Dear all,

 

I hope you enjoy wonderful summer so far!

As we announced last time, we will start meditation/book club activity for the rest of summer.

We will begin sitting together every Wednesday 2-3pm at Mosaic Center 

(commons 2B2C) starting 7/22 (this week). Rev. Hwang will join us occasionally to lead us, but if not we will sit and share together. Hope to see you on Wednesday and please spread words to anyone who may be interested!!

We are in the beginning stages of planning the Fall Group Fitness Schedule. Please use this Post to offer your comments and questions about the schedule this fall.

 If you or any one you know is a certified instructors interested in teaching please contact jaw3@umbc.edu ASAP.

Shahrzad's 6pm Zumba will be replaced with Vinyasa yoga 5/6.

NAME:
Chelsea

AGE:
24

PRACTICE:
Alignment-based Hatha with some flow or Vinyasa.
Pranayama (yogic breathing) and Meditation.

CLASS TIMES:
Tuesday, Thursday, And Friday @ 7:05am in the Fitness Studio.

HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN PRACTICING YOGA?:
About 7 years!

WHY DID YOU START PRACTICING YOGA?: 

Initially, I started my practice to develop flexibility, strength, and balance. Then I found that yoga helped greatly with dealing with mental and emotional struggles as well as stressful times. In addition, with further practice, yoga has helped me develop a sense self, answering the question, “Who am I?” 

Yoga gives strategies that help alleviate stress, depression, anxiety and it is relaxing. It develops body awareness, contentedness with self (in various levels of poses/practice). Yoga also teaches patience with yourself. You will learn to create length (which improves posture) and space in the body.

Yoga is good for your health especially blood pressure. It can also be therapeutic with diseases and some injuries. You just feel better after doing yoga! Mind is calm, clear, and centered. The body feels like it did work, but is also more flexible, calm and healed. Teaches you to slow down and feel each pose, to feel your breath, to be aware of your body. It's detoxifying.

Participation in a morning yoga class will give you the best start to the day.  This class helps clear your mind and relax your body to start your day with lovely, positive yoga feeling. I incorporate all aspects of yoga.  This includes meditation, pranayama (or yogic breathing), yoga philosophy and themes.  I instruct with a sweet, soothing voice that guides students through meditation, breathing, and a variety of postures. Each class has “yoga nap time” or corpse pose or savasana, which is a guided relaxation meditation at the end of each class.  

Yoga comes from the word “yoke” which means to bring together. Yoga is the bridge between body and mind.  Yoga not only develops muscle tone, strength, flexibility, balance; but also brings focus, clarity, centeredness, relaxation, and stillness to the mind.  My approach to yoga is health based and therapeutic, through developing awareness of the body, and spirit.

Win a free Yoga mat by attending Chelsea's morningtime yoga class. The raffle takes place May 1st. Attend multiple times for a better chance of winning!

More than just a weight loss program, Weight Watchers provides you with the support, tools, and the most important thing -  a community -  to help you start or maintain healthy eating and an active lifestyle.  Come see why Weight Watchers continues to top the charts for Best Diets in U.S. News and World Report and help us bring back an At Work Meeting Series to UMBC!  

Benefits of our program include:

•lunch time meetings,

•a central location (RAC All American Room),

•free pedometers and giveaways,

•chances to win prizes, and an

•optional buddy system for accountability and support throughout the week.

Augment your program with a pre/post Body Mass Index (BMI) screening with UHS and/or take advantage of the RAC Fitness Basics class offered Monday-Friday at 12 noon.  See the attached flyer for more details and email Jill Wardell at jwardell@umbc.edu by Friday, February 13th to sign up for the upcoming information session.