Home, Health & Wellness   

Imagine walking into a home that feels organized, peaceful, and supports your lifestyle. This hands-on workshop will provide you with the tools, support, and joy-centered strategies to declutter, organize and transform your home for good. You'll learn expert tips and, most importantly, the mindset and systems for how to get and stay organized. If you're feeling stuck, experiencing a transition, or just need ideas on how to get organized as a busy parent or professional, this is the workshop for you.

Please see Student Learning Outcomes.

Learn tasty healthy herbal plant-based recipes for health from a professional herbalist.

This is a hands-on demonstration workshop where attendees will learn how to make a variety of herbal plant-based recipes using basic local and easy-to-grow, forage, or access herbs and plants. Materials are included to make a variety of herbal concoctions!

Student Learning Outcomes:
Make a variety of seasonal fresh medicinal herbal plant-based products and understand how to use them.

Prepare for your outdoor summer activities- come and learn exercises designed to help decrease pain and increase strength and mobility. We will cover feet, knees, hips and how their function ties into core function. We will discuss common complaints such as plantar fasciitis, knee pain, hip pain and low back pain and how better strength and alignment can improve comfort and function.

Students will get hands-on experience with exercises designed to improve foot, knee, hip and core function, learn to integrate these concepts and go home with hand-outs to help remember the how and why. Feel better and move better this summer.

Join us on the Forks Campus for this Self-Defense series. Build confidence, fitness and reflexes over five weekly classes. The class will consist of kicking, punching, ground survival, escape from chokes, escape from grabs, and conversations about preparation.

Focus mitts are provided. Students can bring their own striking/grappling gloves to cover their knuckles.

Do you have an aging parent or partner with declining health? Explore the complex issues you may encounter when assisting the elderly. Learn the key legal issues and documents relevant to elder care, the differences in medical insurance, the different types of housing/medical assistance available to the elderly, and the potential role of hospice or palliative care. Please note: This class is offered in partnership with Clark College.

Syllabus

This all-levels class combines yoga postures, breathing exercise, meditation, and relaxation to help improve strength, flexibility, balance, concentration, and stress management. Classes will focus on building a strong foundation based on the principles of alignment, so expect an emphasis on simplicity, repetition, and ease of movement. This experience is suitable for those new to yoga as well as seasoned practitioners seeking a continued understanding of basic yoga poses. Participants should dress in comfortable layered clothing they can move freely in. A limited number of yoga mats and props are available to borrow, so you're encouraged to bring your own if you have them.

Nurture the body and mind with belly dance. This ancient art form is a full body low impact dance that can help with balance, posture, flexibility and muscle coordination. It provides stress relief, as well as energies the body and mind. Use and care for your body with something fun. All levels of experience welcome! 

By the end of this course, students will be equipped with muscle isolation techniques, basic and beyond basic moves, warm up exercises, and footwork patterns. They will be able to put together dance combinations and have a basic understanding of belly dance music.

Want to learn about tarot without relying on the "little white book"? Come learn about tarot and how to use your personal experiences and emotions to connect with your cards.

Student Learning Outcomes:

• Familiarize participants with the structure of the Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot deck including the introduction of the Major and Minor Arcana themes. Participants can increase their confidence in basic understanding of the cards, history and use.
• By using a combination of intuitive journaling, group discussions, Tarot prompts, and hands-on activities, participants will not only strengthen their intellectual understanding of the Tarot but also cultivate a personal, intuitive relationship with the cards.
• This course will encourage introspection and self-reflection while developing the inner guidance needed to read the cards intuitively, beyond just memorizing traditional meanings.