Certified Facilitators of Embodied Youth 360
Our officially certified facilitators teach in communities around the world. We’ve just begun graduating our first cohort as of fall 2025, and we add each facilitator as they complete their certification requirements. Stay tuned for more!
Alexa Jaques
Pittsburgh PA, US
Alexa Joy Jaques is a lifelong dancer and movement facilitator dedicated to nurturing the creative minds, bodies and spirits of today's youth. As the founder of Imaginative Movement for Children and Families in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, she offers unique opportunities for movement, dance and connection within her community. She draws inspiration from her experiences as a mother to her two children, the social climate that surrounds today's youth, as well as the Natural World to create transformative and inclusive classes that inspire creativity, connection, and growth.
Alexa completed the Embodied Youth 360 facilitator training in 2025. Through this training, Alexa has gathered an abundance of rich wisdom to design spaces where children will be fully seen, heard, and honored for who they are as individuals through teachings in social-emotional learning and non-violent communication. Alexa is looking forward to offering Embodied Youth 360 opportunities in local preschools, grade schools, and after-school programs in the Pittsburgh region. Just reach out via email using the button here to learn more and get connected!
Eric Lichtenstein
New York City NY, US
Eric Lichtenstein is a multidisciplinary artist and educator from New York City. For over a decade, Eric has been steeped in creative investigation and research through movement and other expressive arts including painting, sculpture and performance art. In 2024, he founded Lightstone Laboratories, an organization dedicated to experimental art-making where he serves as director as well as workshop facilitator.
Eric currently works as a teaching artist with The Leadership Program which brings creative arts programming to NYC public schools. He is passionate about offering spaces and opportunities for young people to express themselves beyond language and social conventions. In the summer of 2025 he completed the Embodied Youth 360 training and has been sharing its invaluable teachings through his work. In the fall of 2026, he will begin his Masters studies in Dance/Movement Therapy at Sarah Lawrence on the path to becoming a licensed creative arts therapist.
Erica Wood
Denver CO, US
Erica's dance journey began in her basement trying to emulate Janet Jackson's "Pleasure Principle" video, back when MTV was actually music television. Chair stunts and all. She went on to compete in Salsa, Hustle, Cha-Cha, Rumba, and West Coast Swing with her partner Daniel McGee, and perform in theatrical productions choreographed by Arte Phillips.
In 2017, something cracked open through certification training with Amara Pagano and the Path of Azul where she discovered a new landscape of moving from the inside ➝ out rather than through choreography. That transformation became her calling. Erica now facilitates Embodied Youth 360 experiences for children, and embodied storytelling experiences and film projects with individuals and organizations that draw on her passion for leadership development.
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