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Community Walk
with RSU #3 Adult & Community Education

Lace up your sneakers, grab your music and a friend, and come on inside for some walking fun.
Don’t be a couch potato this winter!
The Mt View complex has been mapped out for community members to get some exercise! Add a spin around the track for some added fresh air!
Pre-registration is required and there will be an Orientation on your first night.
Cost is only a one time $5 registration fee per year
A Student's Guide to Building Brain Power
with Carole Freeman, Gray-New Gloucester Adult Education

School is hard.
Let's face it, you will never get more out of school than you are able to put into it. Getting a good education takes your best effort, physically and mentally. This course is not about learning memory tricks, it's about changing the chemistry and physiology of your brain and its capability for learning by improving blood flow, oxygenation, and nutrient delivery. It will cover how your Autonomic Nervous System can be balanced with your Respiratory System to allow you to feel calmer and more focused under pressure with improved concentration.
In this class we'll go over;
- Release 20-50% more oxygen to the brain tissue
- Improve brain's ability to form long term memory
- Balance the Autonomic Nervous System
- Improve attention and focus
- Improve blood flow to the brain
- Improve the amount of oxygen carried in to the brain
- Improve testing skills
Requirements
It's an advantage, but not required, to take the class, Breath-Taking Basics prior to attending Building Brain Power.
** After payment for this class is received, you will be provided a link, access code and instructions the next business day **
Breath-Taking 101
with Carole Freeman, Gray-New Gloucester Adult Education

Welcome to The Breath-Taking 101
The biggest question I’m asked is "Why would I take a breathing taking class if I already know how to breathe?" But what if you are breathing all wrong?
Breath-Taking classes aren’t just about breathing, everyone knows how to breathe and we know that if you stop breathing, you die. But, if you never learn how to breathe well, you go on to become sick and tired. Since breathing is something you do every moment you’re alive, learning to breath well becomes one of the most essential factors in feeling your best and doing your best every day.
The most important thing to know about Breath-Taking Online classes is that they’re not about learning a single special technique. Courses are developed from the entire Medical field of identifying and correcting Breathing Pattern Disorders.
It’s estimated that 85% of us currently have some type of Breathing Dysfunction that’s connected to feeling sick and tired. Or at the very least, more sick and tired then we need to be.
In this class, I'll go over how to;
- Breathe easier, reduce feelings of shortness of breath
- Increase the amount of oxygen to your muscles during exercise
- Reduce muscle fatigue, gain stamina, & breath easier during activities
- Quickly gain control of your breath during anxious, stressful situations
- Get a deeper, more restful nights sleep
- Eliminate a chronically stuffy nose
- Feel greater brain power by learning to increase blood flow, oxygen and nutrients to the brain
- Relieve muscle tension aquired by daily stresses
Requirements
This class is the starting point and prerequisit to other Breath-Taking courses. It covers the basic understanding of breathing physiology and the foundation of techniques that are core of all other classes. The techiques in Breath-Taking Basics are designed to be practiced over 2-4 weeks before advancing to other programs. You will get more out of future classes with a firm base and skill of these early steps.
** After payment for this class is received, you will be provided a link, access code and instructions the next business day **
Breath-Taking at Night
with Carole Freeman, Gray-New Gloucester Adult Education

Welcome to Breath-Taking at Night
You’d be shocked at how many health disorders are related to, if not caused by, faulty breathing during sleep. While many people feel there’s nothing they can do about snoring or waking frequently at night, they’d be just a surprised to know there’s more you can do about it than you think.
What I'm asking you to do today, is to at least consider the possibility that a poor nights' sleep may be a significant aggravating factor, that could lead to, significant disruption in one's mental health and certain physical health conditions. You and I know that you can’t possibly have your highest brain power, do your best performance and function at your highest level when you are chronically fatigued and drained from lack of deep restful sleep.
Take the Quiz below to see if you may have a Sleep/Breathing Dysfunction:
______Do you have trouble falling asleep, or have trouble getting back to sleep once you wake up in the middle of the night
______Have you been diagnosed with Obstructive Sleep Apnea
______Do you drink alcohol at night before bed
______Do you have to get up multiple times a night to urinate
______Do you have a dry mouth in the morning
______Do you sleep with your mouth open
______Are you fatigued in the morning
______Do you rarely feel truly well rested
______Do you wake up frequently in the middle of the night
______Do you consider yourself a ‘light sleeper’
______Do you snore
______Do you have a stuffy nose
______Do you eat within 2 hours of going to bed
______Do you wake up sweaty or have hot flashes
If you answered YES to Any of the above symptoms, you likely have a Breathing Dysfunction at Night.
Requirements
It is not manditory, by highy recommended that you complete The Breath-Taking Basic couse prior to attending this course, as it covers the basic information you are expected to be familiar with.
** After payment for this class is received, you will be provided a link, access code and instructions the next business day **
Breath-Taking for Children
with Carole Freeman, Gray-New Gloucester Adult Education

Everything from the shape of your child’s skull and facial features to the function of their lungs is dramatically impacted by their habitual breathing patterns. It’s estimated that 85% of us have some degree of dysfunctional breathing. Much of this starts in childhood and has dramatic consequences on our health, our brain function, and our appearance over our lifetime.
Since you breathe every moment of your life, how you breathe has surprising effects on your health every moment too. This is where you can make a dramatic difference in your child’s life.
Description
The course covers recognizing breathing pattern disorders in children and babies. Learn to teach simple playful breathing exercises suitable for children to help them release stress and improve breathing function.
What you'll learn:
- Learn how your child's breathing pattern will affect the shape of their skull and mouth as they grow
- Understand which breathing pattern creates dental cavities and bad breath
- Learn to spot dysfunctional breathing before it is too damaging
- Learn to teach a child to calm themselves with breathing
- Teach a child to throw off stress and anger
- Learn games and activities that will help your child develop health breathing habit
- Learn to teach a child to clear their stuffy nose
- Learn to identify an abnormal sleep/breathing pattern in a baby or child
** After payment for this class is received, you will be provided a link, access code and instructions the next business day **
High Altitude Vacationing
with Carole Freeman, Gray-New Gloucester Adult Education

If you are planning a mountain vacation 4-6 weeks from now TAKE THIS CLASS NOW
High Altitude Vacationing is for people who are planning to vacation in a mountain region. The higher altitude reduces the amount of oxygen that will reach the body’s tissue, including the brain. You may have heard of people going to Denver, and other high altitude locations, to train for elite sports. But we won’t need an elaborate training center. You’ll progress through 10 exercises, over 4 to 6 weeks, that will help your body begin to adapt to the higher altitude while still at home at sea level. Changes in your body will include an increase in Red Blood Cells, giving your blood more oxygen carrying capacity prior to your vacation. You will learn a more functional breathing pattern that gives greater tissue oxygenation and less shortness of breath. Using the new, more optimal breathing pattern, will allow you to maintain a higher oxygen level and ease of breathing while on vacation.
What you'll learn;
- To have more functiona breathing for better oxygenation
- Improve your energy level
- Be able to think more clearly
- Improve your blood Oxygen Carrying Capacity
- Reduce Shortness of Breath, even in an emergency,
- Increase Respiratory Muscle Strength
Requirements
Contraindications for this class; Pregnancy, Heart Disease, Diabetes, Sever COPD or other severe illness.
No content on this site, should ever be used as a substitute for direct medical advice from your doctor or other qualified clinician.
** After payment for this class is received, you will be provided a link, access code and instructions the next business day **
How You Can Help Others
with Carole Freeman, Gray-New Gloucester Adult Education

Have you ever seen a patient or family member becoming more and more anxious with ever increasing shortness of breath and wanted to offer more help?
This class teaches you simple ways to help your patients feel calmer and breath more freely.
Healthcare Workers, and caring individuals alike, will be able to participate in the exercises and activities throughout the class to feel for themselves the techniques and benefits of this training.
What you'll learn:
- Understand more about Breathing Pattern Disorders
- Recognize potential breathing problems before they get worse
- Learn how to help others calm themselves when is distress
- Teach others how to have more effective breathing
- Show others how to imrove their oxygenation deepening their breath
- Learn how to correct hyperventilation
Requirements
There are no prerequisites for this class. Everyone is welcome and will be able to learn techniques to help others and themselves.
** After payment for this class is received, you will be provided a link, access code and instructions the next business day **
Rebuilding Energy and Endurance at Any Age
with Carole Freeman, Gray-New Gloucester Adult Education

Learn why the secret to greater Energy and Endurance starts, and ends, with the strength of your respiratory system.
Description
Here’s why this Breath-Taking course works.
Because every cell in your body is dependent on oxygen to create energy. And the amount of oxygen available to every cell in your body and brain is dependent on the breath. To be even more specific, dependent on the quality of your breathing pattern and function. This class will train you, and your entire respiratory system, to be more efficient at delivering blood, oxygen, glucose, and nutrients to all those cells. Whether you’re an athlete or not, the secret to greater strength and endurance starts and ends with the strength of your respiratory system. No matter how long you train, or how hard you work out, when your breathing gives out - your body follows.
The class is presented as if the student will give themselves at least 3-6 weeks to implement these new exercises and techniques.
This course is full of class exercises that will help you understand and feel the difference in your health right away.
What you'll learn:
- Improve respiratory muscle strength
- Reduce Fatigue
- Improve core strength
- Increase muscle oxygenation
- Improve spinal stability
- Reduce back pain
- Get more strength out of your strength-training
- Reduce Shortness of Breath
- Increase awareness of your optimal breathing pattern
- Improve balance
Requirements
It is encouraged, but not mandatory, for the student to attend the Breath-Taking Basics course prior to attending Regaining Energy and Endurance.
** After payment for this class is received, you will be provided a link, access code and instructions the next business day **