HTH-929 COSR-Self Defense

Section Info: Omalley Senior Center | Senior Self Defense | No class May 25 | This course provides instruction on how to defend yourself using your body's own natural reactions, how to spot dangers and potential threats. Students will learn how to stop an attacker in his tracks by acting early and learn how and where to strike to escape quickly. Topics include using your voice as a weapon, enhancing your awareness skills, learning avoidance and de-escalation skills, and how to have a survival mindset.

HTH-929 PASD-Self Defense

Section Info: Pasadena Senior Center | Senior Self Defense | This course provides instruction on how to defend yourself using your body's own natural reactions, how to spot dangers and potential threats. Students will learn how to stop an attacker in his tracks by acting early and learn how and where to strike to escape quickly. Topics include using your voice as a weapon, enhancing your awareness skills, learning avoidance and de-escalation skills, and how to have a survival mindset.

HTH-929 PSRC-Comprehensive Tai Chi

Section Info: Pascal Senior Center | Comprehensive Tai Chi | This continuing education course provides instruction on improving and maintaining health through education and awareness of movement and balance concepts and practices. Topics include muscle groups, fall prevention, maintaining and improving coordination, and improving balance.

HTH-929 PSRC-Self Defense

Section Info: Pascal Senior Center | Senior Self Defense | No class May 25 | This course provides instruction on how to defend yourself using your body's own natural reactions, how to spot dangers and potential threats. Students will learn how to stop an attacker in his tracks by acting early and learn how and where to strike to escape quickly. Topics include using your voice as a weapon, enhancing your awareness skills, learning avoidance and de-escalation skills, and how to have a survival mindset.

HTH-929 PSRC-Tai Chi w Yoga Influence

Section Info: Pascal Senior Center | Tai Chi with Yoga Influence | This class will focus on improving overall health, endurance and flexibility. Gentle movements will help improve and maintain balance and coordination. Tai chi and Yoga stretching will be incorporated into the program. No previous training necessary.

HTH-935 ANSR-Stand Tall and Strong

Section Info: Annapolis Senior Center | Stand Tall and Strong | No class May 25 | Strengthen and lengthen postural muscles to improve efficiency of movement during daily activities. Chair and standing exercises using weights, band, and bender ball. Focus is on core strength which includes all muscles supporting the spine. Workout includes leg and arm exercises.

HTH-935 ANSR-Strengthen and Lengthen

Section Info: Annapolis Senior Center | Strengthen and Lengthen | No class May 25 | Postural strengthening with weights and floor work is central to this workout. Guidance and movement accommodations will be suggested for anyone with joint mobility issues. Must be able to work out on a mat on the floor. Chair and standing exercises will also be part of the exercises. Exercise with weights, bands, and bender balls.

HTH-935 ASRC-Pilates

Section Info: Arnold Senior Center | Pilates | No class May 8 | Looking to strengthen your entire core? This classical Mat Pilates class targets your abdominal, back, and hip muscles while improving joint mobility and stability. You'll also enhance posture and flexibility. Jeanine may incorporate 1lb hand weights for chest and upper back exercises. Pilates are suitable for most students, though you should be able to get down to the floor and back up, as well as roll over for mat work. This is an intermediate-level class, but beginners with some exercise experience are welcome.

HTH-935 ONLN-Beginner Pilates

Section Info: Online | Beginner Pilates | This class is basic Pilates mat exercises. Focus is on controlling core muscles as you breathe and move. Suggested Equipment: Yoga/ Pilates Mat, and a towel or small pillow | Attendance in online class sessions Tuesdays and Thursdays from 10:30-11:30 a.m. is mandatory for section 206.

HTH-940 ANSR-Pilates with Stretch Band

Section Info: Annapolis Senior Center | Pilates with Stretch Bands | This progressive Mat Pilates class emphasizes building core strength and learning controlled movement of the arms and legs to increase strength, flexibility, and fluidity. Early sessions include discussion of Pilates history and philosophy alongside gentle movement variations. By the end of the 10-week session, classes are primarily exercise-based, incorporating more advanced, strenuous variations and additional exercises. Join John and experience steady, measurable gains in strength.

HTH-940 ANSR-Stand Tall and Strong

Section Info: Annapolis Senior Center | Stand Tall and Strong | Strengthen and lengthen postural muscles to improve efficiency of movement during daily activities. Chair and standing exercises using weights, band, and bender ball. Focus is on core strength which includes all muscles supporting the spine. Workout includes leg and arm exercises.

HTH-940 ANSR-Stand Tall and Strong

Section Info: Annapolis Senior Center | Stand Tall and Strong | Strengthen and lengthen postural muscles to improve efficiency of movement during daily activities. Chair and standing exercises using weights, band, and bender ball. Focus is on core strength which includes all muscles supporting the spine. Workout includes leg and arm exercises.

MUC-905 ONLN-Music Masterpiece

Section Info: Online | Music Masterpiece: Romantic Russians | This course explores the development of Russian music from its early lack of a national tradition to its emergence as a distinctive cultural force. Students will study the rise of native composition with Mikhail Glinka, the nationalist movement of the "Mighty Fistful," and the blending of folk elements with Romanticism. The course concludes with an examination of major Soviet-era influences and composers, including Shostakovich and emigre figures such as Rachmaninov and Stravinsky. | Note: Attendance in online class sessions Tuesdays from 9:00-11:00 a.m. is mandatory for section 201.

MUC-905 ONLN-Music Masterpiece

Section Info: Online | Music Masterpiece: Romantic Russians. | This course explores the development of Russian music from its early lack of a national tradition to its emergence as a distinctive cultural force. Students will study the rise of native composition with Mikhail Glinka, the nationalist movement of the "Mighty Fistful," and the blending of folk elements with Romanticism. The course concludes with an examination of major Soviet-era influences and composers, including Shostakovich and emigre figures such as Rachmaninov and Stravinsky. | Note: Attendance in online class sessions on Thursdays from 1:00-3:00 p.m. is mandatory for section 202.

WRI-901 SCSC-Creative Writing

Section Info: South County Senior Center | Creative Writing | Both fiction and nonfiction writers benefit from applying creative writing techniques: hooking-the reader, characterization, setting, conflict, and satisfying endings. Through writing assignments, class discussions, and in-class exercises, you will advance your in-progress stories and discover new ones.