Newsletter
November 2021
New Corporate Member
Art Your Service
Art Your Service creates daily Virtual Classes & Socials for 55+, for all experience and mobility levels.
With two classes a day, five days a week there’s always something to enjoy. In the morning is a fitness or movement class and in the afternoon you can take an art or cooking class or attend a lecture, music class or social. Think of it as a virtual community centre, you don’t have to pre-register for specific sessions, simply drop-in any time you want. Access is easy with a simple click of the mouse, all from the comfort and convenience of your own home.
Excellent certified fitness and creative instructors helped us win “Gold winner of the 2021 Toronto Star’s Readers’ Choice for ‘Adult Activity Program.”
Classes like Pilates, Yoga and Interactive Museum Tours has engaged up 500+ monthly subscribers from across Canada and in the States.
More feedback includes:
“What a wonderful variety of programs! I have attended quite a few and loved them all. I am not a gym person, but I thought that Pilates, Yoga and Gentle Moves were fantastic! Every host has very unique approach which makes exercising not only useful, but also inviting and interesting.”
- Margaret Wasowski
“The stretch and strength with Jill has made an amazing change in my mobility. “
-Thea Adams
“Before joining this group I was feeling so depressed for the isolation but after I started the classes I felt energized. The exercise classes are so wonderful but also I like very much the cooking and painting sessions!”
-Gina Cruz
Owner Jen Tindall has a background in arts management, event planning and working with older people. She hosts each session every day from her home in Whitby, ON. She created Virtual Classes & Socials for 55+ at the height of the pandemic, when seniors were isolated and lonely. Now over a year later folks are using the service more than ever as they find it an easy way to stay fit, happy and engaged. Art Your Service has individual and group subscription rates. Visit www.artyourservice.org or call 416-500-3435 for more information.
Jen Tindall, Owner & Programmer
Art Your Service
Virtual Classes & Socials for 55+
Tel: (416) 500-3435
Email: jen@artyourservice.org
Website: www.artyourservice.org
Exercise Is Medicine
In partnership with our long-standing member, the Canadian Society for Exercise Physiology, CSEP, we were able to secure funding to assist with the dissemination of their newest publication, Exercise is Medicine. In the new year, all members will be receiving a copy of this resource. We will also provide you with links to access the Exercise is Medicine resources that CSEP has developed for medical professionals and allied health practitioners. These new resources will inform older adults about safe and successful engagement in physical activity.
Our project also includes the re-establishment of our Older Adult Advisory Committee and recruiting role models to assist us with the promotion of the benefits of an active lifestyle.
Watch your mail in 2022 for this new health promotion publication.
Benefits of Your Membership
Your membership with Active Aging Canada can be as valuable as you chose to make it. We are here to help promote your services, products, and resources. We are also able to be a partner on projects and assist with dissemination, just as we have done with the CSEP resource.
- We have the ability to directly reach over 5,000 older adults through our data base.
- We average 5,000 visitors a month to our website.
- Our membership of 40+ national/provincial/local and individual members have a significant reach across Canada to their members and beyond.
- We have social media outlets with Face Book, Twitter, and Google Ads.
So, take advantage of your membership and let us be your knowledge broker to assist in getting your information into the hands of older adults.
Patricia Clark
National Executive Director
exdir@activeagingcanada.ca
