Experience Your Power 9® - Loved Ones First: Health and Wellness Blog

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% rule through food sampling at Crossroads Hy-Vee with dietician Stephanie Wharton. Then we brainstormed creating a Right Tribe while assembling dog tags used as an interactive component throughout the Sullivan Brothers Iowa Veterans Museum. The third week we discovered a fun way to Down Shift through massage at d'vine Medical Spa. We followed that with a different perspective on Community through Tai Chi at the YMCA. After Tai Chi, we experienced Move Naturally through Zumba at Fusion Dance & Fitness. Then we had great fellowship (and wine J) with Wine at Five at Luna in Cedar Falls. After our wine, we experience how plant-based foods can taste amazing with Plant Slant at Newton’s. Last week we experienced Know Your Purpose with Val Bullerman. TONIGHT we hope you can join us for a fun way to put Loved Ones First with "Snap, Click, Flash" at the Youth Pavilion. According to Blue Zones Project™, happy, healthy centenarians in the Blue Zones® areas put their families first. This can take shape in many ways, from keeping your aging parents and grandparents in or near your home to being in a positive, committed relationship, which can add up to 3 years of life expectancy.

We have reached the end of our series and THANK YOU for experiencing this journey with us. See you tonight - 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.