Experience Your Power 9® - Move Naurally: 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 percent 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. Last 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.

TODAY we will Move Naturally through Zumba at Fusion Dance & Fitness.

According to Blue Zones Project™, the world's longest-lived people don't pump iron, run marathons or join gyms. Instead, they live in environments that constantly nudge them into moving without thinking about it. They live in places where they can walk to the store, to their friend's house or places of worship. Their houses have stairs. They have gardens in their yards.

We will continue the rest of the series every Tuesday, 5:30-6:30pm, so join us one or all of the following weeks: 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.