Fitness & Educational Programs

Zumba Gold is designed for people ages 50 and up, with low impact dance steps, balance and strength built into each session and set to Latin and world music.

Zumba Gold/Gold Toning
The best of both Zumba Gold & Zumba Gold Toning have been combined into one class. Zumba Gold Toning is a fitness party with lightweight resistance to enhance muscle strength, tone and endurance.

Your first Zumba class is free! Classes after that are $4 drop-in, $30 for a 10-visit punch card or $60 for a 20-class punch card. Instructor Trena Winans is a certified Zumba Gold instructor and has over 40 years of dance experience.

Come join the fun! Get an aerobic workout to upbeat music from all genres using all the muscles in the body and adding simple arm movements. Improve balance, increase flexibility and range of motion in the joints, strengthen muscles and reduce the risk of coronary heart disease. Modify the movements to your own fitness level from beginners to more advanced! Suggested donations of $3 per class or $30 per month for unlimited classes paid directly to your instructor.

Join friends new and old for a great time moving to music! Unlike circle dancing, line dancers are not in physical contact with each other – making it a great exercise for these times! Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced level classes are offered, all experience levels are welcome! No fee.

An excellent way to improve flexibility, increase core muscle strength, improve posture, as well as promote relaxation while improving focus and concentration. STOTT Pilates is the contemporary form of exercises that is respected by fitness, rehab, and health practitioners worldwide. This class requires the ability to transfer up and down from the floor. Please bring your own mat if available. Class is outdoors or in the Sanford center fitness room. The cost is $4 per class paid directly to your instructor. Jill Nyman is a Doctor of Physical Therapy and a certified STOTT Pilates instructor. Will need instructor approval to advance to the intermediate class.

A mat-based guided practice including yoga postures with gently flowing transitions, breathing exercises, and meditation with mental, physical, and spiritual health benefits. “Yoga is a personal journey where one can find balance, peace, wellness” -Michelle Thielen. Benefits include stress reduction, improved body awareness and balance, increases in flexibility, strength, and muscle tone, pain management, and increased lung capacity. In addition, yoga may help you cultivate peace with yourself and others and deepen your own personal faith. This practice may be modified to your own fitness level from beginners to more advanced, however, participants will be required to transfer up and down from the floor independently. Please bring your own mat if available. The cost per class is $4 drop-in, $30 for a 10-visit punch card or $60 for a 20-class punch card (paid directly to your instructor). Julie Pierce is a certified group exercise instructor with a Master of Science degree in Physical Therapy.

Chair Yoga is excellent for calming the mind, easing arthritis, building strength, increasing flexibility and improving balance. Steve Weckle teaches on Wednesdays in-person at Trailside in Birchwood and Mondays, Wednesdays & Fridays online at 9:30 am. Punch-cards are available. Cost is $36 for 10 classes or $4 per class.

Beginner Tai Chi with Steve Weckle is known to improve balance, flexibility and strength, and to benefit one’s overall sense of well-being. Tai Chi is one of the exercises recommended by the CDC for better balance and for fall prevention. The slow and gentle movement is suitable for all ages. In this class, students will learn a form of Yang style Tai Chi tailored for beginners for better balance. The fundamental Yang style Tai Chi steps and the technique of mindfulness of breathing will be taught.

Classes are $4 each or $36 for a ten-class punch card. This class is also open to drop-in students who took the previous session and would like to drop in for practice. $4 per drop in.

Advanced Tai Chi with Steve Weckle is for students who have taken at least one session of Beginner Tai Chi and can comfortably perform the form learned in that class, and for students who have previous Tai Chi experience. 24-form Yang style Tai Chi and various other short forms will be covered in class. In each class, we will select a few movements to focus on.

Classes are $4 each or $36 for a ten-class punch card.

This weight-training class is for the prevention of osteoporosis. Suitable for all fitness levels, adaptable to your physical restrictions. No equipment needed to start. There is a suggested donation of $2 a class. Please send a check at the end of each month until the time when we restart in-person classes. Payment instructions will be sent upon registration.

A class intended to reduce participants’ fall risk and thereby, maintain their mobility and independence for as long as possible. Exercises for muscular strength and endurance using multiple joints and numerous muscles result in functional fitness for fall prevention. This class will address the key components of Agility, Balance, Coordination, Speed/Reaction Time, and Power (i.e. lower body muscle strength), as well as education about fall risk and prevention. Exercises will be performed sitting and standing (with support as needed). The cost per class (paid directly to your instructor) is $4 drop-in, $30 for a 10-visit punch card (good for ANY of JULIE’S classes) or $55 for a 20-class punch card (good for ANY of JULIE’S classes). Instructor, Julie Pierce, is a certified group exercise instructor with a Master of Science degree in Physical Therapy.