MAP AND COMPASS LEVEL 1    

Hike, snowshoe, geocache, hunt, and enjoy the woods and fields of Maine with confidence that you can read a topographic map, understand the symbols, know which way a river flows, plot a course bearing, use online resources, and how to get to safety.  Familiarization to using a compass and map outdoors included. Students must have a DeLorme Maine Gazetteer, and a 2-degree baseplate compass.

Class meets Live Online by Zoom

Instructor: Alice Bean Andrenyak

2  Mondays, 5:30-8:30 pm

October 16 & 23, 2023

Registration: $50

From your Instructor:

I am a Master Maine Guide who has been guiding for over 40 years, running my own full year guiding business (Alice's Awesome Adventures), former Inland Fisheries and Wildlife Guides Board Examiner, and 1:1 trainer. Many current Registered Maine Guides trained with me. I  have been a teacher in public education, adult education, online education, and for non-profit organizations since 1968.

Women's Health & Fitness 101

Live online by Zoom

2 Tuesdays, 2 Thursdays

Begins: Tuesday, October 17, 2023

Time: 6-7:30 pm

A Comprehensive Course on how to Regain Lost Energy and Stamina

For women of ALL fitness levels and ages who want to regain their energy and stamina, be more active and enjoy life.

Because women are different hormonally and anatomically, they benefit from different strategies and training. For example, women's lungs and airways are smaller than men’s of the same size. Smaller airways create air turbulence which can make it harder to breathe during exercise.

The ins & outs of optimal breathing                                       Tuesday Oct 17, 6:00-7:30                 

• What if you’re breathing all wrong?
• Establishing a starting point
• How to calm your breathing when you feel short-of-breath
• How to increase oxygenation to the body and brain
• The impact of hormones on your training
• What most people do wrong when exercising
• How to tell if your diaphragm is working for you, or against you

Respiratory Muscle Strength Determines Endurance           Thursday, Oct 19, 6:00-7:30

• How to build respiratory muscle strength
• How to breathe for optimal endurance
• Reduce shortness-of-breath when active
• What most people do wrong when exercising
• Why you fatigue

New rules for cardio and stamina                                       Tuesdays, Oct 24, 6:00-7:30

• Reduce risk of injury
• Improve oxygenation to muscles and brain
• Reduce load on heart
• Improve body’s ability to burn fat
• What happens when people ‘hit the wall’
• How important is stretching
• Reversibility, use it or lose it

Core strength training                                                           Thursday, Oct 26, 6:00-7:30

The concept of “Core Strength” (doing more sit-ups) misses the true foundation of Core Stability: the breath.

•  How optimal breathing will improve balance
• How your posture affects your core strength and stability
• The importance of core strength
• How to build core strength without hurting your back
• How your breathing pattern determines spinal and pelvic stability
• Tracking your 10 week journey

Carole Freeman, B.S. RRT, Breathing SpecialistCarole’s background has been equal portions of respiratory therapy, exercisephysiology, and massage therapy. Her career as a respiratory therapistbegan at Loma Linda University Medical Center where she discovered thatmost adult patients were in the hospital because of poor lifestyle choices.That inspired her to attend graduate school at LLUMC, majoring in HealthSciences. She now focuses her work in a relatively new field of pulmonarymedicine - Recognizing and Treating Breathing Disorders.Breath-Taking Online is an online school offering a wide variety of Self-Paced, On Demand classes encompassing the entire field of BreathingDisorders. Carole’s mission is to share this information, along with personalexperience and background, to help others breathe easier and feel healthier.

Carole Freeman207-351-5335Carolef218@gmail.comBreath-TakingOnline.com

COASTAL NAVIGATION LEVEL 1  

 Learn the basics of coastal navigation using local charts, parallel ruler, and dividers. Learn what the symbols mean, how to determine safe and dangerous routes, create courses, learn rules of the “road”, what aids to navigation look like and do, plan for emergencies and more. For kayakers, sailors, powerboaters, and future Registered Maine Guides.

Students will need access to either a Casco Bay Chart or Penobscot Bay Chart, parallel ruler and dividers.   

Class meets Live Online by Zoom

Instructor: Alice Bean Andrenyak

2 Thursdays, 5:30-8:30 pm

 November 9 and 16, 2023

Registration: $50

From your Instructor:

I am a Master Maine Guide who has been guiding for over 40 years, running my own full year guiding business (Alice's Awesome Adventures), former Inland Fisheries and Wildlife Guides Board Examiner, and 1:1 trainer. Many current Registered Maine Guides trained with me. I  have been a teacher in public education, adult education, online education, and for non-profit organizations since 1968.

 HOW TO TRAIN TO BECOME A REGISTERED MAINE GUIDE.  

 Want to be a Registered Maine Guide? Don't know the process? Trying to decide how to train to take your tests? Want to know the rules about guiding?  Take this one-hour interactive Zoom free class. Get your answers and create your future!   

Live online by Zoom

Instructor: Alice Bean Andrenyak

Date: Wednesday, November 15, 2023 (Repeated on January 9, 2024)

Time: 7-8 pm

Cost: FREE

Alice's Awesome Adventures, LLC   is on the Maine Oyster Trail and offers custom tours, instruction, and workshops throughout coastal Maine by Master Maine Guide, Alice. Her specialties include Malaga Island history tours, oyster farm and tasting sea kayak tours, sea kayaking, navigation, snowshoeing, canoeing, SUP, nature observation, lighthouse visiting, and personalized Registered Maine Guide training. Alice is a Kripalu Mindful Outdoor Guide offering 1 - 6 hour Mindful Outdoor Experiences (aka Forest Bathing or Forest Therapy). Alice is a NRA Range Safety Officer and Instructor and an USCCA Instructor offering coed and women's only pistol training through Alice's Handgun training.

REGISTERED MAINE GUIDE TRAINING     

Train to become a working Registered Maine Guide not just a test taker. Learn the skills that guides use daily including: map & compass, coastal navigation, shelter building, separated client searches, cooking, canoeing, snowshoeing, SUP’ng, plus specialty skills for recreation, sea kayaking, tide-water fishing, inland fishing, and hunting future guides.

This ten-session hybrid program includes Zoom, optional all-day skill workshops, and homework assignments. Optional skills workshops are at an additional cost. Those thinking of becoming a Registered Maine Guide will need to take a first aid and CPR course, not included. 

Live online by Zoom

Time: 6-9 pm

10 Tuesdays starting January 23, 2024 – April 2, 2024. (No class on 2/20/24.) 

Registration: $500 (Plus optional workshops)

From your Instructor:

I am a Master Maine Guide who has been guiding for over 40 years, running my own full year guiding business (Alice's Awesome Adventures), former Inland Fisheries and Wildlife Guides Board Examiner, and 1:1 trainer. Many current Registered Maine Guides trained with me. I  have been a teacher in public education, adult education, online education, and for non-profit organizations since 1968.