Intro Classes
Your Front membership gets you so much more than just access to climbing walls!
Try out our full roster of offerings with other newbies and leave with confidence, new buddies, and your new favorite activity.
Climbing
Intro to Climbing
Participants must be age 14 or older.
This class is the one-shop stop for your fundamental climbing needs! Taught over the course of two 2-hour sessions, Intro to Climbing includes a Top-Rope Lesson, Bouldering Orientation, Autobelay Orientation, and basic movement instruction, giving you all the tools you need to kick off your climbing journey.
Intro to Climbing is also a great way to learn your way around the gym, meet new friends, and experience all the climbing our facilities have to offer. Guests who start a membership the same day they take the class get their start-up fee waived! Rental gear is included.
Skills taught:
- Putting on a harness
- Tying-in
- Top-rope belaying and communication
- Bouldering etiquette
- Falling considerations while bouldering
- Autobelay use
- Hand and foothold types
- Secure moving and resting
- Climbing rating systems
Yoga
Intro to Yoga
New to yoga or need a refresher? Come experience all the mental and physical benefits of this ancient practice. A consistent yoga practice will help you find more inner peace, focus, calmness, strength, flexibility and agility of body and mind, and so much more! All bodies can benefit from yoga, and we welcome everyone! All you need is a mat, some clothes that stretch, and the willingness to show up as you are and give it a try! In this class, you will experience all six movements of the spine, holding some simple postures (asanas) sequenced in a body-intelligent way with warm up and cool down, along with some easy breathing and mind calming techniques. We hope to help you fall in love with yoga as much as we have!
Ceramics
Beginner Wheel Throwing
This class is perfect for beginners! At the end of this 6-session class, you’ll leave with a new-found appreciation for this art form and confidence in your new skills. You can then take advantage of Open Studio hours and continue to learn at your own pace! Through the course you’ll learn these essential techniques:
- Center clay
- Pull walls
- Make a cylinder
- How to trim
- Basic glazing
Beginner Hand Building
Want to learn an ancient art? Hand Building is for you! At the end of this 6-session class, you’ll leave with a deep admiration for these techniques and excitement for your new skills. Lean into that confidence and hop into Open Studio hours afterward! Through the course you’ll learn these essential techniques:
- How to use pinch, coil, and slab techniques
- How to form a cylinder
- Basic glazing