Holly Ryder is a South Florida based instructor and choreographer focusing mainly on contemporary movement. Since becoming certified as a yoga instructor, she has developed a class that emphasizes body awareness and transitions from yoga based warm-ups to full improvisational movement and phrase work. She is a current guest faculty for Artists Simply Human convention and is the curator of her own South Florida based workshop series, The Dive, which provides dancers with in depth time to learn from industry professionals creators. She is also guest faculty at Broadway Dance Center in NYC. Teaching has taken her around the country, as well as Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica and Canada.