DAYCARE ENRICHMENT PROGRAM
DANCE & YOGA
About Our Program
Our dance and yoga enrichment programs are thoughtfully designed for daycares and preschools, bringing the joy of movement directly into early childhood classrooms across New York City. Both programs nurture the whole child through movement, music, and mindful play.
Classes begin as early as age 1 and progress through preschool, kindergarten, and into the early elementary years. Children may feel more secure and independent in their everyday environment than they might in a class outside of school, so Daycare can be the perfect setting for a child’s first experience with dance or yoga.
Sessions are typically 30 minutes long and can be extended to 45 minutes upon request.
*Please inquire for pricing options.
Dance Enrichment
Our dance classes introduce children to a wide variety of styles including creative movement, beginning ballet, modern, jazz, and hip hop, all through playful and energetic lessons. Each class invites children to explore movement while encouraging creativity and confidence. Our program introduces children to the arts through both movement and language, developing foundational dance vocabulary while strengthening body awareness and coordination. As the year unfolds, instructors gently layer in more advanced material, allowing students to grow their skills with confidence in a supportive, playful setting.
Dance helps support cognitive development by engaging the brain through movement, rhythm, and repetition. Following sequences and specific movement patterns strengthen key neural pathways that support future academic skills such as reading, writing, and sustained focus.
Just as importantly, our program focuses on confidence-building. Children begin by mastering small goals, which boosts their self-esteem and motivates them to take on more advanced movement challenges. This step-by-step progression makes new skills feel achievable and fun, allowing children to welcome challenge with enthusiasm and a sense of pride, all while grooving to the beat and having fun!
Yoga Enrichment
Much like our dance program, our yoga classes use storytelling, imagination, and playful movement to introduce children to the joys of mindful movement. Yoga is a natural fit for little ones, full of familiar shapes and fun poses like triangle, warrior, and happy baby. Each pose is an opportunity for creative exploration and adventure. Our teachers bring these poses to life through engaging narratives, guiding children through imaginative journeys that weave in stretching, breathing, and sensory play.
Throughout the program, children are introduced to foundational elements of yoga in a fun and age-appropriate way. While engaging in imaginative play, they learn strengthening poses (asanas), simple breathing techniques (pranayama), and relaxation tools that help support emotional regulation and self-awareness. Along the way, young yogis also build fine and gross motor skills, balance, and body awareness.
As children grow, they experience a wide range of emotions like excitement, frustration, anxiety, joy, and yoga offers a supportive space to explore and understand these feelings. Just as adults turn to yoga for calm and clarity, children benefit from learning mindfulness and movement techniques that help them manage stress and build resilience from an early age. Yoga in early childhood is more than just movement. It's an empowering practice that nurtures the whole child: body, mind, and heart.
Testimonials
"I am a seasoned Daycare Provider in the Prospect Lefferts Gardens area in Brooklyn, and Allegra has been our beloved dance teacher for the past three years. I am so grateful to have found Allegra, as she is incredibly patient, professional, and creative, in the way she teaches the little ones. Allegra truly brings out the best in her dances and makes all classes fun and engaging. The children leave each session with new knowledge and appreciation for the art form, and look forward to dancing each week. We at Patty's Group Family Daycare are just thrilled with this service."
~Ms. Patty, Director of Patty's Group Family Daycare
"We are happy to have Ms. Allegra as our dance teacher. She is absolutely amazing with the children; she is now teaching the class in Spanish which is perfect for our program. The children really enjoy the class and look forward to seeing her on a weekly basis."
~Yeni, Director of Pollitos Daycare
Check out an excerpt of our 2018 Daycare Dance Performance!