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So now that I am taking Peace Studies at Selkirk College, I have found ways that hula hooping, and movement arts in general can be used as a peacebuilding tool.  It allows for inner peace and transformation of the individual-- it also offers a way to transform relationships and get people out into the community together-- being co-creative beings.   It works on the individual and community level to create groups of people that have an evident mind/body/soul connection, or in other words, the freedom expressed through dance-- a way in which life has been celebrated all over the world, past many cultures and centuries.  
I am allowing the creatie self-expression in my life to inspire others (I hope) and am putting it to use in my courses at school.  I was asked to create a service-learning project that would help a community or person.  I decided that I wanted to team up with my friend Dana to offer free yoga/poi and hula hoop lessons once a week for 5 weeks straight.  We have been meeting up at Selkirk College in the gym (Castlegar) every friday at 530 ( til 7 pm).  All ages 14+ are welcome.  Please don't hesitate to bring a friend, we really love introducing the movement arts to as many people as we can! ;)

Further down the road, I will be going to the Philippines thanks to a scholarship I received from the Irving K. Barber Foundation.  There I will be learning at a Peacebuilding Institute in Mindanao and I will also be trying to implement a mini project that I have set for myself --- sourcing materials, constructing and giving away as many hoops as I can!