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To do an Hourglass Circulate, each dancer moves one spot along an eight-position circulate path. Each center dancer will move to one of the point (box) spots, while each point dancer will move to a center (diamond) spot.
Note that in an Hourglass Circulate some dancers are turning 1/4 (90 degrees) while others are moving without turning (simply veering outward to become one of the points, or veering inward to be come one of the very centers). Whether they are turning or not they keep the same shoulder toward the center of the formation.
An hourglass is an eight-person formation, with an eight-position circulate path, but callers will sometimes also make use of the fact that it consists of a diamond and a box, for example asking the centers to do a Diamond Circulate. Note that the diamond itself has two "centers" and two "points", but the points of the diamond are part of the "center" of the entire formation.