Flex more than your mind at local library

Charlie Brown: “We only live once, Snoopy.”

Snoopy: “Wrong! We only die once. We live every day!”

I hope, dear Readers, that this new year has started for you in a way which makes you optimistic and inspired. If not, my hope is that you will soon see changes that bring you peace and well-being.

As many of you are aware, I teach a “FlexAbility” class at the Hamilton East Public Library, Noblesville branch located at One Library Plaza just off Cumberland Road on Tuesday mornings from 9:30 to 10:15 a.m. We are beginning a new six-week session and I would like to see as many of you as possible join me if you are available. There is no cost for this class session and registration is available – and requested – on the Library website, hamiltoneastpl.org or by calling (317) 773-1384.

I am including here the information piece that I share with my class which better describes our goals. My goal in teaching FlexAbility is to increase balance, mobility, flexibility, and strength.

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Welcome to FlexAbility!

Every day our bodies are subjected to stresses and strains, sometimes without our immediate awareness! Many times, we don’t consider our bodies until we feel those stresses and strains played out as poor posture and non-specific aches and pains – typically in the lower back, neck, and shoulder. These can also cause inhibited breathing patterns, dramatically reducing energy levels!

FlexAbility is a blend of different disciplines, including yoga-inspired stretches, appropriate for anyone* who wishes to increase their flexibility, tone, and mobility. The focus is a body that is life-fit, one that will help you avoid injury and delay age-related physical decline. By becoming more flexible your body will look and feel more alive! Stretching is good for your body AND good for your mind!

An ideal fitness regime includes aerobic exercise (walking, dancing, etc.) muscular strengthening using light weights, and FlexAbility training. This class will focus on flexibility and stretching – which are not necessarily one and the same:

• Flexibility – the range of movement across a joint
• Stretching – act of lengthening muscle and connective tissue

We stretch to increase our flexibility! Inflexibility seriously impairs our quality of life … so let’s get flexible!

Sharon McMahon, CNWC, CPT
Mobility Coach

*Please check with your personal physician if you have any physical impairment or health-related issues which may prevent your participation in this class.