Our most popular courses

Our most popular courses

Helsingin aikuisopisto organises more than 1,000 courses every year, including traditional long-standing favourites as well as various trending and new courses. We have listed the courses that have been most popular recently. Courses start throughout the spring and you can also join courses that have already started, so there is still time to take up a new hobby or brush up on old skills. Find out more about the courses online. Please note that most of our courses are taught in Finnish.

Sports and wellbeing

• Parent and toddler circus
• Make-up course for adults
• Barre
• Yoga (especially kundalini, face and gentle yoga, as well as yoga for seniors and mum and baby yoga)
• Light toning
• Boxing fitness
• Pilates (also Pilates for seniors)
• Exercise for seniors
• Balance and strength training for seniors
• Stretching

Dance

• African dance
• Adult ballet
• Argentine Tango Beginners Course
• Nia®
• Salsa
• Latin dance for seniors

Languages

• Spanish for beginners, intensive
• Intensive Beginner Swedish for Foreigners 1
• Italian for beginners, intensive
• Japanese for beginners, intensive
• Quick reactivation of rusty French
• Russian for beginners, intensive
• Wine Tasting in English

Finnish courses

• Practice course for the advanced level YKI test
• Intensive YKI course, theme 1
• Spoken Finnish for beginners
• Finnish for beginners 1
• Finnish intensive start 1

Visual arts and handicrafts

• Start painting
• Drawing and Painting for Beginners Intermediate Level
• Painting school United
• Woodwork autumn / spring
• Printmaking autumn workshop / spring workshop

Music

• DJ basics
• Guitar for beginners
• Find your voice with Werbeck singing
• Popular Music Choir in English
• Accompaniment and coaching course for singers
• I want to sing!
• Ukulele

Nature and boating

• Navigation 1
• Cloud course
• Mushroom foraging and tasting in Sipoonkorpi National Park
• Boating basics

History and culture

• Cultural walks in Töölö: the story of Etu-Töölö
• A wine and culture journey in Italy

Theatre, expression and writing

• Improv course
• Creative writing workshop
• Acting courses
• Novel writing

Open University studies

• Human resource management (7 credits)
• Basics of marketing (7 credits)
• Basic studies in psychology (25 credits)
• Basic studies in health and social care administration (30 credits)
• Basic studies in work and organisational psychology (25 credits)
• Communication and influence (5 credits)

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