As we continue to celebrate our 13 year anniversary at Temple of Poi, here's a look at 13 of the most popular (highest read count) articles we've released so far. Coming in first is the recently released hit, The 6 Most Dangerous Ingredients of Fire Performance. This particular article focuses more on mindset than it does on... Continue Reading →
10 Tips Soloprenuers Can Implement to Improve Facebook Efficiency
Over the past few months I've been maximizing my time on-line, figuring out ways to use tools more in a manner that feed me rather than drain time from me and I've codified some of that here. For the small artistpreneur, flowpreneur, soloprenuer or entrepreneur who uses Facebook as one of their (possibly primary) marketing tools who... Continue Reading →
Try before you buy! Introduction to Poi, March 9, 2015
Sign up now and join us for a fun 70 minute class introducing you to the joy of poi, an exercise, meditation and art form focused on helping you gain body awareness, balance, coordination, muscle development, freedom of motion, self expression and a whole lot of fun doing it. This introduction to poi fire dancing... Continue Reading →
13 Ways We’re Celebrating 13 Years at Temple of Poi
Temple of Poi celebrates 13 years this month! We're pretty excited about that here at headquarters but realized that 13 has a terrible reputation -- did you know that the gallows traditionally has 13 steps leading up to it and is cited as one of the sources of said bad reputation in some internet lore? We want... Continue Reading →
10 Fire Poi Performance Moves That Make Non-Spinners Applaud
As our modern fire poi dancing is a nascent art form in its very early toddler years of development, a few things have become clear to me over the years watching audiences: what artists like to explore because it challenges them may be (and often is) lost on the average audience full of non-spinners at... Continue Reading →
How to Sell Your Show without Selling Your Soul
I'm not sure if you've experienced this also -- where someone accuses someone of selling out in a way that really feels like a negative accusation. I look around the community and I consider the possibility of someone having actually sold out and it occurs to me that no one is making nearly enough money for that to... Continue Reading →
50 Shades of Self-Care to Improve your Practice (and your life)!
Let's play a little game. Imagine if you will that this is one of those magazine quizzes -- you know the ones where they ask a few yes/no questions and then you count up the number of each answer at the end and they diagnose you. So... let's play. Answer 'yes' or 'no' to each of... Continue Reading →
Make more Money Selling Shorter Shows
Prospects contact us asking for anything from 5 minute to 2 hour shows. I tend to wonder if they've thought it through when asking for 2 hours because that's longer than most movies these days and probably akin to going to a broadway show. While the extremes happen, one of our most common requests if for for 30 minute shows.... Continue Reading →
The 6 Most Dangerous Ingredients of Fire Performance
Most people easily consider that the fire itself is dangerous, which of course is accurate, particularly if you're undereducated about how to handle and extinguish it safely. If they are people that are qualified to be performing, we also hope they are considering other things that go along with that like placement of the depot, spin... Continue Reading →