If you have chronic aches, pains or limitations in your movement ability, then these classes are for you. You will be doing gentle, easy to follow movement patterns that, over time, improve flexibility, coordination, and posture.

This Hatha style yoga class will help you relax and refresh with strengthening and stretching. Dianne provides easy to follow instructions suitable for all levels of expertise. Please have a mat to use during each class.

Do you struggle with discomfort, excess tension or fatigue as you move through your daily life? Would you like to do the things you both enjoy and need to do, more easily and with less tension and effort? Then the Alexander Technique is for you! During this series of classes, you will: 1. learn to recognize the excess effort and tension you (and everyone!) are unknowingly, unnecessarily and habitually using; 2. experience a new, lighter, easier way of responding and moving; 3. practice these skills and develop the ability to incorporate them into your life

This class is for people new to Tai Chi/Qigong. Using slow, fluid and rounded movements you will learn to integrate the basic principles of Tai Chi and Qigong into specific movement patterns or “gestures”. We will coordinate our gestures with breathing patterns and imagery to create a type of moving meditation. This gentle movement activity is accessible to individuals of all fitness levels, and is taught and practiced both sitting and standing. This class is presented as a foundation for additional classes offered by this instructor.

This class is for people familiar with the principles of Tai Chi or Qigong, or have taken a class with this instructor. Blending movement, breath, and self-applied massage, participants will learn the Tai Chi Easy “5” form and experience the myriad of benefits of Tai Chi and Qigong: calm and focused mind, increased ease of movement, enhanced balance, and better breath support.

Pilates is a unique form of mind body exercise that focuses on strengthening the core muscles, the abdominals and the back. The class incorporates the use of ankle and hand held weights to tone the legs and arms.

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Through the movements of Tai Chi and relaxed breathing, you will cultivate, store and circulate your internal energy. The movements are non-impact, smooth and practiced very slowly at first. Western research has shown improvements in heart, bone and muscle strength, as well as large reductions in the effects of stress, and an improvement in overall balance, with regular practice. The philosophy, principles, and bio-energetics of the movements will be explored. This course is for all levels of Tai Chi experience.