This community events calendar is the place to find fun activities and things to do throughout Lewis County, including Centralia, Chehalis and beyond.

Ease Pain and Feel Great with MELT!
Join MELT Instructor, Jill Pagano, for an introduction to The MELT Method. With MELT you’ll experience the results of melting away stuck stress and compressed joints.
This simple to learn and do method has helped thousands of people get out and stay out of chronic pain. The MELT Method is not exercise or diet, it is a self-care treatment that in just 10-15 minutes a day leaves you feeling like you just had a massage—that you created yourself! With regular practice, you too can become pain-free!
$30* Early Bird (Ends 12/31/16
$35* General (Begins 1/1/2017)
*plus tax. Unlimited Members receive 10% off
ABOUT JILL:
Jill Pagano has spent three decades teaching fitness and somatic movement.
She enjoyed 20 years as a Nia Instructor and 4 years as a Nia Trainer. Her latest exploration is excavating her goldmine of experience to bring people into a deeper relationship with their body.

Join Billie’s Sewing Circle at Billie’s Designer Fabrics tomorrow, January 11th, from 10 – 2 pm as we make Kitty Crack catnip toys to be used as a fundraiser for The Almost Home Project no-kill animal rescue (facebook.com/thealmosthomeproject). Fabric, catnip and sewing machines will be provided. This sewing circle also makes hats and mittens for our local giving trees. Billie’s is a wonderful store located at in downtown Chehalis at 510 N. Market Blvd with lots of fabulous fabrics and sewing machines worth drooling over not to mention the reasonable repair work they do.
Weekly event on Wednesdays from 1:00 – 1:50 p.m.
Explore your creative side with other aspiring writers. This one-hour, once-a-month workshop will give you the opportunity to create and share your writing with other aspiring writers.

Free and fun introduction to square dancing. A chance to get out and get moving. You’ll be dancing right away. Good exercise for body and brain in a friendly atmosphere. No experience necessary. Couples, singles, families welcome, ages 10 to 110. Sponsored by Olympia Area Square Dancers. For more information call Ed at 352-2662 or Nancy at 438-1284. Web: www.OlympiaSquareDance.com

Are you ready to fall in LOVE with a workout?Are tired of forcing yourself to go to the gym or feeling guilty for not going at all? Are you ready to completely change not only your body but your relationship with your body?
THEN GET READY FOR NIA and dance, move, laugh, shake and put PLEASURE into your workout!
Experience Nia in this 2 hour workshop designed specifically for beginners. We’ll introduce the basic concepts and principals of Nia and get moving in a beginning-level Nia class. All levels of fitness are welcome and no experience required!
$15* Early Bird (ends 1/6)
$20* General (begins 1/7)
*plus tax. Unlimited Members receive 10% off
Nia is a fun, energetic dance fitness workout that helps you become healthy, powerful and beautiful. This joy-fueled non-impact, full body, barefoot workout is focused on sensation, cultivating awareness and joy. Nia is about enjoying being present in the body and moving to your own individual intensity level and in your body’s way. A dynamic blend of dance arts, martial arts and healing arts, Nia is a path to condition, heal and express yourself through movement and sensation. Nia is more easily experienced than described. Movement variations offered for different levels of fitness. To learn more about Nia, visit NiaNow.com.
Weekly event on Wednesdays from 1:00 – 1:50 p.m.

This social, family-friendly class gets your body and mind moving in a fun atmosphere. By the end of ten weeks you will have learned the basics of modern square dancing – the same moves used in thousands of square dance club dances and dance events throughout the world. You’ll be dancing at the very first lesson. Couples, families and singles are all welcome. First lesson is Thursday, January 19. 6:30 p.m.. Sponsored by Olympia Area Square Dancers. Web: www.OlympiaSquareDance.com
Looking for a group where you can discuss and discover Young Adult literature with other readers? Come and check us out! Bring a friend and 2 books you would like to suggest for our future club discussions! Light snacks and refreshments will be provided.
The goal of this club is for young adults to get together to read, discuss, and share YA literature. No genre is excluded! (So long as it’s Young Adult.)
Regular meetings will be held on the 4th Sunday of every month, from 1:30pm – 3:00pm
Weekly event on Wednesdays from 1:00 – 1:50 p.m.