DWN's Getting Fit: Exercise for Health and Wellness

Getting Fit: Exercise for Health and Wellness

Visit The Ray and try three mini fitness sessions on different topics

Get Fit and Have Fun

Join us in three 20‐minute fitness sessions designed to improve your health and wellbeing. All sessions will be light intensity, but you can work at you own level and pace. Light snacks, water, and a yoga mat will be provided. Athletic clothes are recommended but not required, and you may bring your own yoga or exercise mat if you prefer.

The sessions will provide samples of strength, cardio, flexibility and stress reduction techniques. You’ll have the opportunity to try:

• Mindful Yoga– yoga is a great way to improve flexibility and unwind from a stressful day. This workshop will introduce the basics of yoga, including some light stretching and brief meditation.
  

• Strength Training for Women – strength training is essential to maintaining healthy bones and muscles as we age. This workshop will introduce you to basic strength exercises that can be performed at home or in the gym.
  

• WERQ Dance Fitness (Light) – this dance based fitness class is a fun option to aerobic exercise. This class will stay at a light intensity and speed so you can learn the basics without having to break a sweat.

Trainers/Instructors

Denise Sutherland is a500-hour Registered Yoga Teacher, has practiced a variety of yoga styles over the years and shares her experience of personal transformation through yoga with everyone she meets. Denise earned her 500-hour certification through the Healing Yoga Foundation of San Francisco, her 200-hour certification through Prairie Yoga in Lisle, IL, and her 60-hour Yin Yoga certification through the Insight Yoga Institute with Sarah Powers. Drawing from the diversity of her yoga trainings, she teaches her own unique style of yoga, Mindful Vinyasa.

Heather Hamilton is the Assistant Director of Fitness at DePaul University and an ACSM Certified Exercise Physiologist. She has a Master of Science in Applied Health Science and a Bachelor of Science in Kinesiology from Indiana University. Heather is also a nationally certified Group Fitness Instructor, Personal Trainer, and Yoga Instructor with a diverse background and nine years of fitness experience ranging from Inpatient Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation to Strength and Conditioning.

Sara Furr is an AFAA certified group fitness instructor. Sara initially began teaching Zumba but quickly added on WERQ dance fitness, cycling, boot camp, kickboxing, and now PiYo! She believes in body positive ways of working towards wellness. Sara also serves as DePaul University’s Director of the Center for Identity, Inclusion and Social Change.

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