Stress Relief Training

A free workshop on Stress Relief Training will be offered at the Vashon Library. Participants will be introduced to three techniques for resolving stress and restoring balance.

Stress Relief Training is a new system for addressing chronic stress through learning a variety of holistic skills, including visualization, body awareness, sharing life stories and exploring spirit and soul with a compassionate heart.

This two-hour workshop will be hosted by Aaron Gaul at 10 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 7.

Teens dance

Dance camp for teens featuring swing and salsa will meet from 2 to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, Aug. 11 to 15, at Vashon Dance Academy.

This camp is for teens who already know a few steps and would like to learn more, those who have never danced swing or salsa but have a passion for dance and those who have taken swing or salsa classes before. They are all welcome to have a blast learning new steps taught by fun teachers who really know how to dance.

Salsa dancing is 2 to 3 p.m., and swing dancing is 3 to 5 p.m.

The camp is $75, just the salsa portion for $30 or just the swing portion for $50.

Registration is preferred by Aug. 1.

Call Margaret Hoeffel at 463-1224 or Carah Bordner at 463-0953 for more information.

Christian art camp

Elementary school-age children are invited to explore God’s cosmos using art in a Christian setting at Bethel’s Art and Music Camp.

This year’s camp offers drawing, painting, photography, ballet, calligraphy, voice, rhythm, origami, mosaics and guitar.

The camp will meet from 9 a.m. to noon Monday through Friday, Aug. 11 to 15. The cost is $50.

To register, call Bethel church at 567-4255.

Use a plasma cutter

Jeep Brockway, a retired Boeing health and safety manager who has always enjoyed working with metal, brings his plasma cutter expertise to the Vashon Senior Center on Bank Road at 1 p.m. Monday, Aug. 11, for a free class open to everyone on the safe use of the machine; a second class later will provide hands-on experience in cutting metal barrel tops at Brockway’s studio.

Brockway said that plasma-cutting machines were once prohibitively expensive and used primarily for huge metal-cutting jobs. But in recent years the cost and size have dropped considerably, making them available for personal projects and for artists and metal workers who want to create unique works of art. Call the Senior Center at 463-5173 to preregister for the two-part class.