Tai Chi is a gentle movement that promotes calm mental focus and alignment while building leg strength, endurance, stability, and balance. Tai Chi Fundamentals is taught in a simple to complex progression and can be modified to be accessible for all. Chairs can be used for sitting and support to accommodate different situations or physical limitations. Learning the essential components of Tai Chi is a gateway to traditional forms and can be a health-giving, lifelong practice. See https://taichihealth.com/ for more information. Kevin Cawley assisting.

Cardio drumming is a low-impact, full-body workout set to the great music of the '60s, '70s, and '80s. If you have never tried this form of exercise, you are in for a real treat. Using drumsticks, a 65-75cm stability ball, and a 16–24-gallon bucket (with rope handles), we work at our own pace using our arms, legs, and core! All fitness levels are encouraged, even if you must sit. Please purchase your bucket and ball at Meijer, Walmart, or Lowe's. Drumsticks are available from the instructor for $3.

What makes this so much fun? Moving to great music, our music of the 50s, 60s and 70s. This 50-minute intermediate-level workout uses a chair for both sitting exercises and standing exercises. The standing exercises use the chair for balance if desired. Resistance bands are provided and used to increase both upper-body and lower-body strength. We will work on mobility, flexibility, strength, and balance. You will sing along and smile through the whole class!

This class is for true beginners. You will learn the basic rules, how to keep score, how to find places to play, and groups to play with. You will learn to serve legally, maintain a rally, and place the ball where you want it to go. Each class will include a short lecture, drills, and open play. You don’t have to be an athlete to have fun with friends, children, grandchildren, and even strangers you may meet along the way. Paddles and balls provided. Note: You may register for only one pickleball class each semester to accommodate as many students as possible. Caution: To play this game safely, you must be able to bend your knees to pick up a ball from the ground. You should also have a good sense of balance so you can reach for the balls. If you have any doubts, please check with your healthcare provider.

Students enrolled in Explore Your Voice will learn breathing, articulation, and phonation techniques. During the course, students will work on songs they have chosen. Each week, the instructor will work with them on their songs, and by the end of the course they will have learned one to two songs and have improved their speaking and singing voices. Most of all, they will have had fun! The final class will be a recital that is open to the public.

Are you sore and tired from working out? Too old to exercise? Too busy? Then T'ai Chi Chuan Easy 8 Form is perfect for you, regardless of your age, gender, or level of fitness. This 50-minute exercise will increase your strength, energy, flexibility, and emotional outlook. It also lowers blood pressure, reduces blood sugar, and relieves arthritis pain.

Country dance, popular in the British Isles and in America since colonial times, might remind you of the dancing you see in movies based on Jane Austen novels -- or the hoedowns in westerns. Couples progress through the dance doing figures you will learn in the course, such as allemande, dosido, circle, star, promenade, and swing. We will learn some country dances from England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales, as well as American contra dances. Dancing will exercise our bodies, including our brains. Before the end of the course you should have the confidence to participate in monthly Michiana dances. Roy Somerville assisting.

Ever wonder how our amazing immune system works? It's all about how the body detects and eliminates harmful threats or invading pathogens that, if left unchecked, will cause disease or worse. This course will examine our immune system in detail, concentrating on how specific cells, biochemicals and barriers interact to protect us. Knowledge of basic biology is helpful, but not necessary as applicable concepts will be explained and questions answered.