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My Mission
My Offerings
My Offerings
I believe that dance & yoga should be accessible to everyone, regardless of their age, economic background or experience level. I work to spread dance and yoga to young children and adults all around my community.
My passion truly resides in spreading the idea of movement as medicine for both the body and mind.
My Offerings
My Offerings
My Offerings
- Preschool Dance & Yoga
- Yoga for Educators
YOGA FOR EDUCATORS
As an Early Childhood Educator for over ten years, I found my journey to yoga as a way to ease the early onset of burnout. Long days of high empathy output and overstimulation in the classroom left me feeling overwhelmed and lacking in the joy that being an educator initially gave me. I needed something to help settle my nervous system so that I could better care for my students. When I was 25 years old, I began incorporating yoga into my weekly exercise regimen and immediately felt the benefits of the nervous system regulation that Yoga offers. In 2023, over 5 years after that initial choice, I found a teacher training to help me help other teachers seeking reprieve.
Now it is part of my life's work to teach educators how to access the same type of relief. In this mobile offering, I visit classrooms and schools to give teachers the reset they need in their bodies and mind. Using my training in Prana Vinyasa and breath work techniques, I guide educators through physical and spiritual practices that are geared toward a regulated nervous system. This class will leave teachers feeling refreshed and equipped to handle anything that comes their way at school and in life.
DANCE WITH ME AT PRICKLY PEAR DANCE!
I am currently a Teaching Artist at Prickly Pear Dance since 2023
At Prickly Pear, I teach the following offerings for young children and adolescents:
> Creative Movement (coming this Fall!)
> Pre-ballet
> Beginning ballet
> Intermediate and Advanced Level Ballet
> Pre-pointe
> Beginning Pointe
> Jazz Technique
> Modern Technique
> Yoga for Dancers
> Strength & Mobility
> Floor Barre
We are currently running our Summer programming. Registration for Summer programming is CLOSED.
We are now enrolling for the 2024-2025 dance season that begins this Fall. Intermediate and Advanced levels are by audition only. Reach out to be connected with Artistic Director and Owner/Operator Julianna Zastrocky, or follow the "Learn More" link to be directly connected to Prickly Pear Dance.
Learn more about Prickly Pear Dance
Learn about our full programming at PPD and how we are serving Durango, CO with the best ballet training in the area!
Yoga for dancers
Join me for an hour of bliss every Wednesday 1pm-2pm at Prickly Pear Dance!
In Yoga for Dancers, we will move through flows aimed at developing flexibility and strength in the body. This class also has a huge emphasis on grounding our nervous systems back into the parasympatheic state, or the "rest and digest" state that we all could use a little more of. You will leave this class feeling blissed out and ready to take on the rest of your day.
This class is offered for dancers, but truly accessible to all levels. Modifications and props are available to the beginner yogi. All are welcome!
Reserve your spot at pricklypeardance.com.
Cost: drop-in $20.00, student rate $5.00, Dance teacher rate 10.00.
