Wellness & Longevity Programs

The Pohl Center currently offers SilverSneakers® classes. These programs are designed specifically to help older adults achieve better health through regular exercise and health education. The SilverSneakers and Silver&Fit programs provide eligible members with no-cost or low-cost older adult-oriented group fitness classes through arrangements with certain health plans. The SilverSneakers program is provided by Tivity Health Fitness and provides eligible members up to 8 visits per month. The Silver&Fit program is provided by American Specialty Health Fitness, Inc, a subsidiary of American Specialty Health Incorporated, and provides eligible members up to 10 visits per month. Renew Active™, the gold standard in Medicare fitness programs for body and mind, is also at the Juanita Pohl Center. The program is available at no additional cost with UnitedHealthcare® Medicare plans and provides eligible members up to 8 visits per month.
If your health plan offers the SilverSneakers, Silver&Fit, or Renew Active programs, and you would like more information or to check eligibility, please call 503-691-3061. SilverSneakers Classic is the only class included at this time.

SilverSneakers® Classic
SilverSneakers® is the perfect class for active older adults wanting to focus on overall total-body conditioning. Your instructor will guide you through a series of exercises using resistance tools to help build muscle and tone. Going at your own pace is encouraged!
Monday/Wednesday/Friday | 11:15am-12:15pm
Fitness Punch Pass Options: 5 Classes $22, 10 Classes $38, 20 Classes $68

Gentle Yoga
This class focuses on finding more ease in movement through practices including breathing, postures (asanas), concentration and much more. The pacing of each session is designed to optimize movement awareness thereby bringing greater calm to the mind and body. Come for strength, mobility and balance, leave with a sense of more ease in daily life. (This offering includes floor work as well as standing postures).
Summer Session 2: Mondays, July 14-August 11 | 9:45-10:45am
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Each Session: $40 resident/$50 non-resident | Drop in: $10 resident/$12 non-resident

Gentle Somatic Yoga
The  pace of this offering is often different from other yoga classes. Being guided to focus on mindful awareness, we slow things down so the body and mind have an opportunity to connect.  These explorations can guide us to release chronically tight muscles, while also remembering muscles we may have forgotten. The practices also invite the nervous system to regulate, greatly enhancing our sense of well-being and inner calm. This is a class of discovery. We are explorers and the terrain we are navigating is our one precious body. Take it easy and find the joy that slow subtle movement brings. This class includes floor work as well as standing postures.
Fall Session 1: Mondays, September 8-October 6 | 9:45-10:45am
Fall Session 2: Mondays, October 20-November 17 | 9:45-10:45am
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Each Session: $40 resident/$50 non-resident | Drop in: $10 resident/$12 non-resident

Strength & Stretch
A perfect mixture of wellness! Use various equipment for full body strength training while integrating mobility and stretches.
Tuesdays, September 9-November 4 | 10:45-11:45am
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$90 resident/$113 non-resident |Drop-in: $11 resident/$14 non-resident

Tai Chi Yang 40: Part 3
This class is open to anyone who has completed the instruction in Tai Chi Yang 40: Part 1 & 2. 
ATCQA Accredited Program
Monday/Thursday, September 8-November 20 | 1-2pm
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$132 resident/$165 non-resident

Tai Chi Sun 24: Part 2
This class is open to anyone who has completed the instruction in Tai Chi Sun 24: Part 1. 
ATCQA Accredited Program 
Monday/Thursday, September 8-November 20 | 2:15-3:15pm
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$132 resident/$165 non-resident

Tai Chi Fan 18
This is a beginning Tai Chi Weapons class teaching a Yang-Style 18 Fan Form (left handed fan). It provides great exercise and is so much fun! Participants must have completed a 24-form Tai Chi class to enroll.
ATCQA Accredited Program  
Tuesdays, September 9-November 18 | 12:30-1:25pm (no class November 11)
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$60 resident/$75 non-resident

Qigong Strong
Qigong is a gentle, meditative form of exercise that focuses on coordinating mind, movement, and breath.  You will gain strength and flexibility, improved balance, and increased focus. Additionally, this class offers a mind-body strength-training set. 
ATCQA Accredited Program  
Tuesdays, September 9-November 18 | 1:35-2:30pm (no class November 11)
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$60 resident/$75 non-resident

Nia
Nia is a sensory based movement format designed to condition your body and mind. Nia uses inspirational and invigorating music along with dance, martial arts and relaxation. It is designed to create sensation, bring awareness to movement habits, and improve flexibility, agility, mobility, stability and strength. Bare feet recommended.
Fall Session 1: Thursdays, September 18-October 16 | 9:15-10:15am
Fall Session 2: Thursdays, October 23-November 20 | 9:15-10:15am
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Each Session: $40 resident/$50 non-resident | Drop in: $10 resident/$12 non-resident

Line Dance
Ages 21 & Up
Join other dancers and learn some fun dances or just come for the great exercise! Partners not needed. 
Fridays (ongoing) | 7-9pm (no class November 28)
Line Dance Punch Pass Options:  5 Classes $37, 10 Classes $71, 20 Classes $137
It is recommended that all participants purchase a punch pass ahead of time either online or over the phone. Please click the link above or call 503.691.3061 to purchase a punch pass.

Zumba®
All Ages Welcome
Do you feel like dancing, smiling and meeting fun people? Please join us at Zumba®! Zumba® is an effective combination of aerobic exercise and resistance. It provides calorie burn, improves coordination and posture, helps de-stress, tones the body and improves endurance and cardio. It includes a variety of rhythms and music such as salsa, cumbia, hip-hop and more!
Questions about Zumba? Please call Marilu at (503) 680-9377.
Thursdays (ongoing) | 6:30-7:30pm (no class November 6, 27)
Saturdays (ongoing) | 9-10am
FREE

Yoga for Veterans
Ages 21 & Up
Yoga for Veterans is a class where all veterans can come together to support each other and learn gentle stretches to help ease suffering from combat and post traumatic stress. Students will be guided to move and breathe to bring healing to the whole warrior. This program is for Veterans, their support folks, Vets' family members (spouses, widow/widowers, children, parents) and friends.
Sponsored in-part by Washington County Disability, Aging, and Veteran Services.
Saturdays (ongoing) | 10:15-11:15am (no class August 30)
FREE

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