligned with how I typically move. I don't find many hoopers 50+ years in age on the Web. Thanks for helping show aging Boomers an exercise alternative to body-punishing activities such as jogging (and any sport with "x-treme" as part of the description). Tim, Round Rock, TX
In HoopChi, rather than spinning the hoop around your waist, HoopChi moves the hoop off your body using the frame of the hoop to stretch and tone your muscles through a series of sequential movements. 
