EndsInY Bridge Club

If a day EndsInY you should be playing bridge!

Every Monday at Noon (12pm) 

Elbow Park Community Center: 800 - 34 Ave SW

Drop-in – $10 fee. 

No Partner required, we will guarantee a game!

Beginning and Advancing Player Bridge Games

0 – 20 Masterpoints

0 – 299 Master points

(Stratified 0-49, 50-99, 100-299 )

For more information email: Clarende.Duby@shaw.ca

There’s no way around it, our bodies change as we get older. Postural habits, stress, trauma, illness all cause subtle changes to the structure and shape of our bodies.

Let go of what you ‘ think yoga is’ and what a ‘pose should look like’ and come out and try our new class.  Improve strength, balance and mobility, calm the mind and improve sleep. It will be a gentle, well supported class using different props as required.

Drop In is also available for $18 per class paid to Phyllis directly at the class.

Instructor Phyllis Lindsay,  phyllis.a.lindsay@gmail.com

Yoga has been a part of Phyllis’s life for more than 45 years. As a 'Baby Boomer' herself, she understands the needs and challenges of our changing bodies as we grow older. She's been teaching a similar class ‘Gentle Yoga for Healthy Living' at a local yoga studio for 2 years with great success and teaches private and community classes.

At the core of Phyllis’s classes is the notion of ‘functional’ yoga. It’s never about creating the ‘perfect’ pose, but slowly and consistently working on the pillars of a healthy, sustainable practice focusing on balance, stability, mobility and strength.

Phyllis presently holds the following recognitions:
Yoga Alliance RYT200
Yin Yoga levels 1 and 2 (50 hours)

EndsinY Bridge Club is providing beginner bridge lessons for for people who have not played bridge before.  It is designed to introduce you to the game and allow you to play for fun in a social setting.

Email Clarende.Duby@shaw.ca for more information.

Cost is $120 per person for a 5 class session.

If a day EndsInY, you should be playing bridge!

This Pilates class focuses on using a variety of Pilates props to engage and strengthen all the muscles which contribute to your core strength, your deep abdominal and lower back muscles, and pelvic floor muscle.  Improve your posture and functional fitness; this class ends with an extended stretching component.  All levels welcome. 

Based upon the principles of Joseph Pilates Method, this class will strengthen your “ powerhouse” which in turn will leave you with a healthy spine, agile body and feeling longer and taller!  

Instructor Christy Hayne

Christy is a lifelong lover of movement who has lived her passion to the fullest from her earliest days. Beginning in childhood as a tree-climbing, multi-sport athlete and gymnast, Christy discovered dance in her teens, eventually winning a place in Calgary’s own Decidedly Jazz Danceworks, where she spent a decade as a professional dancer. In a NYC modern dance master class, Christy was introduced to the practice of Pilates, which in the 1980’s was gaining traction with dancers as a system of conditioning that supported the intense physical demands of full-time dance training and performance. The controlled repetition of sequences designed to improve core stability through the strengthening of deep intrinsic musculature, the refining of larger back and lower body muscle groups, and improving connections between breath and movement, became a passion as well as a preferred personal practice. A mother of two, an avid runner, and a lover of outdoor pursuits, this practice became a new career when Christy received her Stott Pilates Certification in 2004 and began teaching in Calgary. Christy returns frequently to New York to study and after coming on board at Yoga Mandala in 2012, also completed a 200 Hour RYT training. An inspirational as well as experienced teacher, she often shares with her students a favourte quote from Joseph Pilates: “You are only as old as your spine feels”; skillfully guiding them towards their personal best, and that oh-so-rewarding “Aha” moment.

Join us for coffee or tea in a warm and welcoming environment.

Everyone is welcome, including people living with dementia and their caregivers. 

No speaker, no agenda, no program - just an opportunity to meet people & build friendships.

     Pumpkins & Pizza

    Sunday, October 27

    5-7 pm in Clubhouse

Come on down to the Clubhouse for pumpkin carving and pizza. 

Pumpkins, stencils and carving tools provided in the pumpkin cost of $10 each.  

2 Pizza Slices & a Beverage for $7 will be available to purchase at the event.  

Please register and indicate number of people per pumpkin so we know how much pizza to order.  

There’s no way around it, our bodies change as we get older. Postural habits, stress, trauma, illness all cause subtle changes to the structure and shape of our bodies.

Let go of what you ‘ think yoga is’ and what a ‘pose should look like’ and come out and try our new class.  Improve strength, balance and mobility, calm the mind and improve sleep. It will be a gentle, well supported class using different props as required.

Instructor Phyllis Lindsay,  phyllis.a.lindsay@gmail.com

Yoga has been a part of Phyllis’s life for more than 45 years. As a 'Baby Boomer' herself, she understands the needs and challenges of our changing bodies as we grow older. She's been teaching a similar class ‘Gentle Yoga for Healthy Living' at a local yoga studio for 2 years with great success and teaches private and community classes.

At the core of Phyllis’s classes is the notion of ‘functional’ yoga. It’s never about creating the ‘perfect’ pose, but slowly and consistently working on the pillars of a healthy, sustainable practice focusing on balance, stability, mobility and strength.

Phyllis presently holds the following recognitions:
Yoga Alliance RYT200
Yin Yoga levels 1 and 2 (50 hours)

Join Christie Simmons, from Bespoke Chronicles, for an 8 week Guided Autobiography program.  The group will look at experiences like major turning points, family, health, work, even death, and tackle exercises and questions that will help spark your creativity, self awareness and memories.  

Join Christie Simmons, from Bespoke Chronicles, for an 8 week Guided Autobiography program.  The group will look at experiences like major turning points, family, health, work, even death, and tackle exercises and questions that will help spark your creativity, self awareness and memories.  

For each session, you will be asked to write a two page story on a particular theme and share it with the other participants (you are only asked to share what you are comfortable sharing).  

Christie Simmons grew up in Elbow Park and remains an active community member.  Here is her story:

'm a writer and designer with Bespoke Chronicles -- an organization that captures and produces personal life stories, family histories, memoirs, thoughts, ideas, values, adventures… combined with photographs and images in beautifully designed one-of-a-kind keepsake books. 

I've spent the last 25 years capturing an array of stories and ideas in writing. Beyond the work I'm doing now to gather and help share individual life stories, I've worked as a freelance writer for a broad variety of organizations and contributed numerous pieces to the Globe and Mail’s extra sections. I maintain active connection with other members of the now defunct Association of Personal Historians and have just earned certification in Reminiscence and Lifestory Work through the University of Wisconsin-Superior. 

The cultural and personal value in sharing life stories and experiences is massive and I am enormously honoured to be doing this work. It's wonderful working with people who want to pass along their values and beliefs -- people who want to seize the opportunity to tell those close to them who they are, what they’ve seen, what they’ve done with their lives. The books I help create — whether they celebrate a milestone, capture a family history or simply share personal stories and adventures — become family heirlooms and in some cases valuable societal treasures. 

In addition to personal history work, I funnel my writing and creative efforts towards songwriting and am an active, performing songwriter (see christiejsimmons.com).

"Learn You by Heart" Album Launch

Philosophical, intimate, physical, poetic. 

Christie Simmons’ album, Learn You by Heart, sings out in the tradition of singer-songwriters who use the dance between words and melody to explore the cracks in life - the cracks between words, between breaths, heartbeats, lovers, parents and children, past and present, the how and the why.

In images as fresh as they are familiar, melodies that are compelling and thoughtful, these are songs and a voice that sing us into the heart of this album, keep us there listening, watching. 

As the title song says, “Savour every second, from the very start/ Take in every detail, learn you by heart.”  (Roberta Reece)

​​Album Launch - Saturday Nov 16, 7:30
​Tickets $20 (Includes Entry, Concert, a CD or download & a glass of wine/beverage

Cash Bar available for Wine & Beer

https://www.christiejsimmons.com/

Emergency First Aid - CPR A & AED

$110 • 1 day 8 - 4 pm

This CPA class will be taught by St John Ambulance as a private session for Elbow Park residents. Babysitters, Parents, Grandparents and Good Samaritans will find this the perfect class for them. 

In this one-day course, students will learn to recognize and provide interventions for life-threatening emergencies until medical aid arrives. Topics include: CPR and choking for adults, shock and unconsciousness, severe bleeding, head & spinal injuries, major medical conditions, and AED training and certification. 

This is a great opportunity to get familiar with the new Automated External Defibrillator (EAD) located in the Clubhouse. Many facilities now have these devices that can significantly alter the outcome of cardiac arrest or arrhythmia.