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Grow and Give Wellness Retreat Day
Grow and Give Wellness Retreat Day
Feed Your Soul, Feed Others
Offered by From Scratch Wellness and Authentic Development
Cost: $75 plus Northern IL Food Bank Donation ($20 or 3 hours of volunteering)
Come join Authentic Development Coaching and From Scratch Wellness for a full day of creating growth in Geneva, IL with programs designed to feed your mind, body, and soul. We've partnered with the Northern IL Food Bank as a way to give back.
Agenda:
8:30-9:00: Arrival and Setting Intentions
9:00-10:00: Feed Your Soul: Yoga/Body Movement
10:00-11:30: Feed Your Heart: Living Our Truest Life Experiential Workshop
11:30-1:00: Feed Your Body: Energy Essential Nutrition/Foods that Help Us Manage Stress and Lunch provided
1:00-2:00:Feed Your Mind: Soundscape Wellness
2:00-3:00: Feed Your Soul: Qigong Moving Meditation
3:00-4:00: Wellness Wrap-up and Tour of Food Bank (With an Opportunity to Sign-Up to Volunteer at Geneva or Lake County Food Bank)
The theme of the day is to feed your soul, feed others. The day will begin with your arrival and setting intentions for the day and for your life. We will then move into soul feeding with basic Yoga (no experience necessary) led by Pamela O'Brien of Green Leaf Yoga to prepare our bodies and our spirit to receive. We will then participate in an experiential workshop to feed our hearts on Living our Truest Life. We will feed our bodies as a part of a Energy Essential Nutrition--Foods That Help Us Manage Stress workshop led by Dr. Jen Stanley of From Scratch Wellness. A healthy lunch will be served. Then we will feed our minds in the early afternoon with a Soundscape Wellness workshop in order to raise awareness on the effects of sound and music on your personal wellness. We will then discover tools and strategies for choosing your own personal soundscape. In mid-afternoon, we will again feed our souls as we participate in Qigong Moving Meditation led by Dr. Stanley before wrapping up our day together and touring the Food Bank.
Our last Winter Wellness Day filled up early! We'd love to have you!
Please contact Ken Carlson at 847.873.9559 or ken@authenticdevelopment.com with any questions.
Top Five Reasons to Focus on Wellness in 2012
1. Living authentically is truly the only way to experience the fullness of your entire life.
2. Wellness will make you feel strong in your own body; able to meet the challenges of daily living.
3. Improved self-esteem. Increased belief in being able to achieve your own goals.
4. Increased alkaline food intake reduces overall inflammation and increases oxygen and repairs organ function.
5. Wellness practices enhances mental capability; including reducing forgetfulness and eliminating mental fog.