Day 1 Winter Wellness Week Highlights

Dec 17

Today we kicked off Bauman Winter Wellness Week with a full day of enriching and rejuvenating sessions. Here are DAY 1 Highlights:

Holistic Nutrition Consultant, Neeta Merchant, led us through some laughter yoga, meditation and guided relaxation to ignite our higher energy and awaken a more joyful mental attitude.
Dr. Ed Bauman shared with us some keys to cultivating a diverse, resilient and joyful community, noting that as we connect and relate with intention, kindness, respect and support for one another, we cultivate a community of learning and practice.
Longtime Healthy Kitchen Companion Mary Collette Rogers explored how damaging cultural shifts have produced a healthy eating crisis, and the path forward to achieve a more nourishing relationship to self, food, and meal making.
Arts Educators Selina Bragg-Pastian and Christina Wright presented creative arts processes as an evidence-based solution for facilitating social, emotional, cognitive, and physical development and release and shared examples of how to use the arts as a tool to guide young ones in their social and emotional learning.

Join us tomorrow for the following sessions:

9:00am: Morning Tea - Michelle Pierce Hamilton, Tea Sommelier and Founder of BeTeas.com will teach us how to power our morning with a peaceful vitality, made possible by exploring two special selections by a Certified Nutritionist & Tea Sommelier, followed by a facilitation on how to enjoy your tea as a morning cup of mindfulness.
11:00am: Parent Roundtable - Nutrition consultants Emiko Luici and Jean Naughton will offer recommendations, and share tips, and a recipe or two to staying grounded and balanced as a parent during the busy holiday season!
12:30pm: Networking - Come meet and talk with Winter Wellness Week presenters and fellow participants.
2:00pm: Gluten Free Holiday Cake - Chef Lizette Marx, a Natural Chef Instructor at Bauman College, will teach us how to make a crowd-pleasing gluten free roulade (cake that can be rolled up) made with love from premier SOUL (seasonal, organic, unprocessed, and local) ingredients and with a delectable frosting that will satisfy your family sweet tooth and be the talk of your holiday potluck if you bring it to share with others.
4:00pm: Resilience to Discrimination - Arts Educator, Christina Wright, will share data on the emotional toll that prejudice and injustice can have, eroding our sense of self-worth and triggering trauma, anxiety, depression and chronic stress. Through the screening of the short film The Way of Tea (2014) participants will learn and discuss wellness practices for constructive resilience to discrimination.

Other Reminders:

Visit BaumanWellness.co to join our password-protected membership fee-based community, meet our moderators and facilitators and download presentation decks from our Wellness Weeks.