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Experience Your Power 9® - Down Shift: Health and Wellness Blog
According to Blue Zones Project™, stress leads to chronic inflammation. Down Shift through massage: give & receive a shoulder & arm massage using a kitchen chair.
Experience Your Power 9®: Interactive Series Inspired By Blue Zones Project™. We have learned from Blue Zones Project™ that people who live longer, healthier lives have nine common characteristics, Power 9®.
Over nine weeks, we will celebrate the characteristics we do well and bring each one to life with a short activity.
First we experienced the 80 percent rule through food sampling at Crossroads Hy-Vee with dietician Stephanie Wharton.
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Last week we brainstormed creating a Right Tribe while assembling dog tags used as an interactive component throughout the Sullivan Brothers Iowa Veterans Museum.
This week we will discover a fun way to Down Shift through massage. According to Blue Zones Project™, stress leads to chronic inflammation, which is associated with every major age-related disease.
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Although everyone experiences stress, the world's longest-lived people have
routines to shed that stress. Okinawans take a few moments each day to remember their ancestors, Adventists pray, Ikarians take a nap and Sardinians do happy hour.
We will learn how to give, and receive a shoulder and arm massage using a standard kitchen chair. Attendees should leave feeling confident performing a massage for a spouse, co-worker, or friend.
d'vine Medical Spa is centered around the ideas of wellness and maintenance rather than pampering. We encourage our guests to incorporate regular relaxation and various therapies into their wellness routine, all designed to be therapeutic for both the physical and emotional layers of each guest.
We will continue the rest of the series every Tuesday, 5:30-6:30 p.m., so join us one or all of the following weeks: 2/12: Community - Tai Chi at the YMCA, 2/19:
Move Naturally - Zumba at Fusion Dance & Fitness, 2/26: Loved Ones First - discover the Youth Pavilion, 3/5: Wine at 5 - wine tasting at Luna, 3/12: Plant Slant - food tasting at Newton’s, 3/26: Know Your Purpose - life coaching activity with Val Bullerman at Cedar Falls Library.
Discover the healthy resources in the Cedar Valley that will help us become a certified Blue Zones Community™ and live longer, healthier lives! *FREE with LIMITED space – please RSVP on Facebook or call Jessica Crouch at 319-504-6689.