Dance Classes: Dance, Movement, & Motion
Tier Orange: In Studio Classes are OPEN! We’ve expanded our dance class offerings for April!
Please pre-register via our live schedule. Given space limitations, there are No Refunds for No Shows. Late Cancellation Fee of $10 (if you cancel within 4 hours of start of class)
Studio Rental & Availability: The Studio is also availabe for Rent!! If you are looking to rent the dance studio for your independent dance school, to host privates, rehersals, dance practice or looking for an ideal place for your dance or movement classes – we’ve got you! The studio is equipped with ceiling hardware and ready for Hanging / Flying Arts, Aerial, Trapeze, Hammocks, Slings! Please email info@pleasurepointyoga.com.
Dance like no one is watching!
OR
Dance like EVERYONE is Watching! Fire!
All Levels, All Bodies, All Ways are Welcome Always!
Dance Price List & Pricing Packages
Drop-In: $15 / 10 Class Pass: $130 / First Class Free!
Intro Week: $20 (limit 1 per customer) / Intro Month: $49 (limit 1 per customer)
Express yourself and dance your way to health and happiness! Dance passes are good for in studio, livestream, or outdoor dance classes only (excludes Yoga classes). Give yourself the ultimate in self love and adornment with a Dance & Massage Package. available.
All come with a PPY Sweatshirt.
Massages are conducted by Pleasure Point Yoga’s approved and highly recommended Victoria Icaza, Certified Massage Therapist #10884.
For purchase, please email info@pleasurepointyoga.com or purchase directly via your account within MindBody.
Livestream Process
COST: $15 Drop-In / $130 10 Class Pass / First Class Free!
For those who prefer to dance in the comfort of their own home or hotel while traveling, please join us via Livestream!
Step 2: Please check your email for the link to class. We will email you this roughly 15 minutes before the start of each class. The email will come from pleasurepointyoga@gmail.com. Please click on the link in the body of that email. This will redirect you to the Registration step with Zoom. If you cannot find this email in your inbox, please check your Junk folder.
Step 3: Register with Zoom: Please check that the First Name, Last Name, and Email you see on the registration step matches with your account info you used to enroll in class via MindBody (Step 1). If this matches, Zoom will let you into the livestream environment.
Step 4: Get ready to sweat and drop it’s like it’s hot in a fun, safe, and supportive environment.
LIVESTREAM CLASS SCHEDULE:
Tuesdays 5:30pm – 6:45pmThursdays 11am – 12:15pmCardio Funk Dance IN STUDIO – STARTS MARCH 15th!
INSTRUCTORS: Alison Chesley
DATE: Monday & Thursday
TIME: 5:30pm – 6:30pm
COST: $15 drop in / $130 10 Class Pass / First Class Free!
LOCATION: 3603 Portola Drive, in our dedicated DANCE and Movement Studio.
CARDIO FUNK is a high energy all level choreography dance class to upbeat music where we build a fun and accessible dance routine over the hour for some serious satisfaction by the end. Starting with a warm-up then breaking down moves with a continuous cardio flow that includes some gut and ab toning, Alison’s clear and experienced style makes dancing our way to wellness AWESOME and available to all levels with no dance experience necessary!
Just Dance Cardio IN STUDIO – STARTS MARCH 18th!
INSTRUCTORS: Deborah Yates
DATE: Thursday
TIME: 10:00 – 11:00am
COST: $15 drop in / $130 10 Class Pass / First Class Free!
LOCATION: 3603 Portola Drive, in our dedicated DANCE and Movement Studio.
Just Dance Cardio – Just Dance is a recipe for a delicious dance cardio sweat sesh. Move to your favorite popular songs combining dance styles from hip-hop, funk, jazz and contemporary while spicing it up with a bit of musical theater. No pro skills needed. Just a passion for dance, love of music and the desire to move!
Instructor Bio: Deborah Yates, Veteran Fitness Pro and National Aerobic Champion, has been sharing her love for dance based fitness for over 30 years. Yikes! That’s a long time!
“I love combining my dance training with fitness and will continue as long as possible”.
Having spent the last several years managing Group Exercise programs for Silicon Valley Sport Resort Clubs, Mama Yates has returned to the life of a full time instructor. Certified in several formats spanning the field from Strength to Barre, Deborah finds her true heart while dancing and sharing that love with like minded humans.
Urban Dance Cardio Glow IN STUDIO – STARTS April 6th!
INSTRUCTORS: Desiree Phillips
DATE: Tuesday & Wednesday
TIME: 9:00 – 10:00am
COST: $15 drop in / $130 10 Class Pass / First Class Free!
LOCATION: 3603 Portola Drive, in our dedicated DANCE and Movement Studio.
Désirée Phillips is a local dancer with a 20+ year background of promoting self-esteem and body-love through movement, dance, workshops, and motivational seminars worldwide. People of all backgrounds, ages, and fitness levels benefit from her passion to spread the experiences of self-love through urban hip-hop moves and dance.
This urban hip-hop dance class blends a warm-up, light choreography breakdown, steady-state cardio and a short cool-down.
Zumba IN STUDIO – STARTS April 6th!
INSTRUCTORS: Renee Menard
DATE: Tuesday
TIME: 10:15 – 11:15am
COST: $15 drop in / $130 10 Class Pass / First Class Free!
LOCATION: 3603 Portola Drive, in our dedicated DANCE and Movement Studio.
This dance class is an hour of high energy, booty shaking, sweaty fun, filled with the tropical and latin vibes of Samba, Salsa, Reggaeton, Soca, Dancehall, and more. Join us as we travel through a global music and dance journey!
Tropical Fusion IN STUDIO – STARTS April 8th!
INSTRUCTORS: Allison Haley
DATE: Thursday
TIME: 9:00 – 10:00am
COST: $15 drop in / $130 10 Class Pass / First Class Free!
LOCATION: 3603 Portola Drive, in our dedicated DANCE and Movement Studio.
Tropical Fusion is a high-energy dance fitness class with music from Brazil, the Caribbean, Latin America, and beyond. We’ll journey through dance styles like Samba, Salsa, Dancehall, Afrobeats, Soca, Rhumba, Cumbia, Calypso, and more resulting in one hour of juicy and joyful movement! Class includes a warmup, cardio dance, easy-to-learn choreography, and cool down. Open to all levels and abilities! Come free your hips, shake your booty, open your heart, express yourself, and feel the Tropical rhythms feed your soul!
Instructor Bio:
Allison Haley shares her love for dance through an approachable teaching style that combines infectious music, fun choreography, and lots of juicy movement! She feels passionate about sharing the empowerment, expression, community, and mind-body connection that dance provides.
Allison is a lifelong student of dance with an endless curiosity for cultural dance forms. For over 15 years she has studied African Diasporic dance with teachers from Brazil, Cuba, the Caribbean, and Latin America—learning Samba, Afro-Brazilian, Dancehall, Soca, Afrobeats, Salsa, Rhumba, Bomba, Calypso, and more. Her first exposure to these dance styles was as a teenager when she would travel to the Caribbean to visit her father, who lived there part of the year. As an adult, she is grateful to have learned from master teachers such as Marsea Marquis, Dhanda DaHora, Rosangela Silvestre, Vera Passos, Alvaro Reys, Marcelo Chocolate, Libby Miga, Latoya Bufford, Betty Rox, Erica Dixon, and many more. Allison has a long performance history in both dance and musical theater, both as a performer and event producer. She is also a certified Zumba instructor, bringing that knowledge to her classes to create an inviting, inclusive environment for self expression! Learn more about Allison at allisonhaley.com/dance
Pilates Flow Livestream
INSTRUCTORS: Elizabeth Charlton
DATE/Time: Tuesdays 5:30pm & Thursdays 11am
COST: $15 Drop In / $130 10 Class Pass
Class Description:
POP Pilates is a new take on classical Pilates. It incorporates Pilates into a dance format. In fact it’s often called: Dancing on the Mat!
Pilates is a mind body exercise that challenges your core while sculpting longer and leaner muscles, resulting in a toned dancer-like look. Pilates puts emphasis on alignment, breathing, developing a strong core, and improving coordination and balance.
POP Pilates is basically Pilates and Pilates-inspired moves set to contemporary ”POP” music. This intense, mat-based workout challenges students to rhythmically flow from one exercise to the next, developing a rock solid core while leaving no muscle untouched. No equipment except a mat is need for POP Pilates.
POP Pilates is designed to be a 55 minute workout of 13-15 songs with each song emphasizing work on a different muscle group. This program of choreographed songs, changes four times a year when there is a new choreography release from Cassey Ho, POP Pilates founder.
Elizabeth plans to begin each class with a 10-15 minute review of basic Pilates moves and modifications for each of these moves. These will help students who have never taken Pilates or need a quick review.
Elizabeth has loved dance her whole life. When she was five, she began ballet, jazz, tap and gymnastics classes and was a member of her dance and gymnastics clubs in high school. She continued with ballet throughout college and after. Elizabeth has spent 33 years as a public school educator in Santa Cruz County. She always incorporated movement and dance into her classroom instruction whether teaching spelling, math or Zumba for kids.
She discovered the joys of dance fitness with Zumba and has been a Zumba instructor in town since 2009. Elizabeth took Pilates Mat 1 training six years ago and later became a certified POP Pilates instructor. She found POP Pilates to be the perfect synthesis of dance and mind-body exercise. She was teaching two classes of POP Pilates a week at a local gym until the Shelter In Place lockdown last March. She is really looking forward to sharing her love of POP Pilates with Pleasure Point Yoga.
Mixed Barre IN STUDIO – ON HOLD
INSTRUCTORS: Alison Chesley
DATE: TBD
TIME: TBD
COST: $15 Drop In / $130 10 Class Pass
LOCATION: 3603 Portola Drive, in our dedicated DANCE and Movement Studio.
“What is Barre Mix?
A ballet-inspired core conditioning class for long, lean muscles and strength down to your toes.
A low impact mix of ballet barre exercises that are accessible to everyone, yoga, core work, arm work, a dash of tai chi and finishing with a delicious hip-opening stretch cool down. Easy to follow with great music and a fun variety of approaches working all muscle groups while improving posture and balance, all with a-bit-o-grace.
Challenge your balance by flexing, pointing, bending, and pulsing to feel taller, stronger, and leaner.
Benefits of Mixed Barre: Longer, leaner muscles, Muscle Endurance, Balance, Flexibility, Coordination, Agility, Relative Strength
American Tribal Style Belly Dance
THIS IS A DANCE SCHOOL INDEPENDENT FROM PLEASURE POINT YOGA
CONTACT INFO: Inna Dagman: (415) 672 – 4259 / healingdancer25@gmail.com
LOCATION: 3603 Portola Drive, in our dedicated DANCE and Movement Studio.
American Tribal Style Belly Dance® (Also knows as ATS® and FCBD® style) is a modern dance dialect with ancient roots. In this style we learn a common dance vocabulary, which allows us to dance together improvisationally. This keeps it incredibly alive, spontaneous, and allows us dancers to experience a moment-to-moment connection to our own creativity and to each other, which helps create much joy and fulfillment. These healing, joyful, sisterhood-creating aspects have led to this dance style spreading across the world!
The movements of ATS® belly dance are inspired by traditional Middle Eastern belly dance, classical Indian, north African, and Flamenco dance styles. These classes will help you develop strength and flexibility, a healthy uplifted posture, confidence, self-love, and a healthy connection to your femininity. All ages, backgrounds, and shapes welcome!
Level 1: Wednesdays 6:00pm – 7:00pm
Fundamentals of American Tribal Style Belly Dance® (FCBD® style) – beginner level, no experience necessary.
Level 2: Wednesdays 7:15pm – 8:30pm
Intermediate, student performance troupe. Knowledge of ATS® foundations and instructor approval needed.
About the instructor: Inna Dagman
Inna has had a passion for dance her whole life, however, finding belly dance represents a transformative moment in her evolution as a woman, artist, and healer. This ancient feminine form of movement first entranced Inna in 2010, in San Francisco CA at the legendary Fat Chance Belly Dance® studio, the birth place of the now world-renowned American Tribal Style® Belly Dance. She witnessed women of a variety of shapes, ages and backgrounds, proud beautiful bellies exposed, dancing together as empowered sisters. The room was filled with joy, pride, and the magnetic power of the feminine. Inna was hooked. Since that moment years ago Inna has become an acclaimed tribal belly dancer, teaching and performing regularly in the Santa Cruz area and beyond. She leads a student troupe of women dancers, Shekinah Tribal Belly Dance, where the focus is on embodiment of the Divine Feminine, and healthy connection among women.
Inna has also completed an extensive internship focused on the healing effects of dance, at the Center for Arts in Medicine at the University of Florida. She has had the honor to learn from leaders in the filed of healing through creativity and went on to facilitate workshops and groups on healing creativity and dance at hospitals, universities, in private settings, and currently, at an addiction recovery center, Embodied Recovery. In 2015 Inna has also entered private practice as a healing bodyworker, specializing in Craniosacral therapy.
Currently, in both her performance and teaching dance offerings, Inna focuses on dance as a transformational force for healing and embodiment of the Sacred.
Websites:
https://www.facebook.com/santacruzATS/
Healing bodywork: http://www.wildcreekhealingarts.com
Rollertainment IN STUDIO-ONHOLD
INSTRUCTORS: Nic Crusos
DATE: TBD
COST: $15 drop in / $130 10 Class Pass
LOCATION: 3603 Portola Drive, our dedicated DANCE and Movement Studio
Description:
Instructor Bio:
Find your skates and find your stoke!
Rollertainment: I was born to skate, but forced to work. My name is Nic. I am a skating foodie that has traveled to 23 states, and Puerto Rico in search of stoke.
As for me well, I am a high energy tour guide ready to take you on a Skate Mission. Local or plan a skate experience specifically for you, and your friends.
For years I earned my living as an Chef and Consultant. Traveling to new cities working all day, the last thing I wanted was to want to be stuck in my room or the hotel bar. I wanted to see the city, so I brought my skates and started to experience the skate culture of each place I went. Every city exposure rounded me into an awesome tour guide ready to give you a memorable skate experience, and fantastic Food. With 30 years of skate experience, We Coach beginners to experts, let me lead you on your mission of stoke.
We offer Private Lessons, Group Events, Team Building, Birthday Party and Much more!!
Thank you for your support. Enjoy the stoke of skate and some awesome art.
Nic