ISD 279 - Osseo Area Schools Community Education

Body & Brain Yoga class provides the perfect blend of mindful movement, deep stretching, and meditative breathwork. This class is uniquely designed to open your energy meridians, release built-up stress, and help you achieve a calm and recharged state. Each one-hour class concludes with energy meditation to awaken your senses and create a deep, fulfilling connection with yourself. It's a moment of pure peace, allowing you to carry a sense of balance and empowerment into your daily life. Experience a new world, where mind, body, and spirit become one. Please bring a yoga mat.

Are you ready to take control of your health and create a toxin-free environment for yourself and your loved ones? Join us for an eye-opening class where you'll explore practical ways to detox your daily life. Learn how to identify common sources of toxins in your home and personal care routines and discover easy steps to reduce your exposure. Plus, take your first step toward a healthier lifestyle with a fun DIY project. This easy project will help you reduce chemicals in your kitchen and inspire you to explore more natural alternatives for your home.

Is your weight loss plan being hindered by pain? Discover effective strategies to burn fat, manage pain and improve your health while working with your body instead of against it. Learn how to create a simple, science-backed, pain-friendly plan to lose weight, gain energy, and improve your overall health without resorting to extreme diets or workouts.

When was the last time you updated your makeup and beauty regimen? Has your skin changed over time? What about your hair color? Join this "boot camp" to update your look with tips and techniques for ageless beauty. Learn about a variety of products, some may be completely new to you, application, and the latest trends in makeup and skin care. Julie Sherman is a makeup artist with 35 years of experience. No products or services will be sold! This class is essential for busy, beautiful women who could use a little updating.

This is an online class held via Zoom. Please make sure you have a current email on file so we can send you the link and PDF handouts prior to class. Abdominal muscles weaken and lose shape due to past pregnancies, surgeries, sitting at a desk all day, being sedentary and poor posture. Common abdominal exercises like crunches can place too much stress on back and neck joints. Learn a series of extremely effective exercises to quickly strengthen all four layers of the abdomen, without stressing back or neck joints and without getting on the floor.

This is an online class held via Zoom. Please make sure you have a current email on file so we can send you the link and PDF handouts prior to class. Acupressure is an ancient healing art that can offer great relief, with no side effects, from symptoms such as hot flashes, mood swings, bloating, headaches, irritability, nausea, insomnia, anxiety and even weight gain. Learn which points balance hormone levels naturally, including thyroid hormones. Acupressure is a wonderful self-help tool that will help you feel your best. Discuss breathing techniques, nutritional musts, and more.

This is an online class held via Zoom. Please make sure you have a current email on file so we can send you the link and PDF handouts prior to class. Here’s a facelift you can do at home. Acupressure is an ancient Chinese healing method that works with the energy that flows through your body. Stimulating facial acupressure points can help erase years from your face naturally, bring a healthy glow to your skin; increase forming; even decrease headaches, relieve eye strain, soothe nerves, and increase relaxation. Learn how to make your skin as healthy as possible from the inside out.

This is an online class held via Zoom. Please make sure you have a current email on file so we can send you the link and PDF handouts prior to class. Acupressure is an ancient, Eastern healing technique that involves pressing or kneading key points on the body to release energy blockages and stimulate energy flow through pathways called meridians. Continual sinus problems have become epidemic in both children and adults. You can find relief by stimulate the many points that relieve sinus blockages, headaches, and more.

This is an online class held via Zoom. Please make sure you have a current email on file so we can send you the link and PDF handouts prior to class. Acupressure is a Chinese healing technique that involves pressing or massaging key points on the body to stimulate energy flow through pathways called meridians. When the points that regulate metabolism, digestion and thyroid function are blocked or out of balance, losing weight will seem like an impossible task. In this workshop, you will learn the main pressure points that help strengthen thyroid function, boost metabolism, control appetite, decrease food cravings, reduce stress eating and strengthen the entire digestive system.

This is an online class held via Zoom. Please make sure you have a current email on file so we can send you the link and PDF handouts prior to class. Acupressure is a healing technique that works with how energy flows through your body. Just as you have blood that flows through vessels, you have energy that flows through pathways called meridians. Acupressure involves pressing or massaging key point on the body to stimulate energy flow which can offer great relief with no side effects. You will focus on the points that relieve and prevent migraines and headaches, as well as, nausea and vertigo.

This is an online class held via Zoom. Please make sure you have a current email on file so we can send you the link and PDF handouts prior to class. Acupressure is an ancient healing art and self-help tool. It can offer great relief with no side effects and help you feel your best. Along with the specific points to help relieve stress, insomnia, anxiety, irritability and even weight gain, learn the Nine Master Pressure Points which are the most helpful and most frequently prescribed to help and assist every system in your body.

This is an online class held via Zoom. Please make sure you have a current email on file so we can send you the link and PDF handouts prior to class. Perimenopause starts around the age of 35 for most women and can last 10-15 years. Common symptoms include fatigue, migraines, weight gain, water retention, depression, sleep disturbances, joint aches, hot flashes, anger flashes, fibroids, exaggerated PMS and more. Once you understand exactly what is causing all the troublesome symptoms, they are much easier to correct. You'll discuss how to get hormone levels measured - blood test vs. saliva test and what to do with the results; traditional HRT vs. bio-identical; acupressure points to assist in symptom relief and nutritional musts. You'll leave with multiple tools and techniques for restoring health and well-being.

This is an online class held via Zoom. Please make sure you have a current email on file so we can send you the link and PDF handouts prior to class. Current research shows lifestyle and diet have a big effect on HOW the brain ages. Cognitive function, which covers all aspects of perceiving, thinking and reasoning, CAN improve. And the very good news is no matter what your age there are things you can begin to do today to improve how quickly and effectively brain cells communicate with each other. You’ll discuss which ‘superfoods’ reduce the damaging effects of toxins and inflammation on the brain and which nutrients are great for memory, attention, processing information and reducing stress. You will learn simple, easy to implement strategies to help your brain stay healthy and alert.

This is an online class held via Zoom. Please make sure you have a current email on file so we can send you the link and PDF handouts prior to class. Your chronological age is the number of years you have been alive. It is a fixed number and cannot be changed. Your biological or bio age, however, is measured by how well your organs and body systems work. And there are many things you can do to affect your biological age. You have more control over how your body ages than you may think. Research has shown us that you can peel years off your bio age. In this workshop, you will learn simple, scientifically proven things you can do right now to decrease your body age. Also, you will learn facial acupressure points to help erase years from your face naturally.

This is an online class held via Zoom. Please make sure you have a current email on file so we can send you the link and PDF handouts prior to class. There are over 30 individual muscles on each side of your face, all of which can be strengthened and toned, just like arm or leg muscles. Facial exercises can take years off your appearance by reducing frown and forehead lines, reducing “puppet mouth’ lines, lifting and firming neckline, making upper and lower cheeks fuller, reduce puffiness and sagging around eyes, improve circulation and nutrient flow into cells and improve lymph circulation. Learn simple exercises that will rejuvenate your face. You will need a regular teaspoon for a few of the exercises and a little of your favorite facial moisturizer.

This is an online class held via Zoom. Please make sure you have a current email on file so we can send you the link and PDF handouts prior to class. Have you taken a good look at your feet, ankles or knees lately? They support the weight of your entire body. Take off your shoes and socks, roll up your pants and look in a mirror. Do your ankles roll in? Are your arches flat? Do you have bunions or calluses? Are your toes straight or do they bend in? Does your big toe pull in towards the other toes? Do your knees lock back? Do your kneecaps turn in or pull outward? In this workshop, you will learn simple things to help correct these common problems.

This is an online class held via Zoom. Please make sure you have a current email on file so we can send you the link and PDF handouts prior to class. We have become a nation of professional sitters, causing lower body muscles to weaken and sag. In this workshop, you will learn: Janice Novak's famous ‘10 Minute Miracle Exercise’ series to strengthen lower body muscles quickly and, in the process, increase metabolism and bone density; decrease 2 inches off saddlebag area in 2 weeks; trim inches off lower body by getting rid of excess water weight; breathing technique to stimulate fat metabolism; acupressure points for lymph circulation and drainage. If you don’t have time/money/inclination to haul yourself to a gym several times a week, you will love these powerful and effective techniques. You will need a resistance band, tied in a loop for some of the exercises.

This is an online class held via Zoom. Please make sure you have a current email on file so we can send you the link and PDF handouts prior to class. Have you ever found that in the A.M. your waistband fits fine but by mid-afternoon, it's squeezing you like a tourniquet? Or that no matter how many crunches you do, your stomach still hangs out? Getting rid of a potbelly is much more than just doing abdominal exercises. In this workshop, you will learn the main causes and 6 strategies for getting rid of belly bloat. Do exercises designed to strengthen the deepest layer of abdominal muscle - the layer that is responsible for flattening your stomach, shaping your waistline, and supporting your lower back. And we will do this without getting on the floor.

This is an online class held via Zoom. Please make sure you have a current email on file so we can send you the link and PDF handouts prior to class. Breathing in specific ways can have amazing and powerful healing benefits on mind and body. Breath work is the single most powerful thing you can practice for improving energy levels, health, and well-being. In this workshop, you will learn ancient breathing exercises that will: neutralize stress by reprogramming your nervous system; increase energy and vitality; increase brain function; improve immune response; and decrease depression and anxiety. Breathing exercises are powerful, free, and literally right under your nose.

This is an online class held via Zoom. Please make sure you have a current email on file so we can send you the link and PDF handouts prior to class. In the past you probably could drop weight by cutting back on calories or exercising a bit more. But then suddenly the scale stops moving and you just can’t seem to lose weight. The good news is - you could lose up to 20 pounds in a year without eating less. Just by revving up your metabolism, you can burn more calories every day, lose fat, boost energy, feel stronger and more fit. In this class, you will learn 20 simple things you can do every day to boost your metabolism.

This is an online class held via Zoom. Please make sure you have a current email on file so we can send you the link and PDF handouts prior to class. Ever had a day where you can’t stop eating? Do you crave starches, snack foods, and sweets and find the more you eat, the more you want to eat? Is your snacking out of control? In this workshop, you will discuss a two week plan that will STOP your cravings (no kidding!), help you lose weight and help keep your insulin levels balanced. Overcoming carb cravings is not a matter of willpower but of biology. Learn how you can stop the vicious cycle of food craving and weight gain. No hype – just the facts.

This is an online class held via Zoom. Please make sure you have a current email on file so we can send you the link and PDF handouts prior to class. Have you ever caught sight of your reflection in a window or mirror to see that your head leads the way? Or noticed that your shoulders and upper back are too rounded forward? You’ll learn simple techniques to improve posture and stand straighter. We’ll do exercises to help flatten the upper back, un-round shoulders and flatten your midsection. Learn how to reduce the risk of osteoporosis and how to re-gain bone mass. We’ll discuss the latest research findings on nutrition, minerals and trace minerals needed for bone health; foods that help and/or harm your bones and more. Wear loose, comfortable clothing. You will need a resistance band or tube for some of the exercises.

This is an online class held via Zoom. Please make sure you have a current email on file so we can send you the link and PDF handouts prior to class. Ever caught your own reflection to see that your head hangs too far forward, or your shoulders are too rounded, or you slump too much? You will learn how to correct common posture problems and learn an ‘Instant Alignment Technique’ that will have you standing straighter immediately. You’ll discuss easy to implement tips when at a computer, in a car or working out. There are many benefits to improving posture. And, the good news is no matter how long you may have had poor posture, it is NEVER TOO LATE to make improvements. Your clothes will fit better, too! You’ll need a resistance band for some exercises.

This is an online class held via Zoom. Please make sure you have a current email on file so we can send you the link and PDF handouts prior to class. Diabesity is a condition in which too much belly fat leads a person to symptoms ranging from mild blood sugar imbalance to full blown diabetes. Whether you have a little extra weight around the middle, insulin resistance or type 2 diabetes, the root cause of ALL these conditions are the same - problems with our diet, lifestyle and exposure to environmental toxins. Most treatments focus on the downstream symptoms (elevated levels of glucose, cholesterol, blood pressure, triglycerides) and never get to WHY your levels are too high and how to change it. The good news is all of this can be reversed. Learn how to work with your doctor to help restore your body to health.