Martial Arts / Self-Defense
Learn to effectively defend yourself while improving your overall fitness, developing mental discipline
and building your self-confidence. You will be taught strikes, escapes, joint locks, throws and many other techniques for self-defense.
Martial arts training also teaches children moral values and provides them with guidance while developing their motor skills. Beginners
are always welcome, with benefits for everyone regardless of age, fitness level or experience. More information available
here.
Meditation
Research has shown that meditation can contribute to an individual’s psychological and physiological well-being. The meditator’s brainwave
pattern is brought into an alpha state, which is a level of consciousness that promotes the healing state. Using thought, this practice
allows the meditator to examine such things as their limiting beliefs. With insight into those beliefs that restrict their lives,
they are empowered to change those beliefs, thereby improving their lives.
Pilates
Pilates is an exercise method based on the work
of Joseph Pilates. Its focus is on strengthening your “Powerhouse” (your core or the trunk of your body) for stability while executing
exercises which are designed to increase your flexibility, strengthen your muscles and improve your posture and alignment. The method
involves six principles (concentration, control, centering, flow, precision and breath) to provide you with coordination of breath
and movement, thereby helping to balance your mind and body.
Tai Chi
Improve your focus, self-awareness and health while developing
your mind and body. A series of meditative and self-healing movements based on Chinese teachings over 6,000 years old, Taijiquan (T’ai
Chi Ch’uan or Tai Chi) literally translates to "The Grand Ultimate Way of Life" as taught through movement. The slow, rhythmic and
gentle movements and simple postures are very effective in returning your skeletal structure, muscles and organs to their natural
alignment, improving your coordination, relieving stress, strengthening your immune system, increasing your longevity and promoting
overall well-being. Beginners are always welcome.
Yoga
Yoga comes from India and goes back over five thousand years. Its methods encompass
the entire field of our existence, from the physical, emotional and mental to the spiritual. Yoga seeks to promote health and well-being
through physical exercise and meditation. The regular practice of postures, and breathing exercises, makes your body strong, supple
and healthy. It has a profound effect on your circulation and on the functioning of your inner organs, glands and nerves, keeping
all your systems in radiant health and leading to greater energy, better concentration, and a happier, more fulfilling life. Many
common physical ailments can also be improved through the regular practice of yoga, and it is never too late or too early in life
to take it up. Anyone can practice yoga.
