These are real impact kickboxing classes where you’ll burn fat FAST and learn real kickboxing drills and combos. This class will provide you with a great non-contact fitness kickboxing workout. You will also get interval training and body weight resistance training!

Experience a creative fusion of different forms of yoga, tai chi, dance, and gigong- inspired movements and techniques. Through breathing with movement and relaxation, restore, soothe, nurture your body; calm your mind; and, release your spirit!

Get ready to work and meet your fitness goals! Our trainer will take you through fun & challenging drills that blend agility, endurance, speed and strength to push you to achieve your personal best! Fitness Class Fees: UPEI Full-Time Students and Chi-Wan Young Sports Centre members can attend these classes for FREE! Non-members can purchase a day pass for $9+gst for each class or purchase a 5 punch card for $40+gst. Passes and punch cards can be purchases at the Sports Centre front desk.

Get ready to work and meet your fitness goals! Our trainer will take you through fun & challenging drills that blend agility, endurance, speed and strength to push you to achieve your personal best! Fitness Class Fees: UPEI Full-Time Students and Chi-Wan Young Sports Centre members can attend these classes for FREE! Non-members can purchase a day pass for $9+gst for each class or purchase a 5 punch card for $40+gst. Passes and punch cards can be purchases at the Sports Centre front desk.

This is your full-enchilada class, having a little of this and a little of that -- a perfect mix! This class has the ideal combination of functional strength movement (focusing on good movement and not only muscle appearance!), fun-filled heart-pumping drills, and calming relaxation exercises as the finishing finale. Enjoy a balanced class philosophy where working-out and working-in exercises are incorporated. Get a lot done in a short amount of time; train, don’t drain.

Learn and use the seven basic (primal) patterns to condition your entire body, producing a practically unlimited toolbox of exercises. Fire up and strengthen your core while integrating your lower and upper body through dynamic and functional (real-life!) movements.

These are real impact kickboxing classes where you’ll burn fat FAST and learn real kickboxing drills and combos. This class will provide you with a great non-contact fitness kickboxing workout. You will also get interval training and body weight resistance training!

January Welcome Day is UPEI's orientation day for all students beginning at UPEI in the winter 2013 semester. On January 5, you are invited to UPEI campus for welcome orientation, advisement, campus tours, and a free lunch! This half-day program will introduce you to UPEI, administrators, current students, and what you need to know for your first semester at UPEI. If you're new to campus in January register today through your campus login to secure your spot!

At the next Research on Tap, Dr. Sandy McAuley, Associate Professor of Education at UPEI, will lead a discussion about how school needs to change to engage students. The title of his discussion is “Education for Innovation: problem solving for Twenty-first century schools.” “K-12 students are capable of becoming relatively sophisticated creators of knowledge,” said McAuley. “Right now, schools are not intellectually engaging for the majority of students. Intellectual engagement is critical for graduates who can take active roles in a culture of innovation which is becoming increasingly important for our future on PEI and Canada.” The discussion begins at 7 pm, January 8, at The Pourhouse (above The Old Triangle Irish Alehouse in Charlottetown). Research on Tap is a series of public discussions led by UPEI researchers. For more information, contact Dave Atkinson at (902) 620-5117 or datkinson@upei.ca.

Join the Faculty of Arts in the Main Faculty Lounge on Wednesday, January 16 at 4:30 pm for a book launch. There will be seven authors/editors and nine publications to celebrate: Godfrey Baldacchino and Anna Baldacchino, A Taste of Islands: 60 Recipes and Stories from Our World of Islands (Charlottetown: Island Studies Press, 2012). Godfrey Baldacchino, ed, Island Songs: A Global Repertoire (launched at a separate event earlier this year). This book is the first to emerge from the UPEI-led AIRS Project (Advancing Interdisciplinary Research in Singing). Ann Braithwaite, Catherine M. Orr, and Diane Lichtenstein, eds, Rethinking Women's and Gender Studies (New York: Routledge: 2012). Sarah Glassford & Amy J. Shaw, eds, A Sisterhood of Suffering & Service: Women and Girls of Canada and Newfoundland during the First World War (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2012). John McIntyre, and Miranda Hickman, eds, Rereading the New Criticism (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2012). Richard Raiswell, ed, with Peter Dendle, The Devil in Society in Premodern Europe (Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, Victoria University in the University of Toronto, 2012). Raiswell is also an editor of a new academic journal: Preternature: Critical and Historical Studies on the Preternatural (published bi-annually by Penn State University Press). Richard Lemm, ed. Riptides: New Island Fiction. Introduction by Richard Lemm. (Charlottetown: Acorn Press, 2012). Laurie Brinklow, author, Here for the Music (Charlottetown: Acorn Press, 2012). Please join us in our celebration of these authors and their work. Books will be available for purchase and signing at the event! For more information: http://research.upei.ca/events/faculty-arts-book-launch-0