Category Archives: Community Events

Relaxation Class (Barter School Indy) July 5

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Are you stressed out? Is stress causing you to lose sleep, feel anxious, or even causing physical pain? You can use your breath and simple but effective visualizations to help relax into the moment, release tension in the body, and aid you in feeling less stressed.

In this experiential class, you will learn and practice a few different tools you can add to your own relaxation toolbox, including breathwork, guided imagery, systematic physical relaxation, movement, and essential oils. While this class will utilize some techniques often taught as part of meditation classes, this session will not have any attachment to religious or spiritual teachings or beliefs, and is welcoming to all.

This will be about simple and accessible relaxation techniques. This class is also not a medical or psychological intervention, nor is the instructor offering it as such.

REQUIRED – BARTER ITEM:

To attend, students must bring at least one of the following to class, as payment to your teacher:

  • Incense (resin or stick type)
  • Ground coffee (earthy, darker coffees are my favorites)
  • Games (Board games, card games, etc)
  • Unscented candles, any size or shape
  • Your favorite spice or spice blend
  • Monetary donation for Barter School Indy
  • Someting else (contact the teacher directly to coordinate a different barter item)
  • CLASS VOLUNTEER – Every class needs 1 volunteer. This acts as your barter item. To secure the class volunteer spot, email us at barterschoolindy@gmail.com ASAP.

Barter School Indy runs on barter. Each teacher prepares their own list of barter items, and each student must bring a barter item to attend class. Questions or concerns about barter items? Feel free to contact us at barterschoolindy@gmail.com.

TEACHER INFO:

Darren Chittick

Darren is the pastor of The Church Within in Fountain Square, and he has a background in practicing and teaching meditation, massage, Reiki, and aromatherapy. He holds a third-degree black belt in karate, and has also studied Tai Chi. He’s a knitter, printmaker, and gardener, as well. Darren lives in Brookside neighborhood with his husband Frank and an immortal cat named Sparrow.

darren.chittick@yahoo.com

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/relaxation-techniques-tickets-47351365208?aff=ebdssbdestsearch

15th Annual Fat & Skinny Tire Fest

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About 15th Annual Fat & Skinny Tire Fest

Join us for this fun-filled weekend of all-things bicycling in downtown Warsaw, and the beautiful Village at Winona. Our “ode to National Bicycle Month” is an all-size bicycle tires shindig that has something exciting for the whole family… including Friday night kick-off party and family-friendly community ride, multi-length casual road tours, DINO-series mountain bike racing, USA Cycling road racing, family scavenger hunt, historic Winona Lake town tours, BMX stunt shows, kid-specific safety courses and bike activities, good food, live music, micro brews and more. Fat & Skinny Tire Fest is directed by KCV Cycling Club as part of the Ride+Walk Warsaw+Winona Lake initiative, in cooperation with the Town of Winona Lake, and the city of Warsaw. The goal of this growing, regionally visited festival is to celebrate National Bicycle Month, and our “Bicycle Friendly Community” status by providing fun, healthy, family-friendly opportunities in the community through bicycling education, awareness, and activities.

Contact Information

https://visitindiana.com/events/37986-15th-annual-fat-and-skinny-tire-fest

Summer Campus Fitness Opportunities

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Our colleagues at the HRC (Health and Recreation Complex) have new information for you regarding their summer fitness activities schedule, including classes free to you!  We wanted to make sure you were aware of what is right at hand.

  • Track open M-F 6:00-8:00 AM, 12:00-1:00 PM, 4:00-5:00 PM
  • Noontime Basketball Tuesday and Thursday 12:00 PM
  • Summer group fitness classes start Monday, May 21 (spring classes end May 4, so there is a 2 week break).
  • The Monday – Thursday noon classes will be the same this summer with one instructor change to Beth for Body Sculpt.
  • The Monday 4:00 PM cycle class will be continuing in the summer
  • On Fridays, the noon yoga class will not be held this summer due  to instructor availability.  The option is open for faculty and staff  to attend the Friday morning 7:00 AM cycling class at no charge.  Other HRC members may be in attendance for this class as well.

 

An Architectural Outdoor Tour – Columbus, IN

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Columbus, IN offers you a free outdoor experience of architectural delights.

How Columbus, Indiana, Became a Mecca for Modernist Architecture:

In the heyday of American industrialism, companies often shaped whole communities, serving as a town’s primary employer and economic driver. One of these so-called company towns, Columbus, Indiana, is home to Cummins Engine Company, a humble population of 46,000, and a disproportionate number of iconic mid-century modern buildings.

Located 50 miles south of Indianapolis, Columbus owns dozens of architectural masterworks by internationally renowned designers from the era. Eliel and Eero Saarinen, and more than a handful of Pritzker Prize Laureates, including I.M. Pei, Richard Meier, and Robert Venturi, began developing projects there with sudden regularity in the mid-1950s. Several of their building works are located along the city’s Fifth Street, otherwise known as the Avenue of the Architects.

An unlikely mecca of modernist architecture, it’s a place where banks, churches, office buildings, and schools (in short, the core of the city’s civic life) are also frequent stops along an architectural tour route trodden by thousands of design scholars and enthusiasts each year. The influential Indianapolis-based magazine Saturday Evening Post, noting the city’s curious character combination of small-town charm and design sophisticate, famously dubbed it “the Athens of the prairie” in 1964, an apt tagline that has held over the years.

For more information check:  https://columbus.in.us/mobile-map/