NPAA TEACHERS
HAYLEY Macmillan-ord
NPAA Co-Founder
Aerial Arts Program Director
Pioneer of Aerial Arts in Nosara, Costa Rica
Hayley has been teaching yoga for nearly three decades, beginning her journey after years in competitive sports and cheerleading. She opened her first yoga studio in the Cayman Islands in the early 90s and went on to study and teach many forms of yoga and movement, including Yamuna body rolling, restorative yoga, and vinyasa flow. After earning her degree in Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine, she shifted her focus to therapeutic yoga and body movement.
After discovering Aerial Yoga, Hayley moved to Nosara with her family and introduced Costa Rica’s first Aerial classes. Inspired by the joy and benefits of inverting, she created a children’s program that makes Aerial Arts fun, safe, and empowering for kids of all ages.
Hayley loves watching her young students build confidence, courage, and creativity as they master new skills in the air. She has developed her own unique style of Aerial Yoga and offers an annual teacher training, ensuring all NPAA Aerial Arts instructors share her commitment to safe, joyful, and therapeutic movement.
ADRIENNE FITZMAURICE
NPAA Co-Founder
Dance Program Director
Adrienne has dedicated her life to dance, movement, and inspiring the next generation of performers. She studied ballet, jazz, and contemporary dance from childhood through her late twenties and discovered her passion for musical theater through countless stage productions. In her twenties, she trained at Chicago’s internationally recognized Lou Conte Dance Studio and Joel Hall Dance Center and went on to found her own dance company, SHE, in Chicago.
Certified at the prestigious Pilates Center in Boulder, CO, Adrienne has taught Pilates and movement since 1999. For 15 years, she owned and directed one of the Midwest’s largest Pilates and Barre studios and teacher training programs in Minneapolis. She first brought her Pilates retreats to Nosara, Costa Rica in 2007 and moved there permanently with her family in 2017.
In 2019, Adrienne expanded her teaching through the American Ballet Theatre’s National Teaching Curriculum and co-founded the Nosara Performing Arts Academy to create a vibrant space for local and international children to experience the joy and discipline of the performing arts. She finds endless inspiration in helping young performers reach their fullest potential and loves bringing the magic of choreography and costume design to life.
shanti belasco glynn
Musical Theatre Program Director
Shanti Belasco Glynn is a master teaching artist with over 25 years of experience inspiring young performers. As the founder and director of a renowned youth theatre company in California for 13 years, she directed and choreographed numerous Broadway-style productions that nurtured hundreds of young actors and dancers. Shanti trained in dance at UCLA and honed her acting craft at the esteemed Eric Morris Actor’s Workshop in Hollywood. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology, a Master’s in Multicultural Education, and a Multiple Subject Teaching Credential. Now based in Nosara, she brings her wealth of knowledge and passion to NPAA’s Musical Theater Program, guiding the next generation of performers with expertise, creativity, and care
Jasmin rituper
Aerial Arts & Dance Teacher
Jasmin Rituper is an international movement artist, dancer, aerialist and fine nude art model. She has been dancing, performing and expressing herself physically and emotionally her whole life since age 3.
Ever since, she has shaping herself, her creativity, spirituality and her essence of being -through the body and movement in various ways and forms. After her first 20 years of dance education, Jasmin got her B.A. in dance and musical theater back in 2004, completed her 300hr YTT by 2007 and created her own movement method in the last 7 years called Mechanimal Movement. Starting 2005, she has been performing, choreographing and modeling in Europe, New York, La, and Vegas. Since 2017 she shares her work and teachings also in Nosara, Costa Rica. It has been her passion and mission to express and share this craft in every way and form possible. It is intentional, bold, primal, sensual, powerful & transformative yet sensitive and vulnerable.
Oceanna
Macmillan-ord
Aerial Arts Teacher
Oceanna was raised in Nosara, Costa Rica, where a deep connection to nature and holistic living shaped her journey as a teacher and healer. She began teaching Aerial Yoga at just 14 and loves sharing the joy of movement, play, and mindful connection through the hammock. When she’s not in the air, Oceanna practices TCM Medicine and Accupuncture, and enjoys exploring tide pools by the sea — always guided by her curiosity, love for healing, and passion for inspiring others to move with intention.
Jameson is a dedicated senior at Del Mar Academy who discovered her love for aerial arts at just seven years old. By twelve, she was assisting classes, and by fourteen she was proudly leading her own. She now teaches an after-school program for DMA and an NPAA performing group for kids ages 6–10. Jameson’s greatest joy is watching shy students find courage in the hammock and grow into confident young flyers who share her passion for aerial arts. She loves the supportive NPAA community and the special connections she’s made — especially when a young student says, “Wait, you’re Jameson? Like the Jameson drop?” After graduation, she plans to take a gap year to travel the world, hoping to find aerial yoga wherever her adventures lead her.
Jameson cooke
Aerial Arts Teacher
diego Espinoza López
Aerial Arts Teacher
Diego is a born Tico and a valued member of our senior teaching crew at NPAA. A senior at Del Mar Academy, Diego’s strongest suit is silks, but he loves being in the air any way he can — whether it’s on the hammock, trapeze, hoop, or straps. He’s known for finding new ways to explore each apparatus and for bringing characters to life through movement and performance. His favorite part of NPAA is watching kids discover their own strength and creativity, just like he did. Diego hopes to inspire every student to believe in themselves and follow their dreams, both in the air and beyond.