Sesaya provides weekly, monthly and Special-Event music and movement programs for schools, preschools and child care centres throughout Toronto. Each program is unique - fully customized for the particular centre. We'd love to talk to you about your centre's particular needs. And, if you've never seen a Sesaya! program before, we'd be thrilled to do a free demo for you at your facility, with your kids.

• All classes are taught by fun, dynamic and fully qualified instructors
• All Sesaya classes are age- and developmentally appropriate (i.e., 0-18 months, 18-36 months, 3 and 4 years, 5-7 years, etc.)

• Sesaya classes are fully interactive. We don't come to just entertain the children. We engage, involve, and teach them.
• The interactive components of each session include:
  • Creative movement
  • Free and synchronized group dances
  • Music exploration
  • Instrument play-along
  • Sing-along to new songs and familiar favourites
  • Call-and-response songs
• Sesaya! programs are rooted in the belief that children learn best in an integrated learning environment where they can complete a diverse variety of activities that foster different skills at once. To this end, all classes also feature:
  • Visual, auditory, and tactile play, combining a wide variety of colours, textures, sounds and movements
  • A wide variety of music from a diversity of cultures and styles

• Your program is fully customized in content, schedule and length to meet your centre's unique needs and goals
• You get a fully flexible schedule: choose regular weekly classes or special events (i.e., P.A. Days, March Break, Summer programs), or talk to us about another schedule

• Sesaya! provides all props, instruments, manipulatives and recorded music. You supply your students and your location
• First and foremost, the focus is always on children singing and dancing with their friends -- and having fun - because where children participate willingly, enthusiastically, aided by interaction with their peers, learning occurs!

The curricular components of Sesaya programs are an appropriate combination of childhood music education, derived from the philosophies of:

• Carl Orff (Germany: Orff-Schulwerk): Orff-Schulwerk is based on Orff's belief that the easiest method of teaching music is to draw out a child's inherent affinities for rhythm and melody and allow these to develop in natural ways, leading the child by his or her intuition from primitive to more sophisticated expression..
• Zoltan Kodaly (Hungary: Kodaly Method): According to the Kodaly Method, singing is the foundation of musical culture. The voice is a child's most precious instrument, and singing is the basic musical activity; therefore, a child should sing often, joyfully and unaccompanied, in order to develop a tuneful voice.
• Emile Jacques-Dalcroze (Switzerland: Dalcroze Eurythmics): In this methodology, the body is the source of all musical ideas, and movement affects musical perception; therefore, a child's musical education and appreciation are enhanced by movement. Fostering a child's ability to hear, "think," "feel" and read music through experience, rather than just intellect, enables the child to approach music, instruments and training with heightened emotion, understanding and skill.
• Shin'ichi Suzuki (Japan: Suzuki Method): The central belief of Suzuki is based on the evidence of universal language acquisition. Children learn music much like their native language, through listening experiences. Because they hear the sounds and rhythms from birth, there is never a doubt in children's minds that they will succeed in speaking their own language. Therefore, developing focused auditory skills - the sounds and rhythms of musical experience - is vital to a child's musical development.
• Rudolf Laban (Slovakia: Labanotation): Laban, a major pioneer in the evolution of modern dance, promoted the idea that dance should be readily available to everyone. To facilitate understanding and practice, he isolated the different elements of movement into 4 principal areas: the body and how it moves through space (level, size, direction, pathway), time (speed rhythm) and force (energy, weight, flow).

To these pedagogical aspects, Sesaya adds a unique flavour that comes of decades of vocal training and performance in East Indian contemporary dance. As a result of her background, Arpita Ghosal is able to bring unique instruments, music and dances that enrich the children's learning environment in diverse and distinct ways.