City Fitness Yoga Teacher Training Course

The City Fitness 300-Hour Yoga Teacher program is designed for those who are interested in gaining a well-rounded foundation for teaching yoga. This full program is registered with the Yoga Alliance at the 200-Hour Level. Our program is a 10-month commitment and includes our Core Fitness Professional Course, Samayama Basic Course, CPR, and Skill Development Workshops, and participation in Samayama Yoga classes (both attending and student teaching) at City Fitness which are required contact hours by the Yoga Alliance. In addition to the mentioned contact hours, structured home study, practice, and journaling are required. All segments of the course may be taken individually by teachers or practitioners wanting to deepen their own practice or teaching.

We call our program Samayama Yoga. In Sanskrit, Sama means equal, evenly distributed, the divine quiet and peace. Yama means self-discipline and a code of moral conduct. Our goal of Samayama Yoga is to help teachers and students reach perfect mastery through self-discipline, equanimity, and divine peace, ultimately leading to the knowledge of Self.

The Fall 2008 Samayama program begins in September. Click on the above title bar to learn more about the program dates and registration.

City Fitness Gym - Labor Day Weekend Schedule

As lots of people are out of town this holiday weekend (including most of our staff), we have shortened our business hours for this weekend only. Saturday, Sunday and Monday (August 30, 31 and September 1) we shall be open from 8am-4pm each day. Saturday we'll have all of our normally scheduled classes. Sunday the 8:15 and 9:15am classes will be held, but NOT the 10:30 and 11:30. Monday our only classes will be 9:15 a.m. and 12:00 p.m. Have a healthy and safe holiday weekend!

City Fitness Gym Member - Author Sheree Fitch's New Book!

Sheree Fitch is a multi award-winning writer, speaker, educator and the author of twenty-three books in a variety of genres including many books for children. Sheree’s collection of adult poetry, In This House Are Many Women (Goose Lane), was published in 1992 and reissued in 2005, and her novel for young adults, The Gravesavers (Doubleday), garnered critical acclaim and several awards. Her new novel, Kiss the Joy as it Flies, has hit #15 on Canada's bestseller list and is Fitch’s first novel for an adult audience. Click on the link above to Amazon.com (Canada's version) to learn more or to purchase the book. Go Sheree!!

Afri-Cardio Dance Aerobics at City Fitness - Saturday, August 23

Join Sogbe this Saturday, August 23 at 11:30 a.m. for a GREAT West-African dance based aerobics class. This class is a nonstop hour of movement that will challenge your mind, body and spirit.

City Fitness Gym Education Courses - Learn to Be a Personal Trainer

Are you ready to start your new career in fitness? Our fall fitness education courses start just after Labor Day. The Core Fitness Professional course prepares you to pass the Personal Trainer and GroupFitness Instructor certification exams. It also provides the foundation of nutrition, exercise physiology, anatomy, kinesiology, etc. that any trainer or teacher should know to effectively teach movement. Space is limited - join the program today and start your new career!

City Fitness Summer Temporary Memberships

City Fitness Gym is still offering our summer temporary memberships - one and two month memberships for full use of the gym and classes are available at discounted prices. Have a friend in town? Send them over!

Legg Mason Tennis Class This Week!

The Legg Mason Tennis Class began last weekend and continues through Sunday, August 17. We are lucky this year - it is usually unbearably hot, but this year we have had great weather. Know an aspiring young tennis player? Treat them to a professional match. A portion of the proceeds from the Legg Mason Tennis Classic benefits the Washington Tennis & Education Foundation (WTEF). The WTEF seeks to improve the life prospects for DC area youth, particularly those from lower-income communities, through tennis, educational and community-based activities that teach discipline, build self-esteem and improve academic performance.

Dates

August 9 - 17, 2008

Tournament Hotline

(202) 721-9500

Location

William H.G. FitzGerald Tennis Center 16th + Kennedy Streets, NW Washington, D.C. 20011

Dancing (and more) at Glen Echo Park

Glen Echo Park is situated on the Potomac palisades near Bethesda, Maryland. Originally a Chautauqua retreat, then an amusement park, this National Park is now host to a variety of arts, environmental and history programs.Take a class in pottery, painting, photography, or glass art. Enjoy a puppet show or theater performance with your family and ride the carousel. Dance in our exquisite ballroom or refine your steps in one of our dance classes. Learn more about the environment while you play, or take a ranger-guided historic tour. The park offers regular social dance events and classes in waltz, swing, contra, salsa, and more. Dances take place in the historic Spanish Ballroom and Bumper Car Pavilion.

All social dances are open to the public, for all ages, with no prior experience or partner required. Most of the dances offer an introductory lesson and live music. Tickets are $5 - $20 and are sold at the door. They cannot be purchased in advance. Alcohol is prohibited on park grounds, and smoking is prohibited in all buildings. Dress is casual, and "layers" are recommended, because the dance halls are neither heated nor air-conditioned.

This Saturday, August 9 - Swing Dance in the Spanish Ballroom! 8:00 p.m. - Midnight Admission: $13 A beginning Swing lesson from 8 to 9 p.m. with Marc Shepanek and Ellen Engle is followed by dancing from 9 p.m. to midnight.

Learn Step Basics - Wednesday, August 6, 7:00 p.m.

Never tried step aerobics, but have always wanted to give it a shot? Now's your chance - join Arthur for this 60-minute class teaching the basics of step aerobics. Learn the names of movements and how to step safely while getting a KICK'n workout. Call 202-537-0539 or email fitphys@aol.com for more info and to register.