Special Events
Registration is required; payment will confirm your registration.
If you are unable to attend the class, you may 1) transfer your registration to someone else, or 2) we will be happy to send you all class handouts and recipes. Class registration is non-refundable.
In the unlikely event that it is necessary to cancel a class, you will receive a refund or credit towards your next class.
Prenatal Yoga
with Jill Pawloski
Saturday, May 25 • 11:30am – 12:30pm
Location: Pure Health and Fitness, 13281 Prospect Road, Strongsville 44149
Many obstetricians and midwives recommend yoga practice to their prenatal patients. Practicing prenatal yoga can help you relax your mind, strengthen your muscles, bond with your baby and prepare for childbirth.
Prenatal Yoga provides a relaxed and nurturing atmosphere where you can enhance the bonding process with your baby while supporting the development and strengthening of your body, mind, and spirit during pregnancy.
The yoga exercises and postures, deep breathing techniques, and mantras greatly impact the quality of your pregnancy and birth experience as well as the many changes your body and emotions go through after the baby arrives. This class ends with an extra long relaxation period.
The benefits of a regular prenatal yoga practice will provide you with the healthiest and most peaceful pregnancy possible. Prenatal yoga practice can also help ease morning sickness, alleviate edema, and prevent varicose veins.
This class is also a wonderful opportunity to meet other pregnant women who can relate with you as you experience the miracle of the life growing within you and the transition of becoming a mother. Open to any trimester of your pregnancy!
COST: $35 for Three 60 minute sessions or $15 per individual class
Please RSVP by calling Pure at 440-878-0000 or click here and then on the EVENTS tab:
Raw Vegan Lecture & Demonstration
with Marisa DiCenso-Pelser
Saturday, June 1 • 12:00pm – 2:00pm
Location: Pure Health and Fitness, 13281 Prospect Road, Strongsville 44149
In cooperation with Fresh Fork Market, join us for a look at an all raw food vegan diet. Whether you want to live a full raw foods lifestyle or simply want to add more raw foods to your diet, you are sure to get plenty of great information from this class.
Marisa DiCenso-Pelser, a professionally trained Whole, Living, Plant Based Raw Foods chef and author, will help get you and your family on your way to more mental and physical clarity when dining with more whole, living raw foods in your diet. This is an introductory class that provides a good foundational understanding. Marisa’s signature dishes are both amazing to the eye as well as to the palette – health-giving contemporary, fine food that is beautiful and alive so you can be, too!
To read more about a Raw Vegan lifestyle, visit www.rawtrainer.com.
See & Taste For Yourself!
This class is $25 for 2 hour class, demonstrations, handouts, recipes, and sampling
Register Here: What, Why, and How of Raw Food
Infant Nutrition and Baby Food Making
with Marisa DiCenso-Pelser
Monday, June 3 • 6:00pm – 8:00pm
Location: Market Garden Brewery, 1947 West 25th Street, Cleveland, OH 44113
Marisa, known as The Raw Trainer, is a Raw Vegan Chef, personal trainer, and also experienced with making baby food for her own two little ones. Her focus is on vegan and raw foods, however, this class will include incorporating some animal products into a baby’s diet.
The agenda:
- Equipment Needed and Helpful Hints, Other Resources
- Process: How it is done, what recipes freeze well, tips
- Recipes: Taste the actual baby food and learn seasonal recipes from Marisa and her staff
This class is $20 and will include samples and a recipe guide to take home.
This event is in cooperation with Fresh Fork Market!
Register Here: Infant Nutrition and Baby Food Making
Yoga Basics
with Jill Pawloski
Saturday, June 8 • 11:30am – 1:00pm
Location: Pure Health and Fitness, 13281 Prospect Road, Strongsville 44149
This class has been designed for you if you are looking to begin your yoga practice from the ground up or return to the basic roots of yoga. Find all the goodness of yoga in a comfortable environment where you will explore a series of basic poses allowing you to create the pose based on your own body readiness. Jill will guide you through the practice one pose at a time leading to improved strength, flexibility and body awareness. You will receive immediate feedback and adjustments to help you on your path. For all levels.
”Yoga is the perfect opportunity to be curious
about who you are.” ~ Jason Crandell
COST: $15 for 90 minute class
Please RSVP by calling Pure at 440-878-0000 or click here and then on the EVENTS tab:
Summer Treats! Ice Cream, Sorbet, & Popsicles
with Marisa DiCenso-Pelser
Monday, June 10 • 6:45pm – 8:15pm
Location: Pure Health and Fitness, 13281 Prospect Road, Strongsville 44149
YUM.
You’ll love this class packed with demonstrations and tastings! Learn how to make delish summer desserts with fresh produce and other healthy items! Learn how to make vegan ice creams, sorbets and popsicles in your Vitamix. You won’t even miss the “real” stuff once you try these variations.
Free childcare and treats for the kids in our youth room! Please call the studio and let us know how many kids will be attending the childcare room… 440-878-0000.
Dancing for Birth
with Sharon Johnson
Saturday, June 15 • 12:30-2:00 pm
Location: Pure Health & Fitness, 13281 Prospect Road, Strongsville, OH 44149
Celebrate your Pregnancy with a Dancing For Birth Prenatal and Postpartum dance class!!
Birth can be like a marathon and Dancing for Birth prepares you for the challenge. You’ll become stronger, more graceful, more agile and at ease with your pregnant body and both mentally and physically ready to embrace your birth experience.
Come pre-conception, pregnant or postpartum with your infant! Learn signature moves inspired by world dance forms such as Bellydance, African dance, Latin dance, and Caribbean dance. It’s a feel good work out that challenges yet relaxes you. No experience necessary!
You’ll also gain essential childbirth preparation skills and natural pain coping techniques that will build your confidence in your own birthing ability. Birth can be active, ecstatic, transformative, empowering!
Wear comfortable clothes and come to celebrate your strength and beauty. First class is free of charge. Subsequent classes are $5 per class or 6 classes for $25.
Instructed By Certified Nurse Midwife, Sharon Johnson of Westshore Midwifery Associates
For information or to register please contact Sharon at (440) 537-2135
Pain Management with Essential Oils
with Marisa DiCenso-Pelser
Monday, June 17 • 6:45pm – 8:15pm
Location: Pure Health and Fitness, 13281 Prospect Road, Strongsville 44149
You know how the long term use of NSAIDs like aspirin and ibuprofen can cause unwanted long-term effects on our bodies, but what are your options? Essential oils improve many pain issues safely without side effects. They also have many additional health benefits! Come see how cost effective it can be to move to just a few essential oils for a variety of pain issues. Make-and-take a homemade product!
COST: $5 with all handouts, recipes and a product to take home
Register by calling 440-878-0000 or by clicking here and then on the EVENTS tab:
BROga
with Jill Pawloski
Monday, June 17 • 7:30–8:30pm
Location: Pure Health and Fitness, 13281 Prospect Road, Strongsville 44149
If you’re a guy who feels too shy or emasculated by the idea of attending a yoga class among a sea of women, you can now feel at ease at “BROga”. Getting men to identify with yoga has long been a challenge in this country. Until recent history, since yoga’s beginnings in India thousands of years ago, it has mainly been taught and studied only by men.
“BROga” is a yoga class for men who may be self-conscious about not being as flexible as the woman on the mat next to them in a regular yoga class. “BROga” is a class geared for MEN ONLY where it’s okay if you can’t touch your toes!
The class focuses on balance, building strength and flexibility and an awareness of breath. “BROga” is about men feeling better in their bodies, and taking an active, preventive role in their own lives.
Alright guys! Time for you to head out and buy a yoga mat (yes, they come in other colors besides pink and purple) and no, you don’t have to wear spandex…..Now hit the mat!
Space and mats are limited, RSVP!
COST: $12 for 60 minute session
Register by calling 440-878-0000 or by clicking here:
Be sure to be on the CLASSES TAB and find the day of this class (6/17)
All American BBQ the Raw Vegan Way
with Marisa DiCenso-Pelser
Monday, June 24 • 6:45pm – 8:45pm
Location: Pure Health and Fitness, 13281 Prospect Road, Strongsville 44149
Nothing makes the Summer Holidays or a weekend pool party more fun than a barbecue! In this class we will share some of our tips and recipes to make your holiday barbecue a healthier than it’s ever been before!
See & Taste For Yourself! Join Plant-Based Raw Foods Chef Marisa DiCenso-Pelser for an information packed evening and food demonstration as well as a delicious samples prepared for you!