Change is hard. Your usual routine to stay healthy and happy involves a trip to your Y every day, and now the doors are closed and you're not moving your body the way it needs. Plus, the news is anxiety-arousing and
you need your exercise endorphins to support your mental health.
Y member Sherrill is missing her classmates and instructors.
"Egad! I can't wait for some online exercise instruction from the Y to keep me up on my routine," she says. "I'm walking every day for at least 2 hours, but it's not as much fun without my buddies!"
We understand.
In these unprecedented times, we are opening up our virtual doors to the community and inviting you and your families to join us on a mission to stay healthy. Your health and well-being is our highest priority and, if you can't get inside the Y, we will bring the Y to you.
How?
Your Y's own fitness instructors have been creating fitness classes in the Y's Movement Center. We are uploading them to the Eugene Family YMCA's YouTube page. More will be created each day. We will bring you yoga and stretching classes too.
You will see your Y's fitness instructors and their smiles, hear their laughter and work out to the music that's always made you pick up the beat or relax into savasana!
You may be in your living room, but you'll feel like you are at your Y.
This is an extraordinarily challenging time, unlike anything we have experienced. While we need to maintain social distance today, our Y community is strong and connected--- always, but even more now virtually!
We will get through this together. And when we emerge from this challenging moment, we look forward to welcoming you and your families back through our doors.
But you won't have missed a workout and you'll have retained your balance, strength and cardiovascular health.
Y member Hope is at home practicing the yoga that she learned at the Y.
"This is how Tina ended her yoga classes," she says. "I still use it for my home practice:
