With the holiday season approaching, our lives are filled with so much DOING and very little BEING, so…perhaps there’s no need for the spa when you can find peace and relaxation right here at BAC! In this mini workshop, you will rest & rejuvenate through restorative yoga, and you will leave with open muscles, a relaxed nervous system, improved quality of sleep, and a deep sense of inner peace. So if you feel rundown, burned out, stressed or just tired, this is for you! It’s a powerful tool that supports the healing process during and after an illness or injury. Poses are well supported with props such as bolsters, straps, blankets, blocks, walls, allowing the body to fully and effortlessly let go. Each pose is typically held for several minutes and soft eye pillows, essential oils, dim lighting and soothing music will be added to help practitioners to release stress and tension and experience revitalization.

Where: Cordata Studio
When: Saturday, November 12
Time: 10 – 11:30 a.m.
Cost: $20 for members, $30 for non-members
Please sign up (early!) at front desk (either club)

Sciatica is a very common problem. You’ve most likely experienced it yourself or you know someone who has. If you have sciatica, then you know that it’s a real pain in the butt, both literally and figuratively. Affected areas can include your buttocks, legs, and back and your symptoms may consist of weakness, numbness, tingling, and burning, as well as moderate to extreme pain. This is because the source of the discomfort is irritation of the longest nerves in your body.

If a herniated disc is the cause of your pain, yoga can help you manage the situation and can even reduce the herniation. Certain poses can align, strengthen and lengthen your lower back and offer gradual improvement. If your sciatic nerve is being aggravated by a tight piriformis, yoga is a great remedy.

In this mini workshop, we will take care not to aggravate our condition, but rather alleviate it by minding our sensations and progressing from gentle poses to foundational poses based on a well thought of sequence. You may find relief from particular stretches, and you will be able to do them regularly to help prevent a recurrence of your sciatica or other ache.

Disclaimer: yoga positions can help relieve and heal sciatic nerve pain. However, the mini workshop should not be used to treat serious ailments without prior consultation with a qualified healthcare professional.

Where: Cordata Studio
When: Saturday, October 22
Time: 10 – 11:30 a.m.
Cost: $20 for members, $30 for non-members
Please sign up early at front

TRX suspension training delivers a systematic approach to enable you to move better and challenge yourself. The TRX suspension trainer is a strap suspended by a single anchor point providing a controlled instability which requires a significantly higher level of core activation than stable surfaces. Through a variety of exercises on and off the TRX straps, you will get a total body workout that is sure to challenge you in a new and exciting way. TRX will provide both cardio and strength training, making you sweat to a stronger you. Come join Melissa at either club! See the front desk to sign up.

Cordata: Tuesdays @ 10:45am in the gym.
Cost: $10 Per Class

FUEL is a 6-week nutrition program. You will be working in small groups with a Certified Nutrition Coach, who will develop and help you execute a custom nutrition plan that is made just for you! Fuel your body the right way, lose body fat, develop lean muscle and create habit-based changes striving for long term health and performance. This program provides accountability, support and the most recent science-based nutrition information to get the results you want.

Sessions include: food journal review, weigh-ins, and current nutritional science education

Sign up at the front desk!

Introductory Price:
$219 for members; $239 for non-members
First 15 Participants
Beginning September 23rd
Thursdays at 12:00 p.m., Sundays at 4:00 p.m. or Tuesdays at 7:30 p.m.

*Indiviual consultations are also available at separate cost.

For those of you that enjoy Zumba and Jazzercise – or any other form of classroom dancing – you’ll be excited to hear about a new format called “Country Heat”! It is coming out in September – and we are hoping to be one of the first clubs to offer it. Just like the Title implies – you will be working up a sweat dancing to popular Country music. Think – “line dancing” basics – in the studio! I’m pretty sure the cowboy hats and boots will be optional!