Teen River Revival! Tuesdays
Come on out for a fun relaxing 90 minutes down by the river. Loosen yourself from your desk, your studies, your worries and connect with new friends and the wild world.
Together we’ll learn and wonder about the plants, animals, fungi and human land history by the Huron River. We’ll play field games and use exercises to expand our sensory awareness, stimulate vision-body connection, move joints and muscles that are especially affected by sitting and just relax and be out in the wild. We’ll experiment with ways of observing, interacting and understanding birds, trees, squirrels, arthropods and aquatic life along the river. We’ll take time to share observations and pose questions to each other about the natural world.
Together we’ll learn and wonder about the plants, animals, fungi and human land history by the Huron River. We’ll play field games and use exercises to expand our sensory awareness, stimulate vision-body connection, move joints and muscles that are especially affected by sitting and just relax and be out in the wild. We’ll experiment with ways of observing, interacting and understanding birds, trees, squirrels, arthropods and aquatic life along the river. We’ll take time to share observations and pose questions to each other about the natural world.
Details
Class meets on Tuesdays, 10/27-12/1 from 4:30-6:00 pm at Gallup Park. The cost is $120 for 6 sessions ($110 for each additional sibling). Scholarships are available upon request. This is an in-person teen class with a 10-person limit.
Please pay by mailing a check to Nature Learning Community at PO Box 3333, Ann Arbor, MI 48016 or through PayPal to paypal.me/natureclass. Then tell us your name, email address and phone number. You can email us at naturelearningcommunity@gmail.com.
Class meets on Tuesdays, 10/27-12/1 from 4:30-6:00 pm at Gallup Park. The cost is $120 for 6 sessions ($110 for each additional sibling). Scholarships are available upon request. This is an in-person teen class with a 10-person limit.
Please pay by mailing a check to Nature Learning Community at PO Box 3333, Ann Arbor, MI 48016 or through PayPal to paypal.me/natureclass. Then tell us your name, email address and phone number. You can email us at naturelearningcommunity@gmail.com.
Keeping it Safe in the Time of Covid
We've been paying close attention to emerging research around safety in the time of COVID. Current reports indicate that outdoors activities are safe within certain guidelines. Please check out our safety protocols.
We've been paying close attention to emerging research around safety in the time of COVID. Current reports indicate that outdoors activities are safe within certain guidelines. Please check out our safety protocols.
Instructor
Syndallas Baughman grew up on the water and in the forests of Michigan and Florida and earned a B.S. in Biology at University of Michigan and M.S. Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of California, Irvine. Along the way she’s camped and studied plants and pollinators in the Siskiyous in S.W. Oregon, swamps, forests and fields of Michigan, Kauai, coastal and desert California, and the California Sierra Nevada. She taught at El Cerrito Preschool Cooperative, learning from wise and loving mentors to step back and follow and support kids’ ideas. At Wildcat Community Free School she followed kids through creeks and forests, set up experiments, supervised the use of power tools, knives and fire, facilitated democratic decision making and mediated a lot of arguments about Pokemon trades. She’s planted native gardens with preschoolers to high school students, and has camped all over the U.S.A. with her two teenage sons.
Syndallas spent the past decade in automotive manufacturing where her responsibilities included developing accountable health and safety systems with teams of union leaders, production operators and supervision. She recently served on a Michigan State working group developing guidance for community centers and public events around COVID safety.
She participates in consensus decision making with her home community. Syndallas is a member of Nature Learning Community offering classes for children and adults. The beautiful wild world is the place Syndallas wants to be! She loves sharing nature connection with people and other living things and you!
Syndallas is glad to answer questions about how this class will go! You can email her at: Syndallas@gmail.com.
Syndallas Baughman grew up on the water and in the forests of Michigan and Florida and earned a B.S. in Biology at University of Michigan and M.S. Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of California, Irvine. Along the way she’s camped and studied plants and pollinators in the Siskiyous in S.W. Oregon, swamps, forests and fields of Michigan, Kauai, coastal and desert California, and the California Sierra Nevada. She taught at El Cerrito Preschool Cooperative, learning from wise and loving mentors to step back and follow and support kids’ ideas. At Wildcat Community Free School she followed kids through creeks and forests, set up experiments, supervised the use of power tools, knives and fire, facilitated democratic decision making and mediated a lot of arguments about Pokemon trades. She’s planted native gardens with preschoolers to high school students, and has camped all over the U.S.A. with her two teenage sons.
Syndallas spent the past decade in automotive manufacturing where her responsibilities included developing accountable health and safety systems with teams of union leaders, production operators and supervision. She recently served on a Michigan State working group developing guidance for community centers and public events around COVID safety.
She participates in consensus decision making with her home community. Syndallas is a member of Nature Learning Community offering classes for children and adults. The beautiful wild world is the place Syndallas wants to be! She loves sharing nature connection with people and other living things and you!
Syndallas is glad to answer questions about how this class will go! You can email her at: Syndallas@gmail.com.
Instructor
Andrea Sula F. Basso holds a Bachelor Degree in Occupational Therapy and Master in Physiology and Rehabilitation both from University of Sao Paulo (Brazil). She is also an Instructor and Massage Therapist of the Meir Schneider Self-Healing Method certified from the School for Self-Healing (San Francisco, CA). In Brasil, Andrea frequently treated individuals with back and neck pain, headaches, circulation problems, degenerative diseases, limited movements on seniors, Alzheimer, body awareness, Vision & Body integration, trauma, and hand rehabilitation.
She is the founder of Self-Healing Me Faz Crescer (for Brazilian speakers) and Self-Healing in Michigan. She was part of the board of Brazilian Association of Self-Healing, where she volunteered for 15 years. Now she is one of the administrators of Self-Healing Brasil.
Her 30 year-experience integrated studies and practices in Occupational Therapy, Hand Therapy and Biomechanics on the Meir Schneider Self-Healing Method, bringing balance and awareness on Vision-Body connection. In addition to that, her knowledge involves other integrative therapies such as Massage, Breathing exercises, Relaxation, Body Awareness, Eyes Exercises, Visualization, Chinese Medicine, Magnified Healing, Reiki, ACIM and other spiritual studies. She moved to Ann Arbor, with her husband, two kids and a dog 9 years ago and loves working outdoors integrating nature into her Vision-Bodywork.
Andrea Sula F. Basso holds a Bachelor Degree in Occupational Therapy and Master in Physiology and Rehabilitation both from University of Sao Paulo (Brazil). She is also an Instructor and Massage Therapist of the Meir Schneider Self-Healing Method certified from the School for Self-Healing (San Francisco, CA). In Brasil, Andrea frequently treated individuals with back and neck pain, headaches, circulation problems, degenerative diseases, limited movements on seniors, Alzheimer, body awareness, Vision & Body integration, trauma, and hand rehabilitation.
She is the founder of Self-Healing Me Faz Crescer (for Brazilian speakers) and Self-Healing in Michigan. She was part of the board of Brazilian Association of Self-Healing, where she volunteered for 15 years. Now she is one of the administrators of Self-Healing Brasil.
Her 30 year-experience integrated studies and practices in Occupational Therapy, Hand Therapy and Biomechanics on the Meir Schneider Self-Healing Method, bringing balance and awareness on Vision-Body connection. In addition to that, her knowledge involves other integrative therapies such as Massage, Breathing exercises, Relaxation, Body Awareness, Eyes Exercises, Visualization, Chinese Medicine, Magnified Healing, Reiki, ACIM and other spiritual studies. She moved to Ann Arbor, with her husband, two kids and a dog 9 years ago and loves working outdoors integrating nature into her Vision-Bodywork.