Suzanne DeRosa is the founder and owner of The Little Green Tambourine, and has been working with children for over twenty years.  

As a Birth and Post Partum Doula, she provides support and encouragement to parents through the most important and sometimes most challenging journey of their lives.  She is also a certified Yoga Instructor for children, including her own.  Suzanne is dedicated to being a community resource for children and families that want to learn proactive ways to care for their children and their environment.   As a mother of three children and a born teacher, she believes that children can and should also learn through themes they are naturally drawn to, such as music, art and nature.

Suzanne has had formal vocal training, plays the guitar, and is in the process of writing her first album of children’s songs. 

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Karla Kress-Boyle has been teaching dance and children’s fitness classes for the past ten years.  Using dance to teach children how to respect and love themselves, their bodies and others is her mission.  She started dance at 3 and has been dancing ever since, dancing through taking many master classes in CT and NYC.  Additionally she has furthered her training and has become a licensed Betty Hoops Dance Therapy Instructor, and a certified Full of Joy Yoga Instructor.   She continues to use her dance training in combination with yoga and hoop dance to create fun fitness programs for kids.  She has been an instructor for many local dance studios in the area, and co-owner of her own dance studio for 4 years.

Karla has experience teaching tap, ballet, jazz, pointe, lyrical, and many creative movement and preschool dance development classes.  Currently she teaches dance classes and adult Hula Hoop for Health classes in West Hartford and is excited about the opportunity to work at the Little Green Tambourine teaching Toddler ballet (Dance! Dance!), Rhythm Moves, Yoga Rhythm and our newest dance class “Art in Motion”.  Her Hula Hoop for Health program for adults was featured on CT Style, last spring.  Karla also presented her Hula Hoop for Health Program at the CT Parks and Rec. and the CT Association of Physical Education Health Recreation and Dance Conferences.  Additionally she is the founder of CT Rhythm Moves bringing people Rhythm for Life!   She lives in West Hartford with her husband and their 4 year old son.

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Suzanne and her staff support their local community on a consistent basis.  They are advocates for children and support many non-profit organizations that are dedicated to helping children and families.

Some of the organizations that we support are: Alex’s Lemonade Stand, Healthy Child Healthy World, End Hunger CT, Green Halloween, Gifts of Love, The Cobb school, Canton Community Nursery School, The Boys and Girls Club, Local YMCA’s, Autism Speaks, local Earth Day events (Clean Up Farmington, 2008) and Treeswing- a non-profit organization that aims to get more children outside playing and getting fit.  They will continue to donate their time to raise money and awareness for children’s charities.

Farmington Post Article July 4th, 2008

Canton Life Article August 8th, 2008

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