Kathryn Thessman

Ryn first taught and performed at Luminate 2012 and is excited to be returning for 2013! She has been involved in fire spinning and performances since 2009 and first started hooping three years ago. Ryn has taught workshops at Luminate, Kiwiburn, NZ Hoopfest and Circulation and will be 

running classes in Wellington before Luminate. She has performed at Luminate and Rhythm and Vines as well as various carnivals and festivals.

Ryn presents the following workshops:

Spin with Ryn!

Beginners Hoop – workshop best in the morning for kids as the tricks taught to beginner kids and adults are slightly different.

HOOP101

This is a to beginners hoop workshop aimed at adults who are new to hooping, or haven’t even done it before! Skills taught include waist hooping, moving the hoop from waist to hands and a number of hand hoop tricks including extensions, helicoptors and jump throughs! This workshop aims to enable freedom of movement and dance with hoop

Intermediate hoop: This workshops aims to cater for people who already have a hold of the basics of hooping and want to advance their skills. Skills taught are chest and shoulder hooping, walk throughs and continuous walk throughs, elbow hooping, isolations, breaks, flowers, barrel rolls and loads more!