Iowa City Senior Center January-February 2025 Program Guide

Walk with Ease Tue, Wed, Fri, Jan 7 - Feb 21, 1-2 pm Location: North Liberty Recreation Center Upper Aerobics Room Register online or call 319-356-5220 Instructor: Emily Edrington The Arthritis Foundation’s Walk With Ease Program is a community-based physical activity and self management education program. While walking is the central activity, Walk With Ease also includes health education, stretching and strengthening exercises, and motivational strategies. The program includes a guidebook and a walking schedule to get you safely moving toward better health. This group will meet three times a week for six weeks, walking on the indoor track and potentially outdoors if the weather is inviting. This is an evidence-based program that has been proven to improve the quality of life of people with arthritis, but anyone who wants to add regular activity into their lives can benefit. Qigong Movement for Wellbeing Wednesdays, Jan 8 - Apr 16, 11:15 am - 12 pm Location: North Liberty Recreation Center Upper Aerobics Room Register online or call 319-356-5220 Facilitator: Emily Edrington Qigong, sometimes called the grandmother of tai chi, is the basic exercise system within Chinese medicine. It focuses on opening the places in your body where your circulating energy is blocked, allowing your life force, known as qi , to flow freely. As a slow-moving, peaceful, meditative form of exercise, qigong can be practiced by people of all ages and abilities. We will use a mix of videos from the Great Courses to lead our routines. The movements in this course are slow and simple, and always carefully modeled and explained. The practice of qigong, time-tested over thousands of years, has the potential to improve your physical fitness, free your mind, and energize your life with renewed vitality. NORTH LIBERTY PROGRAMS

jan feb 2025

BeMoved Dance

Mondays, Tuesdays, 10:30-11:30 am Wednesdays, 1-2 pm

Location: Room G13 Register: Email hillster2942@icloud.com Instructor: Hillary Granfield A dance fitness experience for all movement abilities; new students are welcome anytime. Visit bemoveddance.com to learn more. Fee: $12 per class drop-in, with discounts available for regular weekly attendance; pay instructor. Join our ongoing tap classes any time for great exercise, fun music, and new friends! Comfortable clothes and tap shoes encouraged. Membership required. Beginning Tap Thursdays, 10:30-11:30 am Location: Room G13 Register online or call 319-356-5220 Introduces the fundamental steps, rhythms, and vocabulary of tap dance. No experience needed. Tap Dance Classes Instructor: Patti Burger

Beginning-Intermediate Tap Thursdays, 11:35 am - 12:50 pm Location: Room G13 Register online or call 319-356-5220

Adds and develops intermediate tap steps, vocabulary, and rhythms onto basic tap skills.

Zumba Saturdays, 10-11 am (new time beginning Jan 4) Location: Room G13 Instructor: Holly Carpenter Zumba is a fun, easily modifiable, low impact dance class, great for heart and brain health. Zumba trains bilateral coordination and balance, enhances spatial awareness, processing speed, and working memory. We start with a warm-up that introduces Latin dance steps, build on these movements during class, and end with cool down and stretching. No experience needed; just come join the party! Fee: $15/drop-in or a discount for punch card; pay instructor.

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*Participants in ICSC's low-income membership program receive a 25% discount on fitness class fees.