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people from every walk of life togeth- er,” Goldstein says. “It has a spiritual side, a business side and a healthy side, and I’ve seen how many young people who used to feel isolated and without direction are now hooping and living life to its fullest.” Highlights of her feel good fi lm in-
clude appearances by Michelle Obama and Shaquille O’Neal, plus intimate portraits of eight hoopers from around the world. “The essence of the fi lm,” says Goldstein, “is about fi nding something you love and taking the risk to give it all you’ve got.”
After discovering hooping, Anah
Reichenbach, aka “Hoopalicious,” a California-based dancer and hooper in the fi lm, started making and selling inno- vative hoops on her own. She now offers a hoop mentor certifi cation program through hooping workshops nationwide. “Beyond being an incredible core workout,” Reichenbach says, “hooping can become an all-body, cardiovascular workout.” Other benefi ts she’s observed fi rst-hand extend to increased calm and peacefulness, happiness and even more personal compassion.
As a movement, the hoop has be-
come a widespread symbol for individu- als’ willingness to be free and playful as adults as well as show that they care about community; people unite around the rhythm and creativity. “You really can transcend yourself if you let yourself go with the hoop,” remarks Goldstein. “Even if you have no rhythm, you get it with a hoop.”
Ellen Mahoney teaches writ- ing at the University of Colo-
rado, Boulder. Email evm@ infi
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