Wellness and Fitness Classes
My Best Self
Monthly Wellness Programs to help you live a stronger, healthier life
Pelvic Floor Fitness from the Maia Method
Tuesday, September 29 • 6:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Danielle Donovan, a certified pelvic floor fitness specialist and the creator of the Maia Method – a first-of-its-kind, in-person pelvic floor + deep core workout method designed to help women build pelvic floor strength, improve stability, and reconnect to their core.
Maia Well is a method that blends functional strength, mobility, and pelvic floor training for total-body results. Backed by medical experts, our classes help you sculpt, strengthen, and reconnect to your core – so you feel stronger, more confident, and amazing at every stage of life.
Price: $18, Member Price: Free
The Benefits of Sleep with the Union County Health Department
Tuesday, October 20 • 6:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Participants will learn why sleep is critical for overall health, energy levels, focus, and mood, as well as how poor sleep can affect daily life. The class also provides simple, effective strategies for creating a relaxing and supportive sleep environment at home.
As part of this interactive experience, attendees will create their own sleep kit, a personalized collection of tools and ideas designed to promote better rest and establish healthy sleep habits you can maintain long-term.
Price: $18, Member Price: Free
Mental Health/Stress and Coping with Union County Health Department
Tuesday, November 10 • 6:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Build a stronger foundation for emotional well-being in this insightful and practical workshop focused on mental health. Stress and Coping introduces participants to the ways stress affects the mind and body, while providing simple, effective strategies to manage it in everyday life.
During the session, we’ll explore three powerful coping techniques – meditation, affirmations, and exercise – and demonstrate how each can reduce stress, improve mood, and support overall wellness. Participants will gain hands-on experience with these approaches, learning how to incorporate them into their daily routines in meaningful, sustainable ways.
The class also includes an informative overview of mental health issues and illnesses, helping participants better understand common mental health disorders, recognize signs and symptoms, and reduce stigma through education and awareness.
Price: $18, Member Price: Free
Information Overload with Karen Mitchell
Tuesday, January 12 • 6:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Technology has made it easier than ever to monitor our health, but it can also make wellness feel like another thing to perfect. Explore the "wellbeing paradox" and learn how to cultivate a healthier, more balanced relationship with the tools designed to help us thrive.
This program is led by Karen Mitchell, a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, who owns KCM Therapy, a private practice in Watchung. Karen sees teens through adults and focuses on how emotions affect the physical body. Using a biology and neuroscience lens, Karen helps empower each person to live their best authentic life.
Information Over-load - We’re living through a modern wellbeing paradox: never before has health been so measurable— and never before has had it felt so psychologically demanding. Sleep is scored, glucose is graphed, aging is tracked, and wellbeing has shifted from something we feel to something we perform correctly. Therapists warn that data-driven wellness can tip from motivation into fixation, turning insight into pressure.
Price: $18, Member Price: Free
Functional Fitness with Debi Price
Tuesday, February 9 • 6:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Led by experienced fitness professional Debi Price, Health & Wellness Director, CPT, Pilates Instructor, Cancer Exercise Specialist, this workshop focuses on exercises that mimic real-life movements such as bending, lifting, reaching, pushing, and pulling. Through guided instruction, participants will improve strength, balance, coordination, and mobility using safe, effective, multi-joint movements.
Whether you’re carrying groceries, climbing stairs, or staying active as you age, functional fitness prepares your body to handle daily tasks while reducing the risk of injury.
Price: $18, Member Price: Free
Fueling Your Workouts and Recovery with Hillary Sachs
Tuesday, March 16 • 6:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Join registered dietitian nutritionist Hillary Sachs, MS, RD, CSO, for an engaging class focused on how to properly fuel your body before, during, and after exercise. Learn how nutrition can support energy, endurance, muscle recovery, and overall performance.
This session will cover practical strategies for balancing carbohydrates, protein, and hydration, along with easy, real-life meal and snack ideas to help you feel your best and recover effectively.
Perfect for all fitness levels and ages, this class offers realistic, sustainable approaches to fueling your workouts and supporting long-term health.
Price: $18, Member Price: Free
Prenatal Yoga
Tuesdays • September 22, 29, October 6, 13, 20, 27 • 7:30 - 8:30 p.m.
Build strength, confidence, and connection in this 6-week prenatal yoga series, thoughtfully designed for pregnancy in a warm and supportive environment. This class blends the energizing elements of a yoga flow with safe, intentional modifications to support your changing body and growing baby.
Each session offers a gentle yet empowering flow that focuses on building functional strength, improving stamina, and enhancing mobility – all while honoring the unique needs of pregnancy. Through breath-driven movement, you’ll cultivate stability, resilience, and body awareness to support you both during pregnancy and into labor and postpartum recovery.
We’ll incorporate mindful breathwork, pelvic floor awareness, and grounding relaxation techniques to help you stay centered and calm, even as you move with strength and intention. Options and modifications are provided throughout, so you can feel both challenged and supported at your own pace.
Beyond the physical practice, this class creates space for connection – with your body, your baby, and a community of other expectant parents in a welcoming and encouraging setting.
Suitable for all trimesters. All levels are welcome.
Come move, breathe, and feel strong in your pregnancy – supported every step of the way.
Claire Klobucista is a certified yoga instructor with over 500 hours of training across several styles of yoga including power, pre-/post-natal, and yin. She has been practicing yoga for nearly fifteen years. She initially sought out yoga to mix up her fitness routine and soon found the practice to be incredibly unique and powerful in its ability to connect the body with the mind and breath. Claire is a mom, and she taught pre- and pos-tnatal yoga throughout her own pregnancy. In her classes, her aim is for all expecting and postpartum moms to feel supported as well as empowered. Claire also works as a communications specialist in the healthcare industry, focusing on storytelling around research and clinical trials. She lives in Westfield with her husband and son, and – alongside yoga – enjoys knitting, reading, baking, and spending time with family and friends.
Series Price: $75, Member Series Price: $60
Drop-In Price: $20, Member Drop-In Price: $15
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Unbreakable: A Women’s Strength Series begins
Tuesdays, November 3, 10, 17, December 1 • 7:00 - 8:00 p.m.
A 4‑week series for those with osteoporosis and osteopenia
This program is designed specifically for people living with osteoporosis or osteopenia. This movement series empowers you to build stronger bones, improve balance and move with greater confidence in your everyday life. Each session focuses on safe, functional movement patterns that support bone health while helping you reduce your risk of falls.
Week 1: Foundations of Fall Prevention
Learn the pillars of safe, strong movement: strength, coordination and mobility. You’ll take a simple self‑assessment to understand your current mobility levels, then practice gentle exercises that set the stage for safe progress.
Week 2: Strength Essentials – Push, Pull, Squat and Hinge
Discover the fundamental movement patterns that support bone density and daily function. Using a mirror, you’ll learn how to align your body for better posture, safer form and maximum benefit.
Week 3: Single‑Side Strength and Stability
Unilateral (single‑side) training helps correct imbalances, improve fall resistance and strengthen the body in a functional, real‑world way. You’ll build strength one side at a time and develop deeper awareness of how your body moves.
Week 4: Progressions and Dynamic Movement
Bring everything together with safe, progressive variations that add gentle dynamic challenge. You’ll learn how to advance movements at your own pace to continue building bone‑supportive strength long after the series ends.
The Goal
By the end of the four weeks, you’ll understand key movement patterns that help strengthen bones, improve balance and increase stability – along with the confidence to perform them in daily life. This program is about gaining strength, not fear; empowerment, not limitation.
Price: $65, Member Price: $50
Cancer Exercise Training/Recovery Fitness
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Open to the community. Contact Debi Price at 908-889-8800 x225 or [email protected] for a private consult.
This program will help individuals recovering from cancer treatment by providing hands-on training with Debi Price, certified expert. Training is designed to help patients and survivors who may be suffering from effects caused by surgery and treatment. Debi will teach exercises designed to help heal and improve physical and emotional quality of life post cancer treatment.
Some cancer patients think that rest will decrease fatigue and hasten recovery, however rest may make cancer patients weaker and more drained of energy. This training offers patients and survivors a proactive way to improve their health and reclaim their lives past cancer.
Benefits of Working with a Cancer Exercise Expert:
- Reduce pain and fatigue
- Prevent, identify and manage lymphedema (swelling in arms or legs)
- Increase shoulder range of motion and correct postural deviations following mastectomy and/or reconstruction
- Improve treatment tolerance
- Prevent and/or manage osteoporosis, diabetes, and damage to the heart and lungs following chemotherapy, radiation or hormonal therapy
- Return to pre-treatment levels of strength and fitness
Price: $75, Member Price: $60
Debi Price is a Cancer Exercise Specialist certified through the Cancer Exercise Training Institute. For more in formation on the Cancer Exercise Training Institute, click here.
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