About Us
HoopShine
Staff
As HoopShine Agents, we are passionate about bringing out
the brilliance in our students. We commit to creating a
space that is an affirming, supportive, and safe
container in which you can reveal your unique genius. We
consider the hoop a powerful tool that offers: awareness,
connection, and joyful boundaries. We commit to serving
you in the best way possible.
Candice
Schutter
HoopShine
Founder, Nia™
Black Belt, HoopGirl™
Master Trainer
Candice's class is inspiring, empowering, and just fun! Everyone needs to do it! - Jessica, Portland, OR
Candice Schutter is the founder of HoopShine. As a
Nia
Black Belt, she is an expert in somatic education and
coaching, weaving her understanding of the body-mind and
its energetics into each class she teaches. In 2007, she
begin traveling internationally with
HoopGirl™
founder, Christabel Zamor, assisting in the development
of the HoopGirl™ Teacher Training curriculum. Candice
also performs locally with the
whirlyGirlz
hoopTroop.
She believes that the most powerful teachers are
students for life; her journey includes both
traditional and unorthodox study in dance, martial
arts, psychology, metaphysics, and healing. Candice
has a BA in Psychology and Child Development from the
University of Kansas. Hoop class with Candice is about
much more than mastering moves. Her passion and
enthusiasm towards movement makes it easy connect...
and her power as a coach joyfully urges you to move
deliberately, to the beat of your own drum. Candice's
classes are educational, playful, joy-inducing
explorations of body, mind, emotions, and
spirit.
Lacye Lee
HoopShine
Agent, Licensed HoopGirl™
Workout Instructor
Lacye radiates a lovely, fun, encouraging presence. - Student
Lacye Sparkle, known to most as Sparkle, is a Licensed Hoopgirl Instructor, and has been teaching since 2007. She is known for being enthusiastic, joyful and absolutely eager to share the joy of hoopdance! She feels passionate about sharing with people how it has changed her life. She feels certain anyone craving a deeper connection with their body and mind will find it in the hoop.
Movement came to Lacye Sparkle Lee through a series of orchestrated events, put into motion by fate. Before hooping, Lacye Sparkle Lee was known as "Just Lacye". "Just Lacye" told herself she was not a dancer, not a teacher, and was "Just Lacye". "Just Lacye" loved the way dance looked and made her feel, but told herself she just could not do that. She was told as a child she was graceful, but never made the dance team in Junior High. It was at this time she made the agreement with herself that she was definitely NOT a dancer, or graceful. This agreement was carried for many years, and then, at just the right time, a hoop made it's way to Just Lacye's hands...
It was given to "Just Lacye" by her close friend and mentor Cara, who encouraged her to take a class with HoopSHiNE, a company run by her friend Candice. Once Lacye entered the hoop, she knew it was right. She went to Candice and expressed this enthusiasm, her desire to be a teacher, and the love for the company Candice had so lovingly created. Candice recognized something inside of Just Lacye, that Just Lacye didn't even know existed! She took Just Lacye under her wing, and has given her so much wisdom and love that Just Lacye transformed into Lacye Sparkle Lee!
Movement can be a transformational practice that you can dive into, too! To hoop with Lacye Sparkle Lee is to discover your own personal joy! Her classes are fun, high energy, and certain to keep you coming back! She is also available to book for performance, workshops, and one on one private lessons. Check the class listing for the ongoing classes, and she looks forward to seeing you in the hoop -- she will see beyond who you think you are, to the extrordinary person that you really are to become!