Red Cross Babysitting 11-15 Years (or completion of grade 5) Wednesday Nov 12, 2025 (Fall 2025)21 spots available
The Babysitting course refreshed and revised, now has a greater emphasis on First Aid skills. The Canadian Red Cross Babysitting course covers everything from managing difficult behaviors to essential content on leadership and professional conduct as a babysitter. Babysitting promises to deepen and enhance the responsibility that older youth feel when caring for younger children. This updated curriculum, complete with new science, also provides improved learning when it comes to giving the appropriate care in the event of an emergency.
CourseContent
- How to be responsible and demonstrate leadership
- How to make good decisions and manage difficult behaviors
- Information on children’s developmental stages, and specific strategies for each stage
- How to feed, diaper, dress, and play with children and babies
- How to recognize and prevent unsafe situations, make safe choices and promote safe behaviors
- First aid skills
- The business of babysitting
First Aid Content:
- Check, Call, Care (includes phoning EMS/911)
- Glove removal
- Recovery position
- Conscious choking (adult/child/baby/alone)
- CPR (baby/child)
- Illness
- Asthma (includes use of inhaler and spacer)
- Anaphylaxis (includes use of EpiPen)
- Poisoning
- Insect stings
- Wound care (i.e. minor cuts and scrapes, splinters, nosebleeds, bumps and bruises, life-threatening bleeding, burns)
- Head, neck, and back injuries, broken bones, seizures
Take-Home Materials
- Babysitter’s Manual
Please Bring:
- Indoor Shoes
- a baby-sized floppy doll or teddy (must lay flat)
- lunch
- pencil
- water bottle
Sanimus Academy Focus Through Play (6-9 yr) 1 Day Camp (Fall 2025)9 spots available
Learn about the ABC's of Focus - Awareness, Breathing, and Compassion
Introduction to Awareness Techniques:
- Body Awareness - Focus on each part of the body (feeling the sensations in the body while focusing on each part)
- Mind Awareness - Watching the thoughts coming in and through a fun exercise.
- Spirit Awareness - Through a fun exercise of energy flow awareness
Introduction to Breathing Techniques:
-The 3 Breath Technique
-The Walking Breathing Technique
-The 9 Breath Cleansing Technique
Introduction to Compassion Techniques:
-For Self
-For Family, and Friends
-For All Sentient Beings
Learn individual Focus skills through Soccer Dance Tech Training:
-Warmup - rubber bands and dynamic warmup
-Club Soccer Tech Training Drills for beginners and advanced players - focusing on performing on music rhythm (dance steps combined with soccer drills with and without the ball)
Ball control, and cool down
Santa's Little Sitters Saturday December 20, 2025 3:00 pm - 7:00 pm10 spots available
🎅✨ Get Ready for a Jolly Good Time! 🎄🎁
Need some extra time to prepare for Christmas without the kids? You're in luck! The SSRA is thrilled to offer a fun-filled, festive event that will give you the perfect opportunity to get all your holiday shopping done in peace.
🎨 Crafty Creations: Watch your little elves dive into a world of imagination as they create delightful holiday crafts to bring home.
🏃♂️ Games Galore: Our action-packed holiday-themed games will keep the energy high and the smiles wide.
🍕 Pizza Party: Your little ones will need to recharge after all the crafting and playing, so we’ve planned a delicious pizza feast to refuel and keep the fun going strong!
🤝 Make New Friends: This is the perfect chance for your children to make new friends and create lasting memories with fellow neighborhood kids.
So, while your kids are busy having a blast, you can tackle that holiday to-do list stress-free. It's a win-win for everyone! Don't miss out on this exciting opportunity to make your holiday season a little brighter.
Sign up now and let the holiday cheer begin! 🎅✨
*All children must be fully potty trained to attend
Santa's Little Sitters Saturday December 20, 2025 10:00 am - 2:00 pm15 spots available
🎅✨ Get Ready for a Jolly Good Time! 🎄🎁
Need some extra time to prepare for Christmas without the kids? You're in luck! The SSRA is thrilled to offer a fun-filled, festive event that will give you the perfect opportunity to get all your holiday shopping done in peace.
🎨 Crafty Creations: Watch your little elves dive into a world of imagination as they create delightful holiday crafts to bring home.
🏃♂️ Games Galore: Our action-packed holiday-themed games will keep the energy high and the smiles wide.
🍕 Pizza Party: Your little ones will need to recharge after all the crafting and playing, so we’ve planned a delicious pizza feast to refuel and keep the fun going strong!
🤝 Make New Friends: This is the perfect chance for your children to make new friends and create lasting memories with fellow neighborhood kids.
So, while your kids are busy having a blast, you can tackle that holiday to-do list stress-free. It's a win-win for everyone! Don't miss out on this exciting opportunity to make your holiday season a little brighter.
Sign up now and let the holiday cheer begin! 🎅✨
*All children must be fully potty trained to attend
Santa's Little Sitters Friday December 19, 2025 5:00 pm - 9:00 pm6 spots available
🎅✨ Get Ready for a Jolly Good Time! 🎄🎁
Need some extra time to prepare for Christmas without the kids? You're in luck! The SSRA is thrilled to offer a fun-filled, festive event that will give you the perfect opportunity to get all your holiday shopping done in peace.
🎨 Crafty Creations: Watch your little elves dive into a world of imagination as they create delightful holiday crafts to bring home.
🏃♂️ Games Galore: Our action-packed holiday-themed games will keep the energy high and the smiles wide.
🍕 Pizza Party: Your little ones will need to recharge after all the crafting and playing, so we’ve planned a delicious pizza feast to refuel and keep the fun going strong!
🤝 Make New Friends: This is the perfect chance for your children to make new friends and create lasting memories with fellow neighborhood kids.
So, while your kids are busy having a blast, you can tackle that holiday to-do list stress-free. It's a win-win for everyone! Don't miss out on this exciting opportunity to make your holiday season a little brighter.
Sign up now and let the holiday cheer begin! 🎅✨
*All children must be fully potty trained to attend
Stay Safe 9-13 years old (or completion of grade 3) Thursday Nov 13, 2025 (Fall 2025)17 spots available
This 1-day in-person session instructed by Impact First Aid & CPR is to educate youth aged 9 to 13 years on basic first aid and safety skills for when they are not under the direct supervision of a guardian or parent.The Stay Safe! program teaches applicable and age-appropriate skills while increasing and reinforcing a youth’s capacity to improve his or her own safety. Whether in their community or on their own, this group will be given better tools to Stay Safe! in a variety of different situations.Attendance is required to receive a certificate of completion:Participants will receive a Red Cross Stay Safe! manual, and a certificate upon completion of the program.
Course Content:
- Importance of responsibility and respect while being accountable for yourself
- Importance of setting and following rules around safety when staying on your own
- How to stay safe at home and within the community
- How to prepare, recognize and respond to unexpected situations, (i.e. inclement weather, strangers, unanticipated visits)
First Aid Content:
Check, Call, Care (includes phoning EMS/911), recovery position, conscious choking (adult/child/alone), feeling unwell, asthma (includes the use of inhaler and spacer), anaphylaxis (includes the use of EpiPen), poisoning, insect stings, wound care (i.e. minor cuts and scrapes, splinters, nosebleeds, bumps and bruises, life-threatening bleeding, burns)
Please Bring:
- Indoor Shoes
- a baby-sized floppy doll or teddy (must lay flat)
- lunch
- pencil
- water bottle
Intro to Meditation with Many Trapp Wednesday Nov 5 Fall 202515 spots available
Practical Tools for a Calmer, Clearer Life
This beginner-friendly workshop is designed to demystify meditation and show you how simple, evidence-based practices can help you manage stress, boost focus, and improve your overall well-being—no experience required.
What to Expect:
- A clear, down-to-earth introduction to the science behind meditation
- Insight into how meditation supports the nervous system, reduces anxiety, and improves emotional regulation
- Easy techniques you can use anywhere—at work, at home, or on the go
- A short, guided meditation session to experience it for yourself
- Tips on how to build a practice that fits into real life (even if you’re busy)
You'll leave understanding why meditation works—and how to make it work for you
Attendees to Bring:
- A yoga mat, cushion, or chair for sitting comfortably
- A journal (optional, for reflection)
- Water or tea
- Curiosity and an open mind
Whether you're managing stress, seeking more mental clarity, or simply craving a deeper sense of calm, this workshop is a powerful first step.
Instructor: Mandy
Mandy Trapp is a global meditation and mindfulness expert specializing in stress management and spiritual development. She is the founder of the Lifestyle Meditation Academy and has certified over 3,000 meditation and mindfulness teachers around the world. Her teachings are rooted in spiritual psychology, neuroscience, and energetic insights.
She is the creator of The Practice™, a membership program with the focus on supporting the mental and spiritual health of others through interactive learning and powerful practices such as meditation and breathwork.
Mandy is known for her grounded, practical, and accessible approach to meditation and spirituality which has allowed tens of thousands around the world to confidently move through the stresses and limitations of life and towards more peace and fulfillment.
She is also the owner of El Refugio, an up and coming coveted wellness retreat destination in the beautiful Okanagan, B.C, Canada.
INSTAGRAM: mandytrapp
REGISTRATION REQUIRED
Wednesday, November 5, 2025
Open to Residents and Non-Residents
7:30 pm -9:00 pm
Resident $30 | Non-Resident $35
Call 780-497-7558 to register
Healing Sounds Journey with Marcus Fung Saturday September 20 Fall 202512 spots available
Come enjoy a therapeutic Sound Baths given by a established practicioner of over 15 years.
Some of the benefits of a therapeutic Soundbath include:
- Deep Relaxation: Induce a state of deep relaxation and calmness.
- Sound Healing: Utilize various deeply desonating instruments to create a therapeutic sound environment.
- Stress Relief: Alleviate stress, tension, and mental fatigue.
- Emotional Release: Encourage emotional healing and release of suppressed feelings.
- Enhanced Well-Being: Improve overall well-being and mental clarity.
Attendees to Bring:
- A yoga mat, cushion, or chair for sitting comfortably
- Water or tea
- Curiosity and an open mind
Instructor: Marcus
Marcus Fung is a Chinese-born Canadian musician, educator, and facilitator based in Edmonton (Treaty 6 Territory, Amiskwaciy Waskahikan). A classically trained pianist, he holds diplomas in Jazz Piano Performance and Music Composition from Grant MacEwan College.
Marcus serves the greater Edmonton area as a drum circle facilitator, expressive arts advocate, and sound therapy practitioner. With over 20 years of meditation and psychosomatic exploration, he weaves music, sound, and vibration into yoga classes, breathwork, and ceremonies, focusing on their effects on the nervous system and consciousness.
He has trained in Expressive Arts Therapy, graduated from the 8th Fire School of Shamanism, and completed practitioner training in Ancestral Lineage Repair. Marcus continues to grow his practice as a regenerative culture artist, building community through the healing arts.
INSTAGRAM: earth.harmony.sound.wellness
Mat Pilates Fall 2025 Tuesdays (Indoors)7 spots available
Mat Pilates is a type of mind-body exercise that promotes not only strength, tone, and
flexibility, but also improves your posture and reduces stress. The mat Pilates method aims to strengthen your core or "Powerhouse", lengthen the spine, build muscle tone, and increase body awareness. Following the six principles of control, breath, flow, precision, centering, and stability will help you gain all of these benefits while maintaining your body safely. The mat Pilates exercises are based on the resistance provided by your body's weight and gravity, and the workout is performed on the ground using an exercise mat. Once adding a mat Pilates workout to your routine and experience its benefits, it will provide the foundation for a lifetime of healthy habits.
*Please bring your own yoga mat, labeled water bottle
Please arrive early enough to ensure that class can start on time
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High Fitness Fall 2025 Thursdays (Indoors)9 spots available
Aerobics is back! Bigger, Better, and HIGHer! Experience a modern twist on aerobics in a non-stop action-packed hour of cardio and toning tracks that will take your fitness to the next level. Adaptable to all levels of fitness, you can go high or you can go low but you will always leave feeling HIGH!
Please arrive early enough to ensure that class can start on time
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