About Us

Since 2002 hundreds of students have taken classes at Expressions. We started as a very small school, but have grown to become one of the largest after-school activity centers in the Napa Valley. Expressions provides our students the highest quality of instruction in dance, theater, cheerleading, tumbling, music and martial arts at a level of training unsurpassed in the area. If you are brand new to any of our wide variety of after-school classes, you can rest assured that we understand your needs. If you are an intermediate or advanced student, our qualified instructors are capable of taking you through the progressive levels of study.The secret to our ability to maintain quality classes while offering a large variety of classes is our teaching staff. Each of our teachers is an experienced professional in what they teach.

Hi I’m Megan Meyers! I’d like to introduce myself because to understand what Expressions is about, it’s important to hear the story behind my inspiration for creating a school for extra-curricular activities.I moved to Napa in August of 1997, two days before starting my freshman year at Napa High School. Not knowing a soul,I took a risk and tried out for the school dance team. I trulybelieve my life changed paths at that moment. Over the next three years of dance training, I gained powerful lessons inself-discipline, team work, time management, goal settingas well as the joy of personal and group accomplishment.During my time participating in the school dance program, I had thehonor of being named NDA All American Dancer in 2000 and along with my team mates, won four national dance titles in 2000 and 2001. My new found confidence also pushed me to earn abovea 4.0 grade point average and earn election for the position of Senior Class Vice President.

Fast forward to 2002. I had been volunteering as a dance teacher at an after-school program for the past year, and I got the idea to open a dance studio, I mean I already had students, how hard could starting a business be, right? Even though I was only 19, my past experience andsuccess with dance (plus the support of family) gave me the confidenceto persevere past all of the obstacles and open a dance studio.You would think that starting a business at 19 would be enough to keep me occupied,but it wasn’t. While in my first couple years of starting Expressions, I had the opportunity to earn the title of Miss Napa County 2002 as well as compete at thestate level of Miss America. I also commuted to the Haas School of Businessat UC Berkeley and earned my degree in business after 3 years in 2004. Then in 2005, I had the honor of joining Football’s Fabulous Females, the OaklandRaiderettes where I was able to perform for crowds in the tens of thousands. It was an amazing experience and I was honored to win Rookie of the Year my first year and captain and Raiderette of the Year  my second year. As Raiderette of the Year I also had the opportunity to represent the Oakland Raiders at the Pro Bowl in Hawaii.

All of these AMAZING experiences came into my life within only an 8-year span of my first dance class. I can say for certain that DANCE CHANGED MY LIFE and continues to provide me with amazing opportunities each year. My particular storyhappens to be about dancing, but the same could be true about music or theater or martial arts. The thing that is so transforming for young person about any kind of enrichment activity is that is requires self-mastery of body and mind. Unlike sports, it’s not about catching a ball or blocking an opponent, or dealing with any kind of outside force. It’s all internal. It requires understanding a concept in your mind then transferring it to your hands on a piano keyboard to you your body when performing on stage.There is also an incredible amount of self-discipline that must be developed in order to practice enough to create the muscle memory necessary to play an instrument, act out a play or dance a routine. Even if a student will not want to go on to play music or dance after college, they will be able to apply their new found self-mastery and self-discipline to all other areas of their life. I know first -hand the confidence that can be gained and the doors that can be opened to any child willing to work hard and stick with dance, music, or acting. And I’m so blessed to be able to offer that opportunity to students every year through classes at Expressions.