Remembering Freedom...
Why I created the Sacred Circle Retreat…
My last hula hoop retreat (#5) was set to take place in Bali, Indonesia in March of 2020. My husband Ronnie and I had gotten married the previous summer and decided to tack on an ’international honeymoon’ prior to the retreat. After our honeymoon, the plan was that Ronnie would return home and I would stay to co-host a transformational Flow Arts retreat with some dear friends. After 2 glorious weeks of travel with my beloved, he returned home, and our team gathered to prepare for the upcoming magic. Just days before our opening circle would commence…. well, you all remember: LOCK DOWN🔓.
While the next part of the story is enthralling and worth the tell, it’s not the subject of this message, and therefore I will just say that miracles do happen and I was able to return home on my original flight.🪽
Fast forward and leaving out a ‘few things’ — here it is 2025 and I/we currently live on a retreat property in the Hill Country of Texas. Ronnie and I were blessed with the opportunity to step into stewardship of RUBY RETREATS, LLC - ‘a retreat enterprise that partners with soulful retreat leaders and hosts to craft meaningful and memorable journeys’ at our 100-acre nature sanctuary.🙌🏽
After over a year of living on this land and coming into focus with this new venture, I realized that I had accidentally shifted into the mold of modern day adulting. Too much time, effort and life force energy spent in my responsibilities, and minimal time spent free-flowing in my Spirit. I realized that to change the course of this pattern that I was enforcing, I needed to do something different, I needed an intervention. I thought about the times in my life where I could easily tap into the feeling of freedom, and still tend to my ongoing responsibilities, without them having to be mutually exclusive.
🪶 I realized that it all came back to the Sacred Hoop.
There was a time in my life where everywhere and everyone in my life involved hooping in some capacity. I was either learning, teaching or practicing hoop on a daily basis. The ripple effect of this Sacred Circle was undeniable and it profoundly influenced over a decade of my life.
After working through some personal regret in letting so much time pass, I dusted off my hoop, turned on some music, and let myself get acquainted with my old friend.
Immediately, as I looked around my surroundings, I could visualize and see yoga mats laid out in the Yoga Barn along with a Sacred Circle of hula hoops. I immediately knew that I needed to teach hoop dance again and test the waters to see if my new Texas community had a taste for this. So I put together a 4-part Summer Series that included Yoga | Hoop | + Cold Plunge. Admittedly, to my surprise, every class was FULL!
Such a beautiful community came together - some joined for the whole series, some came for just one, and others enjoyed the drop-in so much that they returned for round #2! A little ‘Flow Kula’ was born this summer ♡.
After witnessing for the 100th time, the magic that unfolds when sharing the art of Hula Hooping/ Hoop Dance inside of a sacred container, I knew I needed to expand on this. Too many people need an outlet, an intervention, and a loving container to hold them. So without hesitation, I began getting to work in outlining the Sacred Circle Retreat.
Now mind you, this form of play is not a simple, twirl-around-the-waist for many adults (upon beginning at least). It takes practice, concentration and fortitude to keep this plastic tube whirling. However, it’s within the challenge that something begins to unlock. A new space within arises. Concentration heightens. Determination sharpens. The ‘Flow State’ emerges.
I am inspired to invite you to join me in this space, a container I created because even when life is full, hard, challenging, uncertain, uncomfortable, tragic, or terrifying, we still need joy, play, and sacred outlets. These outlets remind us of what it feels like to be free, and that there is still sweetness, love, and life to be lived.
Will you join us?
♡, Tracy
Join us for the SACRED CIRCLE RETREAT
November 7-9th in Wimberley, TX!
Our little ‘Flow Kula’
Embodied Play Workshop Summer Series 2025
