THRIVE AT CRESSWIND (GROUP FITNESS)

Barre combines low-impact, ballet-inspired moves with elements of Pilates, dance, yoga, and strength training.  Classes incorporate classic dance moves such as plies, alongside static stretches.  All movements have variations – allowing you to choose the right movement option for you!  Barre improves your balance, builds strength, makes you more flexible, burns calories, and help improves stability through a stronger core.

 

This class is a combination of Functional Fitness & Kickboxing classes, combining the strength, stamina, and cardio benefits of both to give you a workout focused on stress relief.

 

Chair Fitness & Strength is a low-impact strength and conditioning class that incorporates a chair as one of our fitness tools!  It’s a fun, upbeat class featuring hand weights, bands, and a chair to improve strength, conditioning, and balance.

 

Chair yoga is a gentle form of fitness that uses a chair to help support your body during poses.  Poses are done while sitting and standing using the chair for support.   We use breathing exercises and movement to improve your flexibility, balance, concentration, and strength while boosting your mood and reducing stress and joint strain.

 

This class is a low-impact, dynamic, full-body workout that simultaneously combines stretching and strengthening while engaging all the muscles in the body. Through standing and floor work, this class will increase your strength, flexibility, and joint mobility for a healthy, toned, and pain-free body.

 

Functional strength training focuses on movement patterns used in everyday life. These classes include exercises that assist with everyday activities and maintain your general strength. The class revolves around movement patterns such as pushing, pulling, squatting, and core work. We use hand weights, resistance bands, steps, and music to have fun while working up a sweat. Expect improvement in strength, endurance, cardiovascular health, and higher energy levels!

 

This is an accessible, inclusive, and empowering yoga class.  Work on connecting your breath with your movement for greater body awareness, mental focus, mobility, strength, and balance. This class is great for anyone new to yoga as well as experienced practitioners.  No experience is required.

 

This class combines martial arts techniques with faster-paced cardio movements. It’s a high-energy but low-impact workout, great for beginners and advanced students. You will build stamina, improve coordination, balance, and flexibility, and burn calories as you build lean muscle with this fun and challenging workout. 

 

Class incorporates dance movements to a mixture of Latin to African to Caribbean rhythms and beats which makes the class fun and enjoyable. The class is designed to improve your cardiovascular and respiratory systems, muscle flexibility, and body composition. This class is low impact.  It includes a dance portion and muscle toning, strength, and endurance portion.

 

A blend of strength work followed by whole-body stretch and breath work. This class incorporates hand weights, cardio bursts, and signature yoga postures. First, you flow, then you go. No sneakers are needed! Class is all about muscle engagement and compound movements, which work out two or more muscle groups at once. The best thing about compound movements if you can customize and modify them based on your fitness level. This class is designed to be challenging, but plenty of variations are offered. Please bring a mat and water with an open mind.

 

This is a Vinyasa-style class (flowing movements connected together). The class connects your breath with your movement. The poses are held for 3-5 breaths between movements. This class is great for building strength & endurance, increasing mobility, body awareness, balance, and focus. Appropriate for intermediate levels.

 

This class is a combination of gentle, supported stretches, breath work, and guided visualizations to assist you in improving mental focus, concentration & body awareness while working to release tension and improve flexibility and range of motion thought out the body.

 

The class combines Latin and international music with simple but fun choreographed dance moves!   Zumba routines incorporate interval training — alternating fast and slow rhythms — to help improve cardiovascular fitness.  The Zumba! The tagline is: “Ditch the Workout, Join the Party!”  Our classes emphasize moving to the music at your own level and pace and having a good time, no rhythm is required!