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Managing Your Personal Health Conditions
Living with a chronic condition can be full of challenges that may limit your engagement in activities you enjoy, but it doesn’t have to be that way. Learn new behaviors and strategies to better manage symptoms and improve your quality of life, regardless of your condition. Engage with peers to share challenges and help each other find solutions while building confidence to overcome barriers. This is a six-week series produced by the Self-Management Resource Center.
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Cooking & Conversation
Gather in the garden to plant, grow, and harvest vegetables and herbs. Take part in a team effort to maintain the garden and reap the benefits of fresh vegetables this summer and fall. No green thumb required! (Note: No class 4/8/2025)
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Fitness and Movement
Tai Chi improves balance, lowers blood pressure, increases energy levels, and lowers falls risk. Movements are simple and easy to learn. Skill Level: All levels.
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Creative Pathways
Peek behind Baltimore’s painted screens and discover a burst of color, creativity, and community pride. What started as a clever way to block curious eyes became a bold folk art movement, turning rowhouse windows into vibrant canvases and everyday streets into open-air galleries.
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Fitness and Movement
Mat Pilates is a mind, body, spirit practice that improves posture, coordination, balance, flexibility, breath control, focus, and increases body awareness. It strengthens and lengthens your core, arms, and legs; you’ll feel muscles you never knew you had! Regular practice will make you strong to the core! All exercises will be performed on a mat on the floor; yoga mat required. Skill Level: All levels.
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Fitness and Movement
Yoga means union. Members will practice uniting movement, breathing, and meditation without the need to move up and down from the floor to a seated or standing position. Yoga promotes balance, flexibility, and relaxation mentally and physically. Skill Level: All levels.
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All About You
Bring your tablet, smartphone, or laptop along with your Pratt Library card and PIN and librarians will guide you through research databases you can access for free with your Pratt Library card. Search through the databases to satisfy your curiosity and find answers to your burning questions!
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Creative Pathways
1970s cinema brought moviegoers to the edges of their seats with innovative plots and edgy settings. Revisit classics like "Jaws," "Rocky," and "Saturday Night Fever" and gain insight into elements of film that were forever changed by ‘70s era movies.
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Fitness and Movement
This dynamic dance fitness program is inspired by Latin and international rhythms and designed specifically for beginners, older adults, and anyone who loves to dance. Groove your way to improved health (no rhythm required)! Skill Level: All levels.
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Fitness and Movement
A full-body workout designed to increase endurance, strength, and balance, while also improving your independence in everyday activities. The first half of the class focuses on strength and balance, while dynamic and static stretches improve your flexibility and mobility in the second half of class. Participants must be able to get onto the floor. Recommended Equipment: Weights, non-rolling chair, and a yoga mat. Skill Level: Beginner/Intermediate level.
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Fitness and Movement
Qigong uses movement to optimize energy within the body, mind, and spirit with the goal of improving and maintaining health and well-being. The practice introduces you to Sheng Zhen — meaning unconditional love — which opens the heart, strengthens the body, and calms the mind. Skill Level: All levels.
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All About You
Feeling a little stagnant in life? Struggling to achieve daily goals or accomplish big dreams? Overcome life’s detours and distractions while creating a life mind map. Part brainstorm and part blueprint, mind mapping provides clarity and inspiration to bring your next steps into reality.
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Fitness and Movement
A full-body strength workout with an emphasis on core strength and stability. Tone and strengthen your muscles while improving your balance, flexibility, range of motion, and coordination. Must be able to get down on the floor. Recommended Equipment: Weights and a yoga mat. Skill Level: Intermediate level.
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Fitness and Movement
This low-impact, low-intensity workout focuses on balance and easy movement exercises to improve range of motion and activities of daily living. Skill Level: All levels.
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All About You
Why do we laugh and what does it say about us? Humor is more than light entertainment; it helps us cope with difficult situations, bond with others, and relieve stress. From stand-up to sitcoms, get a fresh perspective on the power of being funny.
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Managing Your Personal Health Conditions
Monitoring your vital signs regularly is an important step in maintaining good health. Health assessments will include weight, blood pressure, and other health status markers. This is also a great time to ask questions about preparing for an upcoming doctor’s visit, nutrition, exercise, or other health concerns.
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Managing Your Personal Health Conditions
Falls are common in adults over 65 and about a third of older adults who live at home fall at least once per year. Mobility, balance, vision, diet, chronic disease, and other factors increase the risk of falling. An assessment is recommended yearly to determine fall risk level so that you and your healthcare provider can determine the best strategies to prevent falls and reduce your chance of injury. Assessment includes review of falls history, nutrition and medication review, Kinesis QTUG walk test, lower body strength test, and a balance test.
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Personal Training & Independent Workout
Do you need a plan for your physical fitness training? Sign up for a personal fitness assessment. Meet one-on-one with a fitness expert to develop a plan that emphasizes building strength and balance for falls prevention. Call the Wise & Well Center to schedule an appointment.
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Personal Training & Independent Workout
Let us help you meet your fitness goals through individualized personal training. Our fitness experts will help you implement your action plan for a fit and healthier you! Fitness training is available live and virtually.
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Personal Training & Independent Workout
Use the Fitness Center for independent workouts for 45 minutes each session up to three days per week. Workouts are monitored by fitness staff and scheduled in advance. Medical exercise clearance and fitness screening are prerequisites.
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Fitness and Movement
For $45 per month, you can have unlimited access to most of our virtual fitness and movement classes! Upon registration each month, you will receive the schedule, links, and meeting codes for all available classes that month! You can pick and choose which classes to join! Live classes are not included in this offer.
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Fitness and Movement
Is there a fitness class that you’ve been itching to try out? Have a friend who is interested in joining you for class? Now is your chance! Attend one class in the series to get to know the class format, instructor, and other class participants.
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