The Young People's Program (YPP)
The YPP offers a welcoming and vibrant experience for youth 4-14, and older if appropriate. Our experienced teaching-staff will provide a safe, inclusive and playful environment for all, allowing parents to explore daytime workshops on their own.
2025 youth programming is still being worked on, but last year’s programming included Circus Arts, Tribal Songs and Arts, Wild Things forest adventures and dance, and free play/in the moment co-created magic.
Includes food, lodging, and programming from Monday evening to Saturday morning.
Info For Ages 3 and Under
Children under 4 can attend free of charge. If you plan to join us with children 3 and under, please let us know, and we can discuss what sort of support is available, like pairing you with other parents with kids in similar age ranges.
Youth Facilitators
Britt (aka Mossy) Eisenman (She/they):
Dance Camp Youth Coordinator and Teacher
Britt has had over 15 years of experience working with a variety of ages and spaces. From leading outdoor schools and horticulture therapy programs to teaching yoga and art, she always finds a way to balance the firm and the fun! She currently works for Echo Theater Company in studio and at after school programs for under-privileged youth. The school focuses on acro and aerial arts and creative expression games. Britt is an active member of her Portland, OR ecstatic dance community, loves to garden, cook, and be in nature!
Oohna Hwyl (She/They):
Dance Camp Youth Program Coordinator
Oohna Hwyl is a certified Early Childhood Waldorf teacher with 20 plus years of experience working with children of all ages in a variety of settings including as a Theater and Arts in Nature camp instructor, after-school teacher, camp developer and coordinator, and a Waldorf lead teacher and family support specialist. She is especially fond of creating community among youth that inspires the co-creation of arts, games and in the moment play magic.
Jarmila Darby (She/her): Teacher
Jarmila has been dancing all her life, for fun, for work, and to create community. Starting in toddler ballet and becoming a toddle teacher dance assistance at 12, Jarmila has branched off into many forms of dance, jazz, tap hula, modern dance, dance therapy, contact improv. She's been teaching creative movement, yoga, and dance camps in Portland for the last 25 years. https://www.facebook.com/movementartsinstructor
Sandy Joclynn Flesher (She/her): Teacher
Sandy has over 12 years of experience providing warm, loving and creative care to children, including as a beloved teacher several of our past Dance Camps. She has worked in daycare centers, schools, and summer camps. Sandy loves free form dancing, being in nature, sharing Native songs, culture and traditions through creative expression and play, and watching her wild two year old learn & grow with the world around them.
Noam Paco Gaster (They/them): Teacher
Noam likes to untangle playfully and feelingly while developing their long-term duet with the universe. As artistic director of Silly Raindrop Children’s Theater, as a wildish ambassador to nature, and as a Montessori-trained educator, they have co-created spaces with children of all ages that accentuate access to liberating expression and authentically inclusionary connection. They are currently working as an Occupational Therapist for the Washington Elks Therapy Program for Children, and are additionally especially excited to begin developing a private practice that empowers individuals and groups to heal their relationships with Wilds without & within.
