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Portrait Studio: Proportion before Detail
with Ed Higgins, Merrymeeting Community & Adult Education
By popular demand, a reboot of Ed Higgins’ popular introduction to portraits. You’ll learn key elements of achieving likeness and accuracy of proportion through speed sketching drills, anatomy basics, working with the skull, and from life. If you need help choosing materials for the course, please contact the instructor directly (ed_higgins@icloud.com) before the first class. *No Class: 4/24.
Embodied Wisdom: Simple and Profound Connections for Health, Happiness, and Wholeness
with Jacey Goddard, Merrymeeting Community & Adult Education
Our body's perfect human design is just waiting for us to connect to it to support our health and wellbeing. You'll learn Dr. Goddard’s favorite wholeness-based and science-backed methods that help on many levels that you can immediately put into practice in your daily life. These practices can help you to: Calm your own nervous system, Decrease body tension and stress, Experience more wholeness and sense of self, Support your body's self-healing capacity, Make all the work you've done really work.
Studiocraft Workshop
with Ed Higgins, Merrymeeting Community & Adult Education
Calling all fine artists! Instructor Ed Higgins is offering a series of Studiocraft sessions to help you learn the essential skills of your vocation. We will cover topics such as: stretching canvas or watercolor paper; preparing surfaces with gesso or other grounds; cutting mats with a mat cutter; organizing and caring for your brushes, tools and materials; mixing paint and filling empty tubes; tips and tricks to transport your gear to and from the field, and; ways to use your sketches and studies to plan and execute studio work. *No Class: 4/24.
Flow and Gentle Yoga Live - Online
with Nicola Eden, Merrymeeting Community & Adult Education
From the comfort of your own space, experience the gifts of yoga through awareness of mind and body, attention to movement and breath, explorations in slowing down, down to the ground, and moments of settling into stillness, all to support your journey. Guided by Nicola, with a sustainable approach, and open to all. Nicola Eden is a Yoga Alliance Registered Yoga Teacher with a Maine State Teacher Certificate.
Explorations in Chair Yoga Live - Online
with Nicola Eden, Merrymeeting Community & Adult Education
Take care of yourself from the comfort of your own space. You are welcome to experience the gifts of yoga through awareness of mind and body, attention to movement and breath, studies in slowing down, and moments of settling into stillness, while in and out of your stable chair. Guided by Nicola, with a sustainable approach, and open to all. Nicola Eden is a Yoga Alliance Registered Yoga Teacher with a Maine State Teacher Certificate.
Intro to Chair Yoga Live - Online
with Nicola Eden, Merrymeeting Community & Adult Education
Take care of yourself from the comfort of your own space. You are welcome to experience the gifts of yoga through awareness of mind and body, attention to movement and breath, studies in slowing down, and moments of settling into stillness, while in and out of your stable chair. Guided by Nicola, with a sustainable approach, and open to all. Nicola Eden is a Yoga Alliance Registered Yoga Teacher with a Maine State Teacher Certificate.
Spring Candle Making (FF)
with Asia Cole, Merrymeeting Community & Adult Education
Ages: 7 - 17
*This is a Family-Friendly program, which means this workshop is open only to adults with minors. To participate in this program, adults need to register themselves and at least one child. An adult can register multiple children (up to 3).
Join us in crafting beeswax spring candles. First, we will dip our own candles, and then we will decorate them with flowers and bees using colorful beeswax sheets. Suitable for ages 7 and up (children under 12 may require adult assistance). A $10 materials fee, payable to the instructor, must be paid the day of class.
CALL US AT 729-7323 TO REGISTER!
Spring Reset Mini-Retreat: Begin Again
with Heather Shaughnessy-Cato, Merrymeeting Community & Adult Education
This 2-hour retreat offers space to slow down and reconnect with yourself through guided meditation, mindfulness and self-compassion practices, and journaling. Together, we’ll explore themes of balance, grounding, and “beginning again,” then gently reflect on what’s working well in your days, and what you’d like to adjust in the season ahead. You’ll leave with a few small, doable steps to support your well-being in the months to come.