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Next session dates: January 22nd & 23rd 2010

Become a certified hoopdance instructor.  Share the joy of hoopdance with the world.  Learn how to explain the fundamental hoop moves to beginners in a safe and effective way.  Learn how to plan a class, select music, teach challenging hoop moves, motivate your students to achieve their fitness goals and educate and to avoid injury.

Dive right in to the community, learn to teach and share this amazing art form called hooping. The IHOOPU teacher training program is a comprehensive program.  The training occurs in one intensive weekend with IHOOPU founder Rebecca Halls. Throughout the course of this intensive weekend you will go through all of the beginner hoop moves in detail; Together we will break down the how to and the why, and learning about anatomy relative to hooping. Day two is practical, you will develop your communication & observation skills and also learning how to integrate the vocabulary of hoop dance teaching, and of course troubleshooting.

Optional Internship Program:

The intensive weekend is followed by an OPTIONAL 4 week internship period where you will shadow a certified IHOOPU instructor.  You will begin by observing their classes and eventually by the end of the 4 weeks you will assist the certified teacher and teach a segment of their class.  At the end of each class the certified teacher will provide feedback to you, so that you can learn how to improve on your teaching.  Upon the completion of the 4 week internship you will write your exam. The exam consists of a 2 hour written segment based the IHOOPU teacher training manual and what you learned in the intensive weekend, followed by a 1-hour practical exam in which you will teach new hoopers the IHOOPU fundamentals.