SPRING 2019 PROGRAM GUIDE - MAINEGENERAL HEALTH
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Spring 2019 Program Guide
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Welcome. FREE Quarterly Event
As winter transitions to spring, we are eager to get outside, be more active and For more information visit:
make meals that showcase the new season. Choose any of our Mind-Body, www.mainegeneral.org "Classes &
Physical Movement and Healthy Cooking & Eating classes for new and exciting Events."
ideas to support your health and wellness and welcome the warmer weather
ahead. Evening Meditation
We look forward to seeing you in one of our Spring classes! Explore the different types of meditation
and learn how they can help reduce
stress, support sleep, and enhance your
In health & gratitude, daily life.
The Prevention & Healthy Living Team
LeeAnna Lavoie, Director, Prevention Services Location: TBD
Alicia Rice, Grant Program Manager
Tori Condon, Health Educator Date: Monday, June 17
5:30 - 7:30 p.m.
Benjamin Ramsdell, Culinary Coordinator
Rachel Palmer, Community Programs Assistant
Pre-registration is required for all of our
free events.
Registering online is easy!
Visit www.mainegeneral.org and
click in the purple box on Search All
Classes & Events. Once there, you can
search for a class name or choose a
category of classes to explore.
See further registration details on
page 4. From left to right: Benjamin Ramsdell, Alicia Rice,
Rachel Palmer, Tori Condon and LeeAnna Lavoie.
Questions or concerns?
Call 872-4102 or email 3
PHL@mainegeneral.org.
Registration Information Prevention & Healthy Living Policies
Here’s how to register for a class:
Senior, Veteran, MaineGeneral and
1. Go to our website at www.mainegeneral.org Second Household Member Discounts
and click on “Search all Classes & Events.” We offer a 20 percent discount per class to:
2. Choose the class you want. • Seniors (age 65 and older)
3. Complete all registration information. • Veterans (those who served in the armed forces of the United States)
4. You can pay by check, credit or debit card. • Current MaineGeneral employees
5. You’re done. We will confirm your • Second member of a household who registers for the same class
registration by email.
If you need help registering, are seeking Payment Assistance
financial assistance, or would like to Additional help paying for classes is available on an as-needed basis:
request a special accommodation, • 50 percent off the cost of class (limited to two classes per quarter)
please call 872-4102.
• 100 percent off the cost of class (limited to one class per quarter)
Prevention & Healthy Living (PHL) will
make reasonable modifications and Delays and Cancellations
accommodations to ensure that people We reserve the right to cancel a class due to low enrollment or unexpected
with disabilities have equal opportunity to events. If that occurs, you will be notified and your class fees will be
participate in all classes and events. refunded.
If you are a person with a disability who
requires an accommodation to participate
Weather Cancellations
fully in a PHL class or event, please notify us If we need to cancel a class session because of weather, we will put a
at least 48 hours before the start of the class message on our voicemail at 861-5257 at least two hours before the class
or event. start time. We also list weather cancellations on our Facebook page.
Refunds
4 Class fees will be returned if a class is canceled. No refunds will be given
within 24 hours of a class start time or after a class has started.
Spring 2019 Classes
Healthy Mind & Body Physical Movement Healthy Cooking & Eating
Chronic Pain Education Chair Yoga 5 Ingredients or Less
Essential Oils: Pain and Sleep Couch to 5K Buddha Bowls
Support Drums Alive: Golden Beats ®
Cooking the Mediterranean Way
Forest Bathing Drums Alive: Power Beats ®
Fight Inflammation with Food
NEW Healing Glass Mandalas Foundations of Yoga Food Prep Demonstration
Healing Meditation with Crystal Gentle Yoga Italian Classics
Bowls
Gentle Yoga Level 2 Make Your Own Spring Rolls &
Introduction to Meditation Dipping Sauces
Group Personal Training
Journaling for Wellness Natural Remedies: Making
NEW Heart RHYTHMS
Lifestyle Wellness Coaching Tinctures
Nia
NEW Meal-Planning Workshop Sheet Pan Dinners
Personal Safety
Meditation at Botanical Gardens NEW Spanish Cooking
PiYo® Live!
NEW Native Flute Meditation Tasty Thai
Qigong Stretching
Peggy Huddleston’s Prepare for
Surgery, Heal Faster™ Tai Chi for Health
Reflexology Yin Yoga
Stop Smoking with Hypnosis Yoga Breathing
The Art of Self-Compassion Yoga for Bone Health
Walking the Labyrinth Zumba®
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Healthy Mind & Body
Chronic Pain Education Essential Oils: Pain & Sleep
It can be hard to focus on anything else Support
when you are in pain. In this class, you Pain and sleep often go hand in hand
will learn what you can do to better as one influences the other. Learn how
manage your pain and improve the essential oils can help you sleep better,
quality of your daily life. A variety of manage pain and live a healthier life.
treatment options will be discussed. Learn about various oils and make a
blend to take home!
Cost: FREE
Instructor: Rachel Criswell, MD, Cost: $25/person
MS Instructor: Starla Perico
Location: Alfond Center for Location: Thayer Center for
Health, Augusta Health, Waterville,
Classroom 2 Dean 3
Date: Monday, June 17 Date: Wednesday, May 8
5:30 - 7 p.m. 5 - 7 p.m.
Location: Alfond Center for
Health, Augusta
Classroom 1
Date: Monday, June 24
5 - 7 p.m.
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Healthy Mind & Body
Forest Bathing NEW Healing Glass Mandalas Healing Meditation with Crystal
Forest bathing, a term coined in Japan Create a fused glass mandala that you Bowls
for mindfully being present in nature, can use as a sun catcher or on a stand. Relax and listen to the soothing sounds
embraces the fact that nature has a Choose from a wide range of fusing of the crystal singing bowls while being
calming, positive effect on our health. glass and embellishments to create a gently guided through a meditation
Join Registered Maine Guide Ray Reitze healing image to take home. focusing on your energy systems. You
in exploring the concept of stillness will leave feeling balanced, aligned and
while visiting a beautiful local treasure. renewed!
Cost: $32/person
The terrain being walked/explored is
uneven. Instructor: Maryam Mermey, PhD
Location: Alfond Center for Health, Cost: $20/person
Augusta Instructor: Brenda Colfer
Cost: $16/person Conference Room 3
Location: Alfond Center for
Instructor: Ray Reitze Date: Saturday, June 15 & 22 Health, Augusta
Location: Viles Arboretum, 1 - 3 p.m. (2 sessions) Conference Room 3
Augusta
Date: Thursday, April 25
Date: Friday, May 24 5:30 - 7:30 p.m.
5 - 6:30 p.m.
Location Bond Brook Trails,
Augusta
Date: Friday, June 28
5 - 6:30 p.m.
Visit augustatrails.org to see all the
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trails Augusta has to offer!
Healthy Mind & Body
Introduction to Meditation Journaling for Wellness Lifestyle Wellness Coaching
Learn what mindfulness is, build a daily Individuals will learn how to use Work with a health coach to explore
practice and discover how meditation expressive writing, visual journaling different aspects of your health and
can result in actual changes in your techniques and guided imagery to feel empowered on your journey. Goal
brain and improve your outlook. Classes achieve a greater emotional, physical setting, healthy resources and problem
will include a variety of meditation and spiritual wellness. Discover how solving in a group setting will help you to
practices for you to explore. to decrease stress, gain clarity and connect and manage your health in new
improve your health by freeing your ways.
emotions through writing. Participants
Cost: $16/person are asked to bring a journal.
Cost: $24/person
Instructor: Jeff Matranga, PhD &
Jeri Wilson Instructor: Tori Condon
Cost: $24/person MaineGeneral
Location: Thayer Center for Instructor: Bodhi Simpson
Health, Dean 3 Location: Alfond Center for
Location: Alfond Center for Health, Augusta
Date: Sunday, June 16 Health, Augusta Classroom 3
9 a.m. - noon Conference Room 2 Date: Monday,
Date: Thursday, May 16 - 30 May 13 - June 17
5:30 - 7 p.m. 4:30 - 5:30 p.m.
(3 sessions) (6 sessions)
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Healthy Mind & Body
NEW Meal-Planning Workshop Meditation at Botanical Gardens NEW Native Flute Meditation
Take the guesswork out of “What’s for Explore meditation and mindfulness For thousands of years, healers of
dinner?” In this two-part workshop, in a beautiful setting. Join us to learn various cultures have used musical
learn how to create healthy, balanced how daily practice can transform your instruments for healing. Relax your
meals that incorporate foods from all physical, mental and spiritual health mind, release emotional and physical
food groups. Use time in class to plan and how to initiate and cultivate your tension and create a better sense of
out two weeks’ worth of meals and a own meditation practice. Please bring a wellbeing with the soothing sound of the
shopping list! cushion or chair and be prepared to be Native flute.
outside.
Cost: $20/person Cost: $10/person
Instructor: Melissa Emmons Cost: $20/person
Instructor: Rachel Palmer
MaineGeneral Instructor: Melissa Caron MaineGeneral
Location: Alfond Center for Location: Coastal Maine Location: Alfond Center for
Health, Augusta Botanical Gardens, Health, Augusta
Classroom 2 Boothbay Classroom 2
Date: Monday, June 3 & 10 Date: Saturday, June 1 Date: Monday, June 24
5:30 - 6:30 p.m. Noon - 2 p.m. 5 - 6 p.m.
(2 sessions)
Tip: Take our Food Prep Demo class
and Meal-Planning Workshop and make
eating healthy a breeze!
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Healthy Mind & Body
Peggy Huddleston’s Prepare for Surgery, Heal Faster™ Reflexology
Discover five simple actions you can take before surgery to reduce anxiety, decrease The theory behind reflexology is that
pain and shorten recovery time. Leyza will guide you in mind-body techniques shown each of the body's organs and glands
to enhance the healing process. You will need to get the book's relaxation CD or MP3 are "linked" to corresponding areas
before your surgery. Three book/CD sets are available at the Alfond Center Library or of the hands, ears and feet. Applying
you can buy the CD at a discount in class. You may also purchase the MP3 pressure to these areas relaxes
at www.HealFaster.com. muscles, improves blood circulation and
helps to reduce symptoms of common
health issues. In this class, learn how
Cost: $15/person to take care of yourself and loved ones
with reflexology on the hands and feet.
Instructor: Leyza Toste, BCC
Location: Alfond Center for Health, Augusta
Classroom 2 Cost: $35/person
Date: Wednesday, April 17 Instructor: Connie Hubley
5:30 - 7 p.m. Location: Alfond Center for
Health, Augusta
Location: Alfond Center for Health, Augusta
Conference Room 3
Classroom 2
Date: Saturday, April 13
Date: Wednesday, May 8
9:30 a.m. - noon
5:30 - 7 p.m.
Location: Alfond Center for Health, Augusta
Classroom 2
Date: Wednesday, June 19
5:30 - 7 p.m.
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Stop Smoking with Hypnosis The Art of Self-Compassion Walking the Labyrinth
Have you tried quitting smoking but just Many of us can easily feel compassion The practice of walking labyrinths for
can’t break the habit? Hypnosis can help for others, but what about ourselves? spiritual grounding and renewal dates
you regain your control and help you Learning to have self-compassion is from the Middle Ages. Come explore the
stop smoking. In this group hypnosis vital for living a truly happy and joyful history and spiritual significance of the
setting, you will identify and overcome life. Join us in a relaxed and supportive labyrinth, and join in an experience of
physical and ritualistic triggers to workshop where you will participate in walking it together.
smoking, take charge of sabotaging creative exercises designed to increase
behaviors, and become confident and your capacity for mindfulness and self-
secure in your new life as a non-smoker. compassion. Cost: $10/person
Instructor: Barbara Moss, DO,
MPH
Cost: $53/person Cost: $21/person MaineGeneral
Instructor: Heather Desjardins Instructor: Bodhi Simpson Location: ACH Labyrinth,
Location: Zardus Art of Location: Alfond Center for Augusta (Meet in
Massage & Wellness Health, Augusta hospital lobby)
Spa, Gardiner Classroom 2 Date: Thursday, June 13
Date: Tuesday, June 11 - 25 Date: Thursday, June 20 & 27 5:30 - 7 p.m.
5:30 - 7 p.m. 5:30 - 7 p.m.
(3 sessions) (2 sessions)
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Physical Movement
Chair Yoga Couch to 5K Drums Alive®
Experience the benefits of yoga even Cross the finish line of a 5K event by This class is designed to get your heart
if getting down on the floor is difficult, June! This training course is designed rate up and improve physical and mental
or if you are unsteady on your feet. to move you from the couch to jogging fitness while having fun. Work your
Combining movement with breath work 3.1 miles through gradually increasing entire body (including your brain) and
can relieve stress and increase strength walk-run intervals. Class will meet twice reduce stress by drumming on exercise
and flexibility. Learn poses you can even a week for 12 weeks. balls. Golden Beats can be done sitting
do right in your office chair to relax and or standing, and is appropriate for all
recharge! levels.
Cost: $30/person
Instructor: Wayne Paradis Cost: $66/person
Cost: $42/person MaineGeneral Instructor: Carol Richards
Instructor: Ann Parker Location: Augusta Rail Trail Location: Arch Beta Resident
Location: Arch Beta Resident Date: Tuesdays & Center, Augusta
Center, Augusta Thursdays, Golden Beats (Sit or stand for older
Date: Wednesday, April 2 - June 20 adults)
April 24 - May 29 4:30 p.m. (12 weeks) Dates: Tuesday,
10 - 11 a.m. April 9 - June 11
(6 sessions) *Free for MaineGeneral Employees
10 - 11 a.m.
(10 sessions)
Power Beats (Adult multi-level
workout)
Dates: Tuesday,
April 9 - June 11
5 - 6 p.m.
(10 sessions)
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Foundations of Yoga Gentle Yoga
If you have never tried yoga, or thought Stretch and strengthen your muscles, gain flexibility, improve balance, reduce
it wasn't for you, this class will be stress and relax with this gentle yoga class appropriate for beginners or those with
an introduction to the principles of experience.
yoga including breathing techniques,
meditation and gentle movements that
are the backbone of traditional yoga Cost: $44/person
poses. Instructor: Beth Jones
Location: Alfond Center for Health, Augusta, Conference Room 2
Cost: $34/person Date: Sunday, April 7 - May 19
3:30 - 4:45 p.m. (7 sessions)
Instructor: Julia Redman
Location: Alfond Center for Cost: $60/person
Health, Augusta
Conference Rooms Instructor: Julia Redman
2&3 Location: Alfond Center for Health, Augusta, Conference Room 3
Date: Wednesday, Date: Monday, April 15 - June 24 (no session May 27 & June 10)
April 24 - May 29 10 - 11:15 a.m. (9 sessions)
(no session May 15)
5:30 - 6:30 p.m. Cost: $44/person
(5 sessions) Instructor: Beth Jones
Location: Thayer Center for Health, Waterville, Dean 3
Date: Tuesday, April 23 - June 11 (no session May 28)
4 - 5:15 p.m. (7 sessions)
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Gentle Yoga Level 2 Group Personal Training
This class is for those who have been taking and enjoying Gentle Yoga, but are Experience the perfect balance between
looking to move to the next level or those who have prior yoga experience. the advantages of personal training
and the affordability and motivation of
group exercise! In this class you will
Cost: $58/person become familiar with gym equipment,
Instructor: Naomi Knights learn proper techniques and develop
a personalized fitness plan you can
Location: Alfond Center for Health, Augusta, Conference Rooms 1 & 2
continue on your own outside of class.
Date: Saturday, May 4 - June 29 This class is appropriate for all levels
9 - 10:15 a.m. (9 sessions) as you will work at your own speed,
intensity and ability. Trial membership at
Cost: $66/person
the KV YMCA is included for the eight-
Instructor: Julia Redman week session.
Location: Alfond Center for Health, Augusta, Conference Rooms 1 & 2
Date: Tuesday, April 16 - June 18
Cost: $53/person
5:30 - 6:45 p.m. (10 sessions)
Instructor: Kim Gagne
Cost: $44/person Location: Kennebec Valley YMCA,
Instructor: Beth Jones Augusta Campus
Location: Thayer Center for Health, Waterville, Dean 3 Date: Tuesday, May 7 - June 25
Date: Tuesday, April 23 - June 11 (no session May 28) 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
5:45 - 7 p.m. (7 sessions) (8 sessions)
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Physical Movement
NEW Heart RHYTHMS Nia Personal Safety
Everyone can drum! You don't need to Nia is an exhilarating barefoot workout Basic self-defense skills can help you
have "rhythm," just a heartbeat. Heart that is a fusion of martial arts, stay safe in a variety of situations. This
RHYTHMS is a proven way to reduce dance and healing arts. The class is personal safety course will give you
stress and burnout while improving appropriate for all shapes, sizes and the tools necessary to recognize and
mood and quality of life. Join our fitness levels. Set to soul-stirring music prevent possible dangerous situations
"people circle" that just so happens to from more than 45 countries, Nia will and encounters. Learn how to project
have drums. Drums are included but feel provide you with a gentle cardiovascular an outward appearance and confidence
free to bring your own. workout that increases your strength, level as deterrence and how to use your
flexibility, mobility and agility while own body as a weapon, if necessary.
connecting your mind, body and soul.
Cost: FREE
Instructor: Carol Richards Cost: $27/person
Cost: $26/person Instructor: Kevin & Hollie Webb
Location: Arch Beta Resident
Center, Augusta Instructors: Erin Curren Location: Alfond Center for
Date: Individual sessions Location: Alfond Center for Health, Augusta
on Fridays, March 29, Health, Augusta Classroom 2
April 12, April 26, Conference Rooms Date: Thursday,
May 3, May 24 and 2&3 April 25 - May 16
June 28 Date: Wednesday, 6 - 7 p.m. (4 sessions)
10:30 a.m. - noon May 1 - 29
(no session May 15)
4 - 5 p.m. (4 sessions)
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PiYo® Live! Qigong Stretching: Yi Jin Ching
PiYo combines the muscle-sculpting, core-firming benefits of Yi Jin Ching is a 1,500-year-old Qigong practice that includes a
Pilates with the strength and flexibility of yoga. And, because series of postures to provide fitness and wellness conditioning
we move more quickly, you get a calorie-burning, low-impact for the body. These postures build flexibility and strength
workout that will get your heart rate up! through progressive stretching and releasing, while stimulating
energy flow. This is a gentle class that anyone can do. May
also be performed in a chair.
Cost: $40/person
Instructor: Melissa Emmons
MaineGeneral Cost: $27/person
Location: Alfond Center for Health, Augusta Instructor: Carol Richards
Classroom 2 Location: Alfond Center for Health, Augusta
Date: Monday, April 8 - May 20 Classroom 2
(no session April 22) Date: Thursday, May 16 - June 6
5:30 - 6:30 p.m. (6 sessions) 5 - 6 p.m. (4 sessions)
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Tai Chi for Health Yin Yoga
This easy-to-learn form of tai chi focuses on healing, relaxation Yin yoga is a slow-paced, meditative style of yoga where poses
and improving mobility and balance. Studies show tai chi are held for longer periods of time while relaxing muscles and
can help improve the control of diabetes, as well as improve focusing on breathing. Great for all body types (beginners,
flexibility, muscle strength, heart and lung function, posture seniors, athletes), especially those with joint issues. Benefits
and balance. of this “quiet yoga” include decreased tightness and improved
joint mobility and range of motion.
Cost: $53/person
Instructor: Jeanette Glidden Cost: $33/person
Location: Thayer Center for Health, Waterville Instructor: Kim Nixon
Dean 3 Location: Alfond Center for Health, Augusta
Date: Thursday, April 25 - June 13 Classroom 1
10 - 11 a.m. (8 sessions) Date: Saturday, April 13 - May 18
(no session April 27)
9 - 10:15 a.m. (5 sessions)
Location: Alfond Center for Health, Augusta
Conference Room 2
Date: Tuesday, April 30 - June 18
10 - 11 a.m. (8 sessions)
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Yoga Breathing Yoga for Bone Health Zumba®
Join us to explore mindful breathing! It's never too late to improve your bone Do you like to work out to music with
We will talk about some of the health health! Learn yoga poses to strengthen a beat…maybe a little Salsa, Hip Hop
benefits and enjoy several forms of yoga bones and muscles and improve your or Reggae? If so, then join this fun and
breathing exercises, called Pranayama. balance. Practiced consistently over easy introduction to Zumba class that
We will investigate how to incorporate time, these low-impact weight-bearing will raise your heart rate and your spirits!
these techniques into daily living. poses may slow the rate of bone loss
and reduce the risk of falls and their
painful consequences. Postures are Cost: $53/person
Cost: $15/person varied to meet participant ability on a Instructor: Jenny Kingsbury
Instructor: Barbara Moss, DO, mat and chair.
Location: Arch Beta Resident
MPH Center, Augusta
MaineGeneral
Cost: $40/person Date: Monday,
Location: Alfond Center for April 8 - June 10 (no
Health, Augusta Instructor: Ann Parker
session May 6 & 27)
Classroom 1 Location: Alfond Center for 5:15 - 6:15 p.m.
Date: Thursday, May 23 & 30 Health, Augusta (8 sessions)
5 - 6:30 p.m. Classroom 1
(2 sessions) Date: Monday, April 15 -
May 20
5:30 - 6:45 p.m.
(6 sessions)
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5 Ingredients or Less
Simple, straightforward and delicious...tasty food that is good
for you doesn’t have to overwhelm your grocery list. In this
hands-on cooking class, learn to make recipes that won’t break
the bank or require hours to make.
Cost: $10/person
Instructors: Vishnu Nancoo, NP, APRN
Location: Alfond Center for Health, Augusta
Teaching Kitchen
Date: Tuesday, June 18
5:30 - 7:30 p.m.
Instructor: Sayzie Koldyz
Location: Alfond Center for Health, Augusta
Teaching Kitchen & Conference
Room 1
Date: Wednesday, June 26
5:30 - 7:30 p.m.
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Buddha Bowls Cooking the Mediterranean Way Fight Inflammation with Food
Similar to a rice bowl, Buddha bowls You don't need to travel across the globe What we eat may lessen the
typically contain a grain base, raw or to experience the health benefits of a inflammation tied to diseases like
cooked veggies, a protein of your choice Mediterranean Diet. A quick trip to your arthritis, cancer, diabetes, heart disease,
and a healthy fat like avocado, hummus local grocery store and you can be on asthma and allergies. In this class, learn
or a tasty homemade dressing. They're your way to discovering delicious flavors what foods reduce inflammation and get
also called macro bowls because they and fresh foods that promote health and a chance to prepare and taste them.
hit all your macronutrients: carbs, prevent disease.
protein and fat.
Cost: $22/person
Cost: $20/person Instructors: Eileen Fingerman, MD
Cost: $16/person Instructors: Sayzie Koldyz Location: Alfond Center for
Instructors: Patty Morini & Jane Location: Alfond Center for Health, Augusta
Moore, RD Health, Augusta Teaching Kitchen &
MaineGeneral Teaching Kitchen & Conference Room 1
Location: Alfond Center for Conference Room 1 Date: Wednesday,
Health, Augusta Date: Wednesday, April 17 & 24
Teaching Kitchen & May 22 & 29 5:30 - 7:30 p.m.
Conference Room 1 5:30 - 7:30 p.m. (2 sessions)
Date: Wednesday, May 1 (2 sessions)
5:30 - 7:30 p.m.
OR
Wednesday, June 19
5:30 - 7:30 p.m.
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Food Prep Demonstration Italian Classics Make Your Own Spring Rolls &
Do you find yourself frantically trying to Learn how to make some of your Dipping Sauces
come up with dinner at 5 p.m.? Do you favorite Italian dishes, including Chicken Looking for a fun, healthy cooking class
make last-minute grocery store trips on Piccata and Winter Minestrone. We have that doesn't require actual cooking? In
your way home from work? Save time lightened them up, packed them with this hands-on class, you will learn how
and money! Learn how to shop smarter, flavor and made them simple for you to to make fresh, cool and crunchy spring
and spend an hour or two on Sunday make and enjoy at home. rolls and dipping sauces with seasonally
setting yourself and your family up for available vegetables.
culinary success.
Cost: $20/person
Instructor: Maurice Coleman & Cost: $20/person
Cost: $20/person Rachael Pepin, RD Instructor: Patty Morini &
Instructors: Benjamin Ramsdell Location: Alfond Center for Jane Moore, RD
MaineGeneral Health, Augusta MaineGeneral
Location: Alfond Center for Teaching Kitchen & Location: Alfond Center for
Health, Augusta Conference Room 1 Health, Augusta
Teaching Kitchen & Dates: Monday, May 20 Teaching Kitchen &
Conference Room 1 5:30 - 7:30 p.m. Conference Room 1
Date: Monday, April 8 Dates: Wednesday, May 15
5:30 - 7:30 p.m. Instructor: Sayzie Koldyz 5:30 - 7:30 p.m.
OR Location: Alfond Center for OR
Thursday, April 18 Health, Augusta Tuesday, June 25
5:30 - 7:30 p.m. Teaching Kitchen & 5:30 - 7:30 p.m.
Conference Room 1
Dates: Wednesday, June 5
5:30 - 7:30 p.m.
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Natural Remedies: Making Sheet Pan Dinners
Tinctures Four pans on the stove and three in the
Are you ready to discover the potential oven? What if you could cook an entire
healing powers nature has to offer? meal and only have one or two sheet
Learn about the beneficial properties pans to clean up? Learn how to put
of local herbs, how to identify and together simple, delicious meals that
harvest them and how to extract and you and your family will love!
concentrate their medicinal elements for
use in tinctures and salves.
Cost: $20/person
Instructor: Benjamin Ramsdell
Cost: $20/person MaineGeneral
Instructor: Eileen Fingerman, MD Location: Alfond Center for
Location: Alfond Center for Health, Augusta
Health, Augusta Teaching Kitchen &
Teaching Kitchen & Conference Room 1
Conference Room 1 Date: Thursday, April 25
Date: Monday, June 10 5:30 - 7:30 p.m.
5:30 - 7:30 p.m.
Instructor: Maurice Coleman &
Rachael Hall, RD
Location: Alfond Center for
Health, Augusta
Teaching Kitchen
Date: Tuesday, April 30
5:30 - 7:30 p.m.
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NEW Spanish Cooking Tasty Thai
Paella. Green olives. Tortilla (the egg type, not the taco type). Not only is Thai food tasty, it can be healthy, and easy to make.
Smoked paprika. Gazpacho. Chorizo. These are just some of Did you know all you need is a wok or a nonstick frying pan?
the favorite flavors and recipes we’ll cook together in this new Well, and some fish sauce, curry, coconut milk, rice, chilies,
class. garlic, other fresh herbs and a few healthy recipes that you can
learn in this hands-on cooking class.
Cost: $20/person
Instructor: Benjamin Ramsdell Cost: $20/person
MaineGeneral Instructors: Benjamin Ramsdell
Location: Alfond Center for Health, Augusta MaineGeneral
Teaching Kitchen & Conference Room 1 Location: Alfond Center for Health, Augusta
Date: Monday, April 29 Teaching Kitchen & Conference Room 1
5:30 - 7:30 p.m. Date: Monday, April 22
OR 5:30 - 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday, May 8
Instructors: Maurice Coleman & Jenna McCarthy, RD
5:30 - 7:30 p.m.
Location: Alfond Center for Health, Augusta
Teaching Kitchen
Date: Wednesday, June 12
5:30 - 7:30 p.m.
24Other Programs & Resources
Cooking Matters for Parents
Feeding your family healthy meals when money is tight
is a challenge, but we have tips and resources that
can help! Cooking Matters for Parents is a six-session,
hands-on cooking class that is FREE and full of great
information. Class members leave each week with a
bag of groceries to make the recipes they learned in
class at home.
Instructor: Debbie Barnett &
Megan Haynes, RD
University of Maine
Cooperative Extension
Location: Alfond Center for Health,
Augusta
Teaching Kitchen
Dates: Tuesdays and Thursdays,
June 4, 6, 11, 13, 18 and 20
11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Not having enough food for yourself and your family is stressful.
There are resources to help in your county:
www.mainegeneral.org/Pages/Food-Security-Resources.aspx
25Other Programs & Resources
Healthy Weight & Your Child
This new evidence-based program empowers children ages 7-13 years
old, with the support of their families, to reach a healthy weight and
live a healthier lifestyle. For more information and to discuss eligibility,
please contact Feargal at feargal@kvymca.org or call 622-9622.
Instructor: Feargal Semple
Location: Kennebec Valley YMCA, Augusta Campus
Dates: Info session Monday, March 11;
Tentative to start March 25
Time TBD
26Other Programs & Resources
Living Well for Better Health
It can be challenging to know where to start when it comes
to becoming a healthier you! Living Well for Better Health can
help you take charge of your chronic conditions by guiding
you through topics like physical movement, healthy eating,
communication skills, working with your health care provider
and more.
Cost: FREE
Instructors: Sumaira Imam & Melissa Emmons
Location: Muskie Center, Waterville
Date: Tuesday, April 30 - June 4
9:30 a.m. - noon
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Living Well with Diabetes
Feel better, be in control and connect with others as you learn ways
to manage your diabetes. We help one another reach small goals
each week by sharing ideas and exploring solutions to eat healthier,
move more and monitor/manage blood sugar levels.
Cost: FREE
Instructors: Larissa Hannan & Tori Condon
Location: Ballard Center, Augusta
Dates: Thursday, May 23 - June 27
4 - 6:30 p.m.
Instructors: Liza Russell & Dana Winslow
Location: Thayer Center for Health, Waterville Dean 3
Dates: Monday, June 10 - July 15
4 - 6:30 p.m.
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Living Well with Chronic Pain
When you are in pain, it can be hard to focus on anything else.
It’s time to stop letting pain pause the rest of your life! This class
will explore how eating healthy, gentle movement exercises and
learning how to balance activity and rest can help improve your
quality of life. Class is open to adults who have chronic pain as well
as caregivers.
Cost: FREE
Instructor: Alicia Rice & Vicki Foster
Location: Cohen Community Center, Hallowell
Date: Wednesday, April 24 - May 29
10 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
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National Diabetes Prevention Program (NDPP)
Change doesn’t happen overnight...it takes time! NDPP will Cost: FREE
not only provide you with a whole YEAR of support from a Instructors: Sumaira Imam
trained lifestyle coach, but also peer support within a group
setting. Don’t miss your chance to find encouragement, advice Location: Thayer Center for Health, Waterville
and support from individuals who are trying to live a healthier Dean 1
lifestyle, just like you. This class meets weekly for 16 weeks, Dates: Starts Wednesday, May 29
then twice a month for eight months, for a total of one year. 9 - 10 a.m.
Instructors: Liza Russell
Location: Thayer Center for Health, Waterville
Dean 1
Dates: Starts Thursday, June 20
4:30 - 5:30 p.m.
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Diabetes Prevention Program Lifestyle Coach
Training
More Lifestyle Coaches are needed! Lifestyle Coaches are
trained to deliver the yearlong National Diabetes Prevention
Program (NDPP). We have launched more than 125 programs
but need YOUR help to continue to expand this program.
You do not need to be a medical professional to become a
Lifestyle Coach. Some basic knowledge of health, nutrition
and/or fitness principles preferred.
Once trained, we are looking for each lifestyle coach to lead a
NDPP program within one year of the training in Kennebec or
Somerset County.
Instructors: Alicia Rice & Larissa Hannan
Location: Alfond Center for Health, Augusta
Classroom 1
Dates: Thursday, May 23 & Friday, May 24
8:30 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Registration is required.
For more information or to register, please contact:
Alicia Rice
(207) 626-7347
alicia.rice@mainegeneral.org
31Classes From The Harold Alfond Center For Cancer Care
Healthy Eating For Cancer Survivors Nutrition and Cancer: Decoding the Myths
Learn how to make healthy eating choices to improve your Many patients and caregivers can easily become overwhelmed
energy and sense of well-being, reduce your risk for developing with nutrition information on cancer and nutrition. With so
other diseases including cancer, and promote overall wellness many choices and decisions, it can be hard to know what
as a cancer survivor. to eat and which information you should trust. This class
debunks common myths on cancer and nutrition and provides
you with evidence-based nutrition information, so you can
Location: Prescott Room, HACCC make educated and healthy choices.
Date: Tuesday, May 14
5:30 - 7 p.m.
Location: Prescott Room, HACCC
Date: Wednesday, April 24
5:30 - 6:30 p.m.
32Class Sites
Arch Beta Apartments Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens Kennebec Valley YMCA
Subsidized housing for the elderly and
disabled located in a private setting
on the scenic outskirts of Augusta.
Comfortable, attractive 1-2 bedroom
units. Rent includes heat, hot water,
electricity and trash removal.
3 Gray Birch Drive, Augusta, ME 04330
For more information or an application,
please call 622-4908.
33Class Sites
University of Maine Cooperative Viles Arboretum Zardus Art of Massage and
Extension Wellness Spa
University of Maine Cooperative
Extension can provide nutrition and Augusta Trails
healthy lifestyles education, such as:
• Healthy food • Kitchen skills
selection and • Recipes and
meal preparation/ practical tips
cooking
• Cooking for 1 Lincoln Avenue
• Menu planning crowds
Gardiner, ME 04345
• Budgeting • Food
• Supermarket preservation info@zardusartofmassage.com
teaching tours
• Don’t see your
• Altering recipes topic of interest
for health and here? Contact
savings
us:
622-7546 or (800) 287-1481
(Kennebec County)
474-9622 or (800) 287-1495
(Somerset County)
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MaineGeneral Health 35 Medical Center Parkway Augusta, ME 04330
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