Wellness, Health & Fitness
An outreach service that offers a very diverse Health & Fitness program and community activities to suit just about anybody.
Hózhǫ́ógo Iiná Wellness Center
Fitness classes & their descriptions
(&&) = APPROXIMATE calories burned during class
Fitness classes & their descriptions
(&&) = APPROXIMATE calories burned during class
Butts-N-Guts
Instructor(s): Elvera Aguilera (&&) 30-min: 43-143 | 60-min: 135-235 In this class, Vera will have your glutes and core on fire! Grunt and sweat your way through toning intervals designed to work hamstrings, quadriceps, glutes, and the entire core. Mat work or standing-up-right, Vera will make sure you feel the burn. Cardio Kick(boxing) Instructor(s): Vanessa Kvien (&&) 30-min: 160-260 | 60-min: 370-470 Punch, jab, and kick your way through this easy to follow choreographed class. Vanessa will have you moving to fun, energizing music using weighted gloves or free weights. This high-energy workout is guaranteed to tone muscles and burn calories and fat. Chair Yoga Instructor(s): Ann Schmidt (&&) 30-min: 20-60 Similar to traditional yoga, this class aims to purify your body through a harmonization of body, mind, and breathing. Ann will gently take you to the chair and have you practice poses on or with the assistance of a chair. Generation POUND Instructor(s): Shereen Begay In a Generation POUND class, kids will use a pair of RipStix® to follow fun, upbeat choreography. The choreography is designed to exercise the entire body. Kids will feel their legs, arms, shoulders, back, and core muscles working. The class will break for fun and inclusive activities aimed to build confidence, self-expression, and self-awareness. Greatest HIITs Instructor(s): Keanu Frazier Don’t have time or feel like spending hours at the gym? Want to build strength and burn fat? Want Chuck Norris to fear you? If you answered yes, then this HIIT (High Intense Interval Training) class is the right one for you! This class will help improve coordination, strength, cardio, and endurance. Exercises will be performed in 30-60 sec intervals with a relaxing 15-30sec break in-between rounds. POUND Instructor(s): Shereen Begay (&&) 30-min: 190-290 | 60-min: 380-580 In this class, we give you permission to rock out! Shereen will provide you with weighted RipStix (drumsticks), darken the room, blast the music, and get you drumming for fitness. This class will have you squatting, lunging, rotating the core, and toning the thighs and glutes. Let loose and release the day’s stress through some hard POUNDing. |
Step
Instructor(s): Terri Little (&&) 30-min: 230-330 | 60-min: 510-610 Leotards? Leg Warmers? Not here! Terri will work you up, down, across, and around the step all while mixing traditional steps with modern-cardio driven moves. In keeping with tradition, this class is choreographed to a 32-count beat and with fun, upbeat music. Raisers are available to take your workout to the next level. Step It Up Instructor(s): Shereen Begay (&&) 30-min: 170-270 This class is step and HIIT mashed into one! Shereen will have you moderately move on the step and get you into a rhythm. When that becomes comfortable, she’ll swing you into an interval of work, sure to ignite those calories. Shortly after, she’ll bring you back on the step and have you “step” into recovery. Tae Kwon Do (TKD) Instructor(s): Black Belt Academy (&&) 60-min: 200-300 TKD stands for “tae-kwon-do.” It is a modern martial art, characterized by fast, high, ans spinning kicks, essentially “the art of kicking and punching.” Student fee is $15/person. Additional costs for uniform, belt testing, and sparring equipment. Individuals must be 7 years or older to participate. TRX Instructor(s): Cody Chee, Terri Little (&&) 30-min: 160-260 | 60-min: 368-468 TRX (Total Resistance eXercise) was created by a Navy Seal. TRX is a full-body workout using a person’s own body weight. Students will be guided in utilizing the TRX Suspension Trainer and Rip Trainer to improve/gain strength, balance, flexibility and core stability. Depending on class size, TRX instructors may include other full-body exercises. All fitness levels welcomed! Ultimate 30-Min Workout Instructor(s): Cody Chee, Keanu Frazier (&&) 30-min: 150-250 Do you need to get in, do work, and be out? This is your class. Designed as a fast-paced class, you will work through circuits of kettle bell, slam ball, and battle rope exercises performed from 30-60 seconds. With little rest between circuits, your muscles will be igniting! Exercises usually entail the use of weights, but never more than you can handle. |
Upper Body Sculpt
Instructor(s): Dyan Baca (&&) 60-min: 241-341 Need a break from Zumba? Do you want to show your muscles some love? Join Dyan in this program where she’ll have you work through upper body exercises designed to strengthen, tone, and build, a solid upper body. Dyan will make you proud to show off your arms, back, and shoulders. Yoga Instructor(s): Ann Schmidt (&&) 60-min: 320-420 In this class, Ann will take you on a journey to harmonize your body with your mind and breathing. She will have you practice breathing exercises, poses, and mediation. Through her instruction, you will improve your body strength and stamina. If purification is what you seek, Ann will provide. Zumba Instructor(s): Elvera Aguilera, Dyan Baca, Terri Little (&&) 30-min: 215-315 | 60-min: 500-600 Let’s keep it simple, this class is dance fitness with some Latin flair! In this class, Vera, Dyan, and/or Terri wil get you moving, shaking, shimming, and jumping through electric music and get your calories scorched. Sometimes, the ladies will dim the lights and get the disco ball rolling. Zumba Kids Instructor(s): Vanessa Kvien Calling 4-11 year olds! Come visit Vanessa in this class for some fun! She will have kids move to music through dancing and games. With the use of hooola hoops, stability balls, and cones, she’ll get your kids running through the fitness room having fun all while sneaking in a workout. Zumba Toning Instructor(s): Vanessa Kvien (&&) 60-min: 510-610 Is your Zumba game ready for some weights? If so, this is the class for you! In this class, Vanessa wil have you use Toning Sticks while dancing to emphasis upper body toning and sculpting. This class will get your upper body burning! Vanessa will ensure you get the most of your time. |
The Hozhoogo Iina Wellness Center is encouraging all staff and patients to incorporate yoga into their fitness regimens. Yoga practice is an ideal way to improve the quality of life, as it enhances both the physical and psychological well-being. The purpose of yoga is to enhance and maintain the health of the physical body while creating calmness in the mind, which uses the breath as the link.
At the Hozhoogo Iina Wellness Center we provide yoga to our participants every Wednesday. There are (2) times available each Wednesday, they are 11:30 Chair Yoga (30mins) and 5:15 Yoga (1 hour). Our “FAB-U-LOUS” instructor is Ann Schmidt. Terri "Health is Wellth" |
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