here i am driving (and taking a selfie) to pick up a 5 foot diameter rug that i purchased on fb marketplace. the rug will create the definitive space that will be the dance studio in my house, the new house i just moved into with my new partner and my two teens. i need to carve out this space for my dance practice. every home needs a place to dance.
who am i and what am i about?
my name is meghan angela. i picked up the hoop in 2012 after i birthed my children. my daughter was almost 2 years old, my son almost 5.
i needed to crack myself open. the children coming out of me started the process. during childbirth the image of the spiral in my minds eye got me through and them through me. i hadn’t yet met the hoop but when we did in 2012 we knew each other right away and it spins me ever open. it’s always moving me and changing me. this must be the way the earth feels running around the sun all of the time. this must be why saturn has his rings.
the centrifugal force shaped me into what i had been before the conditions barred me from the real spirit of me. those conditions are the conditions of all of us – freedom stifled by a mountain of shoulds.
in all the years of spinning all the shit that wasn’t mine blew off me by way of natural force. this matters because i was shy once, i couldn’t speak my heart and mind nor express what my body had to say before the hoop pushed me into the black abyss that was the unexplored territory of my souls joy.
now i am free and can speak and spin with the fear fallen away. now i discern, and i love as a lifeway.
i am about freedom. i am about living inside of life and choosing ALIVENESS. the hoop has uncovered how grand it feels to be human in a body. how strong i am, how graceful, how unfettered. you are no different.
this matters because i want to share with you how to access this openness, i want to share what i know to be good, true and beautiful about living in human form because you have, like me, been gifted a human life and human form and moving from the inside of yourself into the outside is joyful embodiement, is real, and unlocks the inherent glorious light that you are, radiating like the sun.
after all, we are all on fire.
are we not here to burn?
other things you might like to know about me:
i am a 43 year old woman who is recreating myself after divorcing a someone who couldn’t love themselves nor I.
for many years when my children were young i homeschooled them, lived in a schoolbus that was a tiny home off grid in the backwoods
i grew a huge sustenance garden, i danced, learned reiki, home butchering, astrology and boundaries.
i became a community herbalist, created my own business – an herb farm and apothecary – and made medicines and sold them at my local farmers market and created an herbal CSA
when my children became young teens the shit hit the fan in my marriage and i left, and left my farm and business. what needed to grow was being blocked. i waited too long to leave. i learned so much.
i met my new partner playing on a local softball team. he taught me how to white water paddle, cross country ski and what it means to be actually loved and to feel safe and like i belong.
now i am teaching hoop to a fabulously courageous group of 50+ women in a church basement in the small town of perth, ontario. i’ve been dancing all through this and teaching here and there but now i want to dance more and teach more and share this art form that has so enriched my life. i live in an actual house with power and we have 2 chickens, one white and one black and live just outside of town, witch style. we have a dog named Rusty and a creamy orange coloured cat, who goes by Augustine and a garden and beautiful trees.
i am also a practicing astrologer in the ancient hellenistic tradition. if you’re curious you can find me @megastrology on instagram. i offer natal chart readings, health readings and herbal remediations.
back to the hoop + me: i’ve been blessed to have had the opportunity to learn from the masters and original innovators of the modern hoop dance movement – Anah ‘hoopalicious’, Shakti Sunfire, Jonathan ‘Baxter’, Beth Lavinder, Lisa Lottie, Brecken Rivara, Anne Humphries to name a few. I’ve completed my elemental hoop dance teacher training with Shakti Sunfire in 2014 and attended the Toronto hoop collective conference in 2022. I’ve taught kids + adults in various forms: class series, workshops, arts camps, music festivals and in local elementary schools and have hosted a free community hoop jam locally for years. I practice as much as I can and when I am committed on the daily – it helps me feel so much more connected to my core self – no pun intended. but yes my core is strong and as a result i can stand nice and tall like the pine trees in my yard.
Elemental Hoop Dance 