THE senior recreation center The Sunshine Place continues to bring sunshine, hope and inspiration to its members—especially those homebound—with its “sunshine online” classes. With these, they can continue to express their creativity in the center’s art and music classes, keep healthy and happy with special dance classes, and attend fitness management workshops and programs.
The popular art classes are now open online for seniors, as well as adults, teens and kids. Art Association of the Philippines President and acrylic instructor Fidel Sarmiento will mentor all throughout the sessions with hands-on techniques, application of different brushes, basic strokes, and color rendering. Members will get to explore different styles in creating still life, landscape and seascape subjects.
Seniors and their loved ones can also learn porcelain plate painting under the instruction of Mee Lee Casey. Members can also discover the beauty and healing power of music through classes that include Piano, Voice and Music Therapy.
There are also special dance classes like Chair Dancing by Danny Vinculado, which gives opportunities for “super seniors”—the elderly in wheels, walkers, hip and with lower leg injury, or those who underwent medical procedures—to energize and be delighted.
Pound Fitness, under the instruction of Pound Pro Neru Salas, is an extension of Chair Dancing and the first hybrid class catering to both able and persons with disabilitiy-bound clients.
Seniors dance to the beat, hitting the drumsticks, exercising both body and musicality—a cardio workout and music therapy in one.
Instructor Jose Antonio Anonas leads the way in the Sunshine Place’s Tai Chi Yang Style (24 movements) for beginners to find serenity and inner peace. Sunshine Place also has online classes with Life Care Fitness Management Inc. personal trainers Danica Bautista, Richard Olivas, Danica Duka and Philip Gutang, as well as online Physical Therapy consultations and workshops with Josh Manoharan to help manage back pains and other body issues.
A senior recreation center under the Felicidad Tan Sy Foundation, The Sunshine Place is a venue for adults to live actively by engaging in recreational classes and age-appropriate physical training programs. It is the venue to be entertained, socialize and reflect; a place of happiness and wellness for one’s mind, body and soul.
More information is available through online.sunshineplace@gmail.com, or via the center’s Facebook Page and YouTube channels.