LAKELAND, Fla. — The Ultimate Dance Center in Lakeland welcomes students with special needs and no dance experience, and they also let students with professional training break it down too.

It is their Special Creative Experience that has one group of students feeling good.

Brian Garrettson is one of the students who has been shaking his tail for about four months.

He told Spectrum Bay News 9 he loves to dance and with whom he is dancing.

"Oh, I love it,” Garrettson said. “They're great and we got very good people in here. They're awesome. They're awesome people."

Garrettson is talking about the rest of his Special Creative Experience class. The students come from all areas within the special needs community. They are of different ages too.

Celeste Howell teaches the class once a week.

She said it is just like any other class, except the students make it more special.

"If feel like sometimes these students are more accepting of mistakes,” Howell said. “And things that go wrong in class, they just laugh it off and they say, ‘Let's just keep going, Miss Celeste.’"

The Special Creative Experience has two results and the teacher feels good.

"The pure joy that I'm helping someone,” she said. “And I just love the students and I get to express myself through dance and actually teaching and then I get to see what they're learning."

The students feel good too.

"It gives you a workout,” said Garrettson. “And when we first start out, we do our exercises, and we get into the motions, and we just go from there."

The are feeling good and proud about what they are learning. It is among the health benefits they are getting with the workouts.

Most importantly, they are having a special experience.

Garrettson said it is an experience he is trying out for the first time in his life.

He is excited about performing in a recital coming up in June.