Reconnect with your body and the natural world in this 60-minute practice designed to restore balance, flexibility, and ease. Each session begins with a calming meditation to anchor your awareness in the present moment, helping you move with the grace and resilience of nature.
Using a combination of standing and chair-supported exercises, we’ll explore stretches, mobility flows, and use gentle strengthening to release tension and awaken your natural range of motion.
Each class is guided by a nature-inspired intention—such as stillness, growth, or renewal—encouraging harmony between your inner landscape and the world around you.
This class welcomes all bodies, ages, and experience levels. Come as you are.
This program meets in person at the Arboretum.
Instructor: Mandy Caverzasi, dance instructor
Age: 16 and older
Course number: WELL570
Instructor
Mandy Caverzasi, dance instructor
Mandy studied dance and choreography at Bryn Mawr College and trained to teach yoga at the Sivananda ashram in Kerala, India, and later with Yoga Detour. Her classes combine mindfulness, mobility work, and flow for a feel-good practice that is accessible and effective. She loves working with active, older adults, breaking down complicated movements and putting them together again. She is experienced working with adults with neurological conditions like Parkinson’s, M.S., and Alzheimer’s, and is skilled at building community. She also participated in the Dance Exchange’s 2025 Creative Aging Institute.
What to Know
This program meets indoors.
Wear comfortable clothes that are easy to move in. Bring water.
All skill levels are welcome.
Program Schedule
This program meets during these times; choose your session. Pricing is per session.
Thursday, February 26, 2026; 1:30 to 2:30 p.m.
Cudahy Room, Administration and Research Center (parking lot P-1), East Side
Thursday, March 5, 2026; 1:30 to 2:30 p.m.
Thornhill Education Center (parking lot P-21), West Side
Thursday, March 12, 2026; 1:30 to 2:30 p.m.
Thornhill Education Center (parking lot P-21), West Side
Thursday, March 19, 2026; 1:30 to 2:30 p.m.
Thornhill Education Center (parking lot P-21), West Side
