Enjoy a yoga class all can do! Learn how to keep the body and mind healthy as you age.
Gentle stretching, no experience necessary, safe and modified for all ages, conditions and injuries. Helps to slow memory loss. Stacie Dooreck, Sivananda Certified Yoga Instructor, and instructor of Gentle Integral Yoga and Kundalini Yoga.
Retirement: What’s Next? meets every 4th Friday of the month and presents various program topics for those contemplating or living in retirement.
NEW Series!
Join Dr. Sara for an ongoing series of health topic lectures.
We’ll be meeting every 4th Thursday evening of the month.
Each month Dr. Sara will address a different health issue.
June 22: Digestive Wellness and the Microbiome
An ancient Chinese medical text says “100,000 diseases begin in the belly”. Hippocrates wrote “Let food be thy medicine, and medicine be thy food.”
Recent scientific studies confirm the key role of the gut and digestive tract in creating innumerable illnesses, and in maintaining optimal health. It all depends on what we put in to it.
Join Dr. Sara Kendall Gordon on a guided tour of your digestive tract. Dr. Sara will explain:
Why a healthy digestive tract is the foundation of a healthy body and brain.
How your gut affects your brain, your hormonal and immune systems, and every other major organ and system in your body.
How poor dietary habits compromise your digestive tract and your body’s self-healing capacities.
How a compromised digestive tract creates a host of familiar illnesses and mysterious afflictions.
Dr. Sara will also share simple, healthy dietary practices to reduce pain and inflammationand initiate healing for many illnesses.
Speaker: Dr. Sara Kendall Gordon, LAc DAOM specializes in Integrative and Functional Medicine and Body-Mind therapies. For more information visit her website.
In commemoration of his birth 200 years ago, join us on the library lawn for readings of excerpts from Thoreau’s writings. His written work has inspired nature lovers, free thinkers, and people of conscience since the early 19th century and embraces awareness and appreciation of wild nature and the importance of individual thought.
Presenters from The Thoreau Society and The Walden Project will facilitate the readings. There will be a sign up sheet for members of the public to read their own favorite Thoreau excerpt, or choose one of the selections offered.
“The Library is a wilderness of books.” ~Henry David Thoreau from his Journal, 16 March 1852
Join us for Music Together® , a developmentally appropriate early childhood music extravaganza! Each child can participate at his or her own level in singing, moving, chanting, listening, watching, or exploring musical instruments. Any caregivers—parents, grandparents, nanny—can bring the children. The whole family is welcome for this important family music experience.
This class is for children aged birth through 5 and their caregivers.
We will host two 30 minute classes on June 16: the first class will be at 10:30 am, and the second class will be at 11:00 am. No registration required!
Sponsored by the Friends of the San Rafael Public Library.
Come visit the Bay Area Discovery Museum’s new Try It Truck, a mobile engineering wonder! The Try It Truck is custom outfitted to include a high tech tools, such as a laser cutter and 3D printer, low tech tools, such as hammers and sandpaper, and lots of craft supplies, such as pipe cleaners and popsicle sticks. Children and their caregivers can drop-in and explore a variety of different maker stations.
This drop-in event is for children aged 5-10 and their caregivers.
Thank you to the Bay Area Discovery Museum for selecting us to be a part of this pilot program and for bringing us the Try It Truck free of cost!
Make a pinhole viewer from a shoe box to safely view the solar eclipse. Come and learn about this exciting celestial event; then, join us for our viewing party on August 21st! This event is in partnership with the San Francisco Amateur Astronomers.
For families with children ages 7+. Register at the Children’s Reference Desk, or by calling (415)485-3322.
Sponsored by the Friends of the San Rafael Public Library.
Join our friends from the Bay Area Discovery Museum for this fun engineering program! Engineers engage directly with the design thinking process, as they work collaboratively and
independently, to build and create designs and then make them even better.
This program is for children ages 3-9 and their caregivers. Register by calling us at (415)485-3322 or visit us at the Children’s Reference Desk.
Sponsored by the Friends of the San Rafael Public Library.
Join us for Music Together® , a developmentally appropriate early childhood music extravaganza! Each child can participate at his or her own level in singing, moving, chanting, listening, watching, or exploring musical instruments. Any caregivers—parents, grandparents, nanny—can bring the children. The whole family is welcome for this important family music experience.
Come visit the Bay Area Discovery Museum’s new Try It Truck, a mobile engineering wonder! The Try It Truck is custom outfitted to include a high tech tools, such as a laser cutter and 3D printer, low tech tools, such as hammers and sandpaper, and lots of craft supplies, such as pipe cleaners and popsicle sticks. Children and their caregivers can drop-in and explore a variety of different maker stations.
Make a pinhole viewer from a shoe box to safely view the solar eclipse. Come and learn about this exciting celestial event; then, join us for our viewing party on August 21st! This event is in partnership with the San Francisco Amateur Astronomers.