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- Move Well to Age Well – Fun With PizzazzEE-25 – In-Person
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Item Number: S25MOV305A
Dates: 5/13/2025 - 6/3/2025
Times: 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Days: Tu
Sessions: 4
Maximum Enrollment: 18
Building: Campbell Center
Room: Room A
Instructor: Barbara Klein
This course is full. Please click the "Add to Waitlist" button. Please note: You must be signed in and be a current member (or have a membership in your cart) to access the "Add to Waitlist" button. Experience the movements of a full-body fitness program, PizzazzEE-25, that engages every muscle and every joint within every completed session. The course will review each of the sequential 25 steps that encourage everyday mobility, strength and injury prevention. We will examine the correct actions for each step while considering any personal modifications you might choose for the movements later in your own home. Videos of the fitness app will be used alongside instruction. The program is designed especially for those in their second 50 years, beginning with gentle movements that are built upon to improve and support balance, stamina and flexibility. No experience is a plus!
NOTE: This course is not recommended for those who have had hip or knee surgery/replacement in the last six months or those having cataract surgery two to three weeks before the class starts. Floor mats are important, but no exercise equipment is required. It’s important to attend the first class. More details will be sent before that class.
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- Dance, Dance, Dance! – In-Person
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Item Number: S25MOV314A
Dates: 4/1/2025 - 4/29/2025
Times: 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Days: Tu
Sessions: 5
Maximum Enrollment: 42
Building: The Grove, Gymnasium
Room: 1195 E Main Street, Ashland
Instructor: Roxanne Camacho-Flynn
Registration for this course is closed. Come learn a choreographed routine or two as we dance and move to popular tunes of the ’60s, ’70s and ’80s. Dancing is the best kind of workout because participants engage in the mind, body and spirit connection. This dance course is designed to engage adults in a fun, low-impact and inclusive movement experience that promotes physical, emotional and social well-being. Through a blend of simple, easy-to-follow dance routines and stretching and rhythmic exercises, participants will enhance their flexibility, coordination, balance and strength while having a great time. The aim of this course is to have fun while moving to music. All skill levels are welcome, and the instructor will adapt the level of difficulty to the ability of the students. Join us to improve your health, boost your mood and connect with others through the power of dance!
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- Free the Feet, Ankles, Toes and Legs – In-Person
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Item Number: S25MOV313A
Dates: 3/31/2025 - 5/5/2025
Times: 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Days: M
Sessions: 6
Maximum Enrollment: 10
Building: Campbell Center
Room: Room A
Instructor: Moondance Forest
Registration for this course is closed. In this course, we will explore the structure and primary movements of the feet, ankles, toes and legs and how they are connected to the entire skeleton. Each class features an exercise, or “lesson,” involving gentle movements done slowly with minimal effort, while paying attention to one’s own personal experience. Students will determine how big, how fast or how “well” they do the exercises as they are guided through enjoyable sequences, exploring and discovering ways of moving with spontaneity and awareness. These exercises are safe, fun puzzles for the nervous system and brain, designed to help students remember, learn and create new patterns of behavior. This course is ideal for all ages and abilities, and participants will be involved in their own process of learning. Students will increase their balance, turn more easily and reduce tension as they adjust and move with more comfort and ease. It is beneficial to repeat this course.
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- Hiking Ashland’s Trails With Your Canine Friend – In-Person
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Item Number: S25MOV312A
Dates: 3/31/2025 - 5/12/2025
Times: 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Days: M
Sessions: 6
Maximum Enrollment: 10
Building: Field Trip
Room: Field Trip
Instructor: Myrna Hall (she/her/hers), John Rumps
Registration for this course is closed. If you’ve wanted to take an OLLI hiking class to explore some of Ashland’s amazing trails but also need to exercise your dog, this course offers the opportunity to do both. Places we will explore together with our canine pals include the Emigrant Lake North End (dam area), Bear Creek Riverwalk and North Mountain, Oredson-Todd Woods, the Lithia Park dog-approved loop, the Snark Trail and the Eastview Trail in approximately that order. All hikes will last no more than two hours (1½ hours preferred so you can get to another course), nor require more than a 200-foot to 300-foot elevation gain. Information on the physical characteristics and history of each trail and driving and parking instructions will be provided on the Friday before each Monday’s hike.
NOTE: Canine participants (one per hiker) must be well-socialized, well-trained and vaccinated. Dog owners are expected to control their dogs at all times. Owners should come supplied with a 6-foot leash and a pocket full of poop bags. On two trips dogs will be allowed off leash if the owner desires. A signed SOU assumption of risk form and proof of pooch vaccines will be required on Day 1. No exceptions. There is no class session on Monday, April 28.
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- International Folk Dance – In-Person
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Item Number: S25MOV120A
Dates: 4/2/2025 - 5/14/2025
Times: 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Days: W
Sessions: 7
Maximum Enrollment: 26
Building: The Grove, Gymnasium
Room: 1195 E Main Street, Ashland
Instructor: Linda Jaffe
Registration for this course is closed. Most folk dances from around the world carry with them remnants of society’s earliest physical responses to melody and rhythm. The more remote the geography of the region, the more intact those dances have remained. Many dances mark special occasions or serve various purposes such as celebration of holidays, courtship, strengthening community and sheer enjoyment. In this course, students will learn dances from such countries and regions as Greece, Israel, Serbia, Turkey, Kurdistan and Ukraine. The history of the dances and cultural information will be given. One or two new dances will be taught and practiced each week. No dance partner is needed nor is folk dance experience necessary.
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- Introduction to Tai Chi for Health and Longevity – In-Person
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Item Number: S25MOV144A
Dates: 3/31/2025 - 5/5/2025
Times: 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Days: M
Sessions: 6
Maximum Enrollment: 10
Building: Campbell Center
Room: Room A
Instructor: Moondance Forest
Registration for this course is closed.
Learn a complete tai chi form for health and longevity that you can do anywhere, anytime, and that is adaptable for all ages, body types and abilities. No previous experience is necessary. Reduce pain and stress, improve balance, gain focus and find comfortable ways to move and gain benefits from a 3,000-year-old Chinese movement form: tai chi. When students finish the six-week course, they will have three tools in their toolbox for dealing with change and life in general. Students will have the tai chi 17 form which includes movements from a Yang Short Form, so they will be prepared to study further if they wish. Students will have learned a sequence called Finished the Form, which they can use alone as a practice or a warm-up or cool-down practice. A basic knowledge of tai chi/martial arts and how to promote health and mind/body awareness will be obtained. Each time students take this previously offered course a deeper understanding of this lifelong practice is gained.
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- Mindful Movement: Qigong and Stretching – Online
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Item Number: S25MOV125
Dates: 4/8/2025 - 4/29/2025
Times: 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Days: Tu
Sessions: 4
Maximum Enrollment: 299
Building: Online
Room: (Zoom)
Instructor: Nando Raynolds
Registration for this course is closed. This course is an introduction to qigong and simple stretching patterns. Movements will be taught both as physical and energetic exercises and as methods for improving present-moment awareness and mindfulness of subtle perceptions. No special clothing or experience is required. Participants should come as they are, ready to have fun with others! Although qigong can be studied for a lifetime, this brief series will provide a taste of the practices. Students will learn a set of simple movements that can be integrated into a daily routine. Students will also have access to videos on the instructor’s YouTube channel, and optional DVD and digital material is available for purchase. The exercises will challenge and enhance your flexibility, balance and coordination. Classes consist mostly of active movement.
NOTE: This online course will include social time with other students using breakout rooms. Since this is online, students must be prepared to take complete responsibility for their own physical well-being. Classes will not be recorded.
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- Self-Expression Through Free-Form Dance – In-Person
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Registration for this course is closed. This course is an opportunity to explore one’s self through dance and movement. Participants will move to music freely and spontaneously with no required form or technique. No movement experience is necessary. Music will be provided to support and enhance the dancer’s self-expression through movement. Each class will begin with stretching, then an hour of free-form dance and a brief time for questions and sharing. The intention of the instructor is to provide a safe place to connect with one’s self and others through movement. This course will be a place to meet other free-form movers and to share one’s personal experience if one chooses to do so.
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- Tai Chi for Health and Longevity: A Yang Short Form – In-Person
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Item Number: S25MOV311A
Dates: 3/31/2025 - 5/5/2025
Times: 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Days: M
Sessions: 6
Maximum Enrollment: 10
Building: Campbell Center
Room: Room A
Instructor: Moondance Forest
Registration for this course is closed. The physical benefits to one’s health that the practice of tai chi chuan affords are well documented. Much scientific research has been done on the physiological effects of this ancient Chinese practice designed to exercise body, mind and spirit. It improves flexibility and builds muscle strength gradually. Tai chi takes the joints gently through their range of motion, while the emphasis on breathing and inner stillness relieves stress and anxiety. Given its low impact and evidence that it improves balance and reduces pain, Tai chi is gentle enough for all abilities, ages and body types. In this course, you will learn a Yang Short Form, specifically the Chang Style Tai-Chi-Chuan Modified Short Form by Chi-Hsiu D. Weng. Although it is not a prerequisite, if one has taken Introduction to Tai Chi, parts of the moves will be in one’s repertoire to build on. It is important to take this course more than once to deepen one’s understanding of each movement and the entire form.
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- Walking Ashland's Trails – In-Person
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Item Number: S25MOV147A
Dates: 4/10/2025 - 5/15/2025
Times: 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Days: Th
Sessions: 6
Maximum Enrollment: 10
Building: Field Trip
Room: Field Trip
Instructor: Diane DeMerritt, Liz Greenwood
Registration for this course is closed. If you are curious about the walking trails around Ashland and enjoy walking with others, this course is for you. Each week we will walk for about two hours, covering three to four miles. The trails will be mostly dirt paths with some elevation gain. While the walks are not intended to be aerobic, it is important that participants are reasonably fit and have good balance. Directions on where to meet will be emailed each week. Trails that may be explored include North Mountain Park/Riverwalk Loop, Road 2060 above Lithia Park, Emigrant Lake, Bear Creek Greenway, the TID ditch trail, Lithia Park hillside trails, Hald-Strawberry Park trails and Oredson-Todd Woods. We will walk rain or shine.
NOTE: The trails we will be walking are the same as in previous courses. Only humans are included on these weekly walks. Dogs will need to stay home. A liability waiver must be signed before the start of the first class.
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