UPCOMING CLASSES Free virtual and outdoor yoga classes are offered at the Lewisville, Walkertown and Paddison Memorial branches. Paddison offers classes on select Thursdays each month at 9 a.m., with upcoming classes on May 13, June 10 and July 8. Lewisville offers classes on two Fridays each month at 9 a.m., with upcoming classes on May 7 and 21, June 4 and 18, July 2 and 16 and Aug. 6 and 20. Walkertown has an outdoor yoga class on May 20 at 3:30 p.m. To find future yoga classes, just visit the branch pages on our website and follow the link in the yoga webstory.
student feel successful in some way. Her classes are more popular with students who are new to yoga. Someone who is looking for a stronger workout would be better served by a studio or gym, Kushner said. “If you can breathe, you can do yoga and benefit from it,” Kushner said. “Whether you need to improve your balance, build strength, increase flexibility, calm your mind, focus your attention or exercise your brain, yoga can help.” I | S
— JULIE CROUSE, branch supervisor
Recommended Books and a DVD “Every Body Yoga” by Dianne Bondy and Jessamyn Stanley “Light on Life” by B.K.S. Iyengar “Deep Listening” by Jillian Pransky “Waking: a Memoir of Trauma and Transcendence by Matthew Sanford Yoga for the Rest of Us, Peggy Cappy, DVD
“Lounging With The Library” Examines Mental Health Inequities JOSE PEREZ, the library’s peer support specialist, will be hosting a Lounging with the Library discussion on inequities in mental health. The program will be hosted via Zoom and livestreamed on Facebook on Wednesday, May 26 from 6-7 p.m. Perez’s guests will be Kim WagnerEvans of Creative Counseling Wellness Corp; Dr. Renee Oglesby, CEO of Creative Counseling and Wellness Center Corp.; Arnold Flack, assistant program director, Morse Clinic of North Raleigh; Mary Jamison, licensed educator in the Guilford County
School System and Thom Elmore, executive director of Addiction Recovery Care Association (ARCA). Lounging with the Library is part of the Read to Right Wrongs Initiative, which examines systemic inequities in our society. I | S
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