Fitness Classes
Group Fitness classes are included free of charge with your membership. If you are not a member you can attend classes by paying a $9 drop-in fee. For fulltime students, classes are paid for through student fees.
If at any time you do not feel well during class please notify your instructor immediately.
Butts and Guts in room 1004
This mat-based Pilates-style class focuses on low-resistance exercises to build strength and tone your lower body and core muscles.
Mondays, 12 p.m.
Hatha Yoga in room 1009
This class emphasizes breathwork, postures, relaxation, and meditation. Postures are held for an extended period to ensure proper alignment and to build core strength and flexibility. Each class will include pranayama, sun and moon salutations, gentle inversions, and savasana.
Mondays, 12 p.m.
Warrior Workouts in room 1004
Get ready to sweat, move and unleash your inner warrior! This high-energy, full body conditioning class blends strength, cardio, agility and endurance using a variety of equipment. Expect functional movements, creative circuits and non-stop motivation in a team-like atmosphere. Each session is designed to meet your fitness level, challenge your limits and leave you feeling powerful.
Mondays & Wednesdays, 5:15 p.m.
Barbell Strength in room 1004
Build strength, confidence, and technique in this total body barbell training class. Designed for all fitness levels, Barbell Strength focuses on foundational lifts to improve muscular strength, endurance and power. Whether you are new to lifting or a veteran, this class provides structured progressions, proper technique coaching and a motivating group environment.
Tuesdays & Thursdays, 6:30 a.m.
TRX in room 1009
This total body, high intensity workout uses the TRX strap to create a full body workout. It’s designed to enhance your strength, stamina, balance, coordination, flexibility, and overall body control.
Tuesdays, 12 p.m.
Pilates Fusion in room 1004
You'll engage in a full-body workout using light weights, resistance bands and bodyweight exercises to build strength, improve stability and support functional movement. Each class begins and ends with a gentle mobility flow designed to enhance flexibility, increase range of motion and release tension.
Tuesdays, 12 p.m.
Yin Yoga in room 1009
This slower-paced class focuses on holding poses for longer periods, allowing your muscles to relax and promoting work on fascia and connective tissues. The result? Improved flexibility and a deeper sense of release.
Tuesdays, 5:15 p.m.
Total Body Fitness in room 1004
This high-energy conditioning class challenges you with short, intense cardio intervals paired with muscle-strengthening exercises for a full-body workout.
Wednesdays and Thursdays, 12:00 p.m.
MixxedFit in room 1004
MixxedFit combines explosive dance movements with bodyweight toning. The moves are easy to follow and repetitive, so you can get lost in the music and in your workout, not in complicated dance steps. Incorporating bodyweight toning and HIIT-style exercises, this class provides an opportunity to challenge yourself.
Thursdays, 5:15 p.m.
Slow Flow Yoga in room 1004
This class will guide you through each pose slowly, allowing time to stretch, improve flexibility, and recover. Whether you’re a complete yoga beginner or using yoga to recover from intense workouts, this slow flow yoga practice is what you are looking for.
Thursdays, 5:15 p.m.
Powerpump in room 1004
This high-rep, low-weight strength class uses time under tension and muscle fatigue to sculpt and tone your entire body. The workout is set to a custom playlist designed to keep you motivated and push you to the next level.
Fridays, 12 p.m.
Instructors
Decature Banker, MPH, CSP
Decature is a NESTA certified personal fitness trainer with additional certification in TRX. He has 10 years of experience training in both individual and group settings, with clientele ranging from youth athletes to adults. He strives for efficiency and his classes offer a fast-paced blend of strength training and conditioning.
Decature is also a senior specialist in the UNMC Environmental Health and Safety Department with an MPH in Environmental and Occupational Health and a BS in Business. He strongly believes that the Center for Healthy Living’s mission to encourage wellness among faculty, staff and students can have a positive impact in the overall health and safety of the UNMC community.
Annie Bode, APRN, DNP
Annie Bode, APRN, DNP is a women’s health nurse practitioner. Her career in health care and her specialty in integrative medicine led her to yoga as a form of ancillary health care and wellness for body, mind and spirit. She is a certified yoga instructor (RYT 200) with additional certification in Yin Yoga (RYT 100). Annie’s yin yoga sessions aim for a balance between effort and surrender, enabling a greater sense of ease in our bodies and resilience in our spirits.
Yin is a relatively new form of yoga working with fascia, connective tissue and the nervous system. A regular Yin yoga practice activates the parasympathetic nervous system and enables a mind-body connection using breath and body awareness. Yin enables increased flexibility and range of motion. Yin yoga is both a deep physical practice and a form of mindfulness meditation.
Yin yoga is a non-competitive yoga style. It is a personalized practice that is safe and appropriate for each body with its own unique muscular and skeletal variations. Yin yoga is accessible to all bodies, regardless of age, physical ability or specific health condition.
Annie currently leads the 5 p.m. yoga session. She is available for individual yoga sessions or therapeutically themed group classes. Annie has experience working with individuals to achieve relief of chronic arthritis pain, back pain, headaches and post-partum mood disorders.
Devashree Patel, PhD
Devashree has PhD in Yoga Therapy and LifeSciences, with 18 years of teaching Hatha yoga style.
Hatha Yoga has three elements: physical poses (asanas), breathing techniques (pranayama), and meditation (dyana).
Regular Hatha yoga practice relieves stress, promotes mental calmness, improves strength, flexibility, stamina, range of motion, and balance.
Devashree taught in the Sivananda School of Yoga before coming to work as a yoga instructor at the Center for Healthy Living at UNMC and as a Yoga faculty at UNO’s Department of Health and Kinesiology.
“Yoga is a gift that keeps giving,” she said. “It is a gift that was given to me by Sivananda yoga school and now it is a gift I want to pass on to others. I know for sure yoga helps people decrease their stress levels and if you have a less stressed society you have a happier society, and by teaching Yoga I will be making a contribution to my society and the world.”
