rowingnorthSTRONG: The BEST OF BOTH WORLDS: YOGA and STRENGTH TRAINING!

These mindful group classes build mobility, strength, and balance paired with breath, intention, and community!

PLEASE ARRIVE 5-10 minutes before class time in order to gather your weights and start on time.
Please bring a yoga mat.

WHO:
* Appropriate for those who do not have a current injury or acute pain.
> If you have a current injury or acute pain, a group class is not appropriate. You should work individually with a medical or allied health provider.

* Appropriate for those who can get up/down from the floor relatively easily.

> If you cannot get up/down from the floor, both the Kittery Community Center and York Parks and Rec Dept. offer classes where chairs are used as props.
> Working individually with a physical or occupational therapist or personal trainer is also recommended to build your strength and mobility.

WHAT:

* Classes are STRENGTH-FOCUSED, following the current evidence-based science to progressively develop strength using body weight, resistance bands and dumbbells.

* Classes are designed to be Osteopenia / Osteoporosis safe and effective via my training in Bone Fit™ via the Osteoporosis Foundation.

* Individualized instruction is provided throughout every class. You will learn to use safe body mechanics for all of the exercises taught and you will gradually progress your load as your strength increases.

* Maximum of 14 students.
* Pre-registration required.

What makes rowingnorthWELLNESS classes unique?
Instructor: Rae Lynn Stackpoole OT, C-PT, C-IAYT These classes are my passionate blending of decades of accumulated knowledge and experience as an occupational therapist, movement educator, a yoga instructor, certified personal trainer, a Bone Fit™ Trainer, a Menopause Health & Fitness Specialist and a Certified Nutrition Coach (in progress), with an insatiable craving for evidence-based, continuing education.

WHEN: Most (not all)
Tuesdays 7:00-8:15AM
Thursdays 8:00-9:15AM
Saturdays 7:00-8:15AM
Sundays 8:00-9:15AM

More Details:
PRICING
$ 20 / class when taking class now-and-then
$15 / per class when attending weekly
~ Pre-registration is required.
~ Sign-up closes 1 hour before class start time.
~ Online sign-up for one or multiple classes. TIP: To fill a "shopping cart" with multiple classes, click
"add another registration" BEFORE choosing a payment amount.
~ You will receive an automated email reminder 24 hours before every class for which you are signed up. In that email is a link to cancel the class if you need to.

~ CANCELLATION POLICY: Classes cancelled online > 12 hours before class starts receive a full refund automatically returned to your credit card.
~ If you create a username and password you can go onto your Offering Tree account to easily cancel a class anytime.

Location:
The Dance Annex,
York’s Meadowbrook Plaza
647 US-1 York, Maine 03909

Begin Again: A New Year's Day Yoga and Cold-Water Dip Experience
January 1, 2026
Co-created by Rae Lynn Stackpoole & Amy Hopkins

As one year closes and another begins, give yourself the gift of stepping into the first morning of 2026 with space, to consciously begin again. Yes! Space for embodied restoration, reflection, renewal and beginning again!

Rae Lynn and Amy have been passionately co-creating yogic space since 2002.
We welcome you! Join us, as we co-create a nurturing, transitional space for you on New Year's Day ... between what was and what might be—between goodbyes and possible hellos, between grief and hope. This experience is grounded in gratitude for all that you've navigated in 2025 and in choosing inspired openness towards the unknowns ahead.

Come share your presence with us all ... a community of intentional women choosing to row (not drift) north, to begin again and again and on January 1st, 2026 we do it literally between the tides.

"Beginning again is the most important part of the whole process. We're always starting over and starting over and starting over. Meditation helps us to do this with kindness." ~ Sharon Salzberg

Time: 9-10:30AM
Description: A mindful slow yoga flow, enhanced with poetry, meditation, lite journaling, therapeutic hands-on (with your consent) and expansive breath work.
Location: The Dance Annex in York's Meadowbrook Plaza
Note: Please arrive by 8:50, bring your yoga mat.
Price: $25
~ Pre-registration is required.
~ Sign-up closes 1 hour before class start time.
Cancellation Policy: Classes cancelled online > 12 hours before receive a full refund to credit card.

Time: 11:00AM
Description: Optional and encouraged, free community cold-water dip literally between the tides.
Led by Amy Hopkins
Location: York Harbor Beach (next to Stageneck Inn for GPS purposes)
Note: https://saltwatermountainco.com/faqs-and-safety/ has answers to all your dipping questions.
Amy will have some lender booties available. Call Amy with any dipping questions: 207-641-7353

Donations: https://www.maineneeds.org/donations.
We will be collecting new and lightly used donations for Maine Needs. Please bring any donations to yoga (Rae's trunk will be open) or dip (Amy's trunk will be open). We will deliver them to Maine Needs in Portland.
Note: See acceptable items and wishlist for what Maine Needs here: https://www.maineneeds.org/donations.

Empowering Five-Part Education Series | Winter 2026

THE DETAILS:
Sign-up for one or several !
DETAILS FOR 2026 Series COMING SOON
Location: The Dance Annex, York, ME

Below is a review of 2025's Empowering Eduction Series

Learn to Build Bone

Saturday, April 26, 2025 | 8:45-10AM
Speaker: Rae Lynn Stackpoole, Occupational Therapist,
BoneFit™ USA Trainer via the Osteoporosis Foundation

Hormone Therapy in Peri and Post Menopause

Saturday, May 3, 2025 | 8:45-10AM
Speaker: Jenne Wax, M.D. and Menopause Specialist

Pelvic Power: Navigating Peri-and Post-Menopause
with Confidence

Saturday, May 17, 2025 | 8:45-10AM

Speaker: Brittany Robinson, Doctor of Physical Therapy,
Pelvic Floor Specialist

Some Like It Cold

Saturday, May 31, 2025 | 8:45-10AM

Speaker: Amy Hopkins, RN, LMT

Strong for Life

Saturday, June 14, 2025 | 8:45-10AM

Speaker: Rae Lynn Stackpoole, OT, Personal Trainer,

Menopause Health and Fitness Specialist