With a strong love and passion for dance and fluid movement, Catherine Flournoy found herself driven by a calling to love and serve. In her spare time, Catherine would volunteer for various organizations, including the hematology oncology unit at the Children's Hospital Los Angeles and for the Heart Touch Project, a non-profit organization dedicated to bringing the gift of healing touch to hospitalized individuals. Upon her introduction to hoopdance, a movement that incorporates organic dance and is naturally meditative, combined with the essence of the childhood phenomenon of hula hooping, Catherine immediately knew she had discovered a movement that would give the course of her life more purpose.

Through hoopdancing, Catherine found that doors were starting to open naturally for her, allowing her to enjoy her greatest passions by combining the healing arts with her love for dance. In just a few short months of hooping, by early 2006 Catherine was given the opportunity to teach a hoop class for the Panurgy Dance Project, instructing a team of professional dancers on the art of hooping. This was the genesis of a complete holistic hoopdance service that would not only transform her life, but would soon transform the lives of countless others. Catherine is able to be of service in a unique, fun loving way. Hoopadelic was born.

Catherine continues to draw upon her skills as an intuitive healer, nurturer and bodyworker. She draws upon her spiritual upbringing of Buddhism, Christ Consciousness and the religion of Love to offer everyone a complete heart-to-heart service. Hoopdancing is one of Catherine's connection to the Divine Source within and shares this gift of dance with anyone who is inspired to tap into it. Catherine teaches classes, choreographs, performs and has worked in television and was featured in a segment of ABC’s Good Morning America.

Catherine is a certified Rising Star and Prema Birthing Practitioner, as well as a Certified Domestic Violence Counselor through Asian Pacific Women's Center (APWC). In addition, Catherine is a licensed Massage and Bodywork Therapist and former member of the Associated Bodywork & Massage Professionals. She is fluent in Mandarin and uses this skill to bring hooping to the East Asian community of Los Angeles.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Catherine gives thanks to God for everything she is and has to offer. It is through God that she has had the grace to be nurtured and grow through the following beings. Catherine is incredibly grateful for the support and guidance of her family, friends, colleagues and mentors. It is with deepest gratitude to her husband, artist Matthias Beeguer who supports her every creative endeavors. Among those who have helped awaken her to her greatest teacher within, she gives thanks to Dr. Elliot Berlin who lovingly reminded her how to truly breathe. Catherine is thankful for the most amazing birth family she could have ever asked for, her late grandmother, Nancy S. Flournoy; her aunt, Michele A. Flournoy; and her incredible mother, Hwang Man-Mei; three great role models who have been constant inspirations, guides, and dynamic bright starlights along her path. And last but definitely not least, Catherine thanks her incredibly loving mentor, master spiritual teacher and healer Derek O'Neill for his endless and tireless service to humanity. It is through his love for all beings that Catherine has received some of the most powerful healings of her life to make her the strongest teacher she can possibly be.

Thanks to all gifts and blessings she has received from the Universe in this lifetime and beyond, Catherine has been able to transform what was once a daydream into a reality of service through joyful movement.