We are Your Wellness Center
for a healthy, balanced, fulfilling lifestyle

Our LIVE WELL events and programs bring you . . .

• Knowledge
• Confidence
• New Skills
• Social Support

(Learn More about fitness and wellness at About Us – About the Studio).

Scroll down for our upcoming LIVE WELL events. Some events are In-studio, some are through Zoom format, and some are Hybrid (In-studio and Zoom option).
Pre-registration is needed for us to bring you the best in programming. Register through the link for each event below, or call the studio at 319-337-4777, or email us at info@fitnessatbodymoves.com.

Want to see snapshots of a sampling of the variety of LIVE WELL events we have hosted in the past? Just scroll down past our upcoming events.

Small Step September Events

Small Steps Fitness Challenge: Planks
When: Daily During September
Where:  Body Moves Private Facebook Program

During September, join instructors Holly Carpenter and Kari Rodrigues with daily small steps to increase your core strength, posture and balance.  You will be amazed that just a couple minutes a day with Holly and Kari will make a big difference in one short month!

Do you think that you cannot/will not be able to do planks?   Planks are for everybody!  Holly and Kari will be with you in learning the many options to do this exercise and starting with an option that is just right for you.

This program is available to Body Moves students who are currently enrolled in our Active Living, Small Group Personal Training, and T’ai Chi programs.   Simply access the program through our Facebook Body Moves Community Group or Facebook Body Moves T’ai Chi Group.  The daily posts will be published in the Discussion area of the Facebook pages.

Kari and Holly posted an introduction to the program on Saturday, September 4.  Watch that introduction to this program on our Facebook Private Community Group and Facebook Private T’ai Chi Group pages.  Start the program with them on Monday, September 6!

Instructor Kari Rodrigues

 

Instructor Holly Carpenter

 

Are you interested in the value-added benefits of being an Active Living, Small Group Personal Training or T’ai Chi student at Body Moves?  Visit with Beth or Kari at the studio; or, call us at 319-337-4777; or, email us at info@fitnessatbodymoves.com!

LIVE WELL Workshops on Food in September
When:  September 16 and 30, 1:30 – 3:00 PM
Where:  In-Studio and Zoom (see details below)

 

Small Steps to Eating Processed Food:
Break Away from Sugar, Oils, Salt
(Scroll down for workshop description!)
Thursday, September 16 from 1:30 – 3:00 PM
In-Studio and Zoom
Tuition: $30.  Register HERE

Eat More of This (Plants) and Less of That (Dairy and Meat)
and, What About Fake Meat?
(Scroll down for workshop description!)
Thursday, September 30 from 1:30 – 3:00 PM
In-Studio and Zoom
Tuition: $30.  Register HERE

 

**LIVE-WELL Series Bonus!!**   

Register for both September workshops
for total tuition of $50!

 

 

LIVE-WELL Workshop Description for

Small Steps to Eating Processed Food:
Break Away from Sugar, Oils, Salt
Thursday, September 16 from 1:30 – 3:00 PM
Tuition: $30.  Register HERE

 

Over 60 percent of the calories in the American diet comes from processed food that is high is sugar, oils, salt and is low in quality nutrition.  Processed food is one of two major factors that make the Western Diet the leading cause of death.  Eating processed food is a root cause of obesity, heart disease, type 2 diabetes, cancers and cognitive decline.

Participate in this timely workshop as Instructor Beth Pelton presents small steps to break your dependency on processed (junk) foods.

• Zero in on the processed foods that are in your regular diet
• Explore how and where you can purchase foods that are more real and whole and less junk and processed
• Learn easy, low-cost ways to prepare meals with fewer processed junk foods
• Choose tasty main dish, side dish, sauces, dressings, and dessert recipes that are high in whole-food nutrition and low in sugar, oils, salt and other processed food additives
• In-studio participants will enjoy a taste-tasting of sample recipes

Register HERE for the September 16 workshop.  Invite a friend and family member to join you!  This topic affects everyone locally, regionally, nationally, globally.

 

 

 

LIVE-WELL Workshop Description for

Eat More of This (Plants) and Less of That (Meat and Dairy)
And, What About Fake Meat?
Thursday, September 30 from 1:30 – 3:00 PM
Tuition: $30.  Register HERE

 

Diets made of more plants and less animal products decrease chronic disease, decrease health care costs, increase years of healthy lifespan, reduce poverty, and address the climate change crisis.

At this workshop, Instructor Beth Pelton will present small steps to increase plants and decrease animal products in your diet.  Workshop objectives include:

• Assess your current plant, meat and dairy eating patterns
• Compare whole-food plant-based eating to the Standard American Diet way of eating
• Learn simple food purchasing and food preparation techniques that increase plant-based eating and decrease animal product eating
• Explore programs built on making small step changes to eating more plant-based food and less animal product food.  Program descriptions will include the One Meal a Day Plan, the Meatless Monday initiative, Forks Over Knives Meal Planner, and the Blue Zones Meal Planner
• In-studio workshop attendees will enjoy a taste-testing

Register HERE for the September 30 workshop.  Bring a family member.  Bring a friend!    This topic affects everyone locally, regionally, nationally, globally.

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Body Moves Community Birthday Celebration
When:   Thursday, September 23 from 1:30 – 2:30 PM
Where:  In-Studio, Tuition-Free Event. Sign up HERE!

 

Everyone is invited to the studio for a Community Birthday Celebration on Thursday, September 23 from 1:30 – 2:30 PM.  We will commemorate the birthdays of Body Movers born in the months of  September, October, November and December.  Let’s honor our fall season birthday friends with a open-hearted of celebration of  friendship, support and well-being for one another.

Let us know that you are coming by signing up HERE.  As always, bring a friend.   All are welcome!

 

 

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Previously at Body Moves . . .

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