She expresses herself through fire hula hooping
Ashley Chastain, who belongs to the Zion’s Flame fire performers group, shares hula hooping basics with her daughter, Claire.
“I saw somebody fire hula hooping one time and I was like, I want to learn how to do that. I also spin fire poi. To me it’s like a form of expression, almost like a therapy.
“To be safe, you need to wear natural materials like cotton, leather and silk. You don’t want to wear polyester, and you need to wrap up your hair so you don’t catch it on fire.
“The spines on the poi are metal, and sometimes they will burn your skin. But it’s something you love so much that you kind of overlook those burns.
“And you never do something on fire that you can’t do 10 times perfectly not on fire. That’s a little saying we have in the fire community.”
— Ashley Chastain
