Scarsdale Adult School E-News
March 2023
Spring Forward into Fitness
With warmer weather on the way and the promise of more outdoor recreation, now is not only the time to set your clocks ahead. As you re-set your watch, re-set your health by getting and staying in shape with upcoming SAS fitness classes. New sessions of in-person and online courses begin the week of March 19, 2023.

Jeannine Palermo's popular Fit Blast: Cardio, Strength and Abs (Course 11751) on Mondays and Total Body Workout with Bands (Course 11756) offer an in-person and an online way to get your heart pumping. New sessions of Palermo's Body Sculpting (Thursday mornings in-person: Course 11754, Thursday afternoons online: Course 11755) and the chair-based version, Sit and Be Fit: Chair-Based Body Sculpting (Tuesday afternoons: Course 11752, Thursday mornings: Course 11753) involve exercises that safely increase muscular strength and endurance and will improve flexibility, range of motion, and body tone.
New in-person and online sessions of Movement to Music with Penny Bowman and Judy Schwartzman (Tuesday mornings in-person: Course 11727, Tuesday mornings online: Course 11731, Thursday mornings online: Course 11733, Friday mornings in-person: Course 11729, Friday mornings online: Course 11735) are suitable for women of all ages and fitness levels. The highlight of this program is the live piano performance at each class featuring a mix of popular standards.

Fresh sessions of Walk15® with Heather Buyers are also starting again soon. Online class will meet on Monday mornings starting March 20, 2023 (Course 11846), and the in-person class begins on Tuesday, March 21, 2023 (Course 11847). Low impact moves are set to music for fun and easy to learn calorie-burning exercise.
Keep your toes tapping with Arleigh Rothenberg's Monday Tap Dance classes, tailored to suit your level (Beginner: Course 11893, Advanced Beginner: Course 11894, Intermediate: Course 11895).

Joey Zimet begins a new an eight-session series of Postural Therapy Movement (Course 11808) on Wednesday mornings. Learn techniques to improve posture and alleviate day-to-day aches and pains with standing, sitting, and floor exercises.
In-person Tuesday morning classes in Essential Yoga (Course 11779) as well as Gentle Yoga (Tuesday mornings in-person: Course 11781, Friday mornings online: Course 11783) with Louise Fecher also have new sessions beginning soon. Fecher will also introduce MELT Method® for Enhanced Stability and Mobility (Course 11807), an in-person Thursday morning class that uses specialized soft balls and rollers to reduce pain and tension brought on by everyday stresses and aging.

Lace up your sneakers and register today!
Classes Starting in the Next Two Weeks
All class listings are for the Eastern Time Zone. Course numbers appear in parentheses.
Week of March 12, 2023
Architecture
  • Great Architects of the Western World: Donato Bramante of Rome (11811)
  • Walking Tour: New York Public Library and Polonsky Exhibition (11774)

Art Appreciation
  • Art and Beauty: La Toilette (11711)

History and Culture
  • Three Vanderbilt Women (11625)
Literature, Film, and Television
  • BookTalk with Harriet Sobol: River Sing Me Home (2023) by Eleanor Shearer (11643)

Music Appreciation
  • Donne al Centro, Muses Behind the Great Classical Composers (11788)

Writing
  • Finding Your Voice through Memoir Writing (11578)
Week of March 19, 2023
Architecture
  • Great Architects of the Western World: Michelangelo (11812)
Art Appreciation
  • Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration at MoMA PS 1 (11661)
  • Walking Tour: Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined at the New Museum (11712)
  • Masterpieces of Western Art: Picasso and Early Modernism (11797)
  • Reclaiming Black Lives Through Art: Amy Sherald and Kehinde Wiley (11790)

Arts & Crafts
  • Open Studio Painting (11739)
  • Knitting for All Levels (Tuesday evenings: 11743, Wednesday mornings: 11744, Thursday mornings: 11745)
  • Crochet for All Levels (11746)
  • Watercolor Painting (11738)

Current Events and Politics
  • Foreign Affairs Discussion Group (11760)
  • Let's Talk Current Events: Topics in the News (Wednesday mornings: 11776, Thursday mornings: 11777)
Fitness
  • Fit Blast: Cardio, Strength and Abs (11751)
  • Body Sculpting (Thursday mornings in-person: 11754, Thursday afternoons online: 11755)
  • Sit and Be Fit: Chair-Based Body Sculpting (Tuesday afternoons: 11752, Thursday mornings: 11753)
  • Total Body Workout with Bands (11756)
  • Walk 15® (Monday mornings online: 11846, Tuesday mornings in-person: 11847)
  • Beginner Tap Dance (11893)
  • Advanced Beginner Tap Dance (11894)
  • Intermediate Tap Dance (11895)
  • Movement to Music (Tuesday mornings in-person: 11727, Tuesday mornings online: 11731, Thursday mornings online: 11733, Friday mornings in-person: 11729, Friday mornings online: 11735)
  • Essential Yoga (11779)
  • Gentle Yoga (Tuesday mornings in-person: 11781, Friday mornings online: 11783)
  • Postural Therapy Movement (11808)
  • MELT Method® for Enhanced Stability and Mobility (11807)

Games
  • Let's Play Mah Jongg: Supervised Play (11772)

Health and Wellness
  • Raising Healthier Teens (11708)

Languages
  • Beginner Spanish (11832)
  • Beginner Spanish II (11758)
  • Conversational Spanish (11831)
  • Advanced Beginner German (11845)
  • Intermediate German (11844)

Literature, Film, and Television
  • Book Chat with Anna Katsavos: Lucy by the Sea (2022) by Elizabeth Strout (11718)
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Catalog of Spring Classes
All upcoming classes are listed in our Printer-Friendly, Interactive Version of our Spring/Summer 2023 Catalog. New classes are added regularly.

Class times are for the Eastern Time Zone. Please check regularly for additional options to keep you engaged and learning, whether from the comforts of home or through our expanding number of in-person options.
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