District 196 Community Education

Find strength and confidence in learning self-defense fundamentals. Learn effective responses to practical situations, experience hands-on exercises, and unlock what you are capable of in order to defend yourself.

Desiring to live more simply? Care to break the cycle of clutter, save money and help the environment? Discover how to reduce the unnecessary input coming into your life to make room, time and energy for what is important to you. Learn how to remove pressure and accumulation in your physical space, digital space and mental load. Explore effective options to reduce input from others, understand how to shift the drive to buy in your own life and take the challenge to begin today. Simplifying makes your life easier and creates real happiness.

Sound baths is a therapeutic practice that uses sound to promote physical, emotional, and spiritual healing. The crystal bowls, gong and other instruments provide a soothing and meditative sound and experience. The sound bath sessions create a calming and relaxing environment that helps to reduce stress, anxiety, and tension.

Finding additional weight around the mid-section even with healthy eating and exercise? Learn why weight gain may have more to do with hormones. Discover seven strategies for fighting fat and losing weight including hormone imbalances that may cause weight gain. Understand why hormone replacement therapy and birth control pills may cause weight gain, how to have your hormone levels checked reliably, what steps to take to break the cycle of hormone related weight gain and the latest research results for women 40+. Learn concrete solutions for controlling appetite and cravings, plus nine simple metabolism boosters.