FOR THE INFANT/TODDLER:
You & Me Baby/ You & Me Kid-O
Moving Into Discovery, Connection and Socialization
Parents or grandparents, enjoy this fun-filled hour with your little ones in a structured movement-based playgroup using song, dance, and developmentally appropriate props. Help be a part of your little one’s learning of music appreciation, spatial concepts, kinesthetic awareness, and helpful behaviors. This is also a time for connection, support, and socialization among little ones and caregivers while little ones engage in a playful discovery of the world through their bodies. FOR CHILDREN/STUDENTS: Dancing Stories Moving Into Creative Movement and Imagination Engagement is increased when students are asked to recall story elements through movement and then are taught to express character, conflict, setting and other story components through their own movements and dance expressions. A variety of books are used to teach dance concepts, foster emergent literacy skills and build health in an individual, family, school or community. FOR SPECIAL NEEDS/DISABILITIES: Adaptive Dance Moving Into Empowerment and Personal Growth A therapeutic movement experience for children and adults with developmental delays and physical disabilities to enhance cognitive, motor, and daily living skills, as well as provide children and adults an opportunity to experience success through the arts. In addition children and adults are empowered to define their capacity for personal growth by having choices about how they connect with themselves and others. FOR ADULTS: Dance For Your Health Moving Into Wellness and Dancing Into Health A therapeutic movement experience for adults to help expand movement repertoire, as well as make connections to self and others through both verbal and non-verbal expression. FOR THE ELDERLY Healing Movements Moving Into Living Well A therapeutic movement experience for older adults designed to ease each client into older age, as well as those rehabilitating after major surgery or strokes. It is designed to ease each client into health and living well by providing a recreational outlet through dance and movement during their stay at the hospital, assisted living, nursing home, etc… Healing Movements gives older adults a sense of vitality, balance, and even achievement. It is also a time to for social interaction and to increase the energy level by listening to popular tunes and doing fun movement activities such as the Chicken Dance, YMCA, and many others. Research proves that gentle movement can incite memory recall, improve cognitive functioning, and increase overall quality of life. Healing Movements is a movement program designed to discover, prevent, and possibly reverse the negative effects of the aging process. FOR SUBSTANCE ABUSE Moving Through Addiction Moving Into Healing and Recovery A therapeutic movement experience for adolescents & adults that help integrate the addict & authentic self in early recovery.
