This community events calendar is the place to find fun activities and things to do throughout Lewis County, including Centralia, Chehalis and beyond.
Explore activities that develop science, technology, engineering, art and math skills. Build simple machines and play with Roominate to learn about engineering. Grades 1-6
Join Brenda for this two hour Introduction to Hoop Dance and learn the basics of hooping from the ground up! Never been able to hula hoop? No worries! This is the workshop for you!
Over this two hour workshop, Brenda will take you on a journey through the different styles and techniques of Hoop Dance and empower you to play, groove and practice the FUNdamentals of beginning hoop dance. Laugh your way to learning hoop dance in a safe space and body positive environment. Hoop dance is a low impact form of expressive fitness and suitable for all bodies, genders and ages. It is a moving meditation and highly effective cardiovascular and strengthening exercise experience.
No experience necessary! Bring your curiosity, hoops will be provided
$25* Early Bird (ends 9/21)
$30* General (begins 9/22)
*plus tax. Unlimited members receive 10 percent off
Space is limited. Register early to save your space!
Join guest Facilitator Anna Rose for a powerful 4-part L.I.F.E. Meditation Series. Each class with a specific theme: Look within, Inspire, Forgive and Empower. Each class will start out introducing the techniques grounding and centering. Grounding and centering are essential throughout this work and will be practiced throughout the classes.
Saturdays, September 8 – 29
2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.
$55* for all four sessions (Early bird ends 9/7)
$15* per session
*plus tax. Unlimited members receive 10 percent off
Anna Rose has been practicing meditation for over 15 years and teaching for 5. Anna believes that we all have the ability to create our own lives and teaches meditation to provide new perspectives and techniques to assist in creating exactly what you want. This transformative process will free you from limiting beliefs and the past pains that keep you from experiencing the full potential of joy this life holds for you.
Anna lives in South Puget Sound with her husband and animal friends. In her spare time she enjoys hiking, volunteering, and baking everything imaginable.
Saturday, September 8 – Look Within
In this meditation class you will focus on looking with, and developing awareness of what you have stored inside your energy system. Disturbances such as pain, invalidation and other people’s information in your space can cause discomfort for your body and affect your flow of energy. This can cause you to look outside of yourself for answers, creating a disconnect between you and your body. Looking within will provide awareness of what your body is communicating to you. You will learn practical techniques such as grounding, centering and releasing energy, with a focus on the first, fifth and sixth chakras.
Saturday, September 15 – Inspire
In this meditation class you will focus on consciously creating your life. Everything you have experienced in life is a manifestation of your creations. However, most people are creating unconsciously and therefore, not creating what they want. Simply discovering what you wish to create for yourself is a process. It is not uncommon for us to focus on creating what other people want for us, rather than what we want for ourselves. In this class you will become aware of how you have been creating up to this point, and learn techniques to consciously create what you want. We will focus on the first, third and sixth chakras.
Saturday, September 22 – Forgive
In this meditation class, you will focus on forgiving yourself and others. People often confuse forgiveness with excusing or accepting a behavior or action. Forgiveness is simply letting go of the pain, and moving on. We tend to punish ourselves and others for betrayals and other inappropriate and uncomfortable experiences. However, this only causes suffering and ensures that you will remain bound to that experience. Forgiveness allows you to retain the lesson but let go of the repercussion. Experiencing pain is inevitable, but suffering is a choice. In this class you will focus on healing past pain and validating your unique journey and resilience. We will focus on the first, second, third and fourth chakras.
Saturday, September 29 – Empower
In this mediation class, you will focus on clearly seeing yourself and your truth in the world. With the busyness of everyday life, it is easy to lose sight of our unique purpose within it. We sometimes find ourselves believing things others want us to believe, and doing things others want us to do. In this mediation class you will focus on your individual information and your truth in the world. It is common for us to operate through other people’s information we receive from childhood, society, work and relationships. You will recognize information you have been creating through that is not yours, and no longer appropriate for you and your life. You will utilize techniques to let go of this information, so that you can clearly know yourself and your truth in the world. We will focus on the first, fifth and seventh charkas.
Enjoy stories, rhymes, songs and movement games followed by 30 minutes of unstructured play. This is an early learning program.
Explore activities that develop science, technology, engineering, art and math skills. This program is for elementary age children.
Books, bounces, music and play for babies and their participating caregivers. Includes 30 minutes of unstructured play. This is an early learning program.
Music, movement and books for toddlers and their participating caregivers. Includes 30 minutes of unstructured play. This is an early learning program.
School of the Arts is focused on developing well rounded actors by offering opportunities for youth to develop their acting, singing and movement skills through classes, workshops and productions. This fall we will be offering a 10-week session of classes and an end of session Showcase. Classes start Sept 13, 2018. The Showcase for friends and family will be in November. Students will receive training from qualified instructors in a small group setting.
All classes located in Bethel Downtown Centralia, 413 N Tower Ave.
Acting Classes for Kids
(4th grade – 8th grade)
Thursdays, Sept 13 – Nov 15
4:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Acting Classes for Teens
8th grade – High School
Thursdays Sept 13 – Nov 15
6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. (two one-hour classes)
Details and Registration: www.bethel-church.com/sota
This four-week class series will take you through the fundamentals of hooping and hoop dance! Over the course of four weeks ,you will learn to hoop on your waist and hips as well as off-body moves that will add play, grace and flow to your dance!
$50* Non-members
$35* Unlimited members
* Plus tax
Space is limited so register early to save your space. No experience necessary. Bring your curiosity, hoops will be provided.
Join us for the 12th annual Harvest Dinner at the beautiful City Farm in downtown Chehalis. An evening to celebrate our rich bio-region, local agriculture and your downtown farmers market. All proceeds directly support Community Farmers Market Operations.
The Community Farmers Market at Chehalis is proud to partner with chef Laural Khan and Mackinaws restaurant to produce this memorable farm-to-table meal. Travel with your taste buds and experience international flavors with locally produced foods.
An evening of community and a new romantic setting in downtown Chehalis. There will be live music, a dance performance by The SW WA tribal belly dance troupe, a silent auction featuring goodies from farms and businesses all over town, a dessert auction, wine, beer and cocktails. Contact info@chehalisfarmersmarket.com to reserve a table for your business or organization!
