SEPTEMBER 2027 INSTRUCTORS
ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR:
Nicole has been hooping and performing since 2010, but her love for hooping was re-ignited during the pandemic. She started attending hoop retreats in 2022 and quickly became an inclusive, warm and inviting member of the hoop community. Drawing from her professional experience in yoga and mental health, she brings an understanding of anatomy into her teaching and strives to create an affirming and encouraging space for all bodies. Whether she is helping students explore single hoop movements or the dynamic art of doubles, Nicole’s goal is to help everyone build confidence, grace, and a flow. She has helped people nail difficult tricks and have “ah-ha” moments while teaching at festivals, yoga studios, at flow jams and through her Instagram tutorials.
WORKSHOPS:
Goddess Pop and Lock it! -
It is time to channel your inner goddess and elevate your flow in this twin hoop workshop! Join me in this workshop dedicated to fluid movement, clean technique, and serious sass. We will break down the mechanics of flowing in both directions and mastering your hoop grips for foundational patterns like the goddess machine and hip reels. We will cap it all off with a sharp, sassy hoop lock that is perfect for your next performance or video! Great for all levels.
Double Hoop Hybrids -
Level up your twin hoop game with a fresh, dynamic choreography sequence that is guaranteed to wow! In this workshop, we are fusing technical precision with fluid movement to create a high-impact double hoop combo you will love showing off. We’ll learn scoops, swoops, a few technical movements and learn to shift planes smoothly. Piece these concepts together into a complete, repeatable flow sequence. This class is perfect for intermediate double hoopers.
ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR:
Laura Gutiérrez is a professional hula hoop teacher and performer, and also a psychologist who has been practicing hoop dance for over seven years. What began as a creative outlet quickly became a transformative movement practice that allowed her to reconnect with dance, self-expression, and a deeper relationship with her body. Since then, she has dedicated herself to exploring the intersection of hoop dance, movement, creativity, and personal growth. Laura is the founder of Hula Hoop Academy, a pedagogical project created to make hoop dance more accessible and empowering for others, particularly women and gender-diverse communities. Through her teaching, she combines technical skill development with body awareness, creative exploration, and movement practices that encourage confidence, self-expression, and a more compassionate connection with oneself. For the past five years, she has also worked as a performer and creative director with Orbit Performance, a company specializing in LED and fire performances. Through this work, she has explored multiple forms of stage creation and collaborative performance, including the development of Interstellar, a 40-minute multidisciplinary production. Passionate about lifelong learning, Laura continues to expand her practice through workshops and training in hoop dance, circus arts, dance, and movement education. Her background in psychology deeply informs her teaching style, helping her create supportive, playful, and meaningful learning experiences where technique and authentic expression can grow together.
WORKSHOPS:
Spiral Pathways -
This workshop is designed for hoopers who want to expand their hoop flow through the exploration of coin flips, rolls, and circular movement patterns. Rather than focusing on isolated tricks, participants will learn how to transform technical elements into smooth, connected movement. We will explore a variety of coin flip entries, exits, and transitions which can be done in all parts of your body, along with back rolls, elbow rolls, chest rolls, palm rolls, and other rotational concepts that create dynamic and effortless-looking flow. Students will learn ways to link these elements together, develop fluid pathways around the body, and create seamless transitions that can be incorporated into their own style. This workshop is accessible to all levels, as options and progressions will be offered for beginners while more experienced hoopers will be challenged with creative variations and combinations. The focus will be on curiosity, exploration, and discovering new ways to move with your hoop and playing with all of this elements. Participants will leave with new technical tools, creative transition ideas, and a deeper understanding of how to build continuous, organic flow with one or two hoops.
Flow Architecture -
This workshop focuses on bridging the gap between individual tricks and continuous flow. Participants will explore how to connect movements smoothly and intentionally, transforming isolated techniques into cohesive sequences that feel natural and expressive. Using both one and two hoops, we will break down a variety of transitions, directional changes, pathways, and movement concepts that help create seamless flow. Students will learn practical tools for linking tricks together, maintaining momentum, and developing movement patterns that can be adapted to their own style. Suitable for a range of skill levels, this workshop emphasizes fluidity, creativity, and understanding the "why" behind transitions, helping hoopers build confidence in creating longer combinations and freestyle movement.
ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR:
Jane Ames, AKA Jane of Arc, is a hooper and aerialist based out of Boston, MA. Since 2019 she’s been growing her hoop practice and diving deeper into the flow community. She’s also performed as a solo and duo trapeze artist and relishes any opportunity to perform in public. She brings her circus and burlesque background to bear on her hooping, which always leads to interesting results! As a longtime supporter and attendee at Oasis Hoop Retreat, she is thrilled to join as a first-time teacher.
WORKSHOPS:
HOOPlesque -
After this workshop, participants will walk away with five concrete techniques to make their hoop practice, and in fact, any flow practice, more sensual and/or erotic. We will learn a basic hoop sequence and then enhance it with burlesque techniques to illustrate how details can give life to even simple sequences, and help unlock each individual's personal expression. At the end we'll have a few people show us what they came up with and celebrate each person's HOOPlesque style!
On Body-ody-ody -
There is a heavy emphasis on off-body tricks and techniques in the hooping world, and this workshop will bring us down a path towards on-body work and sustaining an on-body flow. First we'll work on breaks, paddles, and wedgies to build up a vocabulary for our on-body flow. Then we'll learn how to keep things moving: what about when the hoop goes wonky from a break? What if I feel it slipping down my body, how do I "save" it? What are some helpful transitions to get back into on-body flow when I need to reset? We'll explore all of these together and end with a mini flow jam to music, challenging ourselves to keep the hoop on our bodies as long as possible.
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ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR:
Brandin AKA Guapoh is a Detroit based flow artist and international instructor who has been practicing and teaching for 11 years within the hula hoop community. Brandin's style is not only technically flawless it also is filled with musicality and fluidity that will leave you wanting more. The goal of his classes are for everyone to feel included and challenged at the same time while feeling safe enough to learn and explore in a vulnerable environment. The teaching doesn't stop at the end of the workshop, he is always happy to go above and beyond to help attendees learn in between classes during Oasis. His infectious energy carries throughout the retreat and builds confidence in everyone beyond leaving the retreat space. Teaching his dynamic moves, everyone is sure to walk away with something new after a class with Guapoh!
WORKSHOPS:
I ain't scared of no ghost! -
A workshop all about ghosting! In this workshop we will the covering the fundamentals of ghosting, isolations and the illusions that are created within these tricks. While ghosting moves can seem very advanced, we are going to break them down in a way that will allow students to conquer their fear of ghosts and master these illusions. This class is for ALL levels of hooping and has moments of adventure to choose your level of difficulty within the class.
HOOP! There is twins! -
Join Guapoh for a twin hoop class consisting of his favorite moves and fundamental tricks. This class will consist of some brain twisters to get both sides of the brain working while are hands and arms are doing some cool tricks! Guapoh will break down each hoop in real time to help us understand the core of each move. This class is a great pathway into twin hoop manipulation and will help build confidence towards mastering more than one hoop. Whether you are comfortable with double hoops or are just starting out, this class has something for all levels of hoopers!
ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR:
Since she was a kid, Mary expressed her love for movement through play and sports, and competed nationally in artistic gymnastics. After having to stop due to multiple injuries and surgeries, she discovered her love for flow arts and hula hooping in 2018. Since then, she has developed a style that combines advanced trick variations, smooth transitions and dancey choreos, and she's on a mission to share all her knowledge to the hula hoop and flow arts community. She has has taught in multiple conventions all around the world and she's also the organizer of Naples Hula Hoop Gathering, the biggest hoop retreat in Italy.
WORKSHOPS:
Isopops - Exploring lines and space -
In this intensive workshop, we will dive into an exploration of one of the tricks we first learn as hoopers - the isopop. After exploring the basic mechanics with one and two hoops, we will learn how to use them to move dinamically into space. We will learn a lot of unique variations and combos that will showcase the versatility of this trick. It will be multi-leveled, so all hoopers are welcome to join!
Translating planes -
Did I graduate in languages just to be translating planes? Maybe 🎓 This workshop invites you to think outside the box by “translating” tricks and combos that are more conventionally done in the vertical plane into the horizontal plane, and vice versa. We will start by exploring the concept in general, playing with very beginner-friendly tricks; then we’ll move on to learning a longer combo, shown in both the vertical and horizontal planes. The moves will be broken down into small details so that they can be accessible to all levels. Useful prerequisites are the chest roll and the vortex, but you can definitely still come to class if you’re not super comfortable with them yet. Alternatives to these tricks will be shown in class if necessary. Grab your favourite off-body hoop in a size that allows you to do tricks like chest rolls, vortexes, elbow hooping, and neck hooping.