I’m Michelle Verhoeks / FlowMies, flow artist and hoop coach. In 2015, I discovered my passion for hooping. First seen, it looked like magic and blew my mind. Almost a year later I grabbed my old children’s hoop at home and gradually started hooping from waist to chest. From that moment, my hoop journey had begun. Times of secretly dancing at my safe space home in a small room changed to flowing free outside every day and performing in front of large publics. For me, hooping is a movement meditation and to form a unity with my body. Dancing with the hoop gives me joy and can bring me into a state of ecstasy.
This form of expression brought me so many positive things in life which I do not want to keep for myself. 2017 I founded FlowMies and started giving hoop classes and performances. It gives me energy guiding people to discover their flow and body language with this unique circular tool. Over the years, my teachings expanded to workshop tours in the Netherlands & Germany and international hoop events like SWhoop(Bristol, UK) and Heart&HoopDance Retreat (Bladel, NL).
In my own practice, I explore my boundaries by dancing with fire, new flow tools and body paint. This results in colourful UV body paint, LED and fire performances which I share with pleasure on diverse stages. These were shown at stages like Elements (Copenhagen), Psy-fi Festival, My Baby (Tivoli Vredenburg) and Van Abbemueum Eindhoven.
It makes me happy to spread the hoop love and to keep sharing these unique movement arts. Look around at the website for FlowMies dynamic videos, shows and the schedule with workshops, weekly hoop classes in Eindhoven & online.
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Feel free to contact me at hoopdance@flowmies.nl for cool collaborations, questions or bookings for shows and workshops!
