Instructors are trained to be encouraging and motivating, emphasizing to children the importance of doing their personal best while supporting their classmates and community.

Gymnastics

Our Specialty, focuses on building body-confidence, coordination, motor skills, strength, and flexibility as well as love of moving that will endure through to adulthood. Each class begins with a warm-up, incorporating age-appropriate songs and imagination games to make the exercises interesting and engaging. This builds flexibility, conditions strength, and prepares delicate wrists, backs, and necks for more rigorous activity. The second section of class focuses on age appropriate tumbling passes and movement exploration that builds integrated strength and coordination for more advanced tumbling and inverted work. The class ends with instruction on various gymnastics apparatus, a new piece of equipment is introduced each week.

Creative Movement

A wonderful way for a child to explore their physicality and develop individuality through self-expressive movement. Each class begins with an age appropriate warm-up and dance technique lesson. Then the class shifts to an exploration, using music, poems, images, props, and expressive movement techniques that translate ideas into the body. As the session progresses children will learn basic choreography and older children will also learn combinations and dance routines.

Circus Arts

An entertaining, mental and physical class, it focuses on promoting hand-eye coordination, vocal and physical expression, and stretching the body and mind. Beginning with warm-up and conditioning, the course will include elements of clowning such as tumbling, juggling, skits and dramatic play. On top of all this fun we will also be focusing on gymnastics and partnering skills.

Theater Arts

An educational and character developing course, it focuses on self-expression, both physical and verbal, and builds confidence through interactive games and improvisation exercises in a supportive environment. A physical and vocal warm-up will begin, followed by activities that connect an emotion or idea and the corresponding physical or facial expression. The course will include elements of drama, creative movement, musical exploration, and skit development.

Yoga

A fun, challenging, and growth inspiring activity for children, it focuses on techniques that will stretch, develop, and train their body and mind. The course will include breathing and visualization exercises to promote calmness and self-empowerment, as well as interactive and social games that will build self-confidence while having fun. The children will learn traditional poses and will also learn to put the poses in motion.

Martial Arts

A conditioning and self-defense practice for children to build their confidence and critical-thinking, it focuses on the ability to defend oneself and finding the fun of cardio exercise. The class starts off with basic exercises of hand and feet defense blocking. Students are then instructed on principles of defense striking through a conditioning and stretching warm-up. As the class progresses exercises culminate into preparation for partnering activities.

Hip Hop

A high-energy workout promoting leadership through group teamwork with stamina driven fitness. Basic dance steps are introduced with an educational overview of historical appreciation of Hip Hop movement from Popping, Locking and Break Dancing to current popular movement. Each student is led through a rhythmic warm-up, followed by activities that associate improving coordination and group formations.

Ballet

An upbeat activity for all ages that focuses on both the basics of ballet while building balance, confidence and grace. The course will introduce basic ballet positions and terms such as plies, tendu, and passé, as well as rhythmic interactive dance combinations of arms, feet, and legs. As the class progresses children will learn basic ballet classroom walks, leaps or jumps and older students will learn ballet combinations and stage presence.

Rock Climbing

A confidence building and self-empowering way for children to find their personal strength, it focuses on safe techniques and finding the fun and excitement in exercise. The class begins with safety and technical instruction by trained professional climbers. The students are then led through a conditioning and stretching warm-up that prepares muscles and joints for strenuous activity. Then the child is ready to experience the thrilling adventure of climbing (bouldering) in a safe, supported atmosphere.

Capoeira

An exhilarating martial art form cultivating power and calm, it instructs students mentally and physically. In many respects the course explores the art form, the course will introduce dances of warm ups and stretch games, defensive movements, offensive movements as well as preparation for challenging partnering drills.