Meet Amelio Bedelio

Amelio began her hoop journey in 2007 when she saw some beautiful hoopers at Bonnaroo.  She went home, made her first giant heavy hoop, played with it a little bit, and put it down.  The next spring,  at a small Earth Day Festival at Plymouth State University, she met a hooper that sold her a hoop and taught her tricks.  She was hooked on You Tube and festival hooping through the end of her college days.  Since graduating, Amelio has spent the past few years as a vagabonding hooper and instructor, stopping in Damariscotta, ME to teach classes last summer and Berkeley, CA to study with some "Master Instructors."  She is a Hoop Revolution Mentor, having the chance to learn from Anah "Hoopalicious" Reichenbach and Rayna McInturf at teacher training retreats in Joshua Tree, CA and Kauai, HI.  She is currently in transition at the moment, but will have classes up and running around Maine and possibly more of New England by spring 2012.