Reducing Stress

Assess Your Stress
This workshop helps you identify the sources of your stress─physical, mental and spiritual─ and helps you learn how to create a wellness map towards healthier living. You’ll learn new techniques that can be used daily to help you find the balance you need to live a healthier life.

Sensational Stress Management
In this workshop you’ll learn how acute stress response is linked to your five senses. You’ll learn new strategies to reduce stress in each of the five areas and how it can fit into your overall wellness map. Participants leave this weekend feeling refreshed, rejuvenated and full of energy.

Stress Inoculation
Living with stress can undermine physical and mental health as well as erode happiness and well being. This workshop helps you to recognize sources of stress in your life and teaches you healthy ways to prepare for and vent stress. The curriculum focuses on learning how to live your life in balance─body, mind, and spirit─and how it can inoculate you from the damaging effects of stress that will inevitably enter your life.

Yoga
Stress is known to deteriorate the body and it contributes to many chronic diseases such as diabetes, heart disease and irritable bowel syndrome and to cause increased levels of the hormone cortisol, which stimulates eating and signals the body to store fat, particularly around the abdomen resulting in increased weight gain. Yoga, a 5,000 year-old philosophy and science, not only is powerful in reducing emotional and physical stress, it offers techniques to strengthen muscles, increase flexibility, increase the production of endorphins, the "feel good hormones", improve circulation, deepen breathing, reduce muscle tension and improve lymphatic flow. Yoga also improves mindfulness and the ability to have a clearer mind and “be in the moment.”

Yoga can be practiced by anyone, and so the journey of yoga begins at a different place for each of us. At the Center for Health we offer a variety of yoga levels to accommodate your individual needs. We also offer private yoga sessions for those who wish to deepen their practice. If you have never done yoga, a skilled instructor will guide you through the basics. For those who already practice yoga, this is a change to deepen your experience. Postures are adapted to your individual level of fitness and you can even participate in a chair.