Dina Denis-Paolucci is a Queens-based educator, dancer, & choreographer. She holds a BA in Dance from Hofstra University and an MA in Dance Education from NYU. Dina is a NYS K–12 certified dance educator, an E-RYT and CYT Level-3 AYC Yoga Teacher, and a certified Zena Rommett Floor-Barre instructor.

She teaches at Here and Now Yoga Wellness & Arts Collective, Hofstra University, Selfhelp Senior Center, and with private students. Dina is also the co-owner of Here and Now Yoga and founder of the nonprofit Dance Into Light (DIL), established in 2003 to provide dance classes, workshops, performances, and film projects. (www.dinadenisdance.org) Dina performs nationally with visual artist Siona Benjamin, bringing Benjamin’s blue-painted figures to life through dance. She also performs and teaches the works of Joan Miller’s Dance Players preserving Miller’s legacy through the American Dance Guild.

Dina began to study yoga in 1999. A few yoga and meditation classes and an Upstate New York retreat, coupled with Dina’s lifelong study of dance and somatic practices, confirmed Dina’s path as a lifelong student and teacher of yoga and wellness. Dina strives to bring meaningful yoga experiences to all students at any stage of their practice in order to develop the physical and inner strength needed to feel great! Dina works with her yoga students to develop confidence, energize the body, foster excellent health and while providing her students with yogic opportunities to be better connected with one’s own mind, body and spirit. Dina uses yoga practices, principles, meditation and mindfulness to help people to uncover and trust for their own inner wisdom, foster equanimity and cultivate one’s unique creative voice in order to live vibrantly with clarity, joy and personal freedom.