Product Description

Hoopdance is exercise, movement meditation, and an art form blending performance and fitness. Often called, 'the new yoga', It is a fun and graceful way to unwind and relieve stress while getting a total body workout.

Hoopdance increases your spinal flexibility, energizes your libido, and provides a great cardiovascular workout. It also tones your abs, thighs, and arms. Hooping is an excellent weight loss tool: Dynamic, high-energy hoopdance burns calories like aerobics or running.

As a dance form, hoopdance is about self-expression and self-discovery. It can be sexy and feminine, it can be edgy and mysteriously evocative, and it is always inclusive. Hoopdance is liberating and non-judgemental, because there is simply no wrong way to hoop.

The Hoop Dance Workout is designed for you by San Francisco's Christabel Zamor, aka HoopGirl, one of the pioneers of hoopdance, and a star fitness instructor certified by the American Aerobics and Fitness Association.

Christabel's program welcomes total beginners. It is safe and works the whole body through pleasurable movements. All ages, body types and ability levels welcome!

The workout begins with a warmup and continues non-stop! Christabel teaches the basics of hooping, including hoop recovery techniques and ways to control hoop speed. Each chapter which follows is based on a different movement pattern, mood, and visualizations. Drills alternate with the Dance Party sections, where you can play with creative expression. The workout also offers combinations where you can get in the groove and practice what you have learned.

Throughout the workout Christabel uses inspiring imagery and the motivational power of positive thoughts to make your experience uplifting and emotionally healing. As an added bonus, a costumed performance is included to inspire you to take your dance to the next level!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #22573 in DVD
• Released on: 2008-09-30
• Rating: Exempt
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Colour, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 60 minutes

Review
Firm Up Your Midriff and More!

By Alejandra Vernon, artist & illustrator, Long Beach, California (AMAZON.COM TOP 50 REVIEWER)

In this inventive exercise DVD you get cardiovascular fitness, strengthening and energizing, and you'll burn lots of calories once you get the technique of Hooping down pat. This DVD is for beginners through advanced, all ages, body types and ability levels will benefit from doing these movements.

The hoops used are professional weighted hoops, wrapped in friction tape (helps to stick 'em to your hips while hooping!)

Christabel Zamor is attractive and dynamic, and she gives us

an intro,

a warm-up,

How to Hoop,

Marching in Place,

Step-Touch,

Grapevine,

Dance Party 1, 2, and 3,

and Combinations which are essentially the Dance Party moves extended.

You'll also get a Cool Down and a fabulous performance where Christabel shows us the 101 things one can do dancing with a hoop.

If you haven't done this before you'll start to feel the burn on the inch you can pinch around your waist in the How to Hoop section, and as the DVD progresses, you can almost feel your midriff toning as you dance.

This is a superb exercise for your torso and especially your waist and hips, but you'll also get results for your shoulders, legs and arms.

Don't worry if you feel a little clumsy at first while you try to rotate the hoop and move your feet at the same time; with very little practice, you'll get the hang of it. The Dance Party moves are terrific, and once learned, you can do them to your favorite up-tempo music, and you can do it anywhere, as not that much room is required for this. A very few square feet in your living room will suffice, and you'll have a blast while you burn up all those calories. --Amazon.com (US)

About the Actor
With the help of HoopGirl hoops, Christabel Zamor transformed herself from a heavy-set, shy academic into a professional dance performer and fitness expert.

Since 2001, she has been teaching sell-out classes and performing internationally for clients such as Cirque du Soleil, Warner Brothers, and Universal Pictures. Christabel performs on television, in films and at concerts and does brand representation for trendsetting companies. She has instructed thousands of all ages and abilities and her innovative teacher training program is licensing HoopGirl® Workout teachers in England, Scotland, and Wales, as well as across the US, Canada, Japan, Germany, the Netherlands, and Costa Rica.

As an industry leader, she is committed to creating the most beautiful and professional hoopdance DVDs, hoops, and classes on the planet. She holds two graduate degrees and is certified by the Aerobics & Fitness Association of America as a Primary Group Exercise Instructor. Learn more at www.HoopGirl.com