HOLIDAY HOURS
Dec 20 -23, 9 – 4
Dec 24 – Jan 2 CLOSED
BUS TRIPS
They are filling fast – book soon to avoid disappointment.
Book in person at The 55 or on-line at
https://login.squamishrecreation.ca/auth.aspx
SOCIETY SPONSORED TAI CHI CLASSES
Tuesdays and Thursdays 2:15 – 3:15 pm.
For Squamish residents age 55+.
Contact: Patricia@vesely.ca
Heavily subsidized by grants. Rate $3.50/class – no drop-ins, sorry.
You must be preregistered to participate.
WINTER SESSION STARTS JANUARY 10
Kriszti will begin with a “4-minute fitness” routine to warm up your body, and awaken your soul and spirit with 5 easy exercises to tune into Tai Chi.
Then build on those slowly over the next weeks to 9 “easy to memorize” postures (the Infinite Nine) which are not as complicated as other traditional methods.
Below are some of the benefits of Tai Chi and 4-minute fitness:
Physical benefits
• Increased flexibility – particularly in the often-forgotten spine. Maintenance of flexibility in spinal joints is ‘oh so important’.
• Full range of motion in a lot of your joints – motion is lotion, as they say. Better yet – use it or lose it!
• Increased strength, particularly of the leg muscles
• Better balance, fewer falls
• Improved posture
• Improved immune functioning. (Why? Mental stillness and reduced stress help immune function, as does exercise.)
• Improved, deeper breathing – leading to increased oxygenation and vitality of all tissues, improved immune functioning, deeper relaxation
• Many people have reduced pain – particularly noticed in shoulders, back, legs and knees
• Increased vitality, energy, and life – and an increased awareness of the ever-present ‘chi’.
• Enhanced coordination, and improved fine motor skills.
• Decreased blood pressure
• Decreased breathing and heart rates
Mental benefits
• Reduced stress
• Increased relaxation
• Increased concentration and mental focus
• Improved memory
• Increased sense of happiness, contentedness and inner peace
• Greater ability to ‘be in the moment’, to pull out of the craziness of everyday living
• An often-profound sense of being here, now. (Wherever you go, there you are…) In other words, reducing the tendency to live in the past, or worry about the future.
• A higher level of happiness
Jesus, wisdom and free sherry too….hell….I’m IN!!
Is the Centre open for classes tis week?
The 55 is open. No exercise classes are presently held due to pandemic health department restriction. We expect to learn more soon. For other classes check with Parks and Recreation.