The Reach Center Eugene

White Belt Intensive -- NIA

Fri, 06 Jan 2012 01:36:37 GMT

Step into Self-Awareness through your body. The Nia White Belt is the first step into the movement, music and magic of a somatic education that inspires, motivates and educates through the health and well-being of your body-mind-emotion-spirit. Come experience incredible personal growth and fitness in this lifestyle training! During the Intensive, 50+ hours will be devoted to exploring Nia's:

13 Principles
52 Moves
5 Sensations
9 Movement Art Forms

All levels of experience are welcome. Whatever your intention, the White Belt Intensive will invite and initiate you onto a new path to living in your body with joy and pleasure! If you are committing to your own movement practice, or you are a fitness, health and wellness professional, Nia has something for you!

Yoga for Optimal Health

Fri, 06 Jan 2012 01:38:30 GMT

Astrid will be starting the new year with a class series entitled "Pelvic Power." We are going to work on hip flexibility, sacral breathing, release of the tail bone as well as the toning of the pelvic floor muscles.

Tuesday, 10:15 to 11:30 am, 6 week series starting January 10

Wednesday, 10:15 to 11:30 am, 6 week series starting January 11

Thursday, 7 to 8:15 pm, Drop-in and On-going

Strechoga -- New to the Reach Center!

Tue, 11 Oct 2011 18:01:51 GMT

Strechoga is a fusion of numerous forms of Yoga, Taichi, Chigong, and movement therapy. It is one free flowing art of the body. No matter what your age or physical capability, Stretchoga can benefit you. It is great for rehabbing an injury, training for sports, or simply taking your mind off everything else in life.

Check it out!

Strechoga

Tue, 11 Oct 2011 17:59:03 GMT

The EDGE is open for the 2011/2012 season

Wed, 14 Sep 2011 21:59:57 GMT

Come join the fun!

Exciting new classes, exciting new teachers and, of course, most of the same great staff from last year.

An update on two former EDGE instructors:

Breakdancer extraordinaire J.T. Magee has moved on to San Diego to pursue a teaching career in dance. Good luck, J.T.! Julia Gingerich has relocated to Astoria, Oregon with her husband Julian. We congratulate the two of them as they wait the arrival of their new baby.

Call now or stop by to register and be sure to check the website for details: www.edgedancing.com

Reach Center at the Eugene Celebration Parade!

Wed, 31 Aug 2011 22:20:44 GMT

This past Saturday, the Reach Center, the EDGE and Dance For A Reason showed off their pride to the gathered Eugene Celebration crowd in the morning parade.

We "Raised the Roof" over the parade (that's the roof in the background left of the photo) and got the "Best View" prize! That's basically 2nd Place overall and we won $200! Great Fun! Thanks to all who participated!

Music Together

Wed, 31 Aug 2011 21:51:29 GMT

Do Re Play presents Music Together®… Music and movement classes for infants, toddlers, preschoolers and the grownups who love them. Our mixed-age classes create a family environment where children engage and gain basic musical competence through play. Parents will learn how to model and encourage musical development at home. In a culture that focuses on consuming music, we encourage active participation in making music. Making music together builds stronger families and stronger communities. So come sing, clap, chant, dance, and jam.

Classes meet 45 minutes a week. A 10 week session will begin in September.

Listen to songs and watch video demonstrations of classes at MusicTogether.

Let’s Make More Music!

DoRePlay presents Music Together!

Wed, 31 Aug 2011 22:04:06 GMT

Music and movement classes for infants, toddlers, preschoolers and the grownups who love them. Our mixed-age classes create a family environment where children engage and gain basic musical competence through play. Parents will learn how to model and encourage musical development at home. In a culture that focuses on consuming music, we encourage active participation in making music. Making music together builds stronger families and stronger communities. So come sing, clap, chant, dance, and jam.

Honeybees Divide and Spread!

Wed, 20 Jul 2011 22:35:55 GMT

It turns out our beehive is too small! Our local beekeepers, Sherry and Dave, decided to try out a new hive design and it looks like the decision will be thumbs-down. The bees filled the single-level space rather quickly and they have spawned two new swarms in the past two weeks.

The upper picture shows one of the swarms protecting the new queen (she's somewhere buried in the middle of all that) while the scouts are out looking for a location for their new nest. That mass of bees is about 2.5 feet all, 1 foot wide, and 3 inches deep! If you don't capture the swarm quickly you lose the chance to move them to a new hive of your own.

Sherry sedated the swarm by spraying it with sugar water. Then she placed a big carboard box below it, whacked the branch with a stick and the whole mass fell down into the box. I was expecting an explosion of mad bees into the air, but nope they mostly just stayed in that big mass around the queen.

Looks like we'll be switching to the standard box-shape hives for next year.

The Amazing Seed Art Cooking Class

Wed, 13 Apr 2011 17:51:58 GMT

Learn how to identify seasonal foods and four flavors of food; learn basic kitchen equipment, lunch meals and create your seed art masterpiece.

Russ Fegles is The Man!

Wed, 13 Apr 2011 23:20:37 GMT

Reach Center office assistant Russ Fegles smiles for the camera as he helps Geni on the computer.

Amazing Seed Art and Cooking Class

Wed, 13 Apr 2011 23:19:12 GMT

Introducing John Duran's new cooking class for kids.

Art for a Reason!

Wed, 13 Apr 2011 23:17:09 GMT

We hosted Art for a Reason. Great art, great music, great dancing, great food. It was great! See you next year.

It Snowed!

Wed, 13 Apr 2011 23:15:34 GMT

The snow is beautiful, and so is Geni Lu!

Building Soil for the Garden

Wed, 13 Apr 2011 23:14:38 GMT

Perhaps you've noticed that the yard in front is no longer a yard and well on it's way to becoming a neighborhood garden. With the help of neighbors Sherry Wellborn (a force of nature in her own right), David Stucky, and Erik Muller among others, we've layered cardboard, leaves, manure and compost to get our garden started. There will be vegetable beds, flower beds, berry bushes, dwarf fruit trees, honeybees, compost piles, and a greenhouse!

Our plan is to share this "urban farm" with our neighbors. Perhaps you'd like to get an early start with veggies in the greenhouse. Perhaps you'd like the taste of local honey. Perhaps a blueberry pie is in your future. Or perhaps you'll just want to come sit on one of the many benches we'll scatter around the garden. We won't be charging anything for sharing this resource with our neighborhood . . . but we'd sure appreciate a bit of physical labor, and maybe an occasional donation to help pay the water bill. Come check it out!

Speaking of gardens, perhaps you'd like to take Sherry's Urban Gardener class. Learn about soils and soil amendments, watering and fertilizing, composting, good tools. Leave with new skills, a flat of vegetable starts, and a notebook full of resources! Get that green thumb growing!

Olallie Wellborn and the Apple Pressing Day

Wed, 13 Apr 2011 23:08:15 GMT

Sherry Wellborn and her son Ollalie brought an apple press over and a group of neighbors showed up with baskets of apples from neighborhood trees. The juice was better than anything you can buy in a store! The apple press is for sale for $400 and Sherry is hoping people would be willing to donate money for the purchase. If we can raise the money, Sherry will be happy to show people how to make their own juice! It tastes good, it's fun to do, and it's a great way to meet neighbors. You can contact Sherry through her website, Amazon Neighbors, or bring your donation to the Reach Center and we'll make sure Sherry gets it.

Urban Gardener

Fri, 28 Jan 2011 20:13:40 GMT

Learn vegetable gardening basics such as the difference between soil and soil amendments, how each contributes to plant health, how to water correctly, how to plant seeds, how to fertilize, how our climate & weather affect our gardens, composting basics, use of garden tools, different styles of gardening, and information about urban micro-livestock.

Leave with hands-on skills, a hanging basket with edible leaves that you start, a flat of vegetable starts, and a notebook full of resources.

Bellylicious Workout

Tue, 30 Nov 2010 00:18:04 GMT

Looking for a fun and easy dance class that uses upbeat world music to get an aerobic workout? In Bellylicious Workout Class, we use repetition of belly dance drills and core strengthening exercises as a foundation for fitness as well as building basic dance techniques and skills. And we’ll have so much fun you won’t even know you’re getting an aerobic workout.

Beginners Welcome!

Drop-ins are welcome, but if possible, please contact Sarina to confirm there is enough space in the class.

Belly Dance

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 22:12:59 GMT

An excellent way to wake up on Saturday morning! Combine fun with fitness and increase your flexibility, strength, and self-confidence in a comfortable setting. Learn basic isolations, foundation movements, and traveling moves in Egyptian style. Course includes instruction in zills/finger cymbals, veils, choreography, plus information on the historical and musical elements of Middle Eastern dance.

Yoga for Optimal Health

Thu, 19 Aug 2010 21:59:13 GMT

In this gentle yoga class, we will use the ancient practice of hatha yoga to maintain, reestablish or create wellbeing in our body and mind. We will learn techniques to release tension, preserve flexibility, increase strength and create focus and calm.

This class provides a safe and supportive atmosphere no matter what your level of yoga experience. Please join me in this amazing journey as we unveil our inner healing wisdom and strengthen and tone our body on the way.

We will be starting the new year with a class series entitled "Pelvic Power." We are going to work on hip flexibility, sacral breathing, release of the tail bone as well as the toning of the pelvic floor muscles.

Vocal Performance Studio

Mon, 12 Apr 2010 21:49:32 GMT

Your voice functions due to the intricate and connected workings of many muscles. Singing (or speaking) is very physical work. Learning how to maximize your vocal performance and keep your instrument in-shape is much like learning a sport. Our goal is to develop your most free natural and healthy sound and to help you stay vocally healthy and relaxed before, during and after every performance.

For Actors
Audition Coaching (Monologues, Scenes & Songs)
Learn Breathing Techniques
Develop Vocal Health Habits
Apply Text Analysis Skills
Create Characters that are "Fresh" Show After Show
Find a Rehearsal Routine that Works for You

For Singers
Learn Vocal Mechanics/Technique (breathing, resonance, diction, intonation, etc)
Smooth out Range "Breaks" & Transitions
Learn Basic Ear Training
Develop Good Vocal Health Habits
Develop a Dynamic Repertoire List
Discover Practice Habits that Really Work
Prepare for Competitions/Auditions/and Roles

Piano Lessons

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:31:49 GMT

Piano lessons are taught using all elements of learning music: incorporating movement, creating, improvising, reading, singing, and listening. Students are not always at the piano, but are also coloring, moving around, and playing games to reinforce musical concepts. Students will not only learn things easier, but will have fun doing so! Musical concepts include intervals, rhythm, theory, history, and ear training. Students will achieve a well-rounded education in music as well as mastering this beautiful instrument.

Individual and group piano instruction is available for all ages and abilities.

There is a free 'get to know me' session before commitment in order to help you and your family make this decision.

"No other acoustic instrument can match the piano's expressive range, and no electric instrument can match its mystery" --Kenneth Miller

Cello

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 22:26:02 GMT

Now accepting new students of any ability or level of experience.

Ballroom Dance -- FREE!

Mon, 28 Sep 2009 18:30:47 GMT

During 2011 a free ballroom dance is being offered every month (including summer) on the third Sunday of every month from 5-7 PM in the "Loft" upstairs in the Reach Center, 25th and Harris in Eugene. The play list will include the standard ballroom dances plus a few blues and other dances.

Remember: these dance hours are offered FREE OF CHARGE. There will be no donation basket either.

(The photo is of Helmut Plant and friend and was taken 70 years ago.)

The Art Room

Thu, 24 Sep 2009 23:56:50 GMT

This is a fun room to be in! There are art materials hiding on the shelves waiting to be pulled out and used. There are tables, chairs, and a concrete floor -- none of which mind getting messed up with paint or glue. One corner of the room is the sewing section, and another is destined to become the beading and scrapbooking section.

There are windows on the east and west sides of the room for plenty of warm natural lighting, as well as many overhead lights so you can see every detail of your work.

Bring in whatever crafts and arts projects you want! Have fun!