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At Blueheel Dance Studio, instructors encourage students to find the dance that’s pulsing within. Using the internationally recognized Professional Dance Vision International Dance Association syllabus, instructors begin by emphasizing simple steps, syncopation, and rhythm. After establishing a firm base, students are set free to explore their skills in group lessons and social dance parties staged on the studio’s expansive hardwood dance floor. Offering instruction in Ballroom, Salsa, Merengue, Tango, and Bachata, instructors open the door to dance forms that convey a gamut of emotions ranging from love and joy to passion and wild indifference.
Having led hundreds of clients down a custom-paved road to physical health, certified fitness trainers Christopher and Stephanie Williams founded Destiny Fitness as a home base for both in-studio and mobile personal-training services. The team helps locals achieve wholesome lifestyle shifts, manning group fitness classes at their Mississauga studio when they aren't bringing personal training regimens, equipment, and inflatable Olympic-size pools to area homes. Their programs, which can include nutritional guidance as well as frequent progress assessments, are part of a step-by-step system intended to become a guide to lifelong fitness success. More specialized therapies are available under the pair's Destiny Wellness umbrella, a mobile facet of the company that travels to those with rehabilitative needs.
Creative Kids Place engages exploring minds aged 2–13 in its colourful arts-and-play centre through drop-in sessions, summer camps, holiday camps, birthday parties, and special programs. During drop-in sessions, children can stuff teddy bears, paint T-shirts, or string beads of bracelets as preschoolers and toddlers bond with their parents over creatively minded toys or frolic in costume in the dress-up area. Creative Kids Place provides all needed craft supplies, paints, and play activities, and changes its crafts weekly to ensure children don't steal the company's secrets and start their own franchises.
When not playing, parents use free WiFi or lounge on the centre's couches amid bright red and green walls and tables draped in decorative tarps. Alternatively, crafters can choose from an array of sculpted, three-dimensional pottery canvases including penguins, dinosaurs, unicorns, princesses, and more. After wee artists paint their pieces to express colour appreciation or camouflage them from envious stuffed animals, staff fires completed sculptures in an on-site kiln.
At Fieldgate Stables Ltd., mother-daughter team Susan Coxhead and Michelle Vaillancourt promote horsemanship for riders of various skill levels. Their quiet and well-schooled horses carry students during lessons in various riding disciplines including dressage, hunter, jumper, and cross-country. With detailed, one-on-one coaching, students are encouraged to progress at their own pace and riders are paired with horses based on careful consideration of their temperaments, skill levels, and the compatibility of their star signs. Lessons also teach participants to untack and cool out their four-hooved friends, which keeps them from sweating through the tuxedos they change into post-workout.
Amid the cheery yellow walls and recycled materials that make up iGita Hot Yoga Club, Spa & Boutique's studio, experienced instructors guide their students toward physical and mental well-being. The master yogis treat each new member to a structural assessment before helping them select from classes such as hot yoga, Hatha, or Vinyasa flow. They hand out complimentary mats and towels, as well as stoically head-nodding toward an on-site boutique that sells yoga apparel. The staff also trains yoga teachers and dispenses other wellness services such as Thai massage.
The beautiful confines of iGita Hot Yoga Club, Spa & Boutique surround visitors in antique furnishings, scores of living plants, and decor crafted from 400-year-old wood. Complimentary organic shampoo cleans up inside a shower facility while organic tea warms yoga pupils as they search a lending library for instructions on how to breathe while holding their breath.
After making a name for herself in the world of theatrical costuming during stints on the production teams of The Lion King and Mamma Mia!, Dilys Tong co-created Sew Be It Studio in 2005 in order to inspire others to craft their own wearable art. Lindsey Wise, a graphic designer and former magazine art director, joined her in 2009, and together they helm workshops and classes alongside a cast of dedicated instructors. At their two studios, the staff lead students through hands-on tutorials or arm them with DIY patterns for items such as a lace tank top, a flower headpiece, or a leather mini wallet ideal for fitting into a regular-size wallet. Enhancing the space are studio mascots Betty and Madi, a pair of well-dressed pups who can often be found lounging around in a variety of miniature ensembles.
