Roseville Area Schools Community Education

Research shows that exercise, when performed in recommended doses, can greatly affect mood, change the composition of your brain, enhance cognition and enhance quality of life. Mia Bremer, senior health and fitness specialist, will share the research and talk about how to stay sharp, improve your mental health and ensure your body and brain stay as fit as possible as you age.

The ability to improve your balance and reduce fall risks is in your hands. And it is never too late. Mia Bremer is a Master Balance and Mobility Specialist who teaches FallProof! This program was developed at the Center for Successful Aging at California State Fullerton where Mia has taught the program to professionals across the country. This workshop will teach you why our risk for falling increases as we age, as well as exercises and strategies we can use to reduce those risks. This is an interactive workshop – you will be practicing skills and taking home useful information that can save you from a trip to the floor. You will also learn what to do if you end up there!

This class will turn our Western idea of how we approach health issues on its head. What are the most important things you can do each day that will energize you and positively affect your health? The “inverted triangle” is a simple checklist that helps you think about all the things you can do to promote a healthy life as you age

Flexibility, defined as the range of movement around a joint or set of joints, changes as we age. Fascia is a type of connective tissue that plays a key role in flexibility. This ever-changing tissue adapts in relationship to aging, repetitive movement and lack of movement. And though these changes start at an early age they often show up in mid-life as stiffness, overuse injuries or just general lack of flexibility. This workshop will explain the factors that lead to inflexibility and the specific needs and physical limitations we may face because of tight fascia. You will leave with SMR techniques you can do on your own. Equipment cost: $4

Back pain is the second most common neurological ailment in the United States - only headache is more common. This statistic means that most of us will experience back pain and even injury at some point in our lives. This class will look at postural deviations that affect back health and what you can do to reduce and even remove your back pain.