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We dance for the light in our souls. ANY ONE CAN DANCE! Dance, Dance Fitness, Barre, Pilates, Restorative Stretch + MFR, Core, Global Dance Retreats

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This last week we’ve officially said see you later to that leftover summer sun. We are welcomed by lovely foggy and misty mornings. With this shift many of us may be wanting to spend more time indoors. Those outdoor activities we loved in the summer have shifted as we layer up.

This is a beautiful time to take a look at our movement practices and see what feels most aligned in this new season.

Find ritual and routine in sacred movements practices that ebb and flow just like the seasons.

So if you are looking for somewhere to bring movement into your cozy fall days-we have a special place for you in our sanctuary.

This fall we are welcoming new classes and even teachers to our schedule! It is an exciting and buzzing time in the sanctuary.

In our expanding dance and movement studio you will see more barre and more pilates on the schedule along with some very fun dance classes!

It may not be beach weather anymore but its a great time to get cozy, do some yoga, or come move and groove with your community!

See you soon!

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With love and devotion,
Pleasure Point Sanctuary

WHAT’S COMING UP THIS WEEK:
    🎶 Soul-Nourishing Kirtan with Jordan Loder & Madison Strohauer on October 12th
    💆Thai Massage Workshop with Temple of Touch on October 17th

WHAT’S COMING UP QUICK!!:
    💪Welcome back Elizabeth Charlton to Pilates Mat Flow Mondays and Wednesdays starting October 19th!
   💪NEW CLASS-PILATES FUSION with Renee Menard Tuesdays starting October 20th
    🌎NEW DANCE CLASS-WORLDANZ with Audrey Stanley Tuesdays starting October 20th
    🩰NEW CLASS-BARRE FUSION with Kelsey Lettko Wednesdays starting October 21st
    💃NEW DANCE CLASS-LATIN FUSION with Renee Menard Wednesdays starting October 21st
    🤰Postpartum Nesting - the Ayurvedic Way with Eliza Veta on Oct 24th
    🌕 Full Moon in Taurus: Deep Rest & Nervous System Reset Sound Bath with Peggy Bascou on Oct 25th taken in Pleasure Point Sanctuary by @pleasurepointdance

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Dancing in the Streets 2026 was one for the books! 💖 I choreographed two pieces for our @pleasurepointdance performance: Bad Bunny’s “Titi Me Pregunto” (an encore from last year's NuevaYol performance!), as well as our studio-wide finale to “Boogie Oogie Oogie” by A Taste of Honey. ��I am SO PROUD of my crew of dancers who worked so hard and performed with such high vibes! 👏🏼 All of our dancers at Pleasure Point Dance represented in such an amazing way and the joy exuding from each dancer was palpable!! Our studio camaraderie was felt deeply through our dancers as well as those who came to cheer us on in the audience! 👯‍♀️😻

A huge thank you to our studio owner Megan McAllister @megawitch22 who has created such an incredible hub for movement and so much more at @pleasurepointsanctuary 👏

Big thanks to @scdanceweek who produces this wonderful event!! It is the highlight of the year for so many of us and such a gift to our community! 🙏🏼

And thanks to @afrobeats_nite_santa_cruz for the epic after party! 💃🏻🪩🕺🏽��It is truly an honor to get to teach and create community through a shared love of dance and music. 🙏🏼 I am so grateful. Enjoy the rest of Dance Week and hope to see you on the dance floor somewhere soon! 💃🏻💖 #scdanceweek #badbunny #titimepregunto taken in Pleasure Point Dance by @pleasurepointdance

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This Life. This Dance. This Moment. These Beings.

Mexico Dance & Rejuvenation Retreat

Our hearts are full!

Joy, I am beyond honored and ecstatic to be co-creator with you in these experiences that continue to crack my heart open, strengthening connection, and fulfilling so many parts of my vibrant being.

Mexico, I adore you! You always bring the warmth, bountiful and nourishing, full of life, color and vibrancy. Your people, land, energy, food, animals, tradition all expand my being and bring so much joy to my soul. Thank you for holding us and nourishing all of our senses!

And to the 19 beings who came along for this experience: Wow! Truly sensational! What was amazing about this group was how close we all got! The level of depth to each of you and your “bring me into your authentic self” circle that was created softened my edges. Love each of you!

📸Big thank you to @jim.pancoast for your incredible captures of our dance and rejuvenation experience and for capturing the connection and heartfelt moments on this retreat

🙏And to @roxanne_harrison_enneagram_qi, thank you for the daily qi-gong sessions that for me brought so many feels to the forefront. Appreciate you and this practice so much! taken in Tribu Todos Santos by @pleasurepointdance

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NEW CLASS!! Pilates Mat Flow with Renee Menard 🔥

Tuesdays at 5:30 PM • All Levels • Starts October 20th!

Build strength from the inside out.

Join Renee for a dynamic Pilates mat practice designed to strengthen your core, improve stability, build body awareness, and leave you feeling energized and grounded.

Through mindful, intentional movement, we’ll work the whole body while focusing on core strength, alignment, breath, control, and mobility.

Whether you’re newer to Pilates or already have a practice, this class offers an opportunity to build strength, connect with your body, and move with greater awareness.

Come strengthen, move, breathe, and feel good in your body.

All levels welcome.

#pilatesmatclass #pilatesfusion #santacruzpilates #fitnessclass #pleasurepointdance taken in Pleasure Point Dance by @pleasurepointdance

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The incredible 👑🇧🇷Márcio Dellawegah is giving a Samba workshop in Santa Cruz this Wednesday 7 PM @pleasurepointdance

Open to all 💗

1 night only.
Space is limited. Sign up now.

Link in bio to register.

#samba #santacruz #reidogiro #santacruzdance #sambanopé by @pleasurepointdance

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WELCOME BACK, ELIZABETH! ❤️

Some returns are worth celebrating.

We’re so happy to welcome Elizabeth Charlton back to the Dance & Movement Studio after an extended medical leave.

Elizabeth returns to her Pilates Mat Flow classes Mondays + Wednesdays at 4:00 PM, bringing her strength, expertise, and powerful Pilates practice back into the studio.

Her classes offer a dynamic, full-body Pilates experience that builds strength, stability, body awareness, and core connection while moving with breath and intention.

If you’ve practiced with Elizabeth before, you know how much she brings to the room.

And if you’ve never taken her class, this is a beautiful time to come meet her.

Mondays + Wednesdays • 4:00 PM

Pilates Mat Flow with Elizabeth Charlton

All levels welcome.

Come move with us. We are so happy to have you back, Elizabeth. 💛

#pilatesmat #PilatesSantaCruz #SantaCruzPilates #SantaCruzMovement #pleasurepointdance taken in Pleasure Point Dance by @pleasurepointdance

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Samba Soul is performing tonight @afrobeats_nite_santa_cruz @ucscias beautiful location for a party on the west side of Santa Cruz
Come catch the vibe 🇧🇷✨

Photo by @cavixuxu by @pleasurepointdance

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✨ HEART WIDE OPEN ✨

A very special opportunity is opening up at the Sanctuary…

Our 300HR Advanced Yoga Teacher Training students will be diving into a Backbends Workshop with the wonderful Lily Dwyer Begg — and we’ve opened 10 spots to the public to practice alongside them. 🤍

If backbends have ever felt challenging, mysterious, or just a little bit uncomfortable in your body, this is an invitation to approach them differently:

with strength, curiosity, intelligence, and space.

Lily will guide you through a strong, thoughtfully sequenced vinyasa practice designed to progressively prepare the body for deeper backbends.

Using the wall, props, targeted strengthening, thigh stretching, shoulder mobility, and chest opening, we’ll explore the actions that create greater stability, freedom, and comfort in your backbending practice.

Together we’ll workshop:
✨ Urdhva Dhanurasana / Full Wheel
✨ Natarajasana / Dancer Pose
✨ Dhanurasana / Bow Pose + variations
✨ Supportive drills + prop-based techniques
✨ Alignment + progressions for deeper backbends

Whether you’re working toward your first Wheel, looking to refine your alignment, or curious about progressions toward more advanced transitions like dropping back and standing up from Wheel, there is room for you here.

And Lily’s guiding philosophy says it beautifully:

Feel, don’t force.🤍

With over two decades of practice and nearly two decades of teaching, Lily brings a unique blend of precise anatomical awareness, creative vinyasa, somatic intelligence, and a former professional dancer’s understanding of movement.

Expect to build strength.
Expect to create space.
Expect to get curious.
And yes… perhaps leave with shaky legs and an open heart. 🤍

🌿 HEART WIDE OPEN
Backbends Workshop with Lily Dwyer Begg

Saturday, November 7
12:30–2:30 PM
Pleasure Point Sanctuary • Dance Studio
$40 Early Bird / $50 Day Of

Only 10 public spots available.

Come practice alongside our 300HR Advanced YTT students for this special afternoon of exploration, skill-building, and possibility.

✨ Reserve your spot through the link in our bio.

#backbends #yogaworkshop #heartopening #wheelpose #yogasantacruz taken in Pleasure Point Sanctuary by @pleasurepointdance

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7 days ago

Samba Soul Sambando ✨
Come dance with us

Vibe Brasil pop up this Wednesday 7 PM @pleasurepointdance

Samba Thursday 6 PM @pleasurepointdance

Samba Sunday 1 PM @ Raizes do Brasil

Photos by @cavixuxu

@scdanceweek

#santacruz #samba #sambasoul #santacruzdance by @pleasurepointdance

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🇧🇷🔥 TWO CHANCES TO DANCE WITH GISELLA THIS WEEK! 🔥🇧🇷

Ready to raise your vibration, shake it out, and catch a little Brazilian dance magic? 💃✨

You have TWO opportunities to dance with the incredible Gisella Ferreira this week!

✨ VIBE BRAZIL ✨
Brazilian Dance + Fitness Pop-Up
📅 Wednesday, October 7 | 7:00 PM

Vibe Brazil brings together the energy and flavor of Baile Funk, Samba, Axé, and more Brazilian dance styles, with core strengthening and mat work woven in to support your movement.

🔥 Come sweat.
🇧🇷 Come move.
💃 Come catch the VIBE!

And then…

✨ THURSDAY NIGHT SAMBA ✨
📅 Thursdays | 6:00 PM

Learn Brazilian Samba with the First USA Samba Queen, Gisella Ferreira! 👑🇧🇷

Gisella breaks down key Samba moves in a fun, playful, all-levels environment while building your strength, stamina, musicality, and confidence through Samba drills.

You’ll explore Samba No Pé (Rio-style Samba) as well as Samba de Roda, connecting to the roots, rhythm, community, and joy of Brazilian dance.

And Gisella brings some SERIOUS experience to the dance floor. 👀🔥

She’s a Brazilian-American performance artist, educator, choreographer, and the First Samba Queen USA, with years of teaching, performing, and training in both the U.S. and Brazil—including her current work as a passista with Salgueiro, one of Rio’s most prestigious Samba schools.

But perhaps most importantly…

Gisella believes in dance as energy, expression, joy, and connection. ❤️

So whether you want to sweat it out at Vibe Brazil or dig deeper into the art and technique of Samba…

COME DANCE WITH GISELLA! 🇧🇷💃🔥

📍 3603 Portola Drive | Dance Studio

Bring your body, your curiosity, and your willingness to MOVE.

All levels welcome. No need to be “good at dance.” Just come catch the vibe. ✨

#VibeBrazil #BrazilianDance #Samba #BrazilianDanceFitness #DanceSantaCruz DanceCommunity SambaNoPe DanceForJoy BrazilianCulture taken in Pleasure Point Dance by @pleasurepointdance

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🍂 LET YOUR LEAVES SHED 🍂

Fall offers us one of nature’s simplest teachings:

Let go.

We watch the trees release what they no longer need, leaf by leaf, making space for what comes next.

And perhaps we are invited to do the same.

Sometimes life asks us to pivot. To loosen our grip on what we thought something should be. To soften into a new direction before we can fully see where it leads.

It can feel uncomfortable.

But often, in the shedding, we discover something more spacious. More loving. More aligned.

A new version of ourselves, waiting beneath the leaves. 🌿

So this week, may we ease into the season.
May we let go with grace.
May we honor the shifts and inevitable growth.
And may we remember our innate enoughness through it all.

🍂 THIS WEEK AT THE SANCTUARY
💃 Vibe Brazil: Dance + Fitness Pop Up — Oct 7
💃 Salsa Cubana Pop Up with Ana Saroj — Oct 10
🌴 Wellness in the Rainforest Retreat — Oct 11–17

✨ COMING UP
🎶 Soul-Nourishing Kirtan — Oct 12
🤲 Thai Massage with Temple of Touch — Oct 17
🌿 Postpartum Nesting: The Ayurvedic Way — Oct 24
🌕 Full Moon in Taurus Sound Bath — Oct 25

May we soften into the pivots.
May we trust the shedding.
May we make space for what is becoming.
On letting go and letting be, I wish you ease and grace. 💛

With love & devotion,
Pleasure Point Sanctuary

#PleasurePointSanctuary #SantaCruzYoga #FallEquinox #LetGo #seasonalliving_spring taken in Pleasure Point Sanctuary by @pleasurepointdance

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