America's premiere vintage ballroom dance company, located in Palo Alto, California, performs intricate and lively dances from the Victorian through 1920's era choreographed by dance historians Richard Powers, Joan Walton, and others.
Our sister company, founded and directed by Valerie Baadh Garrett in 2008. Agile Aging's unique and dynamic movement-based programs integrate the latest research in fall prevention, exercise physiology, geriatrics, therapeutic imagery for healing, and brain fitness in a somatic, mind-body approach to healthy living. Principles of Spacial Dynamics® movement education permeate our special approach.
The Alliance for Childhood promotes policies and practices that support children’s healthy development, love of learning, and joy in living. Their public education campaigns bring to light both the promise and the vulnerability of childhood.
Creating the essential movement foundation builds a healthy, expressive, body-confident baby, vital for preschool readiness. Parent-and-baby bonding through movement is a healthy start to many fun filled, action packed years ahead together. Our developmental movement products and programs are designed for parents and caregivers to use at home with their baby during the first year.
An international organization dedicated to conflict resolution through arts and athletics. Recent festivals include Sacramento (2009), Beijing (2006) and Ecuador (2004).
Heather and Sidney Lanier open their small farm overlooking the Pacific Ocean for young families at select weekends during the year. Heather, a Waldorf and Spacial Dynamics® teacher, is a parenting coach and consultant as well as a singer, dancer, chef, and farmer. For more information on farm programs for young families, contact Heather directly.
A resource – inspired by Waldorf Education – for teachers and parents who want to provide children a path to healthy development through age-appropriate movement activities…and for all who seek to shelter childhood from teenage attitudes and adult concerns.
Information about programs with Jaimen McMillan, including in-service trainings and workshops, on the east and west coasts, and internationally. Spacial Dynamics®, developed over 25 years ago by master athlete Jaimen McMillan, gives the patient the experience of the healthy, harmonious continuum between the body and surrounding space. Spacial Dynamics® therapists learn how to use hands-on techniques and graceful, slow motion movements so that the patient becomes skilled at recreating dynamics that reconnect, regenerate, and reintegrate, thus replacing dis-ease with ease.
