Learn Poi Skills
Learn Poi using our videos below
AND you can join our online live workshops at 5:00 on Monday's 14th, 21st and 28th September
with Grace hosted via Zoom.
This first video teaches you how to make Poi and initial skills of spinning on single planes.
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Click the link below for a more accessible video with extra written instructions.
Video 1
During Lockdown practicing Poi has been a great escape for me.
It's given me time to be creative, to challenge myself and find self achievement in those little goals I set myself.
Also I can practice inside or outside, I can put my poi in my pocket and go to the park too!
It's perfect for social distancing as no one can get too close!
Here I am in a local park with my Fire coloured Flag Poi. I hope you enjoy learning Poi too!!
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Grace Turner- Teacher
Poi is a circus art form that involves swinging weighted fabric around the body in patterns and formation. It originated in New Zealand and is a part of Maori cultural tradition.
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It is really easy to make your own poi at home and I show you how in video 1, you just need 3 pairs of socks!
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Poi is a wonderful skill to learn and is beneficial in many ways:
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Physically:
- Improves muscle tone, stamina, flexibility, dexterity of arms and wrists,
- Promotes good posture
- Encourages bi-lateral motor skills and ambi-dexterity (using both sides of body!)
Mentally/ Emotionally:
- Improves spatial awareness, co-ordination, concentration, determination,
- Increases confidence, self-esteem,
- Relieves stress and boredom,
- Promotes creativity, patterning
- Works both brain hemispheres.​
Poi technique is hugely varied and the skills have many different terms. I have used the terms which were taught to me (oh... many moons ago) and also re-named some to make them easier to understand for myself and others. As with so many circus art forms techniques and name terms often become a fusion of different things, for instance a Helicopter might also be known as Lasso or Above Head Circle.
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The version of poi I am teaching in this video series is my own simplified curriculum to make the skills accessible and easier to follow.
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I hope that you enjoy learning Poi!
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