If you’re a senior citizen who loves yoga — from chair yoga to PiYo — you can now visit a new website to find classes at senior centers throughout the region.

Or, if you’re a senior who loves to travel, you can browse weeklong excursions and local day trips.

You can also sign up for newsletters, get a map to the closest senior center, and share events with friends.

Senior Centers of Eastern Connecticut at seniorcenterct.org has information from nine senior centers: East Lyme, Griswold, Groton, Lisbon, Lyme-Old Lyme, Montville, New London, Norwich and Preston. It is a planning tool for senior centers and a resource for seniors, their families and providers.

“It is a tool that has been a long time coming,” said Judy Jencks, the former director of the Lisbon Senior Center who started the site.

Launched at the beginning of this year, the website provides news and events from the nine communities on its landing page. Visitors can click on individual tabs for each center, or search for specific programs across the region. They can share event notices with friends by email or on social media, set up reminders, or have the information sent to them by text or email. The senior centers can use the site to set up newsletters for residents.

Jencks, who incorporated a business for the website and was assisted by Miranda Creative, Inc., said the website is the first of its kind and originated as an idea among a group of senior center directors to attract baby boomers to the centers. The group of directors from the region has been meeting and collaborating for 20 years.

The website comes at a time when people are living longer and healthier lives, and are active in their communities, yet funding at senior centers has been largely stagnant, said Jencks.

The site is offered at no cost to municipalities and has opportunities to bring in revenue through advertising.

“For us, budgets are limited and time is limited, and we can use this as a tool to develop our programs and begin marketing together jointly,” said Mary Jo Riley, senior center supervisor at the Groton Senior Center.

The site serves as “one-stop shopping” for seniors, many of whom have friends in other towns, said Riley. The website recognizes that the senior population is keeping up with technology, as many seniors use smartphones, she added.

Old Lyme resident Jeri Baker said she enjoys taking art and Tai Chi classes at the Lymes’ Senior Center, but has also checked out a Tai Chi class at the East Lyme Senior Center in the past.

The new website provides up-to-date information on programs throughout Southeastern Connecticut.

“I think it offers so many opportunities, not just to meet other people, but to take classes offered at another senior center,” said Baker, who serves on the Lymes’ Senior Center’s board.

Program fees for residents and non-residents depend on the senior center and type of event.

Lymes’ Senior Center Director Stephanie Lyon-Gould hopes the site will make programs more accessible to baby boomers and also provide a resource for family members, even if they live out of state, to encourage seniors to take advantage of programs.

East Lyme Senior Center Director Cathy Wilson said senior centers today need to communicate in multiple ways – from paper newsletters to email – to reach their clients, whose ages span over forty years, and their adult children.

She noted that senior centers are aiming to better incorporate technology to meet the needs of seniors.

“They’re just getting really, really savvy and interested,” said Wilson. “They want to use their leisure time productively, whether it be working on physical fitness, their mental health, or socialization, or going on a trip, or learning something. They want to have productive leisure time, which is great.”

k.drelich@theday.com