Originally founded in 2017 by a mom of three and longtime Mill Valley resident, Annie Leese Thistle, TumbleSpot is your child’s go-to place for tumbling, acro, and gymnastics!
“After closing our doors in 2020, TumbleSpot is back and ready to serve our families again!” Thistle says. “We offer a variety of programs designed to build skills and cultivate fun for children through the age of 10. Our curriculum has been carefully developed by industry professionals and offers incredible growth opportunities for our littlest members through our AcroStars. From classes to camps to open gyms, we have tons to tumble about!”

Originally founded in 2017 by a mom of three and longtime Mill Valley resident, Annie Leese Thistle, TumbleSpot is your child’s go-to place for tumbling, acro, and gymnastics! After closing our doors in 2020, TumbleSpot is back and ready to serve our families again! We offer a variety of programs designed to build skills and cultivate fun for children through the age of 10. Our curriculum has been carefully developed by industry professionals and offers incredible growth opportunities for our littlest members through our AcroStars. From classes to camps to open gyms, we have tons to tumble about!

Thistle also runs Performing Arts Academy of Marin (PAAM), a multi-faceted artistic juggernaut that seeks to equip young artists with well-rounded, whole-person dance and theater arts training and the confidence to take on whatever path they choose. They performed in December at the Palace of Fine Arts Theatre in San Francisco.

Thistle first launched PAAM in her living room, a journey that took her from the Community Church of Mill Valley in 2009, then in the Alto Plaza shopping center in early 2010, and then to the 2,800-square-foot storefront space above Balboa Cafe at Mill Creek Plaza.

In late 2015, as she juggled multiple venues to accommodate their growth, they moved PAAM to a 6,000-square-foot space at 60 Belvedere Drive in Strawberry, just behind the Strawberry Village shopping center.

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