Creating a Healthy Workplace—A teambuilding workshop
Taking care of ourselves during the workday helps us be more engaged, be more productive, and have more energy for our work and our lives beyond work. Participants learn how to balance being engaged and engaging in quick recovery techniques throughout the day so they can meet the challenges of a busy workplace. Set individual and team goals for overcoming barriers to creating a culture of wellness at work. Contact Lynn Rossy, Ph.D., Health Psychologist for Healthy for Life, at RossyL@umsystem.edu for more details and to schedule a workshop for your area.
Choices for Balance Workshop
Do you feel overwhelmed, super stressed, or struggle to decide which activity to tackle next? Learn better balance for all work and home activities. This course will give you access to the personal tools we all have that can immediately improve your quality of life. Participants will learn simple, proven techniques that will allow enjoyment of each moment to its fullest potential. Classes are offered every Tuesday, see schedule below. Registration is required and the deadline for each session is the Friday prior to the Tuesday class. Cost is $5 for materials and classes are held at 127 Lower Bingham. To sign up, email Wellness Ambassador Julie D’Auteuil at dauteuilj@missouri.edu or call her at (573) 884-7287.
- Tuesday, May 3rd, 12:10-12:50pm
- Tuesday, May 17th, 5:15-5:55pm
Sign up NOW for Summer Eat for Life Program—In Person and Online
Discover the benefits of this innovative approach to weight management and re-discovering the joy of eating. This ten week program uses mind-body practices (meditation and yoga), the principles of mindful and intuitive eating, skills training, and group support to guide you in making lifestyle changes that will help you create a healthier relationship to your food, mind, and body. If you have a history of chronic dieting, have rigid “healthy” rules about eating, or find yourself eating when you’re stressed, bored, or unhappy, this may be the program for you. This non-judgmental, non-diet approach helps you use your internal physical cues to guide what and when you eat.
In Person Class:
Orientation Session: Wednesday, June 1 (12-1).
Classes: Wednesdays, June 8 – August 10 (12 – 1 pm).
Cost: $50 fee, $25 to be refunded if you attend 9 of 10 classes. Payment can be made at the orientation session.
To enroll: Contact Rachel Ploskonka at PloskonkaR@missouri.edu
Online Course:
Orientation: Week of May 30
Classes: Week of June 6 through week of August 8
Cost: $50, $25 to be refunded with full participation in discussion board
There are three ways to enroll:
- Send $50 check made payable to Healthy for Life to Lynn Rossy, 205 Heinkel Building by May18 so we have time to send you your books. Please send the registration form at the end of this email with your payment.
- Pay by credit card by calling Dee Sanders at the Healthy for Life office (884-1312) by May 18 so we have time to send you your books.
- Drop by the Healthy for Life Offices (8am-5pm, excluding noontime) anytime before May 27 to get your books and make your payment.
For more information: Contact Rachel Ploskonka at PloskonkaR@missouri.edu
Healthy for Life’s regular 10 week program on creating a healthy relationship with your food, body, and mind is now a course you can take online in your own home on your own time. Video and audio components teach you the foundational mindfulness practices (meditation and yoga) and the BASICS of Mindful Eating.
This is an exciting opportunity to take a class in the comfort of your own home. All you need is a computer and, of course, the time to commit to taking the class. Everyone that signs up will be going through the class at the same time. You will have a week to complete each section. There are practice exercises to complete each day. All is completely explained on Blackboard once you get signed in.
Read what participants have to say about the class:
“EFL has been a transformational experience…my relationship to food has changed dramatically. I actually think about food much less than before — now it’s rarely on my mind until I begin to experience hunger. And I am savoring my food infinitely more…EFL embodies an intuitive, gracious approach to living, and I am captivated by the gentleness and kindness inherent in the process.”
–Linda Dyer
“It is amazing that 10 weeks have gone past…I will use the “make peace with food” for a long time to come, that has been the most successful tip. I don’t have forbidden food, or food that is “bad”. I can have it just in the quantity that will satisfy…I thank you for the insight and the motivation. You have made this a successful experience that has changed my life.”
–Amy Hampton
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Ride to Wellness Odometer Program
Ride to Wellness encourages movement for those riding bicycles or using wheelchairs. For $20 participants receive an odometer and log book. When you reach 500 miles, turn in the booklet for a prize and receive a $20 refund. To enroll, send or bring a $20 check (our cost, made payable to Healthy for Life) to 205 Heinkel Building, MU. Click here for more information.
Workplace Fitness Opportunities
Take advantage of these classes that fit your budget. Full payment is due at the beginning of the first class and space is limited. Please contact the instructor directly to register or for questions. All classes are designed so that exercises can be performed in work clothes.
- Drop In, ongoing: Lunchtime-Me Time Strength Conditioning. Ellis Library, Room 4F51. Class meets every Monday from 12:15-12:45 p.m. and costs $1 for each class. No registration is needed and class is taught by Nani Fudge. If you have questions, click here to email Nani.
- Drop In, ongoing: Lunchtime-Me Time Strength Conditioning. Ellis Library, Room 4F51. Class meets every Wednesday from 12:15-12:45 p.m. and costs $1 for each class. No registration is needed and class is taught by Nani Fudge. If you have questions, click here to email Nani.
- May 2-June 13: Hatha Yoga. Missouri Psychiatric Gym. Class meets on Mondays from 12:10 to 12:50 p.m. and costs $18 for the six-week session. Emphasizes core, hips, arms, chest, legs and back. Class is suitable for all fitness levels. Learn from a yoga teacher with more than 30 years experience and is a world champion powerlifter who emphasizes total workout and stress management. Pre-registration is required. Click here to sign up with Kate Walker.
- May 6-June 10: Hatha Yoga. Missouri Psychiatric Gym. Class meets on Fridays from 12:10 to 12:50 p.m. and costs $18 for the six-week session. Emphasizes core, hips, arms, chest, legs and back. Class is suitable for all fitness levels. Learn from a yoga teacher with more than 30 years experience and is a world champion powerlifter who emphasizes total workout and stress management. Pre-registration is required. Click here to sign up with Kate Walker.
Dr. John Ikerd, Albrecht—Earth Day Lecture
Monday, April 25th, 4 p.m. Healthy Soils, Healthy People: The Legacy of William Albrecht presented by Dr. John Ikerd, Emeritus Professor of Agricultural Economics, University of Missouri, Columbia. Jesse Wrench Auditorium, Memorial Union. Reception and award ceremony to start at 3 p.m. Please e-mail Dr. Robert Kremer if you would like more information.
Walk for Babies
Join the MU Women’s and Children’s Hospital team and come to Twin Lakes in Columbia on May 1 for the Annual March of Dimes, March for Babies 3-mile walk / run. Registration is at 12:30 p.m. and the walk starts at 1:30 p.m.
Registration is $25 and includes:
- Registration for the walk on May 1st
- A cool MU Women’s and Children’s Hospital team T-shirt
- You can wear your T-shirt and an “I’m walking at work” sticker to work on May 1st if you’re at the hospital
- A coupon for a free item from Culver’s
- Your entire family can participate in the walk and enjoy lunch for your $25 donation (additional family T-shirts are available for $12 each)
- Bring your whole family for the first Women’s and Children’s Hospital team photo on the day of the walk
There are two easy ways to register:
- Go online to www.marchforbabies.org and click join a team then select MU Women’s and Children’s Hospital. You can use this option to pay by credit card.
- You can also use the attached registration form and drop it by the Women’s and Children’s Hospital administration office with your check or cash for $25.
Please note that all registrations received by April 15 will allow you to pre-order a specific T-shirt size. Registrations received after that date will have a limited selection of sizes.
NOTE: If you already participate in a family team that walks to celebrate, honor, or remember a baby or child who has touched your life, you can register as a sub-team under the hospital and receive all the same great benefits listed above. Please call George Welling with March of Dimes (573-635-5350) and he will be happy to set your team up as a sub-team.
Lastly, if you’re interested in raising money beyond your $25, the March of Dimes makes it really easy and there are additional perks for those that participate. You can use the on-line tool when you register and enter email addresses of friends and family; March of Dimes does the rest. You can also collect spare change or smaller donations from those that aren’t signing up to walk. If you raise a total of $100 (including your registration of $25), you will receive a 2nd T-shirt from March of Dimes. Also, for every $200 you raise your name will be entered for a chance to throw out the first pitch at a St. Louis Cardinals baseball game.
9th Annual Jay Dix Challenge to the Cure
This year’s race is Saturday, May 7. Schedule includes a 5K walk and run and 10K run that start together at 9 a.m. at Flat Branch Park at the corner of Fourth and Cherry streets. Children who aren’t participating in the race can play in a supervised fun area at Flat Branch Park. The entry fee for the 5K and 10K races is $35 and $5 to admit a child for the kids’ area. All proceeds from the event, organized by the Columbia Multisport Club, go to Ellis Fischel Cancer Center. For more information, or to register for the race, please click here. The race was established in memory of Jay Dix, MD, a University of Missouri Health Care pathologist who fought his own battle with cancer.
Healthly-Steps program offered at Ellis Fischel Cancer Center
Ellis Fischel Cancer Center is sponsoring an exercise and movement program called Healthy-Steps, which is designed to help participants thrive physically and emotionally. The program begins Wednesday, May 4, and consists of six one-hour classes. Classes will be held from 5 to 6 p.m. each Wednesday at Ellis Fischel. Genny Perso, a physical therapist, will lead the classes.
Healthy-Steps is an international therapeutic exercise and movement program designed to maximize participation and activity, regardless of physical ability. Anyone can participate in Healthy-Steps classes regardless of health, age or ability level. The program improves overall wellness, range of motion, balance, strength and endurance as well as emotional well-being and self image. Healthy-Steps is for anyone with or recovering from:
- Arthritis
- Cancer
- Chronic fatigue syndrome
- Fibromyalgia
- Frozen shoulder
- Lymphedema
- Multiple sclerosis
- Parkinson’s disease
- Any other chronic or debilitating illness
To register for the program, please contact Missy Belshe, office support staff member, at (573) 882-4837 or belshem@health.missouri.edu.