Fitness, Yoga & Pilates 2025
**Facility Closures:
Monday February 17, 2025: Family Day
Friday April 18, 2025: Good Friday
Monday April 21 2025: Easter Monday
Monday May 29 2025 Victoria Day
Tuesday July 1 2025: Canada Day
Monday August 4, 2025: Civic Holiday
Monday, September 1, 2025: Labour Day
Monday, October 13, 2025: Thanksgiving
Christmas and New Year holidays: Decmeber 22-31 2025
Something for everyone!
Questions? Please contact us mpcc@manorpark.ca
Register for Full Session : Fitness, Yoga & Pilates 2025
12 Weeks of Fitness, Yoga & Pilates Class of your choice!
By registering for the full session, you ensure your spot in the classes you choose and guarantees the price of $15 per class for the entire session.
This option is ideal for regular attendees who wish to commit to the entire session and eliminates the need to pre-register for each class individually—your spot is already secured.
If you are late to join into full session, registration fee will be pro-rated. Full sessions are seasonal: January to March, April to June, July to September and October to December.
$180 +HST
Purchase HERE
10-Class MultiPass for Fitness
The 10-Class MultiPass for Fitness 2025 gives you the flexibility to register for MPCC fitness classes around your busy schedule.
Participants must redeem their classes online in advance of attending. No exceptions.
Passes are non-refundable and non-transferable to others in your household. 10 Class MultiPass for Fitness cannot be prorated and will be subject to expiry dates.
Participants must redeem their MultiPass for Fitness by registering as a drop in for their selected class. Choose the class of your choice, and 'Click to Use MultiPass' to eliminate payment. 10-Class MultiPass for Fitness expires seasonally: January to March, April to June, July to September and October to December.
$180 +HST
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**Click HERE to Redeem MultiPass**
Single Class Drop-in
This is great for those last-minute registrations, the perfect option for trying out new classes with no commitment!
This can be applied to any class you choose for $20 per class. Pre-Registration is required online in advance of attending.
To attend: view the class calendar, select the class of your choice and click on the BLUE 'Register' button
Drop-in HERE
2025 FITNESS, YOGA & PILATES CLASSES:
Classes take place at 1805 Gaspe, Ottawa. The schedule is subject to change without notice. Classes are located in the Studio (Main Level) or the Art Space (Lower Level).
Pilates - Instructor: Catherine Hachigan
Pilates is full body functional exercise. The exercises provide the basis for strength training focusing on stability, mobility and core control connecting limbs to torso. Body awareness, posture and balance improve from moving methodically, in alignment and paying attention to small movements.
Mondays
9:30 – 10:30 AM
Thursdays
5 - 6 PM
Register for full session. (It's pro-rated!)
Buy your 10-Class MultiPass for Fitness
Pay for a drop-in.
Hatha Yoga - Instructor: Nina LePage
Stretch, unwind, use different breathing exercises, and enjoy a relaxing cool-down. The instructor combines gentle Hatha poses with breathing exercises. As you move from pose to pose, you'll relieve stress and stiffness in your mind and in your body. Suitable for all levels.
Mondays
5:00 - 6:00 PM
Saturdays
10 -11 AM
Register for full session. (It's pro-rated!)
Buy your 10-Class MultiPass for Fitness.
Pay for a drop-in.
Yoga Flow - Instructor: Rena Argiropulos
The instructor will take your through a series of gentle, yet dynamic movements to build strength, increase flexibility, and improve balance. Intentional breathing and mindful movement releases stress to promote your inner peace. Suitable for all levels as modifications are provided to meet individual needs.
Tuesdays
6 – 7 PM
Register for full session. (It's pro-rated!)
Buy your 10-Class MultiPass for Fitness.
Pay for a drop-in.
NEW! Goddess Flow Yoga -Instructor: Sophia Wood Massicotte
Goddess Flow is a fusion of yoga, sensual movement, and dance created for women. These unique flows are inspired by Hindu goddesses. We will channel their qualities of abundance, artistry, nourishment, inner devotion - and wildness! Each class will vary from fire-infused movements to calm and centering restorative poses leaving you feeling awakened and empowered to invoke goddess characterists in your practice and everyday life.
Sundays
9 - 10 AM
Register for full session. (It's pro-rated!)
Buy your 10-Class MultiPass for Fitness.
Pay for a drop-in.
Total Strength & Toning Workout - Instructor: Sophia Wood Massicotte
The essence of this class is to train and strengthen all areas of our bodies for the positions we use to live and move. Think about your daily activities from bending over, getting groceries out of a car, or cleaning your house. Adding functional training weekly can help you strengthening the muscles needed in order to excecute the movements properly and avoid injuries. Classes combine bodyweight exercises, Pilates-inspired movements, and yoga.
Wednesdays
6:30 - 7:30 PM
Register for full session. (It's pro-rated!)
Buy your 10-Class MultiPass for Fitness.
Pay for a drop-in.
Early Morning Fitness - Instructor: Sophia Wood Massicotte
This energizing early morning workout clas is suitable for all levels of participants aged 16+! High intensity iintervals offer a mix of cardio, core and weight exercises. The instructor will keep you motivated and on your toes. Adaptations for individual needs.
Tuesdays & Thursdays
6:15 - 7 AM
Register for full session. (It's pro-rated!)
Buy your 10-Class MultiPass for Fitness.
Pay for a drop-in.
Strong and Stable - Instructors: Cate Hachigan (Mondays); Chelsea Passmore (Wednesdays & Fridays)
With the retirement of Louise Hannant, 2 new instructors take over our most popular class. Strong & Stable means training your body in the way you use it for everyday activities such as pushing, pulling, reaching and pressing in the upper body, as well as lunging, squatting, stepping and pressing in the lower body. It also includes moving the spine, such as twisting and bending. This class will teach you how to make your muscles work for you to get you stronger and more stable while having fun.
Mondays
11am-noon
Wednesdays
11:30-12:30pm
Fridays
noon-1pm
Register for full session. (It's pro-rated.)
Buy your 10-Class MultiPass for Fitness.
Pay for a drop-in.
Meet Your Instructors
Sophia Wood Massicotte (Total Strength & Toning Workout, Early Morning Fitness, Goddess Flow Yoga)
Sophia Wood Massicotte is a certified Life Coach, 500hr Yoga Teacher and Ayurveda Practitioner. She has been guiding yoga classes and facilitating wellness workshops for 3 years now. Her passion for movement, food, Nature and the human psyche has led her to devote her life's purpose to empower and inspire women to reclaim their Truth in order to create a life that feels authentic and fulfilling. Sophia's classes embody a beautiful mixture of energies that ground & soothe your mind and body yet also leave you feeling empowered & rejuvenated. Sophia also guides MPCC's Women's Circles and Holistic Renewal workshop.
Nina LePage (Hatha Yoga)
Nina LePage has been teaching fitness for the last 40 years and is a certified personal trainer. She is a master trainer in Nordic walking. Nina is also a Hatha Yoga specializing in gentle yoga and breath work for all ages. Nina loves to help people move and breath well. Nina's Saturday Hatha class is a community favourite - register early to reserve your seat, and don't miss out!
Chelsea Passmore (Mom & Baby Yoga, Strong & Stable - starting November 6 2024)
Chelsea has been certified in Hatha Yoga since 2008 and Personal Training (CanFitPro) since 2020. She has been teaching Full Body Workout and Hatha Yoga at MPCC since June 2022. She is a contemporary dancer. You might remember her from her family's Beechwood Ave. health food store, Nature's Buzz, which closed in February 2022.
Cate Hachigian (Control through Pilates, Strong & Stable starting November 4 2024)
Cate has been teaching Pilates since 2012. She's a certified Pilates mat and reformer teacher as well as ELDOA Levels 1 - 3 in osteopathic exercises. Registered as a RMT with advanced training in rehabilitative exercises and functional training she has an extensive background in anatomy and biomechanics.
Rena Argiropulos (Yoga Flow)
Rena Argiropulos started teaching fitness over 35 years ago obtaining a Group fitness instructors certificate and in more recent years, she Graduated from Astanga Yoga Ottawa’s Teacher 200 hr Vinyasa Yoga Teacher Training course. Rena teaches several styles of Yoga and fitness classes, Including, Astanga yoga, Gentle yoga, Vinyasa flow yoga, Hot power yoga, Low-impact Fitness, 20-20-20 Fitness, Strength-training, HIIT Cardio & Yoga sculpt classes. Rena is passionate about helping people reach their fitness goals, regardless of experience. You can find her in the forest every weekend taking photos.