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Exercise Classes

Group Exercise and Water Fitness Classes

Willamalane’s group exercise program includes a variety of cardio, strength, flexibility, and water fitness classes designed for all fitness levels. Check-in at the front desk before class to scan your membership card or pay a drop-in fee. Schedules and class offerings are updated monthly. See the current schedule for locations, class descriptions, and instructors.
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Important Notes

  • Duration: 50–55 minutes unless otherwise noted.
  • Intensity: Most classes are light to moderate, with modifications available. Let your instructor know if you are new or would like modifications.
  • Equipment: Check class descriptions for equipment needed. Limited quantities of class equipment are available for those who don’t bring their own.
  • Capacity: Classes in Santiam at Willamalane Adult Activity Center are limited to 16 participants.
  • Age: Students must be at least 14 to participate in fitness classes. Students 14-17 years old must have a parent or guardian present. 

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Pricing

All-Access Members enjoy admission to all Willamalane group exercise classes. 

Single visit to the fitness center and group exercise: 

  • Adults (18-49): $8 in-district/$11 out-of-district
  • Students, Seniors, Military: $7 in-district/$9 out-of-district
  • Youth (14-17): $5 in-district/$9 out-of-district. Students must be at least 14 years old to participate in fitness classes, and students 14-17 years old must have a parent or guardian present. 

Virtual Fitness Classes

Connect with select group exercise classes, instructors, and workout buddies while staying home! You can join online live classes with an ALL-ACCESS Membership or Virtual Fitness Pass. Members receive a monthly email with links to class meetings.

Virtual Fitness Pass pricing

  • $20 in-district, $25 out-of-district

Virtual Fitness Passes allow you to connect with group exercise classes, instructors, and workout buddies without leaving home! Get your pass by calling 541-736-4444. Pass renews automatically every month. If you want virtual and in-person options, try the All-Access Membership instead.

Class Descriptions

Cardio

Active Exercise: Improve your strength, flexibility, and cardio fitness. This class includes standing and floor exercises. Equipment: Mat, dumbbells, bands, 9-inch ball. Instructor: Sasha on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, Cindy virtual only on Tuesday and Thursday mornings.

Beyond Basics Line Dance: Learn a fun, aerobic social dance with challenging and dynamic choreography. Dance to a wide range of musical genres. Previous line dance experience suggested. Instructor: Lila, Annie, and Sandie.

HIIT & Tone II & III: Build cardiovascular fitness and improve endurance with this challenging full-body workout. HIIT & Tone II is moderate-intensity and HIIT & Tone III is high-intensity. Equipment: dumbbells, mat. Instructor: Hamza.

Intermediate/Advanced Line Dance: Step up to the challenge with this intermediate/advanced class. Learn tags, restarts, dances in contra, and phrased dances. Previous line dance experience suggested. Instructor: Lila.

Nia: One of the very first "fusion fitness" classes, Nia (knee-ahh) uses great music and choreography to provide cardio, flexibility, bone density, balance, and fun for all body types and ability levels. Shoes optional. Equipment: Mat. Instructor: Janet.

Zumba®: Get down, feel great! Let the music free your body. The ultimate dance-fitness party will groove you into shape. Instructor: Johanna.

Zumba® Gold: A fabulously fun fitness program based on exciting Latin and international dance styles. This is a low to moderate-intensity class. Instructor: Johonna.

Strength 

Better Bones and Balance: Enjoy floor exercises and strength training in this class created by Oregon State University, using research on what helps prevent osteopenia and osteoporosis. This advanced class is the next level after Strong Bones Strong Body. It includes both standing and floor exercises. Equipment: Mat, dumbbells, bands, and a 9-inch ball. Instructor: Cindy.

Body Sculpt: Strengthen your core, tone your muscles, improve your balance, and stretch! Equipment: mat, dumbells. Instructor: Jamie on Mondays, Kelley on Wednesdays.

Core Yoga: Build awareness of and strengthen your core muscles. Equipment: mat. Instructor: Stephanie on Tuesdays and Fridays, Amber on Wednesdays.

Forever Fit:  Make daily activities easier with this low-impact aerobics, strength, and balance class. Standing and chair exercises. Equipment: dumbbells, bands, and a 9-inch ball. Instructor: Kathy.

Group Training: Personal trainers will lead these group circuit training sessions that focus on strength, balance, cardio, and flexibility in the fitness center at Bob Keefer Center. Classes meet on multi-purpose courts #3 and #4. Instructor: Dave.

Silver Fitness: Increase strength and range of movement and improve daily living with this fun class. Great for older adults or those with exercise limitations. Standing and chair exercises. Equipment: dumbbells, bands, 9-inch ball. Instructors: Sasha on Mondays and Wednesdays, Jamie on Fridays.

Strength & Stretch I & II: Build strong bones and increase mobility, flexibility, balance, and core. Strength & Stretch I is a lower-intensity class with seated and standing exercises. Strength & Stretch II is a moderate-intensity class with standing and floor exercises. Equipment: mat, dumbbells, bands, and a 9-inch ball. Instructor: Shannon.

Strong Bones, Strong Body: Build bone strength, improve balance, and increase energy. Great for people diagnosed with osteoporosis or osteopenia. Standing and chair exercises. Equipment: dumbbells, bands, and a 9-inch ball. Instructor: Cindy.

Flexibility & Balance

8 Silken Brocade Qi Gong: An exercise based on Chinese Traditional Medicine balances mind, body, and energy through breath and movements. This is a 30-minute class; no prior experience is necessary. Instructor: Sandra.

Ashtanga Yoga: Enjoy dynamic, active yoga, that is perfect for every fitness level. Connect your breath with your movements to grow stronger, improve focus, and eliminate toxins. Equipment: Mat. Instructor: Sarah.

Beginning Tai Chi: Take a gentle yet firm first step for your journey to better strength, fitness, flexibility, balance, confidence, camaraderie, and overall quality of life through the power of Tai Chi. Instructor: Stephanie for a 45-minute class.

Chair Yoga: Combine traditional Hatha Yoga chair postures with some supported standing poses for better breathing, stretching, and flexibility. Instructor: Kate.

Gentle Yoga: Experience a relaxing yoga that feels good and includes stretching, strength, breathing, and mindfulness. Equipment: mat and towel or blanket. Instructor: Kate.

Hatha Yoga: Explore movement through mindfulness and the breath—stretch and strengthen, improve balance and flexibility. Equipment: mat. Instructor: Sarah on Tuesdays at 1:30 p.m., Steph on Thursdays at 1:30 p.m., Robin on Thursdays at 6 p.m., Marilyn on Tuesdays at 6 p.m. and Saturdays at 8:30 a.m.

Kaiut Yoga: This meditative healing practice uses gravity and long-held shapes to release adhesions in connective tissue and unwind chronic joint restrictions. Beneficial for all body types and experience levels. Equipment: mat Instructor: Anna.

Mat Pilates: Strengthen your core muscles and maintain a healthy posture. Great class for beginners! Equipment: mat and foam roller. Instructor: Lonnie on Mondays and SusanBeth on Wednesdays and Fridays.

Restorative Yoga:  Relax and reflect utilizing restorative postures to release tension and encourage a deeper sense of relaxation and stillness. Perfect for all levels of experience and stages of flexibility. Equipment: mat. Instructors: Sarah with essential oils.

Sound Bath Meditation: Experience a guided meditation and journey through sound bath that can be both evoking and relaxing. A variety of instruments will be used, including crystal and singing bowls, native flutes, shakers, small drums, and chimes. Equipment: mat or chair. Instructor: SusanBeth.

Strength in Movement: This class focuses on your range of motion, breathing, balance, posture, strengthening, flexibility, and mindfulness, all essential for mobility. Equipment: mat, foam roller. Instructors: Stephanie on Tuesdays, Kate on Thursdays.

Tai Chi: Improve balance, reduce stress, and gain more flexibility. All levels of experience are welcome. Instructor: Joe.

Tai Chi Advanced 24 Form: Join us for the advanced practice of the 24 Tai Chi Form. Previous Tai Chi experience suggested. Instructor: Sandra.

Vinyasa Yoga: Physical postures combined with breath. Strengthen, stretch, gain mobility, and feel good in your body. Everyone is welcome. Equipment: Mat. Instructor: Kristin.

ZB Tai Chi and Mobility: Focus on balance, control, and range of motion while grounding and centering yourself, using mobility exercises, Qi Gong, and the Zhaobao style of Tai Chi. Instructor: Matthew.

Water Fitness

Ai Chi: Enjoy a water movement and relaxation program in the shallow pool, using water in flowing yet powerful progressions. This exercise program creates the opportunity to improve range of motion, enhance balance, and increase mobility.

Aquatone: A moderately paced, shallow-water workout employing low-impact, water-specific exercises designed to build strength, flexibility progressively, and endurance.

Deep-water Exercise: A moderately paced, deep-water workout designed to help you learn to use the water’s resistance to increase muscle tone, cardiovascular endurance, and range of motion. Specially designed flotation equipment supports you during the class.

Exercise That Feels Good: A slower-paced, shallow-water workout that will enhance your daily life in an environment that is kind to your joints. You will improve strength, balance, flexibility, and energy.

HIIT: Build cardiovascular fitness while improving muscular strength and endurance. High-Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) is a cardio-intensive, full-body workout, yet gentle on the joints. Class is held in the deep pool.

HYDRO-FIT: This aerobic-paced, deep-water class will challenge you to increase cardiovascular fitness, endurance, and core conditioning. Specially designed fitness equipment enhances the water’s resistance, toning and strengthening your body.

Meet the Instructors 

Amber Lippel: Amber is a trauma-informed yoga teacher, EDGU instructor, massage therapist/Reiki Master with over a decade of experience. She's a retired soccer player, long-distance runner, and army officer. She has worked in caregiving, senior living, and as a death doula. With a college degree in philosophy, Amber incorporates work with the mind/brain, along with all the layers of being.   

Anna Jensen: Anna is a Certified Personal trainer, Group Fitness Instructor, Therapeutic Yoga Coach, and Biofield Energy Therapist. After years of competing as an equestrian and collegiate track and field athlete, she’s now an avid rock climber who greatly enjoys helping people connect with their bodies, unleash their potential, and experience the joy of movement!

Annie Scheifley: Annie enjoys encouraging people to enhance life with art. She has spent 50 years dancing and training in ballet, jazz, hip hop, ballroom, salsa, swing, line dance, yoga, and stretching. Choreographing and teaching are her passions. Other hobbies include painting and photography. She was honored to exhibit in February 2023 at the Eugene Art Walk.  

Chelsea King: Chelsea has been dancing ever since she can remember. She's been teaching since she was a teenager and loves creating routines that even a beginner can enjoy! She believes that Everybody can (and should) dance when given the opportunity.

Cindy O'Brien: Cindy specializes in classes for people over 50. She aims to help people prevent and manage osteoporosis, osteopenia, and arthritis while building balance and strength in their backs, knees, and hips. Her goal is to add quality to your life without causing pain.

Hamza Nassoh: Hamza’s love for fitness started very young. In his teenage years, he ran the 100- and 200-meter dash for the Morocco National Running Team and won several national and international championships. He has over seven years of teaching cardio, strength, and cycle classes and working one-on-one with people to develop and follow their fitness goals. He is a certified personal trainer.

Jamie Velazquez: Jamie grew up with her mother's aerobics classes and never stopped dancing. She has been Zumba® certified since 2010 and has developed and taught dance fitness programs. In addition to instructing, Jamie supervises Willamalane's group exercise programs.

Janet Hollander: Janet is skilled in modern dance, creative movement, tai chi, judo, aikido, yoga, and music. Her signature program, Nia Technique, combines many of these disciplines. Janet also leads workshops and classes in Better Bones and Balance and chair-based fitness.

Joe Bernal: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Joe began Tai Chi classes in La Jolla, California, in order to regain better balance and strengthen his body and mind. Since then, Joe has continued Tai Chi with approximately five or six different masters. When he's not practicing the art of Tai Chi, Joe is the lead singer of the Northwest River Band in Eugene, Oregon.

Johonna Gamble: Johonna has been teaching dance and general fitness classes for over 15 years. Advocating for continuing education, she expanded her repertoire to include a 200 Hour Hatha Yoga certification, a continuing AFFA Group Fitness Instructor certification, as well as licensing with Zumba. She encourages finding fun in any fitness activity.

Josh Kennett: Josh has been practicing tai chi for 15 years since he was introduced to it at the University of Oregon by Machiko. He has taught in many contexts and professional settings, including Northwest Youth Corps, Eugene Parks Department, 4j, Bethel, and Lincoln County School District, as an English Tutor in Eugene, and as an English Teacher in South Korea.

Kate Morgan: Kate is a massage therapist, certified yoga instructor, and Reiki Master who enjoys helping students to know themselves and their bodies better. Her Hatha and Chair Yoga classes incorporate meditation, breath, and reflection into mindful movement.

Kathy Bronson:  Kathy has 31 years of experience in the fitness industry, including land and water fitness. Kathy strives to improve the quality of life of everyone she connects with. She specializes in pre-surgery, post-rehab, Parkinson's and MS, massage therapy, and health coaching while incorporating mind/body techniques.

Kelley Pearce: Kelley has a degree in Exercise Science and certifications from the American College of Sports Medicine as an Exercise Physiologist and the American Council on Exercise for Group Fitness.  She teaches various classes, from conditioning to yoga; no activity is off-limits. She has been in the fitness industry for 28 years, and good health is her passion! 

Kristin Yarris: Kristin has taught group fitness classes for over 15 years, including time spent as a Schwinn-certified cycle instructor, a Yoga Alliance registered instructor, and a YogaFit-trained instructor. Kristin loves sharing the benefits of yoga and other physical activity with her students.

Laurel Fooks: Laurel is a certified personal trainer passionate about functional, accessible fitness that improves her students' quality of life. She is licensed to teach Barre Fitness and specializes in modified movement classes for adults over 40.

Lila Reid: Lila teaches a variety of dance styles and has an extensive dance background. She is passionate about movement, music, and dancing with a community. Lila teaches Line Dance for group exercise and two-step and waltz for wellness workshops.

Lonnie Kasow: Lonnie is a certified Pilates instructor and has been teaching Pilates on the mat and on studio equipment for 11 years. She loves to help people become stronger in the core, more elongated and aligned, and more fluid in the spine. She believes that Pilates can be a wonderful element in a person's exercise and well-being repertoire.

Matthew Coe: Matthew has long embraced a centering practice, taking him through long-distance running, Daoist meditation and qi-gong, and several styles of martial arts. Matthew has also explored several systems of yoga, becoming a certified yoga teacher, a certified Yoga Tune Up® instructor, and a trauma-informed teacher for Yoga Behind Bars. He holds a B.S in Biology with a minor in Biochemistry and English, and is a trained death doula. 

Marilyn Miks: Marilyn found yoga later in life and began practicing in her late 40s. She became certified as a yoga instructor at age 57 and especially enjoys encouraging new yoga practitioners to listen to their bodies and discover the benefits of yoga.

Robin Santa-Teresa: Robin has been practicing and studying yoga since 2006. She completed 200-hour Anusara Yoga teacher training in 2016. She loves teaching alignment and movement to people of all ages, abilities, and bodies. Her aim is always to find joy and fun in life. 

Sandra Wu: After 25 years of practice and teaching Tai Chi Ch’uan, most recently with locals Lin Lin Choy and Erica Anderson, Sandra emphasizes the Yang 24 form. This form is accessible to all ages and all levels of fitness. Her teaching style incorporates a layered approach, beginning with easy-to-learn movements and delving into the depths, applications, and nuances of Tai Chi in the advanced class. Sandra describes her classes as serious AND enjoyable!

Sasha Woodward: Sasha is a certified group fitness instructor, personal trainer, medical exercise specialist, and health coach. As Willamalane's fitness coordinator, she teaches and substitutes various classes. She works to create a positive, supportive group exercise community.

Sarah Stark: Sarah developed a deep respect and passion for Yoga after practicing it while attending college at the University of Oregon. Sarah fell in love with Yoga for its ability to heal the body and calm the mind. After graduating from U of O in Psychology, Sarah studied Ashtanga Yoga in Mysore, India. For the past five years, Sarah has taught Ashtanga and Restorative Yoga for rehabilitation and continues to work as a mental health counselor. Sarah was born and raised in Oregon, where rock climbing, live music, and sunsets bring her joy. Sarah is a 200 RYT with Yoga Alliance, QMHA I, and CPR Certified.

Shannon Wickersham: Shannon has been in the fitness industry for over 15 years. She is group fitness certified and likes to teach strength, mobility, and flexibility. She loves to help people feel stronger and more confident.

Stacy Cook: Stacy is passionate about getting people moving! She has been teaching various formats of groupexercise over the last 18 years. She has a unique way of instilling motivation and energy into all of her participants. Stacy is a lover of the outdoors and loves her job of being a teacher. She has had experience as a personal trainer as well as a youth sports coach.

Stephanie Turnbull: Stephanie uses her background in biology and health care to inform her fusion yoga programs. She focuses on Integrative Yoga Therapy, Hatha Yoga, and Yogalates to strengthen and stabilize participants’ cores, backs, hips, and overall bodies. She embraces exercise for personal empowerment.

SusanBeth Stack: SusanBeth is an experienced movement practitioner certified in Stott Pilates with an emphasis on functional fitness and fascial training. For the last 18 years she has operated Fusion Movement Pilates in Eugene, helping hundreds of clients build athleticism, functional movement, and rehabilitation. SusanBeth's fun classes draw from the multiple disciplines that she is certified in, including Hoop Dance and ZEN-GA.

Trish Parker: Trish is passionate about dance and inspires her students. She brings different dance styles, the joy of movement, and a sense of fun to her dance fitness classes.