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General Enrichment

Open Studio Ceramics (Thursday Sessions)

$115

with Heather O'Neil

Calendar Next available session starts Jan 9, 2025 at 3 pm, runs for 6 weeks
3 additional sessions through Jan 9, 2025

Are you comfortable with your clay abilities and just looking for a place to work and improve your skills? Join us in the Morse High School Ceramics Studio and start making all those things you have been dreaming up! This is not an instructor lead class, but the instructor will be on site working in case you need something. $65 for materials and studio fee, payable to instructor, must be paid on the first night of class. *Purchasing additional clay: The fee is an additional $65 to cover the firing, glazes and other consumables used during class. Please note: If you miss a class, you cannot make-up the class at another time. The ceramics schedule is very tight and these classes are usually full. Thank you for your understanding! *No Class: 11/28.

Training to Become A Registered Maine Guide (Info Session)

Free

with Alice Bean Andrenyak

Calendar Next available session starts Jan 9, 2025 at 7 pm, runs for 1 week

Want to be a Registered Maine Guide? Don't know the process? Trying to decide how to train to take your tests? Want to know the rules about guiding? Take this one-hour interactive Zoom free class. Get your answers and create your future!

Essential Oil Workshop: Create Your Soul Blend

$40

with Cary Ouellette

Calendar Next available session starts Jan 10, 2025 at 9 am, runs for 1 week

Use a pendulum to be guided to the essential oils for your highest self and learn the emotional properties. Then mix your Soul Blend and book a 15 min Emotional Release Session (online) to release any blocks you have based on what you uncover creating your Soul Blend. *Please Note: Cats on premise.

WRITING AS HEALING

$130

with Ann Kimmage

Calendar Next available session starts Jan 13, 2025 at 1 pm, runs for 8 weeks

This course taps into your healing resources through gentle yoga movements anybody can do, breathing practices, brief meditations, and prompt related in-class writing followed by class discussions. Learn to observe and reflect on your experiences to gain more insight into how to heal and grow. Use writing to deepen your self-knowledge, awareness, and concentration. Discover the relaxing qualities of writing as healing, breath, and simple body movements with an experienced, certified writing, meditation, and yoga instructor. *No Class: 1/20, 2/17.

Art & Artists: From All Over The Globe
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Art & Artists: From All Over The Globe

$185

with Jennifer Linskey

Iceland, China, Japan, Canada…we’re moving through time and across what may be unfamiliar terrain as we discover some new artists. It will follow the same format as previous art and artist classes in terms of part art history, part art studio. There may be times where we look at not one artist that week, but a particular idea or way of making art indigenous, or very central to, that area of the world. *No Class: 2/18.

MEMOIR WRITING

$130

with Ann Kimmage

Calendar Next available session starts Jan 14, 2025 at 1 pm, runs for 8 weeks

Have you struggled with writing your memoir? Have you started and don’t know how to move forward? There will be guided instruction on the craft of writing (setting a scene, dialogue, voice, showing vs. telling, character development, etc.) and weekly writing for critiquing. Memoir writing is a discovery process in which you weave life experiences into a coherent pattern. Give it a try in an informal, friendly, atmosphere with an instructor with fifty years of teaching experience and author of two memoirs. *No Class: 2/18.

MEDITATION AND STRESS MANAGEMENT

$75

with Ann Kimmage

Calendar Next available session starts Jan 14, 2025 at 3:15 pm, runs for 6 weeks

Have you wondered what meditation is like or how to counter stress patterns more effectively? This class will assist you in establishing a meditation practice and introduce you to practical mindfulness practices you can resort to whenever you feel stressed out. Taught in an informal, personalized, manner by a certified stress management and yoga instructor with a twenty-year meditation practice. Please bring a cushion or small blanket for the meditation. *No Class: 2/18.

Gentle Yoga

$75

with Heather Laffely

Calendar Next available session starts Jan 14, 2025 at 5:30 pm, runs for 5 weeks
3 additional sessions through Jan 15, 2025

This gentle class is for those looking to stretch, connect to the breath and practice traditional yoga postures, at a slow pace. We gently and safely encourage our muscle tissues to deeply lengthen and stretch, increasing range of motion and flexibility. Conscious intention and awareness are given to the breath, strengthening the nervous system and deepening the connection to mind and body. This class is designed for new, as well as, seasoned yogis looking for a mindful, gentle practice.





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