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in Lifelong Learning
Strength and Balance for Senior Fitness
with Michelle Spencer
This is a live, online class via Zoom.
Reaching balanced wellness by working on strengthening and stretching the muscles, preventing falls, and improving cardiovascular and bone density health.
NEW! Standing and Floor Work! This dynamic, full-bodied exercise program supports muscle growth and increases stamina! Prepare to be getting on and off the floor during the mat portion. If you have been working on your fitness and want to challenge yourself, "Senior Fitness" will guide you safely and effectively.
This class is progressive and increases your overall well-being throughout the 6 week session. March 10, 17, 24, 31 and April 7, 14.
Gentle Fitness for Health
with Michelle Spencer
This is a live, online class via Zoom.
This class offers seated strength and flexibility exercises to improve mobility and fall prevention. All exercises will support people with arthritis, osteoporosis, and other health concerns if they are cleared by their primary care provider.
March 10, 17, 24, 31 and April 7, 14.
Stop the Bleed
with John Lennon
This is an in-person, classroom-based course at Mount Desert Island High School.
In this class we will learn how to control bleeding. Participants gain the ability to recognize life-threatening bleeding and act quickly and effectively control it with three quick techniques. The number 1 cause of preventable death after injury is bleeding. Stop the Bleed classes are public presentations that empower citizens to make a difference in a life or death situation.
John Lennon has been a paramedic for 30 years. He is a certified fire instructor, and also an EMS instructor/coordinator. He has conducted numerous public presentations and in service trainings.
Narcan
with John Lennon
This is an in-person, classroom-based course at Mount Desert Island High School.
Narcan training will teach students how to recognize signs of an opioid overdose, and how to administer the opioid reversal drug Narcan/Naloxone.
John Lennon has been a paramedic for 30 years. He is a certified fire instructor, and also an EMS instructor/coordinator. He has conducted numerous public presentations and in service trainings.
Chair Yoga
with Michelle Spencer
This is a live, online class via Zoom.
This morning class practiced in a chair offers mind and body benefits without having to get up and off the floor or even changing into Yoga clothes. Enjoy a “pick me up” at home or at your office by using structural techniques to improve your range of motion, relax tight or overused muscles and release tension from the mind.
March 13, 20, 27, April 3, 10, 17
Tai Yoga
with Michelle Spencer
This is a live, online class via Zoom.
A practice that will involve a series of slow, rhythmic movements and physical postures, meditation, controlled, breathing, stretching, and strength for the mind and body. This class is a combination of tai chi, traditional yoga, and qi gong.
March 18, 25, April 1, 3, 15, 29
Stress Reduction & Relaxation with Therapeutic Yoga
with Michelle Spencer
This is a live, online class via Zoom.
This 60 minute yoga practice will provide sequences that calm the nervous system, along with stretching and warming the muscles while preparing the mind to rest. Breathing techniques, short meditation and positive affirmations will end the practice.
Breathing techniques, a short meditation and positive affirmations will end the practice.
March 18, 25, April 1, 3, 15, 29
Instant Piano for Hopelessly Busy People
with Craig Coffman
This is an online, live class.
In just a few hours, you can learn enough secrets of the trade togive you years of musical enjoyment. Learn to play piano theway professionals do-using chords. The chord method is LOTSof fun and dramatically easier to learn than reading notes. Feeincludes the online book, online follow up lessons, a recordingof the class and also an optional periodic question and answersession. Class is held online using zoom and is partly hands oninstruction and partly lecture demonstration.
Craig Coffman is an experienced piano and guitar instructor, professional pianist and music director. He has over 30 years’ experience teaching piano privately. His piano and guitar seminars, offered through Community Colleges and Community Education Programs, have been attended by over 30,000 students throughout Arizona, Minnesota and the United States over the last 27 years. He has a degree in Sociology from Illinois Wesleyan University in Illinois (where he also studied piano) and a Master of Divinity degree from Western Seminary in Portland, Oregon.