Local and personal
Elemental 5 serves families in Salida, Poncha Springs, and Chaffee County with coaching that is personal, steady, and deeply invested.
Salida, Colorado
AboutElemental5
Elemental 5 is a youth movement arts center in Salida, Colorado, helping students build strength, confidence, focus, courage, creativity, respect, and character through movement.
We do not only train tricks. We train qualities.
Who We Are
A movement arts center for whole kids.
Movement arts
We draw from gymnastics, parkour, tumbling, trampoline, aerial arts, and martial arts to help students become capable, adaptable movers.
Warm standards
Classes are fun, but they are not random. Students learn progressions, practice respect, and earn confidence through real effort.
Room to grow
Every student is met as a person. Some need courage. Some need focus. Some need a place where energy becomes a strength.
E5 was built to train the whole student: body, mind, confidence, character, and joy in movement.
What We Train
Skills are the vehicle. Growth is the point.
Strength
Students build usable strength, body control, balance, and awareness of how they move.
Adaptability
Students learn to adjust, recover, try again, and stay calm when the plan changes.
Courage
Students practice doing hard things with support, structure, care, and follow-through.
Creativity
Movement becomes a place to explore, problem-solve, perform, and express joy.
Focus
Students learn to listen, regulate, reset, and stay present under pressure.
Why We Train
Movement gives character a place to practice.
Many youth activities keep kids busy. At E5, we want movement to do something deeper. A student feels effort, frustration, repetition, progress, and pride in real time. Then they learn they can stay with it.
That is why we train. Not to produce perfect performers, but to help students become stronger, steadier, braver, more respectful versions of themselves.
When students build strength, they learn they can support themselves with patience and consistency.
When they adapt, they learn one mistake is not the end of the attempt.
When they commit, they learn courage is something they can practice one attempt at a time.
When they create, they learn their ideas belong in the room.
When they focus, they learn how to regulate, reset, and return to themselves.
The Five Elements of E5
A simple framework for complete training.
The Five Elements are our teaching language. They help coaches and students connect physical skills to clear qualities students can understand, practice, and carry with them.
Earth
Strength and stability
Showing up, building foundations, and learning that progress starts with steady effort and respect.
Water
Flow and adaptability
Changing direction, recovering from mistakes, and staying flexible when the plan shifts.
Fire
Courage and intensity
Committing fully, trying the hard thing, and learning how to use energy with purpose.
Air
Creativity and expression
Finding style, solving problems, performing with presence, and keeping joy in movement.
Void
Focus and integration
Bringing the pieces together with awareness, humility, and emotional regulation under pressure.
Serious Play
Play and discipline are not opposites.
Kids learn best when the room feels alive. At E5, play is focused, physical, challenging, and full of discovery. Discipline gives play shape. Play keeps discipline joyful.
Safe risk
Students stretch comfort zones inside clear coaching boundaries.
Real effort
Fun does not mean easy. It means students want to keep trying.
Shared energy
The group learns to celebrate effort, progress, courage, and respect together.
What Students Carry With Them
The work follows them home.
A stronger body
They move with more control, coordination, balance, and trust in what their body can do.
More resilience
They practice patience, adaptability, listening, and the ability to reset after frustration.
A braver self
They learn that courage is not a personality type. It is a skill they can build.
A creative voice
They get to solve problems, make choices, perform, and bring their own style and joy into movement.
A steadier mind
They build focus, emotional regulation, humility, and confidence through repeated practice.
A place to belong
They are known by coaches, encouraged by peers, and challenged in a space built on respect.
Start Here
Find the class that fits your student.
Whether your child is brand new, wildly energetic, cautious, focused, creative, or already flipping off the couch, there is a thoughtful path into Elemental 5.