Chicago Hula Hoop Festival

05/21/2026

Chicago Uptown Wellness Retreat 2026 | Full-Day Urban Wellness Experience

Saturday, May 30th, 2026

In Chicago — a nourishing, all-day experience designed to help you relax, recharge, and reconnect. This urban retreat blends restorative yoga, frequency sound healing, a nature walk, and creative expression to support mind, body, and spirit.

Lead by Cindy Huston, Frequency Wellness Chicago, this retreat is ideal for wellness seekers, creatives, and anyone needing a deep reset. Enjoy a plant-based lunch, a water ceremony, and a heartfelt connection circle in the vibrant Uptown neighborhood.

📍 Location: Yoga Body Elements Global, 4007 N Broadway, Chicago
🕘 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
🔗 Space is limited – pre-register now!

-Restorative Yoga
– Connection Circle with cacao and tea
-Nature Walk
-Water Ceremony
– Lunch
– Art
-Soundbath with Biocharger NG

What to bring?
-Dress comfortable with walking shoes
-Journal
-Water bottle, plate, and silverware
-Instrument if you have one (drum, shaker, kartals)
-Flowers, incense, and vegan dessert welcome.

Perfect for locals and visitors seeking a transformative Chicago retreat without leaving the city.

Questions? Text 773-891-7071 or email [email protected]

Register today!

https://yogabodyelements.com/product/chicago-wellness-retreat/

05/20/2026

We had a blast hula hooping!

Summer in Chicago is just getting started!

Ready to join our next Chicago Hula Hoop session?

Email [email protected] for details.

05/10/2026

Happy Mother's Day to all the hula hoop mammas in many forms!

Photo from Hula Hoops & House Music Spring 2026!

05/06/2026

Joining The People's Artist!

The art of Hula Hooping with Chicago Hula Hoop Festival.

Vote today!

Join our growing future!

The Chicago Hula Hoop Festival, often part of the Uptown Wellness Movement, is an immersive, community-focused event featuring workshops, "HoopFit" cardio, and live music, frequently held at the venues in Uptown. Organized by Cindy Huston (Hoop Woman), it often includes all-ages activities like making your own hoop and a Hula Hoop Jazz Jam and Hula Hoops & House Music.



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04/24/2026

SEE YOU SATURDAY!
3 SPOTS LEFT!

Uptown Wellness Retreat in Chicago |
Full-Day Urban Self-Care Event

Saturday, April 25th, 2026
10:00 AM-5:00 PM

Join us for the Uptown Wellness Retreat at Yoga Body Elements in Chicago — a nourishing, all-day experience designed to help you relax, recharge, and reconnect. This urban retreat blends restorative yoga, sound healing, a nature walk, and creative expression.

Led by Cindy Huston, this retreat is ideal for wellness seekers, creatives, and anyone needing a deep reset. Enjoy a plant-based lunch, a water ceremony, and a heartfelt connection circle in the vibrant Uptown neighborhood.

📍 Location:
Yoga Body Elements Global ,
4007 N Broadway, Chicago, IL

🔗 Space is limited – pre-register now!
https://yogabodyelements.com/product/uptown-wellness-retreat-chicago/

Perfect for locals and visitors seeking a transformative Chicago retreat without leaving the city.

-Restorative Yoga
- Ceremonial Cacao Connection Circle
-Nature Walk
-Water Ceremony
- Lunch
- Art Expression
-Soundbath with Biocharger NG

Questions? Text 773-891-7071 or email [email protected]

04/17/2026

Summer 2026!

Do you need a new hula hoop?

Text 773-891-7071

Pick up your new handmade hula hoop at Yoga Body Elements Global !

04/08/2026

Hula Hoop by the Lake and
in the Peace Garden
Coming back soon!

Ready?
Stay updated!
Both pop-ups and weekly schedule!

Questions?
Email [email protected]
and
Text 773-891-7071

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03/02/2026

Thank you to each of the amazing individuals who loved the vision Uptown Wellness Festival – Hula Hoops and House Music Chicago

and showed up with us!

A truly chill day together full of fun, movement, and connection.

We had 6 days to plan this pop-up event, and we did it!
Even with the Geber Building heaters not working that day we still kept the fire alive and showed up keeping our word together! 🔥

Stay tuned for our Uptown Wellness Festival Spring and Summer season line-up coming soon!

Both indoor and outdoor activations throughout Chicago, IL and beyond!

More Movement!
More Music!
More Connection!

02/27/2026

4:00 pm The Affirmation Assembly
Lead by Nicole Goss
Frequency Reset is a 1-hour, sound led shared embodiment experience designed to guide participants through release, grounding, activation, and reflection.
Guests begin with a symbolic water release ritual, move through guided breath and rhythmic affirmational movement, and close with a mirror integration moment.
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Uptown Wellness Festival – Hula Hoops and House Music Chicago


Saturday, February 28th, 2026
2:00 pm-????
Register at
https://yogabodyelements.com/.../uptown-wellness.../
*Bring yoga mat, hula hoop, dress in layers.

*Visit local resturants for bathroom and food. Recommended Gigio's Uptown and Lucy's.

Text questions to the wellness center 773-891-7071.— at Chicago Market.

01/29/2026

From One Hula Hoop to a Global Movement ✨

Every big vision starts with a single moment.
For this journey, it began in 2009 at an artist party in Chicago, IL, when founder Cindy Huston picked up a hula hoop—and felt something shift. What started as play became purpose. What began as a circle… kept expanding.

By 2010, Cindy became a licensed hula hoop instructor by Hoopnotica, leading classes at yoga studios, gyms, and corporate team-building events throughout Chicago. Movement became connection. Joy became community.

In 2011, Fire for Higher, a professional fire performance troupe, was formed—bringing fire and flow to Chicago street festivals, nightclubs, parades, weddings, birthday parties, and corporate holiday events. The fire traveled internationally with performances throughout Guatemala.

Between 2013, 2015, and 2019, invitations followed for Cindy Huston to lead festival hula hoop classes across North America, expanding the reach of hoop dance and flow arts.

In 2014, Cindy traveled to India with a hula hoop, gifting the Food for Life school their very first hoop. That journey inspired the creation of something lasting back home—the Chicago Hula Hoop Festival.

✨ 2015 marked the first Chicago Hula Hoop Festival, partnering with neighborhood street festivals and wellness spaces to spread the joy, creativity, and healing power of hula hooping throughout Chicago and beyond.

In 2017, during time spent in Colorado Springs, CO, Cindy Huston was honored to receive the name “Hoop Woman” from an Ute tribe elder—a moment of deep respect, responsibility, and reflection that further grounded this path of movement, service, and community.

Book Chicago Hula Hoop Festival for hula hoops at your next event!
Text 773-891-7071
or
Email [email protected]

📸 Images:
Top: Former Ganesha Yoga & Fitness
Bottom: Vendor Village at the 2024 NASCAR Chicago Street Race

This story continues to unfold—and the circle keeps growing.
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