Senior Citizen Monthly Class Fee
These classes are for Senior Citizens. Classes include Tai Chi, Tai Chi Cane, Walking Yoga, and Qigong. These are for Senior 65 years of age and older. Classes do not roll over if any day is missed. Cancel at anytime.
Cancel subscription at anytime (If you need assistance in canceling membership please reach out to Martin Kelly for assistance). This subscription allows you to attend every class offered in the Senior Citizens Wellness program.
Tai Chi (Taiji Quan)
This Tai Chi classes is to help promote balance, stability, and flexibility in Seniors. Tai Chi is known to reduce pain such as hips, knee osteoarthritis, back problems, and fibromyalgia. Tai Chi helps to improve range of movement in both upper and lower body, the movements coil and turning the body, allowing for more extension and fascial conditioning and improving circulation of blood, lymphatic fluid, and QI /Chi. Overall Tai Chi can help improve mood, quality of life, and allow better capacity for activities.
Qigong
Qi means “life energy”, gong ,” the work of cultivating internal energy and its benefits”. The art and science of qigong utilizes movement, sound, visualization, breathing and self awareness cultivation to inform and empower one on self care journey. Benefits of Qigong: Enhances the immune system-endocrine, skeletal, positional -control / balance system. Mental Health-develops sense of connection with self -nature, well-being, emotional stability and balance. “Qigong state”, initiates the relaxation response, lowering heart rate, blood pressure, induces alpha and theta brainwave states which restores mental focus and balance to brain.
Walking Yoga (Baguazhang)
Translated as, 8 diagram Palm, this Chinese health/martial art utilizes walking and unique stepping patterns on path to whole mind-body workout for balance and coordination, musculoskeletal and aerobic health, strong circulation and QI flow.
Walking Exercises may include different animal postures such as: Lion, Bear, Dragon, Phoenix, Monkey, Unicorn, Rooster, and Snake.
These classes are intended to incorporate all the muscles in your body. Which will give you a complete body workout.