Geo Gaia Fire

Columbus, Oh

I have been practicing fire arts for over 4 years! My skills include (Hoop 4 years), Poi (5 years), Staff (3 years), Contact Fire (4years), and Fire Eating (4 years). Hooping is my passion, I love the feeling of being inside a hoop. I am excited to be teaching at Midwest Hoop Fest. I will also have quality fire tools for sale at MHF. I have been building fire tools for 4 years including hoops, poi, staff and more.

Groups I have worked with are Highjinks (Comm fest '06-07), The Ohio Burn Unit '07-09, Forged by fire '09-present.

I have performed at
  • 2006: Interfuse, Spring Wildfire, Columbus Community Festival, Summer Hookah
  • 2007: Spring WIldfire, Scorched Nuts, Community Festival, Grateful Fest, Summer Hookah, Jerry's birthday Bash, Midwest Raggae Fest, Fall Wildfire, Recipe Family Picnic, Gory at the Quarry
  • 2008: Classic Fest, RythmFest, Grateful Fest, Summer Hookah, Midwest Raggae Fest
  • 2009: NLQP Summer Kick Off, Spring Wildfire, Classic Fest, Grateful Fest, Transformus, Summer Hookah, Midwest Raggae Fest, Shammy Bash, Summerdance, Sand Sea & Spirit, Alchemy, Cincinati Art Institute Carnival fundraiser
  • 2010: Dream Girl Circus Party, Dream Girls Mardi Gras, Hookah in the Hills

Jeana GoGo

Columbus, Oh

I have been a belly dance instructor/performer for 8 years performing sword, candle, zills and balancing various things on my head. My mother said that I danced before I could walk and spent most of my adolescence in many different styles from street to formal dance. I’ve been a closet hooper for quite sometime and started a dedicated hoop practice in March of 2009 after a friend needed a goGo dancer for her burlesque show. I currently work at Equivita Fitness and have a studio in Clintonville, Ohio.










Lynn Spencer-Nelson
Hoop Instructor / Founder of IndyHoopers

Indianapolis, IN

I have been Hooping since March 2007 and I have been teaching in the Indianapolis area since February 2008. I primarily use The Hoop Path vocabulary in my teachings. I have taken classes/workshops with Jonathan Baxter, Ann Humphreys, Beth (Lavinder) Williams and Bonnie MacDougall of the Carrboro HP Tribe. I have also benefited greatly within the teachings of Brecken Rivara, Khan Wong, Carolyn (Caroleena) Mabry and Rebecca Hellemans. My beginner classes smell a great deal like Hoop Path but once a hooper gets to a certain skill set, the teachings become more uniquely my own. I currently have five evening classes to offer in the Indianapolis area and daytime classes coming this Fall. I also offer workshops, individuals and party packages for all ages.

I am also the founder of IndyHoopers in Indianapolis. Originally IndyHoopers was just a Myspace place. We offered the Five Lone Hoopers of Indiana at that time a forum to chat and plan to meet. IndyHoopers has evolved and changed and continues to do so. This year IndyHoopers is bringing The HoopPath with Baxter to Indianapolis with a few other national known companies in the works.

Interested in staying connected?
Visit us: www.indyhoopers.com

IndyHoopers Facebook Group

Or just visit me on my personal facebook