Our Team

The Slinky Kids Experience

Slinky Kids has been serving the Alamance County area and beyond since 2022. Founded by Ashlea Barnett, Slinky Kids program consists of three parts: social emotional learning, yoga/movement, and mindfulness. We incorporate this framework in every kids class, meeting the children where they are through imagination and play. We also have our Slinky Kids Dance, which offers various dance styles for children of all ages. We strive create a safe and engaging dance program with a high quality education that is accessible to the community.

Meet our team

Ashlea Barnett
Founder

After teaching dance, yoga and theater for over 20 years,  Miss Ashlea created Slinky Kids, a kids yoga and movement company with a new approach to mindfulness. She has a love for movement and watching children grow in strength, awareness and confidence through their work together. She has seen the positive impact of her program not only in the children she teaches but also the adults who surround them. She is certified in kids yoga through Growga, has an extensive background and degree in dance and theatre, as well as being certified in All Abilities kids yoga through ChildLight Education Company. With her extensive knowledge and experience with children she aims to bring ease and mobility to the body, giving them added strength, flexibility and confidence they never knew they had. Her goal is to teach kindness, positivity and acceptance one breath at a time.

Miss Paige
Jazz/Hip Hop

Miss Paige started dancing at age 5. She instantly fell in love with clogging and later started competing in jazz, hip hop, tumble, and lyrical. Competing for over 20 years has given her the ability to win many national championship awards and titles. Miss Paige has also had the opportunity to guest perform at the Carolina Opry in Myrtle Beach for a week, and she competed on America's Got Talent in 2011. She loves teaching all ages and styles of dance. 

Miss Paige loves spending time with her husband and two kids, Kash and Oaklyn. She is super excited to join the Slinky Kids team and can not wait to watch it grow!

Miss Ingrid
Sub/Ballet/Barre

Bio coming soon

Miss Kaci
Yoga

Bio coming soon

Miss Meg
Yoga/Ballet

Margaret Alice is a North Carolina native who earned her BFA in Dance Performance and Choreography from Elon University. She has been dancing, teaching, and choreographing professionally in NC for over 15 years, performing with such companies as VECTOR, Kearns Dance Project, The Bipeds, and Terranova Dance Theater, and choreographing everything from concert dance to musicals to music videos. She's taught workshops at schools, conventions, and festivals, as well as barre, ballet, yoga, and creative movement for both adults and children. Meg is a founder and the Director of Social Media and Marketing of Grimstone Gaming, where her love of collaborative storytelling and improvisation blossoms in a different way through tabletop role playing games. If she's not nerding out with any of those things, you can probably find her reading and/or snuggling with her husband, Michael, and their adorable fur babies.

Amanda
Youth Ambassador

Amanda has grown up with yoga and is excited to take on the role of youth ambassador. She's always eager to join a class, encourage others and upholds the core values of Slinky Kids.