Community Ed - Prescott   

Welcome to the world of Sound, Sense, and Suggestion, the five senses, the associations which arise from them, and the literal and figurative language which poets from the world constantly play with.  Each week, we'll read, respond to, and fashion "free-style" prose or poetic responses to the given "citizen of the world "poet we encounter.  If traveling to Asia, Africa, South America or Europe is out of the question and poetry sounds intriguing, pull up a chair and let poetry from the world work its magic on you! Please bring a notebook and pen.

 

An introduction to guitar as a musical instrument, that will include Anatomy of a Guitar, basic Music Theory for guitar, intro to rhythm and strumming patterns, how to read Tablature, intro to open string chords, how to practice, intro to finger picking, how to hold a guitar, how to hold a pick. Instruction on how to play a melody. Personal instruction and performance feedback on class assignments. This class is for the beginner and would be a good refresher for those with experience.

 

Suggested items to bring are guitar, tuner, two picks one med and one light, strap or footstool.

Guitar instruction for those who have completed the Beginning Guitar Class One, or have developed skills from prior guitar instruction. This class is for the Intermediate guitar player and would be a good refresher for those with extensive experience. Theory, song structure, how to choose song materials, and practice strategy to be able to perform the song.

 

Suggested items to bring are guitar, tuner, two picks one med and one light, strap or footstool.

Belly Dance is a dance of joy with roots in North Africa and Southwest Asia. Also known as Raqs Sharqi or Oriental Dance, this elegant style is celebrated around the world. This course is perfect for beginners or anyone looking to review and strengthen their technique. The first part will focus on teaching, reviewing and refining the basics; the second part will build on the basics to create combinations and choreography. Everyone is welcome.

Please wear comfortable clothing and soft dance shoes (or bare feet). Bring a hip scarf if you have one, loaners will be provided if you don’t.

 

 

Learn to see within the objective world that we live in. A simple way to create objective and non-objective abstract art using colors, shapes, textures, and composition. This class is open to any media, wet or dry, that is designed to be applied to a 2-D surface. The art can be created from photo reference or from an object. The student may also choose an emotion or state of mind to illustrate. Consider putting love, happiness, friendship, life, birth etc. on canvas. Suggested supply list available and bring your own art supplies to class.

 

Ready to awaken your inner mystic and dive deep into the world of metaphysical energy? Join us for an electrifying journey through the sacred arts of crystals, divination, intuition, and pendulum work. This isn’t just a class—it’s a portal to higher consciousness.

 

$15-30 supplies payable to the instructor at class: pendulums, energy grids, tumbles stones and crystals.

 

Ready to awaken your inner mystic and dive deep into the world of metaphysical energy? Join us for an electrifying journey through the sacred arts of crystals, divination, intuition, and pendulum work. This isn’t just a class—it’s a portal to higher consciousness.

 

$15-30 supplies payable to the instructor at class: pendulums, energy grids, tumbles stones and crystals.

 

We all have a relationship with the natural world, but we don't always understand it. Natural processes are the foundation of our existence.  This class will explore how humanity has defined “nature” and how each of us can perceive  it for ourselves, and how we can better connect to the “non-human” world. Activities will include: 1) recording the experience of being in a natural setting and 2) identifying activities and making small choices in our everyday lives that enhance our connection to nature. We will learn to have a deeper relationship with “the land” and become inspired to protect it. 

Please note: There is a field trip to Highlands Center for Natural History scheduled for the 2nd class meeting on Wed, 6/10/26.

Modern science has only recently discovered that plants are sentient beings who communicate with each other by creating intricate ecosystems. They have much to tell us as well! For centuries traditional medicine healers have considered the plant world to be a source of teachers, guides and allies. This mini course is designed for plant lovers and curiosity seekers who wish to deepen their connection to the green beings who make up the majority of life forms on planet earth. Content will introduce how plants offer physical, emotional and spiritual medicine that can be healing on both individual and global community levels.

Click for more information: https://prescottwomanmagazine.com/the-healing-power-of-plants/

This class will be an introduction to Digital Photography. We will discuss the differences in Film and Digital processes. In addition we will talk about; setting up your camera, proper use of camera strap, camera battery issues, portrait and landscape photography and when to orientate the camera for the perfect shots. The last part of the class will be taking photos outside of the classroom in landscape orientation and portraits of each other. And, how to take better photos. Please bring a digital camera.

Do you understand the difference between an exchange-traded fund and a mutual fund? How about a municipal bond or how annuities work? Investing doesn’t have to be complicated. With so many options, research, and analysis available to today’s investors, making good decisions can seem overwhelming. Gain a working glossary to understand the world of investing. Learn a basic structure to assist in deductive decisions, and a fundamental framework to discuss the global marketplace. There will be time to learn about some of the pitfalls in financial planning and shared tips and insights on working with attorneys, accountants and advisors.

This  American Red Cross Lifeguarding Training Certification course will teach participants vital life saving skills that happen in, on, or near water. Participants will earn Lifeguarding, CPR/ AED and First Aid certification.

Trainings will meet at the Chino Valley Aquatic Center located at 1615 North Road 1 East, Chino Valley, AZ, 86323; and the Yavapai College Prescott Campus Pool located at 1100 East Sheldon Street, Prescott, AZ, 86301.

Please note various meeting dates, times and locations:

Full Blended Lifeguarding Course:

• May 5^th 5:00-9:00 pm, Chino Valley Aquatics Center Conference Room (CPR)
• May 7^th 5:00-9:00 pm, Chino Valley Aquatics Center Conference Room (First Aid)
• May 15^th 5:00-9:00 pm, Yavapai College Pool (Water Skills and Testing Day)
• May 16^th 9:00 am to 5:00 pm Chino Valley Aquatics Center
• May 19^th 5:00 pm to 9:00 pm Chino Valley Aquatics Center
• May 26^th 5:00 pm to 9:00 pm Chino Valley Aquatics Center

 

This is a fun art class, open to all media. Students bring their own art supplies. The instructor will bring some art supplies. Instructor will bring photo reference for the students to work from. As for animal and pet portraiture, the students are to bring their own photo reference. This reference should have a head no smaller than 5 inches in height. Regarding all subject, the instructor will be teaching the trace and transfer method to help the student with accuracy. If the student prefers to draw from their reference eye to hand, or from their imagination this is equally invited. Suggested supply list available and bring your own art supplies to class.

 

This course teaches students Basic Life Support CPR techniques useful in recognizing and responding to cardiac and breathing emergencies.  First aid for pets discusses common techniques, i.e. allergic reaction, heat stroke, restraint, you can provide at home for your pet. This class includes a power point presentation followed by a live dog demonstration and manikin experience.

Most artists spend years frustrated, erasing more than they draw, never quite capturing what they see. Whether you're attempting pencil portraits, charcoal portraits, the challenges remain the same. Successful portraits are the product of a sound method. Good results come from good decisions. Good decisions come in part from knowing what to do, what to look for, and in what sequence. We will go over a step-by-step system that takes the guesswork out of every stroke to create successful portraits. We will be working in pencil and charcoal for this class. Suggested supply list available and bring your own art supplies to class.

Qigong gently and effectively helps us to reduce stress, increase energy,  breathe deeply, relax, heal and feel better by allowing our body, mind, and spirit to return to a state of balance, harmony, and health. Practicing Qigong consistently effectively provides stress relief, reduced pain, enhanced immune function, improved balance, increased flexibility, aids in recovery, and so much more.  Class consists of gentle warmups, deep breathing exercises, slow flowing movements, meditation, and self-massage. All movements are clearly cued and taught for maximum effectiveness. Movements are done either standing or sitting in a chair. Dress is comfortable clothes. No experience necessary. 

 

Qigong gently and effectively helps us to reduce stress, increase energy,  breathe deeply, relax, heal and feel better by allowing our body, mind, and spirit to return to a state of balance, harmony, and health. Practicing Qigong consistently effectively provides stress relief, reduced pain, enhanced immune function, improved balance, increased flexibility, aids in recovery, and so much more.  Class consists of gentle warmups, deep breathing exercises, slow flowing movements, meditation, and self-massage. All movements are clearly cued and taught for maximum effectiveness. Movements are done either standing or sitting in a chair. Dress is comfortable clothes. No experience necessary. 

 

Are you ready to gently and effectively reduce stress, increase energy,  breathe deeply, relax, heal and feel better physically,  mentally,  and spiritually? It's time to return to a state of balance, harmony, and health. By practicing Qigong consistently you may quite effectively reduce stress, tightness,  tension and pain while also strengthening your immune system, improving balance, increasing flexibility and so much more.  Class consists of gentle warmups, deep breathing exercises, slow flowing movements, meditation, brain integration and self acupressure for increased vitality and longevity.  All movements are clearly cued and demonstrated. No forms or movements to memorize. Movements are done either standing or sitting in a chair. Dress is comfortable clothes. No experience necessary. 

Learn how to secure a lasting legacy for the causes you care about. This class on planned giving will demystify the process of making future gifts, such as bequests in a will, charitable trusts, and gift annuities. Discover how these powerful tools can help you achieve your financial goals while ensuring our mission continues for generations to come. We'll cover the basics of planned gifts and their potential tax benefits, showing you how to make a significant impact without affecting your current lifestyle. Create your personal legacy and secure a brighter future for our world.

If you love to garden but don't want to devote much time, energy, or just plain muscle power to a garden, native plants are for you! You can transform your garden into a haven for birds, bees, and butterflies, while conserving water, ending dependence on fertilizers, and reducing your gardening workload. There are hundreds of gorgeous native plants that also provide food, nesting material, and shelter for many species of wildlife. Students will assess and map their garden space, learn the basics of planting, and maintaining a native plant garden, and learn to replicate nature's gardening strategies.

If you love to garden but don't want to devote much time, energy, or just plain muscle power to a garden, native plants are for you! You can transform your garden into a haven for birds, bees, and butterflies, while conserving water, ending dependence on fertilizers, and reducing your gardening workload. There are hundreds of gorgeous native plants that also provide food, nesting material, and shelter for many species of wildlife. Students will assess and map their garden space, learn the basics of planting, and maintaining a native plant garden, and learn to replicate nature's gardening strategies.

The Sacred Art of Inspiration is a 7-week experiential course designed to reconnect participants with inspiration as a living, accessible force. Through meditation, contemplative inquiry, and embodied practices, students learn how to access creative flow, inner knowing, and a deeper sense of purpose. Rather than focusing on effort or achievement, the course emphasizes alignment, presence, and sustainable inspiration in everyday life. Participants are invited to explore how clarity, creativity, and fulfillment naturally arise when we learn to listen inward and move in harmony with our own inner guidance. No prior experience is required—only curiosity and a willingness to explore.

 

Demystify the world of annuities and discover how they can or should not fit into your financial plan. This class will provide a clear, jargon-free overview of different types of annuities, including fixed, variable, and indexed. You'll learn how these financial products can provide a steady income stream in retirement and offer tax-deferred growth. We'll explore the pros and cons, helping you understand their role in managing risk and creating a reliable income for your future. Secure your financial peace of mind by understanding how annuities work.

This is a fun watercolor class. The subjects are Arizona Plants, Landscape and Wildlife. You may also choose to add Pet Portraiture. We will use the trace and transfer method to aid you in recreating a drawing of your chosen subject. Drawing eye to hand or from imagination is also encouraged. Watercolor paint in tubes and watercolor pencils are preferred. Photo reference will be supplied on the Arizona subjects, however, if the student prefers to bring their own that is fine. If pet portraiture is your choice the student will want to supply their own photo reference.

Suggested supply list available and bring your own art supplies to class.

This course is designed to empower women to effectively recognize, respond to, and recover from physical, emotional and psychological threats. This course will teach real world self-defense skills, situational awareness, boundary setting, de-escalation techniques, emotional resilience and mindset mastery, as well as empowerment through community and knowledge.

Anyone can learn how to be happier, more successful, and free.  In this course we will study self-actualized individuals (the top one percent) learning the qualities and characteristics that make them so.  All successful individuals have these characteristics in common.  We will go over each one, learn how to implement them, and gain an understanding of how these characteristics can change the trajectory of your life.  Get ready to be happier, more successful, and free!

Guitar instruction for those who have completed the Beginning Guitar Class One, or have developed skills from prior guitar instruction. This class is for the Intermediate guitar player and would be a good refresher for those with extensive experience. Theory, song structure, how to choose song materials, and practice strategy to be able to perform the song.

 

Suggested items to bring are guitar, tuner, two picks one med and one light, strap or footstool.

Belly Dance is a dance of joy with roots in North Africa and Southwest Asia. Also known as Raqs Sharqi or Oriental Dance, this elegant style is celebrated around the world. This course is perfect for beginners or anyone looking to review and strengthen their technique. The first part will focus on teaching, reviewing and refining the basics; the second part will build on the basics to create combinations and choreography. Everyone is welcome.

Please wear comfortable clothing and soft dance shoes (or bare feet). Bring a hip scarf if you have one, loaners will be provided if you don’t.

 

 

Want to become a sharpshooter and have a great time learning the basics of pocket billiards? This class will take your pool skills to the next level through individualized instruction on aim, stance, stroke and position play. Use practice drills to elevate your shooting skills while learning the rules and strategies of 8 Ball. Expert instruction is provided by an Arizona Hall of Fame inductee. Peter Lhotka is also a Collegiate and Billiard Congress of America national champion.

 

Classes are held at Barefoot Bob’s in Prescott Valley. Handouts and cues are provided. Must be at least 21 years of age.

This course is made for those who have already taken French classes and would like to brush up on their conversational skills. If you would like the opportunity to fully immerse yourself in the language, this class is for you! Review grammar and language through interactive activities and conversations with the instructor.

Please note: This class is entirely in French.

This is a follow up course for those who have taken the "Intro to French" class. While still an introduction to French language and culture, this class digs a little deeper. Widen your vocabulary, learn more about French customs and traditions, and develop basic conversational skills!

Ready to experience college life? Join the Life Skills Academy as we explore building skills for a balanced life! Life Skills Academy is specifically designed for young adults with disabilities who are looking to strengthen their skills in a vibrant, fun college setting. You'll gain hands-on practice for a balanced, independent life while learning right here on campus. This semester, we'll dive into essential skills like exploring hobbies, social skills & communication, self-advocacy & goal setting, social etiquette, budgeting, and more. Join us to make the college experience a reality!

 

No class on 3/20/2026.

Ready to experience college life? Join the Life Skills Academy as we explore building skills for a balanced life! Life Skills Academy is specifically designed for young adults with disabilities who are looking to strengthen their skills in a vibrant, fun college setting. You'll gain hands-on practice for a balanced, independent life while learning right here on campus. This semester, we'll dive into essential skills like exploring hobbies, social skills & communication, self-advocacy & goal setting, social etiquette, budgeting, and more. Join us to make the college experience a reality!

 

No class on 3/20/2026.

Your life is full of unique stories. Bring them to paper in this interactive class full of tips, techniques, discovery, writing and camaraderie. Whether you are thinking about or have started your memoir, this class will keep you motivated.

This is a fun art class, open to all media. Students bring their own art supplies. The instructor will bring some art supplies. Instructor will bring photo reference for the students to work from. As for animal and pet portraiture, the students are to bring their own photo reference. This reference should have a head no smaller than 5 inches in height. Regarding all subject, the instructor will be teaching the trace and transfer method to help the student with accuracy. If the student prefers to draw from their reference eye to hand, or from their imagination this is equally invited. Suggested supply list available and bring your own art supplies to class.

 

Qigong gently and effectively helps us to reduce stress, increase energy,  breathe deeply, relax, heal and feel better by allowing our body, mind, and spirit to return to a state of balance, harmony, and health. Practicing Qigong consistently effectively provides stress relief, reduced pain, enhanced immune function, improved balance, increased flexibility, aids in recovery, and so much more.  Class consists of gentle warmups, deep breathing exercises, slow flowing movements, meditation, and self-massage. All movements are clearly cued and taught for maximum effectiveness. Movements are done either standing or sitting in a chair. Dress is comfortable clothes. No experience necessary. 

 

Qigong gently and effectively helps us to reduce stress, increase energy,  breathe deeply, relax, heal and feel better by allowing our body, mind, and spirit to return to a state of balance, harmony, and health. Practicing Qigong consistently effectively provides stress relief, reduced pain, enhanced immune function, improved balance, increased flexibility, aids in recovery, and so much more.  Class consists of gentle warmups, deep breathing exercises, slow flowing movements, meditation, and self-massage. All movements are clearly cued and taught for maximum effectiveness. Movements are done either standing or sitting in a chair. Dress is comfortable clothes. No experience necessary. 

 

Take what you learned in Level 1 and add to it by counting to higher numbers, introducing family, discussing weather, asking for and giving directions, and finding locations on a map. Just like in the Level 1 class, we will use real objects to learn new vocabulary, play-act various situations and work with a partner or group to practice speaking, all the while having fun!

Taking the Level 1 class is not a prerequisite, but being able to count to 20, say a few conversational phrases and conjugate a few verbs is strongly suggested.

For both beginning and continuing students, this fun class teaches the 24 movements of the most popular Chinese Government-approved yang style called "Simplified Form”. You will learn how to maximize the flow of Chi (energy), Tai Chi philosophy, history, and mindfulness through the series of movements that are slow, continuous, relaxed, and focused. Like all Tai Chi Forms, it combines “moving meditation” with gentle revitalizing exercise as the students benefit from improved strength, conditioning, coordination, flexibility, and balance. Students also report experiencing increased energy, reduced stress, reduced pain, enhanced sleep, and/or feelings of well-being.

If you love to garden but don't want to devote much time, energy, or just plain muscle power to a garden, native plants are for you! You can transform your garden into a haven for birds, bees, and butterflies, while conserving water, ending dependence on fertilizers, and reducing your gardening workload. There are hundreds of gorgeous native plants that also provide food, nesting material, and shelter for many species of wildlife. Students will assess and map their garden space, learn the basics of planting, and maintaining a native plant garden, and learn to replicate nature's gardening strategies.

This is a fun watercolor class. The subjects are Arizona Plants, Landscape and Wildlife. You may also choose to add Pet Portraiture. We will use the trace and transfer method to aid you in recreating a drawing of your chosen subject. Drawing eye to hand or from imagination is also encouraged. Watercolor paint in tubes and watercolor pencils are preferred. Photo reference will be supplied on the Arizona subjects, however, if the student prefers to bring their own that is fine. If pet portraiture is your choice the student will want to supply their own photo reference.

Suggested supply list available and bring your own art supplies to class.

This course is designed to empower women to effectively recognize, respond to, and recover from physical, emotional and psychological threats. This course will teach real world self-defense skills, situational awareness, boundary setting, de-escalation techniques, emotional resilience and mindset mastery, as well as empowerment through community and knowledge.

Discover the basic foundations of yoga in this beginner-friendly workshop. Designed for those new to yoga or looking to revisit the basics. This interactive course focuses on safe movement and adapting common yoga poses to suit individual needs and mobility levels. This workshop environment will allow you to create a personalized practice and stretching routine you can do at home. No previous experience is required.

Please bring a yoga mat.