Classes
African Dance Class
Description
The Beginning African Dance Class explores traditional West African dances and rhythms. Students will learn the meaning & history of the dances as they are used in the daily lives of people on the continent of Africa. This fun and exciting class will cultivate and develop confident, creative and inspired students.
Instructor: Wakili McNeill, MSW
Wholistic North African Belly Dance
Instructor: Zahra Christine
Wholistic North African BellyDance (WNABD) is a dance workout that is designed for the whole self and for overall well-being. It is a healing approach to the ancient art of belly dance that includes full-body stretches, isolations, shimmies, slow-motion serpentine movements, fast hip drills and more. A session of WNABD incorporates dance technique and traditional elements of North African healing dances into an intensive endorphin-releasing experience that increases strength, flexibility, coordination, relaxation and balance. This class is held in a safe and peaceful environment that promotes joy and self-acceptance.
Yoga
The practice of Yoga, dating back 5,000 years, can help improve your health with stretching to tone your muscles and exercise your entire skeletal system. Some yoga classes are more challenging than others.
Yoga Stretch: An innovative approach to the popular fitness-focused mind/body workout, Yoga Stretch consists of traditional yoga poses executed with a Vinyasa flow. Participants will experience improved strength, flexibility,balance and posture. Yoga Stretch is friendly and suitable to members of all fitness and experience levels
Yoga: Designed to enhance vitality and a sense of well being, this workout will help participants gain improved flexibility, balance, strength and posture. The class will borrow from each instructor’s experience with Yoga and may incorporate basic poses from various Yoga styles.
Tai Chi
Tai Chi originated hundreds of years ago from the fusion martial arts and Taoism. Today, Tai Chi is generally practiced for its health benefits and enjoys great popularity. Yet it remains a potent martial art. The flowing circular movements in the Tai Chi forms are naturally relaxing and therapeutic. These very same moves can be applied in self-defense to ward off and deflect an opponent’s strikes. At a more advanced level, push hands practice further enhances the skill of sensing and neutralizing an opponent’s energy and force.