Baby Classess Starting June 11
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Creative Dance For Children
    

Classes for babies and parents:

These classes are conducted in an informal discussion and free-play atmosphere, and encourage parents to meet and share their experiences with their young children. During these classes, parents learn how to support their baby's unique developmental style in all areas of development - motor and movement, communicative, social/emotional and cognitive- facilitated through the use of observation, dance, yoga and music activities.

Rolling Baby & Mom/Dad - for the youngest baby who explores the world from the ground up!

Mobile Baby & Mom/Dad - for the crawling, walking, running baby.

Baby Massage

Creative dance classes for young children & adolescents:

The goal of these classes is to introduce children to dance and movement vocabulary based on their own developmentally focused abilities. They will explore these movements through improvisational dances to a wide variety of music. They will explore all the natural ways their bodies can move, and how moving in all of these different ways enable them to express their feelings. In this way they will each find their own dance within. These concepts are explored by learning about rhythm, music and the process involved in creating, performing and viewing the dance. In these classes they will explore their bodies both in lively motion and stillness, as they learn to listen and be moved by the quiet inner place within themselves.

This creative dance focus develops into a Modern Dance and Yoga class for those children ready for a bit more structure and form in the 5- 8 and 9 & up age levels.

Dancing & Yoga for the Special Child classes combine the activities of creative dance and yoga discussed above, with specific attention to the individual and unique concerns of infants and children with special needs. These classes are grouped by age an ability.

In addition children with special needs are encouraged and often integrated into all of the classes mentioned, when able.