Experience Your Power 9® - Wine at Five 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. Last week’s Loved Ones First with "Snap, Click, Flash" at the Youth Pavilion will be rescheduled due to a weather cancellation.

TONIGHT, March 5, we hope you can join us for Wine at Five at Luna in Cedar Falls. According to Blue Zones Project™, the healthy plant compounds and antioxidants in wine have been shown to reduce the risk of heart disease, certain cancers and slow the progression of neurological disorders like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's Disease.

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