Casino Night
Saturday, Oct 14th, 6:00 - 9:00 pm
At the Senior Center: 115 Westfield St.
$30 includes:
- Casino Bucks for Gaming
- Auctions ♠ Silent for Cash & Casino Bucks ♠ 50/50 Raffle
- Door Prize ♦ Need to be present to win!
- Awesome Appetizers ♣ No Host Bar ♥ Over 21 Only!
Ageless Yoga
Starts September 9th
Saturdays at 9:30 am.
The goal of Ageless Yoga is to address the unique needs of 50+ people, helping them preserve and improve joint mobility, flexibility, strength, posture, respiratory health - and balance, which is critical for the older adult. This 60-minute class will challenge you, but not exhaust you.
NOTE: Although geared toward people 50 years and up, all are welcome.
As Board President of the Silverton Senior Center I invite you to consider this letter of appeal
Dear Community Members,
We are writing to let you know that the Silverton Senior Center is in jeopardy and we need your help. Covid-19 had a negative effect on many of our community institutions, but its effect upon the Senior Center was devastating. Let us tell you why.
Following Covid and the shutdown of local businesses the primary funding source of the Senior Center, ReVamp Thrift Store, ceased operations. ReVamp produced much of our operating income. During Covid we ceased operations yet we were still paying overhead costs while membership renewals decreased, and sponsorships ended. With ReVamp’s closure and the reduction in membership renewals and sponsorships the Senior Center has had to use savings to continue to provide services to our local seniors. Those savings are now depleted.
The ongoing shortfall in income has placed the Silverton Senior Center in jeopardy of closing. While the Board of Directors continues to pursue alternative income sources, the reality is that most of these are medium to long term and will not develop to provide the immediate relief necessary. The only available course is a direct appeal to the community. Won’t you please consider making a financial gift to save this vital community resource?
The Senior Center has a local membership of 580 plus many visits of non-member citizens. We serve the Senior community with programs that include Art (knit wits and painting studio), exercise (yoga and low impact aerobics), and games (pinochle, dominoes, bridge). The Senior Center also provides monthly outings for fellowship and conversation and hosts a twice weekly foot clinic for Seniors inside our building. We receive calls daily seeking community resources. Many of the programs counted on by our Seniors will cease to continue without your support.
This place has been my second home for several years, I’m here almost every day. When my husband died in 2014, the Senior Center held a memorial service for him. I especially enjoy Wednesdays with the Knit Wits and the painting classes. I also have had the honor to serve on the board twice (luckily before COVID). The Silverton Senior Center saved my life.
Stories like this one abound highlighting the important place the Senior Center plays in the lives of our aging and vulnerable community members.
If you have questions or would like additional information we invite you to contact us. Every time a need has arisen in the Silverton area, our community has risen to meet that need. Please let us know that you’ll be joining us in this community effort.
Additionally donations can be sent directly to the center at 115 Westfield St. Silverton Oregon 97381.
Sincerely,
Silverton Senior Center Board
Jenny Ohren, Board President
Dian Forester- Vice President
Connie Barkley
Joanne Pfau
Terry Brandon
Bernice Hodge
Jim Wilson
Ageless Yoga
Yoga is truly for everyone, but it’s not one-size-fits-all. At midlife and beyond, the benefits of Yoga can be more profound than for any other segment of the population - when adapted for their needs. This class focuses on thoughtfully sequenced postures, modified to ensure the body’s structural integrity and to minimize the chance of injury. Emphasis is put on linking the breath with the postures to take advantage of this powerful way to unite body, mind, and spirit. The goal of Ageless Yoga is to address the unique needs of 50+ people, helping them preserve and improve joint mobility, flexibility, strength, posture, respiratory health - and balance, which is critical for the older adult. This 60-minute class will challenge you, but not exhaust you.
NOTE: Although geared toward people 50 years and up, all are welcome.
MaryLou Coleman's Biography
MaryLou Coleman has been a student and teacher of Yoga since 1984, when she stepped onto her first sticky mat and attempted Bikram’s Beginner Class - no easy feat, despite the name! But she was hooked. The prevailing work-out ethic at the time - loud music in an air-conditioned room with the teacher encouraging maximum effort (no pain, no gain!) - just did not resonate. Yoga postures, focused on breath and performed quietly and mindfully, honoring the body’s limits, seemed like the path of greater wisdom to her.
Over time, the desire to dive deeply into traditional Indian Yoga with the goal of becoming a teacher strengthened, and MaryLou took her first teacher training course in 2001. She began to teach public and private classes in 2002 . More in-depth trainings followed in 2006 and 2008, resulting in her achieving qualification for the Registered Yoga Teacher 500 designation with Yoga Alliance, the premier governing body in the United States.
MaryLou’s most influential teachers are Dr. Larry Payne, author of the Yoga for Dummies books, and Gary Kraftsow of the American Viniyoga Institute, considered one of the most skilled Yoga therapists in the country.
Being older herself, MaryLou’s talent as a Yoga teacher is making a Yoga practice accessible and safe for over-50 folks. Prime-of-lifers have specific needs and considerations that are usually not met in a general Yoga class. With correct modifications and proper sequencing of the postures, along the student’s mindset being one of honoring the body instead of forcing it, as Dr. Payne says, “For as long as you can walk, you can enjoy Yoga.”
MaryLou is a California native who lived many years in mountainous northern Utah. After a year in Florida pursuing horsemanship goals, she moved to Oregon in November, 2021. Her loves are meditation, horses, cats, nature, and trying to improve her Spanish.
