Private Lessons
COUPLES & PRIVATE-GROUP Dance Lessons
By Appointment, at a Dance Studio or Your Home
Sliding-Scale Hourly Rates
Learn to lead or follow social dances such as East Coast Swing (Jitterbug), Lindy Hop, Charleston, Balboa, Blues, Salsa, Bachata, Cha Cha Cha, West Coast Swing, Hustle, fusion, and more.
Ashley is an experienced dancer, performer, and teacher across various social dance genres, and is especially drawn to teaching the nuances of partner connection. BYO partner or group of friends, and everyone can dance and learn with Ashley, who teaches both leading and following.
Give dance lessons as a gift to yourself and others: build skills and confidence, prepare your wedding dance, or just have fun connecting with a partner or your tribe.
1-to-1 Dance Lessons
By Appointment, Dance Studio or Your Home
Sliding-Scale Hourly Rates
Ashley especially loves working with beginner dancers, and delights in finding the perfect explanation or metaphor to elicit an “aha!” moment in students.
Learn (partnered and/or non-partnered) dances like Salsa, Bachata, Latin Workout, Swing, Vintage Jazz, Afro-Cuban, Thriller and the Moonwalk, various improvisational styles, and more. Ashley leads and follows, and can teach both roles.
Take private lessons wherever you’re most at ease: in the comfort of your own home, at a local dance studio (Ashley’s private studio in Athens, Factory Street Studio in Athens, or Village Productions in Amesville), or even outdoors at a local public park.
We can emphasize whatever gives you life: explore different dance styles, develop confidence, build physical strength and stamina, hone your signature moves for 90’s night at Casa, get ridiculously good at bodyrolls — or just have fun!
Somatic Release &
Energy work
By Appointment, Dance Studio or Your Home
Sliding-Scale Hourly Rates
Learn to open up to your senses and feelings more deeply.
Movement invites you to be present and notice what’s happening in your body, and to express and release your feelings through movement, shifting and clearing your energy. Learn to flow.
Live the benefits of an intentional somatic practice, no matter the dance styles you’d prefer to explore. Genres like Salsa, Swing, Blues, Afro-Fusion, or contemporary all are capable of fostering our self-awareness and expression, and invite us to move in new empowering ways we never thought possible.
Ashley is a trained dancer, and a certified Reiki practitioner and life coach. She invokes a range of energetic and movement traditions, as she works from an intuitive place to support your wellbeing.
GIFT CERTIFICATES
Share the gift of dance!
Give four, hour-long private dance lessons for a limited rate of $200.