Nayeli Michelle
is an evolutionary revolutionary schooled in the arts of yoga, dance, flow, ecology, earth-based spirituality and natural living. Her mission is to connect people to themselves, to each other, and to the beauty of the world we live in through playful and sacred experience. A yoga teacher for nearly a decade, she looks for ways to integrate the sensitivity and unifying consciousness of yoga practice into living in the world in a harmonious, sustainable and creative way.

Michelle has been a mover her whole life --ballet, jazz, swimming, biking, dancing, roller skating, modern dance, Capoeira, aerial circus arts, psychosomatics, and 15 years of yoga practice with in depth studies in Ashtanga Vinyasa, Iyengar, Therapeutic, Forrest, Anusara, AcroYoga, and Prana Vinyasa Flow Yogas. Guided by her love of Nature, Michelle earned her degree from UCSD in Ecology and Evolution, and like so many in the coming generations, she feels the deep desire and responsibility to heal earth and human hearts however she can.

Nayeli Michelle is grateful for the first generation of HoopDancers who have paved the way for this child's toy of memory to become a tool for self-expression and radiant health, as it has transformed her life in tremendous ways. Drawing from her experience as a teacher, lifelong student, somatic educator, and fearless explorer of moving through the world, Michelle unites ancient wisdom, symbology, and philosophy with current discoveries of the pulsing spiral nature of creation as well as the power of our own emotions and experience to (re)create reality. We're all part of the circle! Contact Her

Merlin
is a lover of Life, of freedom and fantasy, of Nature, of Play, of games, sports, movement, toys and ideas. He is a disciple of the Tao. (Are not we all?). He has been facilitating dance-jams for the last 7 years, has put in tens of thousands of hours as a therapist (teacher, spiritual counselor, and bodyworker). Merlin made the first luminous table tennis game at Oxford University in the 60s and got his Masters from there in Natural Sciences.... His love of hoops began 7 years ago. Hoops and hooping offer him the opportunity to integrate the techniques and principles of the diverse disciplines he has studied and practiced - spiritual, mental, emotional, physical, personal and collective....

Merlin has the blessing of having had (or imagined?) future lives He is quite old. Contact Merlin

Here is his psi-o-bio:

Born Brasil to life of bliss
Nature spirit shared her kiss
Started way before you born
White haired wizard lights the dawn
Got degrees in some weird science
Therapy and non-compliance
Spiral pathways he does roam
Laughter is his way back home
Psi-chedelic inspiration
Making hoops his meditation
Play his method feeling free
Dance his dream and melodeee….

Ouroboros
Our third and unseen (but not unfelt) facilitator is the archetype and presence of Ouroboros: ( the following description of Ouroboros is from Wikipedia, and you can use the wikipedia page/google to delve deeper into this).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouroboros


The Ouroboros, also spelled Ourorboros, Oroborus, Uroboros or Uroborus, ( pronounced with an ancient greek brogue ?) is an ancient symbol depicting a serpent or dragon swallowing Her own tail and forming a circle. It has been used to represent many things over the ages. It most generally symbolizes ideas of cyclicality, unity, or infinity, and has an archetypical significance to the human psyche.


The depiction of the serpent is believed to have been inspired by the Milky Way, as some ancient texts refer to a serpent of light residing in the heavens. We are inviting Her to facilitate in our humble jam here on Earth, and she seems to have agreed, her message being:

"The Love returning
Re-turning the Love"

We are putting Ouroborus in charge of all details, worries and complaints during the 5 days of the jam , and I believe She understands the hoop as language, so talk with Her! Of course She would also love to play and frolic in the fun, and encourage you to hoop with your whole being.