Jocelyn Gordon - Creator of HoopYogini™, Professional Hoop Dancer & Master Level Instructor Life Coach, facilitating Transformation through Dance, Conscious Movement and Fun

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I met Jocelyn Gordon on the night of "Nyepi", New Years Eve in Bali. Around 11pm, hundreds of people made their way to the Monkey Forest in Ubud to watch the burning of the Ogah Ogah - ceremonial monsters that had been created for Nyepi. I saw Jocelyn, a tall, dark-skinned, svelte goddess with a long feather earring. I commented on her earring and we began chatting. She was teaching some sort of hula hoop yoga class at the Bali Spirit Festival, and came across as incredibly deep, emotionally centered and wise well beyond her years.


After the Ogah-burning, we somehow managed to get 4 people on her friends motorbike ( totally not safe, but totally fun and very funny ), and made our way out for drinks. Speaking with Jocelyn more, I found that this woman is truly unique in the craft that she has invented and teaches: HoopYogini.


My next exchange with Jocelyn was at the Bali Spirit Festival teaching her HoopYogini class. Although I am absolutely no expert with a hula-hoop, I joined, and within 5 minutes, I had it down pat! The secret is back and forth! Not circles!! Who knew?! And man it looks and FEELS so good. Hooping is sexy. After teaching at the Bali Spirit Festival, Jocelyn taught at the "Sacred Circularities" workshop in Ubud.


Jocelyn combines yoga and stretching with hula hooping in a truly unique and original exercise that is her own beautiful creation. On top of the amazing workout HoopYogini™ this gives you, Jocelyn is also a life coach and "Theta" healer, Her voice is soothing. Her words are inspiring. She is on top of her game and is going to achieve so much in her lifetime. I know Jocelyn will help many people around the world through her creative, positive and loving pursuits.


Check out her interview below the photos. Her website with audio recordings and videos and more are featured at the bottom of the post.


Jocelyn, you are such a beautiful woman. Inside and out. Thank you so much for sharing your beautiful world with me.  "You and I Verse" :) <3

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Jocelyn with Oscar winning actress Marisa Tomei on the set of HoopBody DVD  - Filming produced by Gaiam

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K: How old are you?


J: Really, do I have to answer this one? I prefer the question "What is your chronological age in this current incarnation?" I generally like to ask others their guestimation of my age... The general consensus is 26 (in this current incarnation, I've had about a decade more of time on this planet:)


K: Where were you born? 


J: I was born in Hamilton, Bermuda. Yes, I survived The Bermuda Triangle.


K: When and where did you start practicing yoga? 


J: New York Cit Baby! 1997 at Crunch Fitness in SoHo. It was a Jivamukti style class. Shortly thereafter, I started practicing at the Jivamukti Yoga Center (located at that time at Astor Pl). At the same time I was studying pan-African dance particularly Afro-Haitian and Samba (my favorite!!!..by the way, Samba means "to pray".) I was also working in the entertainment industry doing marketing, product placement and assisting a few friends who were fashion stylists. It was a fun time and also a confusing time as I was uncertain as to where I wanted to invest my talents. Yoga and dance helped me remember that I've always been interested in the healing arts. Now, I have the pleasure and the opportunity to combine the movement arts and media. My first HoopYogini™ instructional DVD is in post-production.


K: Tell me about incorporating hoop into your yoga.... What was the first experience you had doing this? Was it an epiphany? 


J: Through my training as a Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapist, breath awareness (especially through the Three Part Breath aka Durga Pranayam) became an emphasis of my daily practice. In warm-ups with the hoop - inhaling and lifting the hoop and then exhaling and bringing the hoop back down to the thigh area - I observed how the circle of the hoop mirrors the circular nature of our breath. I then started exploring that link while hooping on the core. Combined with my experience as a Massage Therapist and Instructor, I noticed how the hoop massages the core and provides a kinesthetic (felt sense) anchor for receiving and releasing. Then, I moved the hoop up to my diaphragm and massaged this amazing flat muscle that is a major player in our respiration. Onwards and upwards to the chest area to expand the lungs and the energetic heart.


The hoop combines my loves and long time paths of study ~ dance, yoga, meditation and massage. HoopYogini™ is a holistic expression to assist the practitioner in deepening a connection to her breath, strengthening her core, and liberating her dreams through expressive movement. All this allows her to release tension in the body mind, clear her energetic space, discover and listen to her inner teacher and thus allow the life of her dreams to unfold with grace and ease. The practice also provides huge therapeutic benefit to other systems of the body (keeps the spine flexible, tones the muscles, assists circulation, etc).


K: How related is HoopYogini™ to you and the universe? You say in class, "be in your own universe." Please explain what this means to you and what you would like to share with people. 


J: Thank you for this question. "Stand in the center of your personal Universe..." That's somewhat of an opening invocation of the practice. This simply means "get connected." "....Plant your feet (our whatever is the physical root of your posture) and stand in the center. Assume a posture of being centered, alert and present." I also add "where it's all about you." I mean that in a non-selfish way basically to communicate that from our own perspective we navigate through the world and our relationships.


Pay attention and be mindful are the foundational messages of this invocation. It also acknowledges the Universe within and throughout which we are moving through - again from our own perspective - as we seek a unified awareness. We are our own Universe (Or as a friend shares it ~ You and I Verse). This cue also relates to the Shiva Shakti illustration where Shiva is in the center and IS The Center. He is unmoving as he observes the dynamic play (movements) of Shakti.


One more thing, everything in the Universe spins (Shakti!). It's natural. We're all Spinners (ha ha!). This is why hooping feels so good. It a sensual and obvious expression of what is happening within and throughout. It's organic. It's the way things are....This is sacred geometry made simple. Some folks come to hooping for weight loss (hooping burns 400 - 600 calories an hour!). Some for stress relief and emotional balance. Others for self-expression. We all return (re-turn...get it? :) because it feels good!!!!


K: Where do you see yourself in a year? What about 10 years? 


J: One Year: Right now, I'm visioning myself in Bali! With Bali as my SEA base to then share HoopYogini™ and life transformation through dance with Beings in Australia, Singapore and beyond. I'm leading my HoopYogini™ Holistic Fitness & Embodied Leadership Training in the US, Asia and more which includes a high-quality online mentoring program and three instructional DVDs/audio visual media offerings.


I'm modeling for and sponsored by conscious businesses and clothing lines, as well as manifesting my own longtime dream to create a "studio to street" line of wearable art. My daughter and I have a great relationship ( she's 11 years old now) and we are both optimally healthy, radiant and relaxed.


In ten years... Wow, thanks again for this one: Through HoopYogini™, Bhakti Boogie® and other life dance art expressions, I've helped thousands liberate themselves from TraumaDrama (the stories and experiences that restrict our true potential and ability to be in full service and flow to and with the Universe). (I too am fully released from the TraumaDrama.) My daughter, mother and I relate fabulously and co-create many beautiful experiences together.


 I'm mentoring emerging and expanding movement education leaders. I am financially free and fully present to play on this great planet anchoring with ease the reality of Heaven on Earth for all Beings. I have homes and community in Bali, Brazil and the San Francisco Bay area (I like 'B' places). I am content, relaxed, optimally healthy and radiant in every moment.


K: Please tell me about your latest venture: Theta Healing 


J: Theta Healing ("downloaded" by Vianna Stibal) shows you how to go inwards and upwards to Source (Creator, Great Spirit, Goddess, God, All that Is, Oneness...however you see "IT") to then "see" on all levels - physically, mentally, emotionally, energetically, spiritually - what needs to be healed. The practice empowers all Beings to be in direct communication and presence with Source (whereas many religions tell us we require an intermediary), and from this relationship thus experience non-duality and know that all things are possible.


Here are just a few things the practitioner is reminded that they can "do" and with permission, co-create for a receiver of Theta Healing: Clear the energetic space of anyone or anything not in their highest and best interest Download feelings and definitions of feelings (as defined by Source) such as the feeling of Unconditional Love and or the Creator's definition of Unconditional Love Repair and heal the aura Open and align the chakras, Activate DNA, Communicate with DNA and all systems to allow for hormonal balance and optimal health Remove erroneous belief systems and replace them with truth programs. I had my first experience with Theta Healing last July at the Wanderlust Festival (epic!) in Squaw Valley. An amazing woman intuitively shared that I would really connect with the practice and that she saw me getting really involved with sharing it on the planet.


I then had a 15 minute session with Alexis Lovemonster, my Theta Healing teacher. The session covered erroneous beliefs that were running the show (ie the operating system controlling my computer of daily thoughts and actions) in regards to my relationship with my mother, my relationship to mothering and my relationship to men. Hello!!!! Fifteen minutes and I got some serious downloads which have liberated my awareness in many ways. I then became a Theta Healing Practitioner and while in the training realized how broad the practice is.


During my recent working vacation in Bali, I had the pleasure and opportunity to give over twenty sessions. Theta Healing is such an amazing practice to witness and allow. I'm so grateful for the folks who gave me permission to enter their energetic space, "see" and witness profound healing and awareness in their lives and subconscious. Theta Healing is broad, however, it appears that I have a knack for Future Readings, Soul Fragment Retrievals, emotional balancing and clearing the energy field, as well as, infusing the energy field and chakras with truth affirmations.


For myself, I go into Theta daily to facilitate the above bulleted points. The practice assists me greatly in trusting my intuitive abilities, seeing "The Big Picture" in difficult situations, aligning myself with the will of Spirit, and on a very practical level, has helped me get to sleep on restless nights. I'm available for in-person and phone/Skype Theta Healing Sessions. They are 30 - 60 minutes at the rate of $55 per half hour. I am also open to barters and exchanges that are beautifully aligned for both parties.




Be Well!
Jocelyn
Ecstatic Embodiment Expert & Coach Professional Hoop Dancer & Master Level Instructor Creator of HoopYogini™ , Bhakti Boogie® & Lovers Rock® Dance Heaven on Earth


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