Embodied Arts & Wellness
Come home to your body

Sample Schedule​

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​June Session:

9:30-9:50- Free Play

9:50-10- Morning Meeting

10-10:30- Movement

10:30-10:50- Snack/Story

10:50-11:20- Art

11:20-11:30- Transition

11:30-12- Nature Play

12-12:30- Lunch/Sprinkler

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August Session: 

12:30-1- Creative Project/Guest Artist

1-1:30 - Games

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Each day will begin with free play in our classroom. After a morning meeting, kids will head into the dance room for creative movement and Yoga—exploring range of motion, rhythm, musicality, and expression through fun, age-appropriate games and improvisation. After a snack and story, we move into a process-based art class where children experiment with painting, drawing, printmaking, and sculpture—focusing on creativity, not perfection. We spend time outside every day on our enclosed playground (slides, playhouses, cars, sand + mud kitchen!) and enjoy lunch together on the grass in our courtyard—with an optional sprinkler for warm days.​ 

 

August group will head back inside for an extra hour of creative projects, games and guest artists. 

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About the Instructors​​​​

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Lucia Rich (she/her)

Director/Movement Lead Teacher is a somatic and expressive arts educator, yoga instructor, collaborative theater artist and mother devoted to the practice of embodiment through her personal practice and teaching for over 20 years.  Collaborations in dance, theater, clown and puppetry have taken her across the US, Canada and internationally, including Bulgaria, Turkey, Scotland, Italy, England, Germany and France.  Lucia founded Embodied Arts & Wellness in 2023, guiding adults, children and families to return home to their body through the sacred and creative arts. ​

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Elizabeth Montinile (she/her)

Art Lead Teacher (June)  was born in Puerto Rico and currently resides in Dobbs Ferry, New York. From a young age, she has always been creative, working across as many mediums as possible. One of her favorite mediums is photography, and she graduated from the Hallmark Institute of Photography in 2012. During her time at Hallmark, Elizabeth discovered not only a deep love for photography but also a passion for working with children, particularly through portraiture. This experience led her to pursue an education in early childhood, and she is now a teacher at Elmwood Day School. While Elizabeth loves teaching, she missed being actively involved in the arts. When she is not teaching, Elizabeth can be found in her studio at Bethany, where she creates her mosaic jewelry pieces.

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Anna Adler (she/they)

Art Lead Teacher (August) is an artist, educator, cultural worker, and mother, functioning at the intersection of life and art. She maintains an interdisciplinary creative practice of image and object making, teaching, curating, and community building. Her work has been shown in a myriad of places and spaces, including NYC, Detroit, Prague, and Berlin, to name a few. 

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Dr. Amir Khosrowpour (he/him)

Guest Artist (August) - Piano/Improvisation is a New York based artist who performs, composes, and collaborates on performance art, theater, dance, puppetry and clown pieces, short films and music videos. He is on the music faculty at Horace Mann School in NYC.

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Important Details​​​

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Enrollment Policy:

Minimum enrollment is 6 students/session. In the event that we do not meet the minimum enrollment we will send out an email prior to the start date and you will receive a full refund.

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Refund Policy:

By registering your child, you are reserving a spot in one of our summer sessions. Classes have limited space in order to give your child the best experience possible and to keep the integrity of our teaching and creative work. Spaces are difficult to fill last minute, therefore refunds are not guaranteed. See below for last days to receive full and partial refunds. ​

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Important Dates:​

May 1st- early bird pricing ends for June.

May 25th- last day to receive a full refund for June.

June1st - last day to receive a 50% refund for June.

June 15th - early bird pricing ends for August.

July 27th - last day to receive a full refund for August.

Aug 3rd - last day to receive a 50% refund for August.​​