Sandhills Community College Adds New Continuing Education DivisionIf you're like most Americans, improved health topped your New Year's resolutions, and the new Center for Healthy Living through Sandhills Community College stands ready to help you keep them.
Seeking to impart healthy lifestyle habits among area residents, the center will promote its mission of wellness in the community by helping individuals make healthy choices. Programs will be concentrated in three areas: nutrition and culinary skills, holistic beauty care, and health and fitness.
Areas of focus within each of the three program areas include: successful and healthy aging; active lives and physical activity; nutrition; healthy cooking; emotional and spiritual components of health; and environmental health.
Bobbie Miller, director of the Center for Healthy Living and a program instructor, teaches Pilates and is a certified massage therapist.
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new division of Continuing Education at Sandhills is a "place where wellness courses, both traditional and non-traditional, will be offered."
Robin Curlee, an aesthetics instructor at Sandhills, will inaugurate the center with holistic beauty care. Participants were introduced to cosmetics, foods, exercises and fundamentals of care for aging skin.
Miller is teaching a course to help build perfect posture through Pilates and yoga-based exercise, and a "Silver Seniors" program will focus on health and wellness for senior citizens.
Bill Croft, chairman and professor in Sandhills' respiratory therapy program, will teach courses in February with a lecture series on whole food nutrition. A graduate of the American Health Science University Nutrition Program, Croft's lectures will include Whole Foods Made Simple, Mindful Eating for Longevity and Vitality, Supermarket Savvy Shopping for Dietary Success, and Food is Thy Medicine: Menu Planning for Lung Disease.
Course offerings are scheduled through the summer, and if the community is responsive to the center, courses will be scheduled for the fall semester.
Registration for Spring 2008 Continuing Education courses is ongoing, and persons may register up to one week prior to the first class meeting.
Walk-in registration takes place at the Continuing Education office on the first floor of Van Dusen Hall on Monday through Thursday from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., and on Friday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Individuals may also register by calling 695-3980. Phone-in registration requires payment with Visa or Mastercard.
For more information about other courses offered through the division of Continuing Education, call 692-6185 or visit the Web site at www.sandhills.edu.
