Free fitness events

The Orcas Island Library is partnering with island healthcare providers and fitness instructors to offer free classes in the month of June.

The Orcas Island Library is partnering with island healthcare providers and fitness instructors to offer free classes in the month of June.

Sign up at the library or call 376-4985 to register. For more information, visit www.orcaslibrary.org. The classes are as follows.

• Monday, June 8, 8 a.m. – 6:30 p.m. at Orcas Senior Center, Mobile Mammography Unit with Assured Imaging. Call now to schedule an appointment at 1-888-233-6121.

• Monday, June 8, 10 – 11 a.m. at Orcas Senior Center, Transformational Movement Lessons with Christopher Evans. In TML students perform a series of movements designed to bring greater awareness to their capabilities, working through a series of gentle, comfortable steps that involve thinking, sensing, moving and visualizing.

• Monday, June 8, 12 – 1 p.m. at Orcas Island Library, Brain, Pain, and Your Body with Christopher Evans. The movement is designed to reeducate the way one uses their body in order to make the impossible possible.

• Tuesday, June 9, 8 – 9 a.m. at Orcas Odd Fellows Hall, Zumba! with Alyson Stephens of Orcas Dance Fitness. Exhilarating,  easy-to-follow, Latin-inspired, dance-fitness party.

• Tuesday, June 9, 9:15 – 10:15 a.m. at Odd Fellows Hall, Jazzercise with Paige McCormick. It’s a group class choreographed to today’s hottest music.

• Tuesday, June 9, 4 – 5 p.m. at Orcas Senior Center, Senior Strength and Energy with Cameron Krein. This is a chair-based (although you’re not sitting the whole time!) strength workout.

•Wednesday, June 10, 7:50 – 8:50 a.m. at Odd Fellows Hall, Pam’s Power Hour with Pamela Evans. Use a mix of weights, stretching, mat work and movement to build strength and fitness.

• Wednesday, June 10, 10:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. at Orcas Island Library, Heal Your Life with Food, Fitness and Meditation with Daniel Marty. This talk will give you tools, tips and insight on how you can create more balance, health and happiness in your life regardless of your age, faith or background.

• Wednesday, June 10, 6:30 – 7:45 p.m. at Orcas Mandala Studio, Lunar Flow Yoga with Christine Comito. This slow–flow class honors quiet yin energy with a focus on restorative yoga poses, rejuvenation, reflection and meditation. Open to all levels of experience.

• Thursday, June 11, 11 a.m. – 12 p.m. at Orcas Island Library, Advance Medical Directives with Jennifer Taylor of Orcas Island Medical Center. Advance directives are legal documents that allow you to convey your decisions about end-of-life care ahead of time.

• Thursday, June 11, 1 – 2 p.m. at Center Works Studio, Pilates with Vicki Sare. Gain strength and stretch your muscles to save your body and your back.

• Thursday, June 11, 1 – 2:30 p.m. at Orcas Island Library, Medicare 101: Getting Started with Pegi Groundwater. SHIBA volunteer Groundwater will explain the basics, including the differences in the three parts, and optional drug coverage.

• Friday, June 12, 7 – 8 a.m. at Orcas Athletic Center, Group Ride with Jolene Versailles. The class consists of 50 minutes worth of pedaling, from warm up to cool down, with lots of hills and races and sprints in between.

• Friday, June 12, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m. at Orcas Island Library, Preventing Falls and Sprawls in the Senior Set with Dr. Scott Heisinger. Come and learn about falls, current statistics, relative risk factors and simple tests to determine your functional level.

• Friday, June 12, 2 – 3 p.m. at Orcas Athletic Center, Introduction to CrossFit with Angela Douglas. The best way to get a real sense of Orcas CrossFit is to stop by and take this free intro class. Bring a towel and water and eat a small meal two to three hours beforehand.