About Our Instructors

Amelia
Amelia is the newest addition to our line dance teaching team and our youngest at 17! She was hooked on line dancing after her very

Charlotte
Charlotte Kading, RYT-200, has been teaching yoga since 2019 and practicing yoga for 20 years. Her practice weaves strong alignment principles

Heather
A native of Gales ferry, Connecticut, Heather Tamer Rowley has been teaching Jazzercise for a combined total of 11 years. Heather was certified in 2001

Leslie
Leslie has been involved in dance her entire life. She joined Jazzercise and Line Dance in 2019. After retiring from a career in public education

Margaret
After retiring from a career in teaching, Margaret began line dancing with Dance Country in 2017. She enjoyed dancing so much that she became an

Megan
Megan started line dancing in 2021 and quickly became hooked! She appreciates the low impact fitness, mine-body connection and welcoming community at Dance Country and

Mellisa
Mellisa is a proud Mom of two and was a Navy wife for almost 25 years. Her love of fitness and instruction started over 30

Missy
Missy has always loved to dance. She has taken Jazzercise on and off for almost 20 years and became certified to teach in 2012, which

Sabrina
Sabrina graduated from University of Alabama (Roll Tide!) with her Masters in Speech Pathology before moving to CT in 2002. Once in CT, she began

Shari
Shari took her first Jazzercise class in early 1994 at St. David’s and was hooked. She became a certified instructor in 1997 and taught for

Shiala
Shiala is a native Floridian who has called Connecticut home since 1992, retiring in 2019 after 38 years as an elementary teacher and reading specialist.

Theresa
Theresa has always loved to dance, but could usually be found rocking out with students in her kindergarten classroom. After retiring in 2019, she took