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TENTATIVE Winter Fitness Session #1: January 13-February 28

**No classes from 12/6/24-1/12/25 due to NMU winter break 

Class Descriptions

Barre: The perfect blend of grace and strength with a full body focus. This class fuses ballet inspired movements, pilates techniques and sculpt training through small deliberate movements, light weights and high repetition. You will enhance core stability improve muscle endurance and boost flexibility. Designed for all fitness levels this low impact workout guarantees an energizing session that will leave you feeling impowered and invigorated. Join a Barre class for a balanced and effective exercise experience that will elevate your fitness journey. 

Core and More: 50 Minute class that gets it all done!  Targets your "POWERHOUSE".  Your core will be the focus incorporating traditional core exercises, balance and low impact dynamic movements.  Great fun and great music.  This class is for anyone and everyone.  THIS is the class to start your week!!

Cycle & Strength: A high energy, beat bumping cardio ride for 45 minutes with 15 minutes of weights for strength.

Flowing Classical Ayuryoga: This is a typical yoga class using the classic yoga flow style. The class will be interspersed with some principles of "The Science of Life" as well as stress and stress management techniques.

Freeform Flow Power Yoga: Invites you to move with intuition, creating a personalized journey on your mat. Embrace the freedom to explore various poses, transitions, and modifications, empowering you to tailor the practice to your unique needs. Connect breath with movement as you build strength, flexibility, and a sense of inner freedom in this energetic vinyasa flow. Join us for Freeform Flow Power Yoga and unleash your body's natural rhythm in this empowering and liberating class. 

Hatha yoga: This class is a slower paced class where we explore all yoga asanas while connecting each breath with a movement. This class will help increase balance, strength and clarity and flexibility throughout the body. We will explore breathwork, seated and standing poses as well as a longer savasana towards the end.

HIIT: "Need a change of pace? Join Kennedy for a class! HIIT (High Intensity Interval Training), is a great way to change it up while having fun. All fitness levels welcome, it can be modified for beginners. This group fitness class will include different aerobic movements and strength training exercises. This is a high intensity for the majority of the class to increase the heart rate, but also will end with lower intensity movement. This class will be uplifting, with motivating music, and a positive atmosphere. "

Morning Mixer: Strength and Pilates, with a touch of movement, including compound exercises to maximize your efforts all done in 50 minutes.  Great music to motivate and drive you to your personal best. All levels of fitness are welcome. This class will use weights, balls, bands, gliders, and body weight. 

Morning Yoga Flow: Start your day off with this mindful morning practice where you have space to rejuvenate, awaken and nurture your body and mind! You can expect guided meditations, breathwork and a mix of dynamic flow as well as still yoga postures. In this class you can tune into your body and heart space with some refreshing and meditative yoga practices. 

Mindful Movement Yoga: Mindful Movement is a functional and sustainable approach to yoga, integrating mobility, strengthening, and restorative practices. This is a great class to explore yoga in a new and accessible way that is based on anatomically sustainable movements. Class looks slightly different every week as the focus shifts, so come with an open mind and heart! No experience is needed, everyone is welcome

Pilates: A 50 minute Pilates class using calm modern music. This class incorporates Pilates exercises allowing you to work on flexibility and strengthen your abs and back muscles for functional daily activities such as hiking, horseback riding, golf, tennis, water activities and just life in general. Your posture will improve along with your muscle-mind awareness. 

Power 50:Strength training class that works all your muscle group using a variety of weights and resistance in 50 minutes. Class is set to fantastic music to PUSH YOU AND PUMP YOU UP. All levels of fitness experience are welcome, no experience with weight training required.

Power Yoga/Vinyasa: This yoga class is designed to strengthen relax and restore you. Blending power yoga, a strong yet accessible style of yoga that focuses on connecting breath with movement while building strength in the body along with Yin Yoga, a slower and cooler floor based practice where postures are held between 1-3 minutes to target the deeper connective tissues and joints within the body. Class will begin with a creative power/vinyasa practice to warm up and energize the body and end with a yin/restorative yoga practice to restore the body and calm the mind. 

Restorative Yoga: Join Grace for an hour of restorative yoga to help encourage physical, emotional, and mental relaxation. In class, we will be holding passive poses for longer periods to focus on deepening, breathwork, and stillness. Highly encouraged to bring any extra items of comfort such as eye pillows, blankets, journals, tea, (etc.)

Salsa (Rueda): Starting January 2025, This is a friendly introduction to social dance that challenges your musicality and your feet! Salsa is a vibrant Latin dance that can be done individually, in pairs, or as in Salsa Rueda de Casino (constantly switching pairs arranged in a circle). In this class you will learn the rhythm and steps of Salsa individually and then move on to Salsa Rueda. Please note, this class will involve some physical contact (hand to hand, hand to back) between participants and partners will be rotated. 

SHiNE Dance Fitness™ brings original routines to life using hit music and choreography for all-abilities. Rooted in jazz, ballet, and hip-hop, this workout gives you a creative outlet to escape from daily stress. Each class includes the perfect balance of high cardio and toning to ensure you receive a full-body workout with real results. SHiNE is a mood-lifting experience that leaves you feeling capable, confident, and connected to a supportive community.

Warming Vinyasa Flow: A faster paced class that will invite warmth, strength and power in the body and mind while connecting each breath or “pranayama” to fluid movement or “asana” . In this class you will explore the fundamentals of yoga poses, traditional yogi wisdom, breathwork. Come explore the capacity and creativity of your heart and body!

Yoga Flow: This class incorporates basic yoga and tai chi moves and is set to awesome music! Great stretching and balance round out a perfect 50 minute workout to get your energy flowing. A smile during this class is a requirement! No equipment needed. 

Zumba: Zumba® takes the "work" out of workout, by mixing low-intensity and high-intensity moves for an interval-style, calorie-burning dance fitness party. Once the Latin and World rhythms take over, you'll see why Fitness classes are often called exercise in disguise. Super effective? Check. Super fun? Check and check.