Calendar

SIM Fitness: **Texercise** NEW

Program Coordinator, Jon Almeida, is continuing with popular Texercise program with a weekly brief workout and walk.

SIM Fitness: Table Tennis **NEW TIME**

Open play table tennis. Paddles and balls available at the Senior Center Courtesy Desk.

Educational Class: DCMG Gardening Class

Get gardening tips from Denton County Master Gardener, Lynda Harvey! Each month, learn about a variety of topics including Texas lawn care, pest-control, and butterfly gardens.

SIM Fitness: Zumba Toning

INSTRUCTOR: JILL Zumba is a fun, dance-based workout that will increase your heart rate and improve your balance!

Creative Arts: Beginning Painting Oil Pastel **NEW**

Come learn to oil paint with artist Sandra Willet. This beginners class will include basic instructions for using the materials, color mixing, and final composition. Hope you can come join the fun! Supply list at front desk.

SIM Educational Class: DCMG Gardening - "Fall/Winter Gardening Tips"

Get gardening tips from Denton County Master Gardener Lynda Harvey! Each month, learn about a variety of topics including Texas lawn care.

SIM Fitness: Sit, Stand and Dance

This volunteer led, fun, chair-based exercise class is great for all fitness levels. This fun workout includes stretching, cardio, and weight training.

SIM Fitness: Pound It Out

INSTRUCTOR: JILL Pound It Out is an exercise format that uses weighted drumsticks to relieve stress by hitting a yoga ball to rock and roll music. Fun either sitting or standing!

Get into the Game: Poker Payout

Winners will split the money collected. Prizes will not exceed $10.

Get into the Game: Duplicate Bridge

Get into the Game: Learn to play Poker

October Creative Arts: Cricut Crafts: Fall Burlap Banner

Cricuts are the latest and greatest new technologies in crafting. Join Jaime to learn how to use a Cricut Explorer Air2 and Cricut Design Space while making beautiful crafts!

October Special Event: Author Dusty Rainbolt: "Ghost Cats 2"

BALLROOM A • RSVP OCT. 6 In her book, Ghost Cats 2, Award-winning journalist and SIM member, Dusty Rainbolt, has assembled a second volume of previously unpublished eyewitness accounts that provide haunting yet entertaining hints about our pets’ afterlife destiny. Dusty will read an encounter or two from her book and answer questions.

SIM Fellowship Group: Joy at the Exit Door

Fellowship with SIM friends each Friday for a volunteer-led, Christian-based prayer meeting.

SIM Fitness: Pickleball @ C.A.C.

Pickleball is a fun sport that combines tennis, badminton, and ping-pong. Join SIM friends at the Community Activity Center gym to play. Please bring your own racket.

SIM Fitness: Pickleball @ C.A.C.

Pickleball is a fun sport that combines tennis, badminton, and ping-pong. Join SIM friends at the Community Activity Center gym to play. Please bring your own racket.

October Evening Trip: Oktoberfest in Muenster, Texas

The Muenster Oktoberfest will provide a taste of Germany right here in North Texas. This indoor festival will be held in the German Heritage Pavilion. The festival includes live performances and vendors selling arts, crafts, and authentic German food.

Creative Art: Greatful Threads

Bring your latest sewing and quilting projects and meet up with this crafty group.

SIM Fitness: Table Tennis **NEW TIME**

Open play table tennis. Paddles and balls available at the Senior Center Courtesy Desk.

SIM Fitness: Zumba Toning

INSTRUCTOR: JILL Zumba is a fun, dance-based workout that will increase your heart rate and improve your balance!

SIM Fitness: Sit, Stand and Dance

This volunteer led, fun, chair-based exercise class is great for all fitness levels. This fun workout includes stretching, cardio, and weight training.

SIM Health & Wellness: Mindfulness for Pain

Mindfulness practices have been shown to help with pain reduction and pain relief. Licensed instructor Dr. Julie Ballinger, will introduce participants to a variety of mindfulness-based practices that you can do to feel less pain, reduce stress, and thereby add more joy into your daily life. Topics include using mindfulness of sensations, your relationship to pain, stress reduction strategies, expanding tolerance, compassion, and resourcing.

SIM Fitness: Balance, Strength & Stretch

INSTRUCTOR: JODY This workout focuses on the basic muscle group to increase strength. It includes gentle stretches also improve flexibility, movement, and balance.

October Special Event: New Members Lunch

New Seniors in Motion members are invited to this fun lunch and social. New members will enjoy a light lunch, get important information about SIM programs, and meet new friends.

SIM Fitness: Nia Moving to Heal

INSTRUCTOR: LARA This class will provide you with the knowledge and skills to receive therapeutic benefits from the moving practice of Nia.

Get into the Game: Cash Bingo

Please check-in by 12:15 p.m. No cards will be sold after 12:30 p.m. Money will be divided among bingo winners. Prizes will not exceed $10.

Creative Art: The Crafty Corner

Bring a favorite project and join this creative, friendly group for fellowship and inspiration. No experience necessary!

SIM Fitness: Pickleball @ C.A.C.

Pickleball is a fun sport that combines tennis, badminton, and ping-pong. Join SIM friends at the Community Activity Center gym to play. Please bring your own racket.

SIM Fitness: Line Dancing

SIM volunteers will lead participants in the latest and greatest line dances. Dance to everything from the Cupid Shuffle to the Boot Scootn’ Boogie!

Get into the Game: Card Games

Assortment of games are played. (Hand & Foot, Ponies, Pennies from Heaven)

SIM Fitness: Yoga

INSTRUCTOR: JODY This gentle yoga class will help increase flexibility, balance, and strength.

SIM Fitness: Tone & Condition

INSTRUCTOR: MARGO Increase muscular strength, endurance, range of movement, flexibility, balance, agility, and coordination. Hand-held weights, elastic tubing with handles, and a ball are offered for resistance. A chair is used for seated and/or standing support.

SIM Health & Wellness: Dementia Friendly Nature Walk - Heritage Park

RSVP REQUIRED Join Dementia Friendly Denton County as a Master Naturalist guides a group walk through one of Flower Mound’s parks. These six, weekly walks are a great source of exercise, education, and sensory stimulation. All walks are free, and a caregiver must accompany the loved one on the walk.

Educational Class: Intro to Spanish

It is never too late to learn something new! Spanish tutor, Ofelia Gabel, will teach participants the basics of Spanish.

SIM Fitness: Pound It Out

INSTRUCTOR: JILL Pound It Out is an exercise format that uses weighted drumsticks to relieve stress by hitting a yoga ball to rock and roll music. Fun either sitting or standing!

SIM Fitness: Zumba Gold Chair **NEW**

INSTRUCTOR - MARGO This fun, energetic class is designed for people that would like to sit in a chair or wheelchair. Latin moves, a variety of different music, and Zumba toning sticks will be used in class.

Get into the Game: Payout Poker

Winners will split the money collected. Prizes will not exceed $10.

Creative Art: Art House Acrylic Workshop

Instructor Sue will lead a month-long workshop where students build painting skills and complete beautiful works of art. Supply list is available at the Senior Center Courtesy Desk.

Get into the Game: Learn to play Party Bridge

Get into the Game: Master Bridge

Get into the Game: Party Bridge

Get into the Game: Pinochle

Get into the Game: Treasure Bingo

Winners will choose from prizes donated by SIM members. Sponsored by Buckets & Bows, Mayhill Hospital, & Speed Cleaning.

SIM Fitness: Intermediate Tai Chi

INSTRUCTOR: SUSAN With several levels of Tai Chi, you will learn the restorative powers of Tai Chi for the mind and body.

Fellowship Groups: SIM Sing-A-Long

Bring your voices and join the SIM friends each Tuesday for a fun sing-a-long!

Special Event: SIM Social Dance

Join SIM friends for Ballroom, Latin, Swing and Country dancing on the second Tuesday of each month. Andy Guarino will play a variety of songs and take requests.

October Special Event: SIM Social Dance

Join SIM friends for Ballroom, Latin, Swing, and Country dancing on the second Tuesday of each month. Andy Guarino will play a variety of songs and take requests for dance-music favorites.

October Creative Arts: Elsie's Sewing Class - Oven Mitt

Join SIM Member Else Grundtvig in this class to learn simple sewing techniques and beautiful sewing projects. Cost includes all sup

October Special Event: Jon Trivi-Olta

Put on your boogie shoes and match wits with the “jive talkin’” Jon Trivi-olta! Play trivia, show what you know, and learn something new while having fun with others. 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place prizes given. Sponsored by Lori Williams Senior Services.

SIM Fitness: BollyX

INSTRUCTOR : NIDA This Bollywood-inspired dance class is high in energy and swag, but not in impact! Your heart will be pumping and you will be sweating all while dancing to the top hits from India.

Get Into the Game: 42 Dominoes

SIM Fitness: Table Tennis **NEW TIME**

Open play table tennis. Paddles and balls available at the Senior Center Courtesy Desk.

Get into the Game: Rummikub

SIM Fitness: Zumba Toning

INSTRUCTOR: JILL Zumba is a fun, dance-based workout that will increase your heart rate and improve your balance!

Creative Arts: You Can Paint: "Early Morning at Lake" (in Watercolor)

Learn the basics of color mixing, brush-strokes, and perspectives while completing a detailed landscape. All supplies are provided

SIM Fitness: Sit, Stand and Dance

This volunteer led, fun, chair-based exercise class is great for all fitness levels. This fun workout includes stretching, cardio, and weight training.

Creative Art: Jewelry Making

Participants will learn to create and complete a unique jewelry project with Recreation Specialist, Cheryl Dudich. All supplies are provided.

SIM Fitness: Yoga

INSTRUCTOR: JODY This gentle yoga class will help increase flexibility, balance, and strength.

October Lunch & Learn: "Downsizing & Decluttering"

Presented by Edwena Potter DFW Real Estate Team.

SIM Fitness: Classic Nia

INSTRUCTOR : LARA Nia is a blended fitness technique drawing from martial arts, dance arts, and healing arts. It empowers people of all shapes and sizes by connecting the body, mind, emotions, and spirit.

Creative Art: Knitting Group

This group is for those who have never knitted before and those who can and want to share ideas.

Get into the Game: Duplicate Bridge

Get into the Game: Pinochle Payout

SIM Fitness: Pickleball @ C.A.C.

Pickleball is a fun sport that combines tennis, badminton, and ping-pong. Join SIM friends at the Community Activity Center gym to play. Please bring your own racket.

Creative Art: Art House Watercolor Workshop

Beginners and experienced painters alike will enjoy this class where students learn brushstrokes and techniques and complete their own works of art. Supply list is available at the Senior Center Courtesy Desk.

October Special Event: Fitness Demonstration

Learn all about how to use the fitness room equipment from chiropractor Dale Leonard. Sponsored by Leonard Chiropractic

October Special Event: Dinner Bunch: Enzo's NY Pizzeria

Meet up with the Dinner Bunch for good food and fellowship. This month, meet them at Enzo’s NY Pizzeria at 900 Parker Square Rd. in Flower Mound

Get into the Game: Card Games

Assortment of games are played. (Hand & Foot, Ponies, Pennies from Heaven)

SIM Fitness: Yoga

INSTRUCTOR: JODY This gentle yoga class will help increase flexibility, balance, and strength.

SIM Fitness: Pilates Barre

INSTRUCTOR: JODY Pilates focuses on strengthening your CORE & improving your posture. Barre work uses basic ballet moves for both arms & legs to improve muscle tone and balance. Designed for the beginner, so come join us! Chairs can be used for support.

Creative Art: Learn to Draw

Learn the most important building block of all art! Join instructor Sandra Willet for this new drawing class that will meet each Thursday.

SIM Fitness: Tone & Condition

INSTRUCTOR: MARGO Increase muscular strength, endurance, range of movement, flexibility, balance, agility, and coordination. Hand-held weights, elastic tubing with handles, and a ball are offered for resistance. A chair is used for seated and/or standing support.

SIM Fitness: Zumba Gold Chair **NEW**

INSTRUCTOR - MARGO This fun, energetic class is designed for people that would like to sit in a chair or wheelchair. Latin moves, a variety of different music, and Zumba toning sticks will be used in class.

Get into the Game: Poker Payout

Winners will split the money collected. Prizes will not exceed $10.

Creative Arts: **Oil Painting** NEW

Come learn to oil paint with artist Sandra Willet. This beginners class will include basic instructions for using the materials, color mixing and final composition. Hope you can come join the fun!

Get into the Game: Learn to Play Mahjong

Get into the Game: Mahjong

Get into the Game: Phase 10

Get into the Game: Pinochle

Health & Wellness: Massage Therapy **NEW**

Volunteer, Ana Rodriguez, will be performing chair massages for members. Book a 15 minute appointment to relax for a few minutes! Max 2 sessions per person/per month. MUST register in person.

October Special Event: Medicare Advantage Plans

Learn about your options for Medicare Advantage Plans from June Kim with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas

Educational Class: Improv for Seniors

Improv is one of the core techniques used by actors to stretch imagination, spark spontaneity, and give unforgettable performances. SIM volunteer, Richard Sheff , will lead this class through Improv activities. No experience necessary. No memorizing lines. Please bring your sense of humor!

October Evening Trip: "Catch Me If You Can" at the Firehouse Theater

Travel to the Firehouse Theater to watch the exciting musical Catch Me if You Can. The musical tells the true story of Frank Abagnale Jr., a world-class con artist who passed himself off as a doctor, a lawyer, and a jet pilot. With straight-arrow FBI agent Carl Hanratty on Frank’s trail, we are off on a jet-setting, cat-and-mouse chase as a jazzy, swinging-sixties score keeps this adventure in constant motion. Please bring money for dinner at Babe’s Chicken (entrees $15).

Computer & Technology: Tech Thursdays

Get your computer and technology questions answered in weekly classes with SIM volunteer, Van Elliott. Sessions cover a variety of topics including smartphones, Windows, apps, Facebook, and more!

Fellowship Groups: Melting Pot Meet-Up

Meet up with this diverse group to explore the diversity and culture of the SIM membership! Each week, the group will meet for pot-lucks, karaoke, educational seminars, dancing, and more!

October Special Event: Campfire Stories & S'Mores

Join Storyteller Liz Covington for an evening by the fi re as she tells fascinating and spooky ghost stories from around the world.

October Special Event: Campfire Stories & S'Mores

Join Storyteller Liz Covington for an evening by the fi re as she tells fascinating and spooky ghost stories from around the world.

SIM Fitness: Line Dancing

SIM volunteers will lead participants in the latest and greatest line dances. Dance to everything from the Cupid Shuffle to the Boot Scootin’ Boogie!

SIM Fitness: **Texercise** NEW

Program Coordinator, Jon Almeida, is continuing with popular Texercise program with a weekly brief workout and walk.

SIM Fitness: Table Tennis **NEW TIME**

Open play table tennis. Paddles and balls available at the Senior Center Courtesy Desk.

SIM Fitness: Zumba Toning

INSTRUCTOR: JILL Zumba is a fun, dance-based workout that will increase your heart rate and improve your balance!

Creative Arts: Beginning Painting Oil Pastel **NEW**

Come learn to oil paint with artist Sandra Willet. This beginners class will include basic instructions for using the materials, color mixing, and final composition. Hope you can come join the fun! Supply list at front desk.

SIM Fitness: Sit, Stand and Dance

This volunteer led, fun, chair-based exercise class is great for all fitness levels. This fun workout includes stretching, cardio, and weight training.

SIM Fitness: Pound It Out

INSTRUCTOR: JILL Pound It Out is an exercise format that uses weighted drumsticks to relieve stress by hitting a yoga ball to rock and roll music. Fun either sitting or standing!

Get into the Game: Poker Payout

Winners will split the money collected. Prizes will not exceed $10.

Get into the Game: Duplicate Bridge

October Creative Art: Craft Kits - Paper Palm Leaves

Learn how to create beautiful home decor crafts using inexpensive craft items! SIM staff will lead you in making stunning seasonal decor that looks as if it comes from a high-end store!

SIM Fellowship Group: Joy at the Exit Door

Fellowship with SIM friends each Friday for a volunteer-led, Christian-based prayer meeting.

SIM Fitness: Pickleball @ C.A.C.

Pickleball is a fun sport that combines tennis, badminton, and ping-pong. Join SIM friends at the Community Activity Center gym to play. Please bring your own racket.

SIM Fitness: Pickleball @ C.A.C.

Pickleball is a fun sport that combines tennis, badminton, and ping-pong. Join SIM friends at the Community Activity Center gym to play. Please bring your own racket.

SIM Fitness: Men's 50+ Fit Workshop **NEW**

Flower Mound Community Activity Center personal trainer Ben Bailey will begin a men’s six-week fitness and strength training workshop focusing on exercises, cardio, nutrition tips, and more for Men 50 and over. Class dates are 9/2, 9/16, 10/14, 10/21, and 10/28

Creative Art: Greatful Threads

Bring your latest sewing and quilting projects and meet up with this crafty group.

SIM Fitness: Table Tennis **NEW TIME**

Open play table tennis. Paddles and balls available at the Senior Center Courtesy Desk.

SIM Fitness: Zumba Toning

INSTRUCTOR: JILL Zumba is a fun, dance-based workout that will increase your heart rate and improve your balance!

SIM Fitness: Sit, Stand and Dance

This volunteer led, fun, chair-based exercise class is great for all fitness levels. This fun workout includes stretching, cardio, and weight training.

SIM Health & Wellness: Mindfulness for Pain

Mindfulness practices have been shown to help with pain reduction and pain relief. Licensed instructor Dr. Julie Ballinger, will introduce participants to a variety of mindfulness-based practices that you can do to feel less pain, reduce stress, and thereby add more joy into your daily life. Topics include using mindfulness of sensations, your relationship to pain, stress reduction strategies, expanding tolerance, compassion, and resourcing.

October Day Trip: R.O.M.E.O. Lunch - Eggsellent Cafe'

The Retired Older Men Eating Out (ROMEO) group will take the bus to eat at Eggsellent Café in Carrollton. Breakfast and brunch items, sandwiches, wraps, and burgers are all here for your choosing. (entrees $10- $14)

SIM Fitness: Balance, Strength & Stretch

INSTRUCTOR: JODY This workout focuses on the basic muscle group to increase strength. It includes gentle stretches also improve flexibility, movement, and balance.

SIM Fitness: Nia Moving to Heal

INSTRUCTOR: LARA This class will provide you with the knowledge and skills to receive therapeutic benefits from the moving practice of Nia.

Get into the Game: Cash Bingo

Please check-in by 12:15 p.m. No cards will be sold after 12:30 p.m. Money will be divided among bingo winners. Prizes will not exceed $10.

SIM Fitness: Pickleball @ C.A.C.

Pickleball is a fun sport that combines tennis, badminton, and ping-pong. Join SIM friends at the Community Activity Center gym to play. Please bring your own racket.

SIM Fitness: Line Dancing

SIM volunteers will lead participants in the latest and greatest line dances. Dance to everything from the Cupid Shuffle to the Boot Scootn’ Boogie!

Get into the Game: Card Games

Assortment of games are played. (Hand & Foot, Ponies, Pennies from Heaven)

SIM Fitness: Yoga

INSTRUCTOR: JODY This gentle yoga class will help increase flexibility, balance, and strength.

SIM Fitness: Tone & Condition

INSTRUCTOR: MARGO Increase muscular strength, endurance, range of movement, flexibility, balance, agility, and coordination. Hand-held weights, elastic tubing with handles, and a ball are offered for resistance. A chair is used for seated and/or standing support.

Educational Class: Intro to Spanish

It is never too late to learn something new! Spanish tutor, Ofelia Gabel, will teach participants the basics of Spanish.

SIM Fitness: Pound It Out

INSTRUCTOR: JILL Pound It Out is an exercise format that uses weighted drumsticks to relieve stress by hitting a yoga ball to rock and roll music. Fun either sitting or standing!

SIM Health & Wellness: Dementia Friendly Nature Walk - Westchester Park

RSVP REQUIRED Join Dementia Friendly Denton County as a Master Naturalist guides a group walk through one of Flower Mound’s parks. These six, weekly walks are a great source of exercise, education, and sensory stimulation. All walks are free, and a caregiver must accompany the loved one on the walk.

SIM Health & Wellness: Flu Shots

Stop the flu from getting you! Get your flu shot a the Flower Mound Senior Center. The flu shot is free with Medicare. Please reserve your time by visiting the Senior Center Courtesy Desk or calling 972-874-6110.

SIM Fitness: Zumba Gold Chair **NEW**

INSTRUCTOR - MARGO This fun, energetic class is designed for people that would like to sit in a chair or wheelchair. Latin moves, a variety of different music, and Zumba toning sticks will be used in class.

Get into the Game: Payout Poker

Winners will split the money collected. Prizes will not exceed $10.

Creative Art: Art House Acrylic Workshop

Instructor Sue will lead a month-long workshop where students build painting skills and complete beautiful works of art. Supply list is available at the Senior Center Courtesy Desk.

Get into the Game: Learn to play Party Bridge

Get into the Game: Master Bridge

Get into the Game: Party Bridge

Get into the Game: Pinochle

SIM Fitness: Intermediate Tai Chi

INSTRUCTOR: SUSAN With several levels of Tai Chi, you will learn the restorative powers of Tai Chi for the mind and body.

Fellowship Groups: SIM Sing-A-Long

Bring your voices and join the SIM friends each Tuesday for a fun sing-a-long!

October Special Event: TED Talks: "What Almost Dying Taught Me About Living"

Watch and discuss the Ted Talk, “What Almost Dying Taught Me About Living.” In this fierce, funny, wisdom-packed talk, author Suleika Jaouad challenges us to think beyond the divide between “sick” and “well,” asking: How do you begin again and fi nd meaning after life is interrupted?

SIM Fitness: BollyX

INSTRUCTOR : NIDA This Bollywood-inspired dance class is high in energy and swag, but not in impact! Your heart will be pumping and you will be sweating all while dancing to the top hits from India.

Get Into the Game: 42 Dominoes

October Day Trip: Winstar Casino

Test your luck and skill at Oklahoma’s premiere hotel and casino. Choose from eight themed gaming plazas or the spacious poker room, bingo hall, and the racer off -the-track betting parlor. Ticket price includes transportation, muffins, bingo on the bus, and refreshments. Bus is NOT HANDI-CAP Assessable.

SIM Fitness: Table Tennis **NEW TIME**

Open play table tennis. Paddles and balls available at the Senior Center Courtesy Desk.

Get into the Game: Rummikub

SIM Fitness: Zumba Toning

INSTRUCTOR: JILL Zumba is a fun, dance-based workout that will increase your heart rate and improve your balance!

October Special Event: Donuts & Documentaries: TBA

Join SIM friends for yummy breakfast treats and intellectually-simulating documentaries. The documentary selection will be announced on the registration worksheet, at the Senior Center Courtesy Desk and on the the SIM Facebook page. Sponsored by Advanced Senior Options

SIM Fitness: Sit, Stand and Dance

This volunteer led, fun, chair-based exercise class is great for all fitness levels. This fun workout includes stretching, cardio, and weight training.

SIM Fitness: Yoga

INSTRUCTOR: JODY This gentle yoga class will help increase flexibility, balance, and strength.

October Lunch & Learn: "Fall Prevention Tips"

Presented by Matt Bonider & Lori Williams Senior Services.

SIM Fitness: Classic Nia

INSTRUCTOR : LARA Nia is a blended fitness technique drawing from martial arts, dance arts, and healing arts. It empowers people of all shapes and sizes by connecting the body, mind, emotions, and spirit.

Creative Art: Knitting Group

This group is for those who have never knitted before and those who can and want to share ideas.

Get into the Game: Duplicate Bridge

Get into the Game: Pinochle Payout

SIM Fitness: Pickleball @ C.A.C.

Pickleball is a fun sport that combines tennis, badminton, and ping-pong. Join SIM friends at the Community Activity Center gym to play. Please bring your own racket.

Creative Art: Art House Watercolor Workshop

Beginners and experienced painters alike will enjoy this class where students learn brushstrokes and techniques and complete their own works of art. Supply list is available at the Senior Center Courtesy Desk.

Get into the Game: Card Games

Assortment of games are played. (Hand & Foot, Ponies, Pennies from Heaven)

SIM Fitness: Yoga

INSTRUCTOR: JODY This gentle yoga class will help increase flexibility, balance, and strength.

SIM Fitness: Pilates Barre

INSTRUCTOR: JODY Pilates focuses on strengthening your CORE & improving your posture. Barre work uses basic ballet moves for both arms & legs to improve muscle tone and balance. Designed for the beginner, so come join us! Chairs can be used for support.

Creative Art: Learn to Draw

Learn the most important building block of all art! Join instructor Sandra Willet for this new drawing class that will meet each Thursday.

SIM Fitness: Tone & Condition

INSTRUCTOR: MARGO Increase muscular strength, endurance, range of movement, flexibility, balance, agility, and coordination. Hand-held weights, elastic tubing with handles, and a ball are offered for resistance. A chair is used for seated and/or standing support.

SIM Fitness: Zumba Gold Chair **NEW**

INSTRUCTOR - MARGO This fun, energetic class is designed for people that would like to sit in a chair or wheelchair. Latin moves, a variety of different music, and Zumba toning sticks will be used in class.

Get into the Game: Poker Payout

Winners will split the money collected. Prizes will not exceed $10.

Creative Arts: **Oil Painting** NEW

Come learn to oil paint with artist Sandra Willet. This beginners class will include basic instructions for using the materials, color mixing and final composition. Hope you can come join the fun!

Get into the Game: Learn to Play Mahjong

Get into the Game: Mahjong

Get into the Game: Phase 10

Get into the Game: Pinochle

Health & Wellness: Massage Therapy **NEW**

Volunteer, Ana Rodriguez, will be performing chair massages for members. Book a 15 minute appointment to relax for a few minutes! Max 2 sessions per person/per month. MUST register in person.

Educational Class: Improv for Seniors

Improv is one of the core techniques used by actors to stretch imagination, spark spontaneity, and give unforgettable performances. SIM volunteer, Richard Sheff , will lead this class through Improv activities. No experience necessary. No memorizing lines. Please bring your sense of humor!

Computer & Technology: Tech Thursdays

Get your computer and technology questions answered in weekly classes with SIM volunteer, Van Elliott. Sessions cover a variety of topics including smartphones, Windows, apps, Facebook, and more!

Get into the Game: After Dark Bunco

Bunco is easy to learn and fun to play. Please pay $2 to the captain on the day of the game. Prizes will not exceed $10.

October Special Event: Diwali Celebration

Diwali is India’s biggest and most important holiday of the year. Often known as the festival of lights, it is a celebration of good over evil. Join SIM friends for an evening of fun including music, dancing, and a fashion show.

Fellowship Groups: Melting Pot Meet-Up

Meet up with this diverse group to explore the diversity and culture of the SIM membership! Each week, the group will meet for pot-lucks, karaoke, educational seminars, dancing, and more!

SIM Fitness: Line Dancing

SIM volunteers will lead participants in the latest and greatest line dances. Dance to everything from the Cupid Shuffle to the Boot Scootin’ Boogie!

October Special Event: Diwali Dinner

Following the Diwali Celebration, join SIM friends for a Diwali dinner. Enjoy traditional vegetarian dishes catered by Delhi 6.

SIM Fitness: **Texercise** NEW

Program Coordinator, Jon Almeida, is continuing with popular Texercise program with a weekly brief workout and walk.

SIM Fitness: Table Tennis **NEW TIME**

Open play table tennis. Paddles and balls available at the Senior Center Courtesy Desk.

Fellowship Group: Gardening Club

Join fellow gardening enthusiasts to learn-tips and tricks for successful gardens. The Gardening Club also plants and maintains the SIM raised planter gardens and butterfly garden.

SIM Fitness: Zumba Toning

INSTRUCTOR: JILL Zumba is a fun, dance-based workout that will increase your heart rate and improve your balance!

Creative Arts: Beginning Painting Oil Pastel **NEW**

Come learn to oil paint with artist Sandra Willet. This beginners class will include basic instructions for using the materials, color mixing, and final composition. Hope you can come join the fun! Supply list at front desk.

SIM Fitness: Sit, Stand and Dance

This volunteer led, fun, chair-based exercise class is great for all fitness levels. This fun workout includes stretching, cardio, and weight training.

SIM Fitness: Pound It Out

INSTRUCTOR: JILL Pound It Out is an exercise format that uses weighted drumsticks to relieve stress by hitting a yoga ball to rock and roll music. Fun either sitting or standing!

Get into the Game: Poker Payout

Winners will split the money collected. Prizes will not exceed $10.

Get into the Game: Duplicate Bridge

SIM Fellowship Group: Joy at the Exit Door

Fellowship with SIM friends each Friday for a volunteer-led, Christian-based prayer meeting.

SIM Fitness: Pickleball @ C.A.C.

Pickleball is a fun sport that combines tennis, badminton, and ping-pong. Join SIM friends at the Community Activity Center gym to play. Please bring your own racket.

SIM Fitness: Pickleball @ C.A.C.

Pickleball is a fun sport that combines tennis, badminton, and ping-pong. Join SIM friends at the Community Activity Center gym to play. Please bring your own racket.

SIM Fitness: Men's 50+ Fit Workshop **NEW**

Flower Mound Community Activity Center personal trainer Ben Bailey will begin a men’s six-week fitness and strength training workshop focusing on exercises, cardio, nutrition tips, and more for Men 50 and over. Class dates are 9/2, 9/9, 9/16, 10/14, 10/21, and 10/28

SIM Arts & Craft Fair

Many homemade items to purchase from local vendors.

Creative Art: Greatful Threads

Bring your latest sewing and quilting projects and meet up with this crafty group.

SIM Fitness: Table Tennis **NEW TIME**

Open play table tennis. Paddles and balls available at the Senior Center Courtesy Desk.

SIM Fitness: Zumba Toning

INSTRUCTOR: JILL Zumba is a fun, dance-based workout that will increase your heart rate and improve your balance!

Fellowship Group: Genealogy

Meet genealogy enthusiasts to swap stories and secrets of the trade. Paul Middour facilitates discussion and tips of the trade.

SIM Fitness: Sit, Stand and Dance

This volunteer led, fun, chair-based exercise class is great for all fitness levels. This fun workout includes stretching, cardio, and weight training.

SIM Health & Wellness: Mindfulness for Pain

Mindfulness practices have been shown to help with pain reduction and pain relief. Licensed instructor Dr. Julie Ballinger, will introduce participants to a variety of mindfulness-based practices that you can do to feel less pain, reduce stress, and thereby add more joy into your daily life. Topics include using mindfulness of sensations, your relationship to pain, stress reduction strategies, expanding tolerance, compassion, and resourcing.

SIM Fitness: Balance, Strength & Stretch

INSTRUCTOR: JODY This workout focuses on the basic muscle group to increase strength. It includes gentle stretches also improve flexibility, movement, and balance.

SIM Fitness: Nia Moving to Heal

INSTRUCTOR: LARA This class will provide you with the knowledge and skills to receive therapeutic benefits from the moving practice of Nia.

Get into the Game: Cash Bingo

Please check-in by 12:15 p.m. No cards will be sold after 12:30 p.m. Money will be divided among bingo winners. Prizes will not exceed $10.

Creative Art: The Crafty Corner

Bring a favorite project and join this creative, friendly group for fellowship and inspiration. No experience necessary!

SIM Educational Class: Poet's Society - Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Meet up with this group of poetry lovers! Each month, the group will discuss the works of a famous poet. Then, attendees are invited to share and discuss their personal poetry, plus leave with a writing prompt to inspire your next poem.

SIM Fitness: Pickleball @ C.A.C.

Pickleball is a fun sport that combines tennis, badminton, and ping-pong. Join SIM friends at the Community Activity Center gym to play. Please bring your own racket.

SIM Fitness: Line Dancing

SIM volunteers will lead participants in the latest and greatest line dances. Dance to everything from the Cupid Shuffle to the Boot Scootn’ Boogie!

Get into the Game: Card Games

Assortment of games are played. (Hand & Foot, Ponies, Pennies from Heaven)

SIM Fitness: Yoga

INSTRUCTOR: JODY This gentle yoga class will help increase flexibility, balance, and strength.

SIM Fitness: Tone & Condition

INSTRUCTOR: MARGO Increase muscular strength, endurance, range of movement, flexibility, balance, agility, and coordination. Hand-held weights, elastic tubing with handles, and a ball are offered for resistance. A chair is used for seated and/or standing support.

Educational Class: Intro to Spanish

It is never too late to learn something new! Spanish tutor, Ofelia Gabel, will teach participants the basics of Spanish.

SIM Fitness: Pound It Out

INSTRUCTOR: JILL Pound It Out is an exercise format that uses weighted drumsticks to relieve stress by hitting a yoga ball to rock and roll music. Fun either sitting or standing!

SIM Health & Wellness: Dementia Friendly Nature Walk - Heritage Park

RSVP REQUIRED Join Dementia Friendly Denton County as a Master Naturalist guides a group walk through one of Flower Mound’s parks. These six, weekly walks are a great source of exercise, education, and sensory stimulation. All walks are free, and a caregiver must accompany the loved one on the walk.

SIM Fitness: Zumba Gold Chair **NEW**

INSTRUCTOR - MARGO This fun, energetic class is designed for people that would like to sit in a chair or wheelchair. Latin moves, a variety of different music, and Zumba toning sticks will be used in class.

Get into the Game: Payout Poker

Winners will split the money collected. Prizes will not exceed $10.

Creative Art: Art House Acrylic Workshop

Instructor Sue will lead a month-long workshop where students build painting skills and complete beautiful works of art. Supply list is available at the Senior Center Courtesy Desk.

Get into the Game: Learn to play Party Bridge

Get into the Game: Master Bridge

Get into the Game: Party Bridge

Get into the Game: Pinochle

Get into the Game: Treasure Bingo

Winners will choose from prizes donated by SIM members. Sponsored by Buckets & Bows, Mayhill Hospital, & Speed Cleaning.

SIM Fitness: Intermediate Tai Chi

INSTRUCTOR: SUSAN With several levels of Tai Chi, you will learn the restorative powers of Tai Chi for the mind and body.

Fellowship Groups: SIM Sing-A-Long

Bring your voices and join the SIM friends each Tuesday for a fun sing-a-long!

October Special Event: Dry Bay Comedy

If you are looking for a good laugh, bring a friend to the Senior Center for popcorn and a full comedy special from Dry Bar Comedy. Dry Bar Comedy is clean jokes without the use of profanity

SIM Fitness: BollyX

INSTRUCTOR : NIDA This Bollywood-inspired dance class is high in energy and swag, but not in impact! Your heart will be pumping and you will be sweating all while dancing to the top hits from India.

Get Into the Game: 42 Dominoes

SIM Fitness: Table Tennis **NEW TIME**

Open play table tennis. Paddles and balls available at the Senior Center Courtesy Desk.

Get into the Game: Rummikub

SIM Fitness: Zumba Toning

INSTRUCTOR: JILL Zumba is a fun, dance-based workout that will increase your heart rate and improve your balance!

SIM Fitness: Sit, Stand and Dance

This volunteer led, fun, chair-based exercise class is great for all fitness levels. This fun workout includes stretching, cardio, and weight training.

SIM Fitness: Yoga

INSTRUCTOR: JODY This gentle yoga class will help increase flexibility, balance, and strength.

October Lunch & Learn: "Tai Chi and Rehabilitation"

Presented by Clearsky Rehab Hospital if Flower Mound.

SIM Fitness: Classic Nia

INSTRUCTOR : LARA Nia is a blended fitness technique drawing from martial arts, dance arts, and healing arts. It empowers people of all shapes and sizes by connecting the body, mind, emotions, and spirit.

Creative Art: Knitting Group

This group is for those who have never knitted before and those who can and want to share ideas.

Get into the Game: Duplicate Bridge

Get into the Game: Pinochle Payout

SIM Fitness: Pickleball @ C.A.C.

Pickleball is a fun sport that combines tennis, badminton, and ping-pong. Join SIM friends at the Community Activity Center gym to play. Please bring your own racket.

Creative Art: Art House Watercolor Workshop

Beginners and experienced painters alike will enjoy this class where students learn brushstrokes and techniques and complete their own works of art. Supply list is available at the Senior Center Courtesy Desk.

Monster Mash

Get into the Game: Card Games

Assortment of games are played. (Hand & Foot, Ponies, Pennies from Heaven)

SIM Fitness: Yoga

INSTRUCTOR: JODY This gentle yoga class will help increase flexibility, balance, and strength.

SIM Fitness: Pilates Barre

INSTRUCTOR: JODY Pilates focuses on strengthening your CORE & improving your posture. Barre work uses basic ballet moves for both arms & legs to improve muscle tone and balance. Designed for the beginner, so come join us! Chairs can be used for support.

Creative Art: Learn to Draw

Learn the most important building block of all art! Join instructor Sandra Willet for this new drawing class that will meet each Thursday.

SIM Fitness: Tone & Condition

INSTRUCTOR: MARGO Increase muscular strength, endurance, range of movement, flexibility, balance, agility, and coordination. Hand-held weights, elastic tubing with handles, and a ball are offered for resistance. A chair is used for seated and/or standing support.

October Special Event: Monster Mash Party

Enjoy a delicious lunch and spooky dessert at our annual SIM Halloween Party. Wear a costume to enter our costume contest and win a gift card. Enjoy live music performed by Andy Guarino. Sponsored by Healing Hands Healthcare

SIM Fitness: Zumba Gold Chair **NEW**

INSTRUCTOR - MARGO This fun, energetic class is designed for people that would like to sit in a chair or wheelchair. Latin moves, a variety of different music, and Zumba toning sticks will be used in class.

Get into the Game: Poker Payout

Winners will split the money collected. Prizes will not exceed $10.

Creative Arts: **Oil Painting** NEW

Come learn to oil paint with artist Sandra Willet. This beginners class will include basic instructions for using the materials, color mixing and final composition. Hope you can come join the fun!

Get into the Game: Learn to Play Mahjong

Get into the Game: Mahjong

Get into the Game: Phase 10

Get into the Game: Pinochle

Health & Wellness: Massage Therapy **NEW**

Volunteer, Ana Rodriguez, will be performing chair massages for members. Book a 15 minute appointment to relax for a few minutes! Max 2 sessions per person/per month. MUST register in person.

Educational Class: Improv for Seniors

Improv is one of the core techniques used by actors to stretch imagination, spark spontaneity, and give unforgettable performances. SIM volunteer, Richard Sheff , will lead this class through Improv activities. No experience necessary. No memorizing lines. Please bring your sense of humor!

Computer & Technology: Tech Thursdays

Get your computer and technology questions answered in weekly classes with SIM volunteer, Van Elliott. Sessions cover a variety of topics including smartphones, Windows, apps, Facebook, and more!

Fellowship Groups: Melting Pot Meet-Up

Meet up with this diverse group to explore the diversity and culture of the SIM membership! Each week, the group will meet for pot-lucks, karaoke, educational seminars, dancing, and more!

October Creative Art: DYI Workshop - Fall Wood Sign Trio

Create with a purpose at this Do-It-Yourself workshop taught by ReImagine. Learn how to make a simple decor piece that you could use in your home or gift to someone you love. Cost includes all supplies.

SIM Fitness: Line Dancing

SIM volunteers will lead participants in the latest and greatest line dances. Dance to everything from the Cupid Shuffle to the Boot Scootin’ Boogie!

SIM Fitness: **Texercise** NEW

Program Coordinator, Jon Almeida, is continuing with popular Texercise program with a weekly brief workout and walk.

SIM Fitness: Table Tennis **NEW TIME**

Open play table tennis. Paddles and balls available at the Senior Center Courtesy Desk.

SIM Fitness: Zumba Toning

INSTRUCTOR: JILL Zumba is a fun, dance-based workout that will increase your heart rate and improve your balance!

Creative Arts: Beginning Painting Oil Pastel **NEW**

Come learn to oil paint with artist Sandra Willet. This beginners class will include basic instructions for using the materials, color mixing, and final composition. Hope you can come join the fun! Supply list at front desk.

October Special Event: Movie & Meal: TBA

Each month, the SIM program will screen a movie and serve a yummy lunch. Movie selection will be announced on the registration worksheet, at the Senior Center Courtesy Desk, and on the the SIM Facebook page.

SIM Fitness: Sit, Stand and Dance

This volunteer led, fun, chair-based exercise class is great for all fitness levels. This fun workout includes stretching, cardio, and weight training.

SIM Fitness: Pound It Out

INSTRUCTOR: JILL Pound It Out is an exercise format that uses weighted drumsticks to relieve stress by hitting a yoga ball to rock and roll music. Fun either sitting or standing!

Get into the Game: Poker Payout

Winners will split the money collected. Prizes will not exceed $10.

Get into the Game: Duplicate Bridge

SIM Fellowship Group: Joy at the Exit Door

Fellowship with SIM friends each Friday for a volunteer-led, Christian-based prayer meeting.

SIM Fitness: Pickleball @ C.A.C.

Pickleball is a fun sport that combines tennis, badminton, and ping-pong. Join SIM friends at the Community Activity Center gym to play. Please bring your own racket.

SIM Fitness: Pickleball @ C.A.C.

Pickleball is a fun sport that combines tennis, badminton, and ping-pong. Join SIM friends at the Community Activity Center gym to play. Please bring your own racket.

Creative Art: Greatful Threads

Bring your latest sewing and quilting projects and meet up with this crafty group.

SIM Fitness: Table Tennis **NEW TIME**

Open play table tennis. Paddles and balls available at the Senior Center Courtesy Desk.

SIM Fitness: Zumba Toning

INSTRUCTOR: JILL Zumba is a fun, dance-based workout that will increase your heart rate and improve your balance!

SIM Fitness: Sit, Stand and Dance

This volunteer led, fun, chair-based exercise class is great for all fitness levels. This fun workout includes stretching, cardio, and weight training.

SIM Health & Wellness: Mindfulness for Pain

Mindfulness practices have been shown to help with pain reduction and pain relief. Licensed instructor Dr. Julie Ballinger, will introduce participants to a variety of mindfulness-based practices that you can do to feel less pain, reduce stress, and thereby add more joy into your daily life. Topics include using mindfulness of sensations, your relationship to pain, stress reduction strategies, expanding tolerance, compassion, and resourcing.

SIM Fitness: Balance, Strength & Stretch

INSTRUCTOR: JODY This workout focuses on the basic muscle group to increase strength. It includes gentle stretches also improve flexibility, movement, and balance.

SIM Fitness: Nia Moving to Heal

INSTRUCTOR: LARA This class will provide you with the knowledge and skills to receive therapeutic benefits from the moving practice of Nia.

Get into the Game: Cash Bingo

Please check-in by 12:15 p.m. No cards will be sold after 12:30 p.m. Money will be divided among bingo winners. Prizes will not exceed $10.

SIM Fitness: Pickleball @ C.A.C.

Pickleball is a fun sport that combines tennis, badminton, and ping-pong. Join SIM friends at the Community Activity Center gym to play. Please bring your own racket.

SIM Fitness: Line Dancing

SIM volunteers will lead participants in the latest and greatest line dances. Dance to everything from the Cupid Shuffle to the Boot Scootn’ Boogie!