Gymtrix
Fun sensory and gross motor activities combined with music
Thursdays 4:30pm-5:15pm
The first six week session in September is full
Register now for the second session starting October 27
$30 per Child for ages 3-7, for 6 weeks
scholarships available- indicate when registering
Please note: 3-4 year old's need an adult with them for the sessions, ages 5-7 can attend on their own.
(click here to register)
What is Gymtrix?
Gymtrix is fun and entices children to participate in creative activities for "Physical literacy." Join Doreen Bolhuis, a fellow parishioner who founded Gymtrix, for fun sessions that you can replicate at home; no special equipment needed! Fun sensory and gross motor activities will be combined with music. Gymtrix is centered on children, starting at infancy and continuing through elementary school. It is family oriented, promotes group participation, and emphasizes the fact that physical activity can be done with common household items.
GymTrix was created to help foster brain development and with the intention of preventing children from becoming permanently sedentary. "If children do not develop motor skills, kinesthetic awareness, coordination and agility at a young age, they are disadvantaged when faced with the challenge of physical participation," Bolhuis states. "Sedentary children become sedentary adults. The time to learn skills for life-long health is infancy and childhood."
Jump!
Kick!
Twist & Roll!
Play Ball!
About Doreen
Doreen Bolhuis is the founder of GYMCO Sports, an educational multi-sport facility in Grand Rapids, MI. Under Doreen’s management, Gymco became a leader in the gymnastics industry, using innovative, education-based techniques to share the benefits of gymnastics to kids of all ages and taught over 80,000 students.
Doreen also created Gymtrix, an innovative DVD series to teach physical skills for babies through elementary students. Doreen holds a B.S. in education with a major in Physical Education. She has over 35 years’ experience teaching locally, nationally and internationally. Doreen was an adjunct professor for Aquinas College in the department of Health and Physical Education and has appeared on local and national TV and radio as a guest expert in Physical Literacy. Doreen is also a former elite level gymnastics coach and Junior Olympic Committee member for USA Gymnastics.
Doreen is a life-long athlete, and her favorite sports include running, trick water skiing, snow skiing, biking, gymnastics and tennis. Doreen also enjoys a life-long appreciation of music and the arts and plays the cello. She and her husband Mark retired in 2020 and moved to Sanibel where they enjoy island life.
(click here to download the Gymtrix flyer - print one for a friend!)
