The Youth Program (YP)
The YP 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.
Join us as we cultivate a space together where our youth can come to play and explore, not only their connection to themselves but to each other, the community and the expansive nature that surrounds and supports us. We are so excited to have the opportunity to connect with you and your youth this year at Dance Camp. What bubbly good fun it shall be!
Includes food, lodging, and programming from Friday evening to Wednesday morning.
In order to complete your registration, you must first add a lodging option to cart (one per person)
Accommodation Details
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 Program Facilitators 2026
Raven Battles
“Let your light Shine!”
Raven Battles (she/her): Dance Camp Youth Program Coordinator
Raven is a kid at heart, first and foremost. As a genuinely curious and playful human, she has an affinity towards all heart-centered experiences that bring the sparkle, magic and wonder to life. This passion and playfulness, has supported her in cultivating strong connections with youth all throughout her life. She adores the chance to create safe and clear containers so that kids can feel settled and welcomed enough to lean into their own expansiveness and let their light and uniqueness shine! Raven has volunteered and worked in various settings, ranging from personalized childcare, Outdoor Education Summer Camps with Wilderness Awareness School, and an organically grown homeschooling program. She also delighted in her role as the Support Coordinator and Youth Program Teacher for Dance Camp Northwest in 2023. Raven has had the immense privilege to be a part of the forever-heart-expanding, mind-growth-explosion experience that comes from being a parent of three amazing and lively children. In her free time you will find her dancing with the trees, whispering and sharing secrets with her moss friends, or hiking and playing games with her family.
Jarmila Darby
Jarmila Darby (She/her): Youth Program Teacher
Jarmila has been dancing all her life, for fun, for work, and to create community. Starting in toddler ballet and becoming a toddler teacher dance assistance at 12, Jarmila has branched off into many forms of dance, jazz, tap hula, modern dance, dance therapy, and contact improv. She's been teaching creative movement, yoga, and dance camps in Portland for the last 25 years. https://www.facebook.com/movementartsinstructor
Britt Eisenman
“The sun shines not on us but in us.” -John Muir
Britt (aka Mossy) Eisenman (She/they):
Youth Program Teacher
Britt has has 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!
Stay tuned for more bubbly good fun to come!…
2026 Youth Programming is still being worked on, but check out some of what last year’s programming had to offer; including Circus Arts, Tribal Songs and Arts, Wild Things forest adventures and dance, and free play/in the moment co-created magic.
Youth Facilitators 2025
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.
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.
