Learn about the foundational movements of Breaking, and their connection to Hip Hop culture with instructor, Mooki. Classes will be focused around learning steps, and terminology which will provide students a knowledge base to take the dance into their own hands.

Breaking is an extremely powerful exercise tool, and a course like this will benefit participants who are looking to find a fun, new way to stay in shape. These activities will have no particular physical requirements and are in one way or another accessible for all.

REGISTER – Sept 27, Oct 11 & 18 and Nov 1, 8, 22 and 29, Notre Dame Campus: Wednesdays, 12:10pm to 12:50pm, in the South Gym. All experience levels welcome.

T’ai Chi involves the use of daily gentle exercise to improve health with a focus on breathwork. Sifu Josh Schafer teaches this longevity practice that is easy to access and yet profound enough for a lifelong engagement. The universal martial arts movements serve as a focus for the development of mind, body, and spirit (Chi).

REGISTER – Notre Dame Campus: Mondays, 12:10pm to 12:55pm, in the South Gym. All experience levels welcome.

NEW – REGISTER – Exchange District Campus: Thursdays, 7am to 7:45am, in P107. All experience levels welcome.

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For a virtual Tai Chi option and other online movement classes or wellness workshops, visit MindWell. All programs are free for RRC Polytech staff, students and faculty. Create or sign in to your account to get started.

Holly Pluchinski guides in-person yoga participants in a room surrounded by soothing sounds and panoramas. Stretch and relax! Suitable for all levels and mats are provided.

Wednesdays starting September 20, 2023, 12:10pm to 12:50pm, Notre Dame Campus, GM33, near North Gym.

REGISTER: In-person OR Virtual option available, all registrants will have access to the recording as well for one week after the class.

NOTE: Link will be emailed to participants after registration. No food is allowed in the room. Click here for more information about the Immersion Room.

From the comfort of your home or office, Holly leads a 30-minute yoga class allowing participants to stretch, breathe and feel good. Suitable for all levels. 

REGISTER – Fridays, 12:15 to 12:45pm, link will be emailed to registrants separately.

NOTE: Bonus class on Wednesday, September 13!

Learn practical self defense techniques in a friendly and fun atmosphere. Gain confidence and fitness while adding tools and techniques to the martial arts toolkit. Topics to be explored include effective movement and striking theory, range strategy, defense against weapons, neutralizing the grappling attack. No previous experience necessary to join.

REGISTER – Exchange District Campus: Wednesdays, September 20 to October 25*, 4:15pm to 5:15pm, in P107 in the Roblin Center.

*Note: No class on October 11, 2023.

These fun and high energy sessions utilize bodyweight exercises, kettlebells, dumbbells, medicine balls, bands and more for a compete total-body workout.

• Improve your mood, health and fitness in this action-packed class that will have you building muscle and fully energized for the rest of your day!

• All fitness levels are welcome & exercise progressions and modifications will be provided throughout each workout to accommodate everyone.

• With Coach MG

REGISTER – Notre Dame Campus, North Gym: Tuesdays and Thursdays 12:10 – 12:50pm

Build strength, flexibility, and training knowledge in this self-paced class that focuses on movement quality over quantity.

• Incorporate a combination of strength exercises with mobility and flexibility drills to counteract our repetitive daily activities.

• Improve your physical performance and reduce the likelihood of injuries and chronic pain. • All fitness levels are welcome & exercise progressions and modifications will be provided throughout each workout to accommodate everyone.

• With Coach Justin Ross

REGISTER – Notre Dame Campus, North Gym: Mondays and Wednesdays 12:10 – 12:50pm

Borrow one of Campus Well-Being’s bikes to go for lunch, run an errand or cruise around the area. Our four new bikes include Moose and Bear (large), Eagle (medium) and Goose (small).  Come to the NDC North Gym customer service desk during regular gym hours, fill out a waiver and pick your bike – daytime borrowing only by students and staff.

Learn more about the Bike Share program here.

By Thursday each week, select the teams you think will win for the upcoming weekend games and submit them to be entered for a grand prize. Starting Monday, September 5, 2023 (for week 14), this contest will be running up to and including the Grey Cup. Connect with other football fans in a TEAMS online chat group.

Weekly team picks can be submitted by email to Kristi Dorian, Recreation and Wellness Coordinator. Game on!

Campus Well-Being welcomes you to a new term! Challenge yourself in a Minute to Win It game, play giant games like Jenga, Chess, Checkers or Connect 4, try table tennis, join some peers in a friendly card game or do some puzzles or colouring.

DROP-IN: Notre Dame Campus: Thursday, Sept 7, 2023 – 10am to 2pm. Library Hallway.

DROP-IN – Exchange District Campus: Thursday, Sept 14, 2023 – 10am to 2pm. Dining Hall near Tim Hortons in The Roblin Centre.

Bring yourself, your friends or family for an “all welcome” board game night.

DROP-IN – Exchange District Campus: Tuesday, Sept 19, 4pm to 7pm, in the Dining Hall in The Roblin Centre near Tim Hortons.

DROP-IN – Notre Dame Campus: Thursday, Sept 21, 4pm to 7pm, in The Cave, DM30.

Games include: Anomia, Battleship, Boggle, Can you Name 5, Catan Family Edition, Chess and Checkers, Cranium, Taboo, Cribbage and Crib Wars, Dominoes, Forbidden Island, Hedbanz, Jenga, Last Word, Monopoly (board game) and Monoply Deal (cards), Othello, Pictionary, Pictureka, Scrabble, Sequence, Taboo, Telestrations, Trivial Pursuit, Uno, Yahtzee, and You Don’t Say.

Contact Kristi if you’d like to reserve a specific game for your group of friends, classmates or staff team.

This workshop combines the practice of meditation with the creation of mandalas, a form of ancient, circular art. Dr. Nandita Selvanathan guides participants through a meditative process to access their inner artist, giving them the tools to create their own mandala. This practice can help to reduce stress and promote healing.

FULL – Exchange District Campus: Tuesday, Sept 5, 4:30pm to 6:30pm, P107, The Roblin Centre, Exchange District Campus

Email Kristi to register – In-Person or Virtual – Notre Dame Campus: Tuesday, Sept 12, 2023 – 4:30 to 6:30pm, FM34 Connected Classroom (Look for FM28 and down the hall at the end)

Animal and human interactions can offer many positive health benefits. For example, animals can help decrease our cortisol levels (a stress hormone), lower blood pressure, reduce feelings of loneliness, and help boost our mood. They are also fun to have around and offer us to chance to form unique and intimate bonds.

DROP-BY – Notre Dame Campus: Monday, Sept 18, 2023: 11:30am – 1pm, Campus Store Hallway, In-person

DROP-BY – Exchange District Campus: Monday, Sept 25, 2023: 11:30am – 1pm, Atrium of The Roblin Centre, In-person

Regional campuses, check with your Academic Success Coach to find out if Therapy Dogs are coming to your location.

Treat yourself to two hours of creative fun making your own vision board to set you up for the academic year with a clear vision of your commitments to yourself.

Also known as dream boards, a vision board is a visualization tool which refers to a board of any sort used to build a collage of words and pictures that represent your goals and dreams. These inspirational collages serve as your image of the future – a tangible example, idea or representation of where you are going. By putting a vision board somewhere you can see it every day, you will prompt yourself to visualize your life on a regular basis.

Your vision board becomes a powerful reminder throughout the year. Conversation and community will arise naturally as we each engage in our own creative work.

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REGISTER – In-Person Session at the Notre Dame Campus: Thursday, Sept 28, 2023 from 4pm to 6pm in The Cave, DM30.

All materials supplied: Scissors, glue, poster board and variety of magazines. Bring any personalized pictures or graphics with you to include if wanted.

Unleash your inner DIY enthusiast at our upcoming RRC Polytech Renters and Home Owner Series Electrical Workshop! Gain hands-on experience as you learn about the art of breaker checks, light switch and plug replacements, and unravel the mysteries of 3-way circuits. Don’t miss this opportunity to enhance your home maintenance skills. Sign up today and electrify your knowledge!

CLASS FULL – Notre Dame Campus: Tuesday, September 26, 2023, 4:30pm to 6:30pm, in B1-29.

Tuesdays 4:00 – 5:30pm (North Gym) beginning September 12

Thursdays 4:00 – 5:30pm (North Gym) beginning September 14

Wednesdays 4:00 – 5:30pm (North Gym) beginning September 13

Fridays 4:00 – 5:30 (North Gym) beginning September 15

Campus Well-Being welcomes four new bikes to our Bike Share program – Moose and Bear (large), Eagle (medium) and Goose (small).  Come to the NDC North Gym customer service desk during regular gym hours, fill out a waiver and pick your bike – daytime borrowing only by students and staff.

Learn more about the Bike Share program here.

Tai Chi is a low impact, easy-to-learn routine that improves health, balance, and relaxation.

What you can expect:
• Low impact exercise that anyone can practice
• Easy-to-learn and helps to improve memory
• Gentle movements with no sweating or straining
• No special clothing or equipment needed

This class is appropriate for beginners and for people with past Tai Chi experience. We will learn about body alignment, gravity, motion, and power. We will practice deep breathing and strategies for relaxing and reducing anxiety. Come have fun and enjoy getting healthy together.

June Theme: Tai Chi: Relieve Stress & Increase Mobility Discover simple movements to improve your physical and mental health, balance and relaxation through the ancient art of Tai Chi.

Register

Visit MindWell for online Tai Chi, Mindful Movement and other wellness classes. All programs are free for RRC Polytech staff, students and faculty. Create your account to get started.

From the comfort of your home or office, Holly leads a 30-minute yoga class allowing participants to stretch, breathe and feel good. Suitable for all levels. 

REGISTER: Wednesdays and Fridays in June, 12:15 to 12:45pm

Registration required. Link will be emailed to registrants separately.

These fun and high-energy sessions utilize bodyweight exercises and a variety of fitness equipment for a complete total-body workout. All fitness levels are welcome. Our coaches will provide exercise progressions and modifications throughout each workout to accommodate everyone.

REGISTER: Tuesdays & Thursdays, 12:10pm – 12:50pm – Classes run until June 20th.

Please contact Davis with questions.

Animal and human interactions can offer many positive health benefits. For example, animals can help decrease our cortisol levels (a stress hormone), lower blood pressure, reduce feelings of loneliness, and help boost our mood. They are also fun to have around and offer us to chance to form unique and intimate bonds.

DROP-BY: NOTRE DAME CAMPUS – Wednesday, June 7, 2023: 11:30am – 1pm. Near the fountain/greenery next to Prairie Lights/Lecture Theatres in the Tim Hortons hallway.

A MindWell Four-Part Series – Cultivating Financial Freedom with Spencer Sherman

Weekly 30-minute sessions begin Thursday, June 1st, 2023

Learn how to shift from doubt and anxiety to confidence and clarity when it comes to finances.

This is an opportunity to transform your financial life – regardless of how much money you have right now. Join Spencer Sherman to:

• Calculate and Cultivate Enough: How enough impacts earnings and well-being. The surprising connection between an Enough mindset and financial success?
• Know your Numbers and your Money Filters: How loosening the grip on our inherited beliefs influences spending, savings and investing.
• Reframe: Use an emotional intelligence practice to rewire our beliefs and autopilot ways with money.
• Make decisions from evidence: Breaking the money taboo and having a forwarding money conversation.

Register

Visit MindWell for online Take 5 Daily program, mindfulness, movement and other wellness classes. All programs are free for RRC Polytech staff, students and faculty. Create your account to get started.

Bring your bike to the Notre Dame Campus bus loop on Thursday, June 29 at 12pm to join a special lunch-hour ride to Sargent Sundae on Portage Ave, from noon to 1:30pm. Please register (email Kristi) so we know whom to expect. Remember to bring your helmet, some water, and money to buy an ice cream.

On Friday, June 9, from 1 to 3pm –  Campus Well-Being and Global Access welcome you to pop by and play some indoor/outdoor games like table tennis, giant Jenga, chess and Connect 4, Ladder Toss, Spike Ball and a variety of other games.

Our North Gym is open for drop-in sport! Choose from a variety of sport equipment and play between 6:30am and 5:00pm from Monday to Friday. Whether you want to shoot some hoops, kick a soccer ball, or play some badminton, we have everything you need to play.

We have equipment available to play the following sports:

• Basketball  
• Cricket     
• Pickleball 
• Football
• Ultimate Frisbee
• Spikeball
• Volleyball
• Badminton 
• Futsal (Indoor soccer)

Use your RRC ID card to sign out equipment with our gym staff. We’ll provide the equipment, and you’re responsible for set-up and takedown of the activity. Ask our gym staff for help if you’re not sure how to set something up.

All students and staff are welcome to attend. Our open gym time is a great opportunity to get active and make some new friends at the same time.

Ride Don’t Hide is an annual picnic and community bike ride to raise awareness and funds for mental health supports.

Join the RRC Polytech Ride Don’t Hide team and come to Vimmy Ridge Park on June 25 at 9am to bring our community together, celebrate, raise funds and ride the picturesque Wolseley & Wellington Loop. 

RRC Polytech is sponsoring the registration fees of up to 20 riders, so let’s ride!

Learn more here and contact Breanna Sawatzky to join the team.

We have some talented instructors and a great variety of programs to help get you moving toward your fitness goals or take your routine to the next level. Our coaches will provide exercise progressions & modifications to accommodate all fitness levels.

All classes are at the Notre Dame Campus unless otherwise noted. Some fitness & yoga classes are offered virtually and at the Exchange District Campus. 

Class Schedule (April 24, 2023 – June 15 , 2023)  
 
Mondays  

• Muscle & Mobility (40min), 11:10am 

Tuesdays  

• Strength & Conditioning (40min), 12:10pm 

Wednesdays 

• Muscle & Mobility (40min), 11:10am  
• Virtual Yoga (30min), 12:15pm 

Thursdays  

• Strength & Conditioning (40min), 12:10pm  
• Yoga at EDC (45min), 4:15pm

Fridays 

• Virtual Yoga (30min), 12:15pm 

Please register at the links above. All classes are open to students and staff who have valid facility memberships. More information about memberships can be found here.  Most students and staff automatically have a membership. Contact recreation with any questions

Our North Gym is open for drop-in sport! Choose from a variety of sport equipment and play between 6:30am and 5:00pm from Monday to Friday. Whether you want to shoot some hoops, kick a soccer ball, or play some badminton, we have everything you need to play.

We have equipment available to play the following sports:

• Basketball  
• Cricket     
• Pickleball 
• Football
• Ultimate Frisbee
• Spikeball
• Volleyball
• Badminton 
• Futsal (Indoor soccer)

Use your RRC ID card to sign out equipment with our gym staff. We’ll provide the equipment, and you’re responsible for setup and takedown of the activity. Ask our gym staff for help if you’re not sure how to set something up.

All students and staff are welcome to join. Our open gym time is a great opportunity to get active and make some new friends at the same time.

Please contact Davis if you have any questions about drop-in sport.

Join Kristi for a 30 minute noon hour walk around the grounds at Notre Dame Campus or around the downtown area at the Exchange District Campus. Take this opportunity to enjoy some fresh air, change your scenery and move your body while connecting with other people.

For more information and to join one of the groups, contact Kristi.

Campus Well-Being welcomes four new bikes to our Bike Share program – Moose and Bear (large), Eagle (medium) and Goose (small).  Come to the NDC North Gym customer service desk during regular gym hours, fill out a waiver and pick your bike – daytime borrowing only by students and staff.

Learn more about the Bike Share program here.

T’ai Chi involves the use of daily gentle exercise to improve health with a focus on breathwork. This longevity practice is easy to access and yet profound enough for a lifelong engagement. The universal martial arts movements serve as a focus for the development of mind, body, and spirit (Chi).

REGISTER: Mondays, 12:10pm to 12:55pm, in the South Gym, NDC. All experience levels welcome.

Join Sifu Josh Schafer who has been training in Traditional Chinese Martial Arts (TCMA) for over three decades. His expertise includes Taiji (Yang Lineage), Tiger Claw Gong Fu (Fu Jiow Pai), and Praying Mantis Fist (Tang Lang Ch’uan).

Join Chaley Martens after school or work for a 45-minute yoga class to unwind from your day. Suitable for all levels and mats are provided.

REGISTER – Exchange District Campus, Thursdays, 4:15pm to 5:00pm in P107 of The Roblin Centre.

From the comfort of your home or office, Holly leads a 30-minute yoga class allowing participants to stretch, breathe and feel good. Suitable for all levels. 

REGISTER: Wednesdays and Fridays, 12:15 to 12:45pm

Registration required. NOTE: Link will be emailed to registrants separately.

Students and staff are invited to plant and tend to a community garden plot, located behind the Notre Dame Campus.

Connect with the earth as you dig in the soil, watch nature grow after planting vegetables and flowers, nurture your spirit while pulling weeds over the summer. Then discover the exhilaration of harvesting and preparing food you helped grow.

For more information and availability:

• If you are a student, please contact Chloe with the Students’ Association.

• If you are a staff member, contact Kristi, Recreation and Wellness Coordinator.

NOTE: Kick off starts the week of May 23, 2023, after the May long weekend. Plots available: Full plots 9’x18′ or half size. The Grounds crew will regularly water the garden boxes over the summer, students and staff are responsible for the ongoing upkeep of their garden plot.

Campus Well-Being and the Students’ Association welcome you to a new term! Play some giant games like Jenga, Chess, Checkers or Connect 4, shoot some mini hoops or try table tennis*, join some peers in a friendly card game or do some colouring.

DROP-IN – Exchange District Campus: Thursday May 4, 2023 – 10am to 2pm. Dining Hall near Tim Hortons in The Roblin Centre.

DROP-IN – Notre Dame Campus: Thursday, May 11, 2023 – 10am to 2pm. Library Hallway.

*Note: Table tennis and mini hoops only available at NDC.

Art is a powerful form of medicine – with the power to heal, to find insight, stillness and growth, to de-stress and feel in balance. Making art is a safe space to be wild and free.” Kisa MacIssac 

REGISTER – Virtual – Tuesday, May 9, 2023 – 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm

Join Campus Well-Being, the Students’ Association and instructor Kisa MacIsaac, for an evening of painting and creative discovery. Participants follow a step-by-step process to create a unique painted canvas. There is no cost for this event. All students and staff are welcome to register.  

Paint Night Kits (limited number, students only): If you are a RRC Polytech student at NDC or EDC, only twenty (20) student paint night kits are available.

Email Kristi for more information.

Bring your friends and family for an “all welcome” board game night.

DROP-IN – EXCHANGE DISTRICT CAMPUS: Tuesday, May 16, 4pm to 7pm, in the Dining Hall in The Roblin Centre near Tim Hortons.

DROP-IN – NOTRE DAME CAMPUS:  Thursday, May 18, 4pm to 7pm, in The Cave.

Some of the games include: Catan Family Edition, Cranium, Taboo, Cribbage and Crib Wars, Forbidden Island, Monopoly (board game) and Monoply Deal (cards), Uno, Scrabble, Boggle, Yahtzee, Telestrations, Chess and Checkers, Sequence, Hedbanz, Battleship, Jenga, Dominoes and Pictionary.

Contact Kristi if you’d like to reserve a specific game for your group of friends, classmates or staff team.