Sunday, March 9th
8:30 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.
Check-In & Enjoy!
Make a quick stop at Check-In then get your morning going! Enjoy a light breakfast, explore the Expo & Marketplace, make an appointment at the Pamper Room and peruse the Silent Auction.
9:30 a.m. - 10:40 a.m.
Keynote Address with Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro
Meeting our National Obligations to Women and Families
With the ability, the resources, and the moral obligation to confront our greatest national challenges, our government must keep our families safe from dangerous products and unsafe food, invest in the research that will strengthen women's health, and make sure parents do not have to choose between their health and their jobs. Learn how Congress is fighting to get it right, and find out what you can do to help make it happen.
10:50 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Breakout Session One Options
Spinal Yoga
Kimberly Smith, MA, PYT
Spinal Yoga uses breath and postures to strengthen and lengthen the spine therefore decompressing the vertebrae to release any tension or pain. All levels welcome. Mat required.
Natural and Traditional Approaches to Women's Health
Jennifer Brett, ND, NAc
Dr. Brett will present the basics of diagnosis, treatment and prevention strategies for common women's complaints (PMS, perimenopausal symptoms, fatigue) from the perspective of Traditional Chinese Medicine ("TCM"), naturopathic medicine and botanical medicine. In addition, she will review current research in traditional medicine and answer your questions about when to utilize natural and traditional medicines and how to find qualified practitioners.
Find Your Center and Bloom!
Barbara Scala
Once you find your center, then you can Bloom into all you want to be! Take control of life, increase your personal power and maintain overall well-being by learning the 5 Ways to Bloom. Create harmony by identifying where you want your energy to go and develop an action plan for personal satisfaction, better relationships, enhanced productivity and optimal health.
Spring Cleaning Your Personal House - A Sugar Blues Workshop
Callie Spencer Hill, Holistic Health Counselor
Learn how to face your cravings, take charge of your life, and make a commitment to clean up your health act - just in time for spring! This fun, and interactive program is designed to deconstruct cravings and permanently change your relationship to sugar.
Understanding Breasts: What Every Woman Should Know
Nina Horowitz, MD
Breasts, they come in all shapes and sizes - so do lumps, so how do you know which ones to worry about? At this session you will learn the essentials of breast health, how to assess your risk, and understand the usefulness and limitations of screening tests.
Super Foods and Super You
Debra Hastings, HHC
There's a lot of talk lately about superfoods and what they can do for you. People say they do everything from heal disease, give more energy and actually stop aging! But, what exactly are these foods, and what do we do with them? During this presentation we will look at the magical list, find easy ways to incorporate them into our life, as well as tap into the real power of superfoods - your cravings and your intuition.
Yoga-go-go
Sarah Suatoni, MA, CHP
Enjoy a gentle cardio stretch and tone class that uses Yoga postures and includes a little boogie, a lot of breathing, a deep relaxation and maximum fun.
Confusing Changes and Choices: Navigating through the Middle Years
Janet C. Spinner, CNM, MSN
During the middle years, 35-55, women experience dynamic growth and change. How we survive with vitality may be determined by our health choices and lifestyles. Includes medical options, needs and survival strategies.
Fusion Pilates
Joy Scott, Bodi-n-motion
Standing pilate: a weight bearing exercise with low impact, fat burning moves, and simple ballet moves to lengthen and strengthen. The mind-body connection sharpens your brain by encouraging three dimensional movement. Mat or towel required.
Finally Thin!
Kim Bensen
Kim talks about her childhood, her adult life of morbid obesity, her journey to better health and fitness, and the amazing ways in which her life has changed over the last five years since losing 212 pounds - and keeping it off! Filled with heartache and humor, weight loss tips, education and motivation, Kim offers hope and encouragement to audiences everywhere.
Tai Chi
Suzanne Hanley
Body, mind, spirit movement. Tai Chi promotes flexibility, balance and reduces stress. All levels are welcome in this introductory class.
The Thyroid and Your Metabolism
Jean G. Henry, MD
Thyroid disease affects women of all ages. In this session we will discuss the role of the thyroid, its impact in your metabolism and ways to manage the impact of thyroid disease on your life.
12:00 p.m. - 12:45 p.m.
Lunch Break
During this mid-day break enjoy a delicious buffet lunch, visit vendors and informational booths at the Expo & Marketplace, treat yourself at the Pamper Room and enter your bids in the Silent Auction.
12:45 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Keynote Address with Dr. Dale Atkins
Sanity Savers: Simplifying the Complicated
Life is unpredictable. Explore ways to live in balance as you navigate your everyday challenges. Whatever stage of life, whichever your life transitions, creating balance can help you cope more effectively, appreciate living in the moment and enrich your relationships. Discover the 5 S's of Saving Your Sanity as you restore and / or maintain your health and learn a new approach to enhance your peace of mind as you live life to the fullest.
2:10 p.m. - 3:20 p.m.
Breakout Session Two Options
Oh! My Aching Joints
Anne Liebling, MD
Learn about the spectrum of joint problems that are common in women.
How to Avoid a Broken Heart - Learn about Heart Disease and Women
Lisa Freed, MD, FACC & Janet Parkosewich, MSN, RN, CCRN, FAHA
Take a proactive approach to caring for your heart. Review risk factors for heart disease and gain understanding of the treatments available and potential complications of untreated heart disease. Find out why this is important for every woman. This information could change your life!
Mudra Meditation
Kimberly Smith, MA, PYT
Mudras - hand postures can help to still the mind, increase or calm the breath and help us to sit in meditation. Kimberly will guide us on a heart opening easy to do meditation while moving our hands in different positions. No experience necessary. All are welcome. Easy to do and very powerful.
Menopause & Hormones - Your Questions Answered!
Mary Jane Minkin, MD
Hot flashes, night sweats, hormone replacement and more - what's a girl to do? Join this open discussion with one of the shoreline's foremost experts and have your questions answered.
Self-healing, Sensuality, and Pleasure: when is enough enough?
Sarah Suatoni, MA, CHP
Do you get enough self-healing, sensuality, and pleasure in your life? Why is it important? How can you get it? And how much is enough? This talk focuses on how we celebrate life deconstructing the notion that self-care is indulgent and sensuality is indiscreet. Caring for your self and feeling good is good for your health and well being. Come find out why and how.
Yoga for All
Nancy Ashcroft
Let your Prana flow! Begin or continue your personal growth by increasing inner awareness, strength, flexibility and balance. All levels welcome. Mat required.
Skin Care for the Maturing Woman
Nichole Brown, Lead Esthetician and Product Consultant and Lynn Boggs, Permanent Makeup Clinician and MedSpa aesthetic consultant, Rituals Spa
Did you know that your skin falls into the "mature" category after age 35? That is when your natural collagen production begins to taper off, and it requires extra work to get that radiant, rested appearance. This lively presentation will explain the latest technologies in addressing these and other concerns. Participants will sample products and experience the state of the art Clarity Pro skin evaluation system.
Your Body's Wisdom
Debra Hastings, HHC
Have you ever wondered what your body would say to you if it could talk? Being able to truly listen to the messages the body speaks is actually easier than most think. Using guided imagery, symbols and the work of noted healer Laurie Hay, we will embark on a journey into fabulous you - and see what your body wants you to know!
Introduction to Belly Dancing
Celeste Bellinghieri
Join us for an hour of the "oldest dance," including basic moves, isolations, shimmies, combinations and a brief history of this ancient, beautiful dance. Remember, it's not about size, it's not about weight, it's not about age. It's about the woman; it's about the dance.
Whole Woman Health - Body and Mind
C. Neill Epperson, MD
The aging process can take its toll on our bodies and our minds, leaving us feeling less vigorous and focused. Unfortunately, the media doesn't provide clear and accurate reviews of the options available to women to improve their sense of well-being. Learn about recent research in women's physical and psychological health with practical suggestions for a healthier, more satisfying life.
Tai Chi
Suzanne Hanley
Body, mind, spirit movement. Tai Chi promotes flexibility, balance and reduces stress. All levels are welcome in this introductory class.
The ABC's to Wellness: Supplements to Support Your Health
Deborah Rose, CHHC
Color your world with vitamin and mineral rich recipes. We will discuss ways to bring vitamins and minerals to your diet through healthful snacks and food choices. I will also share my favorite supplements and samples that you may want to add to your diet. Take the mystery out of shopping for supplements and learn new ways to eat healthfully. Let's find simple ways and conscious options toward health and wellness!
3:20 p.m. - 3:50 p.m.
Afternoon Break
Grab a light, healthful snack to energize your body and mind - then go explore!
3:50 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Breakout Session Three Options
Osteoporosis and Bone Fractures: Are You at Risk?
Robert T. Schoen, MD
In this session you will learn about of the diagnosis and treatment of osteoporosis. We will also discuss the emerging concept of "absolute fracture risk" which combines clinical assessment with bone density testing to estimate osteoporosis fracture risk. There will be time for your questions during this interactive session.
Kripalu Yoga
Joanne DeVito
This class will help you to find balance while strengthening your body and creating relaxation. Kripalu Yoga will do more than make you more flexible and strong. It is a unique way to integrate body, mind and spirit through opening the wisdom of your body. All levels of yoga experience are welcome. Mat required.
Can Fresh Food, Really Good Food, Also be Fast Food?
Chef Claire Criscuolo
Yes! In this workshop Claire will share her strategies and recipes for healthful snacks, entrees, soups, sandwiches, and desserts that are delicious and fast for busy and picky eaters. Bring questions, recipes for re-do, and pick Claire's brain for solutions while she demonstrates her fresh spinach and pastina soup and tells you why she chooses organic.
Meditation - Mind, Body, Spirit.
Christina Kelly-Hunter, M.Psy, MFT, CMT, CPT
Meditation is a practice that can achieve a balance in your mental, physical and emotional well being. The deep rest achieved during meditation can reduce stress, help with depression, anxiety and physical pain relief, and enable you to make better choices by allowing you to think more clearly. Also, meditation can enhance your spiritual practices. Come and learn what Meditation can do for you!
Cardio-Salsa
Gisel Zergiebel
Cardio-Salsa is a fun, energizing, low impact dance using Latin rhythm and steps to inspire and express creative movement. Salsa, Merengue, and Cha Cha Cha your way to a wonderful one hour full body workout.
Why Women Gather & Why It's Vital to Your Health
Kari Henley
Why do women work out together, have play groups, go to book clubs, have drinks - even go to the bathroom together? Studies show that women under stress will "tend and befriend" instead of going into "fight or flight." In this workshop we'll validate our need for community and learn why women feel better after "a girl's night out" in ways their male partners do not.
Mindful Mat Pilates
Jennifer McManus, RN, Exercise Specialist, Pilates instructor
Experience the powerful benefits of Mindful Mat Pilates. Strengthen your core muscles, improve your overall flexibility, and learn to relieve stress in your body. This form of body awareness and movement is designed to balance your muscles, invigorate the body and lift the spirit. All levels welcome. Please bring a mat and towel, and most importantly bring an open mind.
Group Personal Training
Terry O'Hara
Reclaim STRONG MUSCLES with a comprehensive personal training session to easily incorporate resistance training into your busy life. Walk away from this presentation with a CONCRETE PLAN and SPECIAL TOOLS to create a healthier body. Our focus will be on RESISTANCE TRAINING using body weight, guidelines for cardio and current suggestions to nourish your body and slim down. Dress to workout.
A Woman's Guide to Sleep Disorders
Meir H. Kryger, MD, FRCPC
Are you having problems sleeping? This session will review the reasons why many women experience sleep disorders. Learn more about diagnosis of sleep disorders and the many treatments available.
Detoxify Your Home
Imani
Most people are unaware that indoor air pollution in our homes and offices, where we spend most of our time, far exceeds outdoor air pollution. This is primarily due to the numerous chemically laden products we use in our homes and on our bodies. According to an EPA study of human fatty tissue samples, every American man, woman and child carries at least 700 pollutants in his or their body. Come for an informational discussion on the dangers lurking within our own homes and what we can do about it!
Understanding Diabetes - the Basics and Beyond
Kai H. Yang, MD
Diabetes and pre-diabetes (impaired fasting glucose) are becoming more prevalent in our society. Women of all ages can be affected, whether it is PCOS, insulin resistance, pre-diabetes or diabetes. Learn more about these disorders, what causes them, and what you can do in your everyday life to treat and/or prevent these disorders.
Staying Sharp: Maintaining Brain Health As We Age
Richard A. Marottoli, MD, MPH
This session will review changes in cognition that occur with aging, interventions that are touted as forestalling these changes, and the evidence behind the effectiveness of these interventions.
Saturday, March 8th
7:30 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.
Pre-Conference Pamper Party
Make it a girls weekend by joining the pre-conference Pamper Party. We'll have vendors, free mini-spa treatments, fun activities, prizes and more! It's the perfect way to kick off your conference experience whether you're coming with a group of friends or treating yourself to something special. |
