Wellness & Spirituality   

SPECIAL EVENT - FREE TO OLLI MEMBERS

With a half-million cardiac arrests each year, CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation) can help save a life if a person’s breathing or heart stops. Why Is CPR Important? Keeping the blood flow active - even partially – extends the opportunity for a successful resuscitation once trained medical staff arrive on site. ALSO: Learn about support for women and the threat of Heart Disease. Come to find out more about the “Red Bags of Courage”

THIS CLASS IS CANCELLED FOR FALL SESSION

This course will focus on timeless fashion for women. We will look at color, first impression and how choosing the correct colors will make your skin and face glow with natural beauty. You will learn about your body type and what clothing styles best complement it. Do you know what fashion personality or face shape you have? Knowing this will assist you in selecting glasses, earrings and hair-styles. I will show you how to create a Core-Wardrobe in your fashion personality and how to use your accessories to create more looks with the clothes you already have.

Mushroom Montoya has been involved in the practice of shamanism since 1981. Some things are best learned when experienced, first hand. Learning about shamanism is best learned by going on a shamanic journey. In the class: you'll learn how to journey into nonordinary reality and meet spirit helpers. Shamanism is the oldest spiritual practice known to humankind. A shaman is a man or woman who uses the ability to see “with the strong eye” or “with the heart” to travel into hidden realms. Shamans have and still act as healers, doctors, priests and priestesses, psychotherapists, mystics, and storytellers.

If you are curious and would like to experience your life in more uplifting ways, this course is for you. Author Mary Ruth Velicki shares practical tools and perspectives for living with more peace, awareness, and joy in everyday life. Through engaging presentations, personal stories, and reflective activities, participants will explore ways to open their body, mind, and heart.

Topics include:

• Opening the body /calming the body-mind • Appreciating the connection between body, mind, and spirit

• Opening the mental-emotional state

• Exploring energy and intuition

• Experiencing more presence, love, and connection

An important pathway to a better life is communication free of false and misleading information and our ability to reject that which is untrue. Three topics in this class will help remove barriers to understanding:

1. The false or true assumptions we have about others affect how we treat them.

2. Preconceived ideas about what is true or false can obscure the truth.

3. Learn how stress affects mind and body. Believing false information can cause stress on mind and body.

SPECIAL EVENT - FREE TO MEMBERS

This class will explain why heart disease, stroke, and cancer are the major causes of death in the U.S. with poor diet and lifestyle as primary factors. Understand which foods promote excellent health and how to develop a health-oriented diet so your risk of heart disease, cancer and diabetes will drop dramatically.

During retirement, many of us seek greater meaning in health, work, relationships, community, learning, creativity, or spirituality, yet the path forward often feels uncertain. This workshop offers an opportunity to reflect on what matters most, and intentionally shape your next chapter. Drawing on behavioral science research, we explore meaning, purpose, resilience, mindset, and habits, and apply these ideas to your life. Through guided reflection, creative exercises, peer collaboration, and a simple online interactive workbook that supports iterative reflection, you will gain new perspectives, clarify what gives your life meaning in retirement, and define achievable goals. You will leave with practical strategies to launch your next chapter, overcome barriers, and an accountability group to support continued progress momentum.

Introduction to the function of sleep, normal sleep, circadian rhythms of sleep, sleep deprivation, clinical sleep medicine (classification of sleep disorders and treatments), identification of sleep stages and abnormalities using physiological recordings, role of sleep for learning and memory. 

THIS CLASS IS FULL.

Every life is a story waiting to be heard. As elders we carry not just memories, but the meaning behind those memoires, the synthesis of a life. Aging offers a rare opportunity to pause, examine and reflect on what has been experienced. This class combines story structure and life progression with remembered events through the lens of topics like cultural life scripts, autobiographic memory, narrative identity, life themes, and reframing and repair. A high degree of interaction and personal sharing is part of this class.

THIS CLASS IS FULL.

This course introduces basic principles of Tai Chi Chuan through the learning of the classic movements of Yang Style tai’ chi. It is meant for beginners. Through demonstrations and practice students will apply five basic principles: relaxation, separation of weight, waist turn, upright body and virgin hands. While Tai Chi has its roots in Taoist philosophy and the martial arts of Qi Gong, this form of Tai Chi was developed primarily for its health benefits.

This class is designed for students who have been through the 101 class offered at OLLI, to learn additional strategies and techniques in the practice of Tai Chi Chuan. We’ll use demonstrations, observation and practice movements to develop an understanding and application of the five basic principles: relaxation, separation of weight, waist turn, upright body and virgin hands.

While Tai Chi has roots in Taoist philosophy and the martial arts of Qi Gong, this form of Tai Chi was developed primarily for its health benefit by Master Cheng Man Ching. This form seeks to engage and activate key meridians and functions within the body to create balance, flexibility and strength and a greater awareness and connection between the body, the mind and the animating life force of Qi. Hopefully students will incorporate its practice into their everyday life. I welcome you to join.

Enjoy practicing flexibility, strength building, and balance by using different yoga poses or asanas. Participants need to be able to move from a seated position on the floor to standing with ease. Learn relaxation and meditation techniques that help reduce stress, depression and anxiety. Create a flexible and strong mind/body connection.

 Do you want to feel younger, look younger, and supercharge your brain? Do you want to improve your posture, stand taller, and walk or move with more ease? Practicing the ancient art of yoga has produced these results for ages!! Join our yoga community, and you will learn to stretch, breathe, laugh, and make friends! Come as you are— all levels are welcome!

NOTE:  NOVEMBER 11TH IS A HOLIDAY.  CAMPUS IS CLOSED

THIS CLASS IS FULL.

Come experience this new version of Yo Me Ki® 2026. Yoga is still a mainstay, but we’ll also be adding in other movements to keep our bodies limber. The meditation portion will focus on healing enhanced by the soothing sounds of crystal sound bowls. In the Reiki part, we’ll concentrate on clearing the subconscious mind for a greater sense of well-being. The goal of this class— to leave more relaxed yet focused; thus, enjoying a better quality of life.