About Weekly Classes

Once/week Fridays 10am-11:30am

$26/pay as you go or $96/4 classes to complete within 5 weeks 

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NOTICE: THERE ARE NO GROUP CLASSES IN AUGUST. CLASSES RESUME ON SEPTEMBER 5, 2025.

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LOCATION: St. Georges Anglican Church, Parish Hall, 166 Russell St. Clarksburg. Doors open at 9:45am. ​​Please confirm with Joanne that there is space for you that day.Text/call 705-888-9686  Email​​

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This class is a safe, gradual and gentle approach to improving a body condition from the inside out.

In group classes I include at least 30 minutes of inner core work, balance and strengthening exercises that are especially helpful for osteoarthritis, hip mobility, balance, improved strength for walking and daily activities.  

I encourage participants to practice and integrate the exercises that I teach, into their daily lives.

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Classes are suitable for beginners and individuals with osteoarthritis who are active but feel stiff and sore; these classes include mat and chair exercises, and a relaxation component to quiet the mind. 

  

Weekly classes can help you to: 

   

• Increase mobility of arthritic joints

• Improve your gait when you walk 

• Reclaim muscle tone and height in a gentle and gradual way

• Strengthen your body, improve balance and gait (walking)

• Improve functional movement, posture and flexibility

• Become more pro-active with your self-care

• Continue to care for yourself after completing a physiotherapy treatment plan

• Learn how to relax and quiet your mind

• Feel better, breathe better

• Accelerate healing. Yoga therapy complements manual therapies like massage, osteopathy & chiropractic care.

• Adjust the yoga exercises to maintain healthy posture and avoid unnecessary injury.           

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Classes are for you if you want to improve a body condition like:

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• Mild low back, neck and/or shoulder pain.

• Mild arthritis, or you are stiff/sore and want a gradual approach to strengthening and stretching.

• Mild forms of: sciatica, scoliosis, arthritis, degenerative disc.

• For more severe conditions consider a private class with Joanne. 

 

• And if you are over 50. Average age of participant is over 65.

• If you had a hip or knee replacement you can still take this class.

• You have enough mobility to lay down on a mat and come up to standing on your own and down again in your own time.

   

 NOTE: This is not chair yoga but chairs are sometimes used for sitting exercises and stability when standing.