Barre Class

• INSTRUCTOR: Nurit Krauss
• COST: Use your Body Shop Card
• TIME: Wednesdays, 8:45 - 10:00 am
• New Class!  Thursdays 12 noon - 1:15 pm

Body Fat Testing

• INSTRUCTOR:  Contact Sharon Donaldson, ACE Certified Fitness Professional, for an appointment at (310) 452-3881, x103 or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .
• COST:  $10, YWCA members; $20, non-members

Body Shop Card

Bodyshop If you find health clubs intimidating, uncomfortable, competitive, and expensive, then join us at the YWCA where you can work out at your own pace in a comfortable and friendly atmosphere! Receive individualized attention from our professional, certified instructors and meet other women who are also there to get fit! The YWCA “Bodyshop” program will help you improve the efficiency of your heart and lungs, burn fat, tone your body and have fun! Regular exercise reduces stress, increases flexibility and endurance and can improve your physical and mental state. TRY YOUR FIRST CLASS FREE!  Body Shop offers:

• Certified professional instructors
• An airy gym with mirrors, sound system and a wood floor
• Affordable classes
• Convenient class schedule
• A comfortable atmosphere for women to get in shape!
• Body Shop Exclusive! Tone your muscles and strengthen your bones with Dr. Robert and Annette Sweezey's "Osteoball" Program. Experience the difference!

• INSTRUCTORS: Terese Miller, Sharon Donaldson, Nancy Kaufman, Nurit Krauss, Tara Caroselli, Adelaide McLean,Sarah Canfield, Rita Ashton and Coco Odyssey.
• COST: $65 for 10 classes;$180 for 30 classes

• NOTICE - Bodyshop Cards are valid for 3 months
• NO EXTENSIONS (except for medical disability, to be extended at Program Director's discretion).

Body Shop Card and Weight Room Special

Core Pilates

Core Focus Core Pilates is a great  class that uses Pilates Mat exercises that focus on the core muscles: abdominals, back, chest, hips and glutes. Great way to strengthen, lengthen and improve posture. Sarah Canfield is a certified yoga instructor, trained in Pilates Mat, and a choreographer/dancer of Coastline Dance.

• INSTRUCTOR: Sarah Canfield
• COST: Use your Body Shop Card
• TIME: Fridays, 10:15 - 11:15 am, Ongoing

Gentle Exercise

Gentle Exercise For all ages and most fitness levels, improve your health with this enjoyable, effective workout targeted to enhance the quality of life. Class environment is friendly, comfortable, and dare we say, fun! Format includes warm-up, balance skills and challenges, vertical abdominal work, gentle low-impact aerobics and dance steps, muscular strength endurance exercises plus a great stretch. Alternative exercises offered for those needing a more challenging workout. Now using the isometric Osteoball-exclusive state-of-the-art exercise tool from the Sweezy Institute!

• INSTRUCTOR: Terese Miller, ACE Gold Certified Fitness Professional, ACSM & IDEA Member
•  COST: Unlimited classes for $42/month; or $32/month for twice weekly; or use your Body Shop Card
• TIME: Mon, Tue, Thu 10:45 - 11:45 am

Step Aerobics

Step Aerobics builds cardiovascular endurance and burns excess fat at a fast rate. A fun and entertaining variety of moves without complex choreography will keep your body in motion!

• INSTRUCTOR: Nancy Kaufman
• COST: Use your Body Shop Card
• TIME: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 9:00 - 10:00 am, Ongoing

Strong and Stretched

Strong and Stretched This ain't no dance class! Just basic, practical, strength and flexibility training for leisure activities and life. Moves you can use to get stronger, stay limber, improve balance and posture, train core muscles, maintain bone density, burn calories and bust stress! Now using the isometric Osteoball, the exclusive state-of-the-art exercise tool from the Sweezy Institute!

• INSTRUCTOR: Terese Miller, ACE Gold Certified Fitness Professional, ACSM & IDEA Member
• COST: Use your Body Shop Card
• TIME: Mondays and Wednesdays, 5:15 - 6:15 pm

Timeless Body

• INSTRUCTOR: Nurit Krauss
• COST: Use your Body Shop Card
• TIME: Mondays, 9:00 - 10:15 am, Ongoing

Weight Room / Strength Training

• INSTRUCTOR: Terese Miller, ACE Gold Certified Fitness Professional, ACSM & IDEA Member
• COST: $45 - initial consultation (must prepay); Consultation no-show: $25.00; 1 month, $24; 3 months, $54
• TIME: Open during regular YWCA hours

Yoga

• INSTRUCTORS: Tara Caroselli, Shannon Baker, Adelaide McLean
• COST: Use your Body Shop Card
• TIME:  Mondays, 6:30 - 7:45 pm; Fridays, 8:30 - 9:45 am; Saturdays, 10:30 - 11:45 am

Zumba Gold

Join Rita Ashton, Zumba Gold Certified Instructor, for this great new total body dance-exercise workout.  Zumba Gold is specifically designed to take Latin and international dance rhythms created in the original Zumba and bring them to the active older adult and more beginner/intermediate student.  The basics are emphasized for a safe yet effective total body workout great for any age.  COME JOIN THE PARTY!

• INSTRUCTOR: Rita Ashton
• COST: Use your Body Shop Card or $8 per class
• TIME:  Mondays, 12 noon - 12:45 pm and Wednesdays, 10:30 - 11:30 am, ongoing