WellBAMA Wellness Classes

A HEART Centered Approach to Goal Setting

Follow author Whitney English’s personal goal-setting system to achieve your personal and professional goals. H-E-A-R-T is a framework for prioritizing and decision-making, while keeping what’s most important the priority. Join us to learn more about the acronym H-E-A-R-T, based on her bestselling book A More Beautiful Life: A Simple Five-Step Approach to Living Balanced Goals with HEART.                     

Alleviating Everyday Aches and Pains

Introduces common causes for everyday aches and pains, along with simple solutions for promoting pain-free living.

Bring Out Your Resilience

Bounce back from challenges and bring out the resilience you already have within you! Broaden your sense of self-awareness and learn skills to grow and thrive in the workplace and at home and practice the skills you learn in this workshop-style series to build competencies in mental toughness, energy management, and strong leadership.

Building an Attitude of Gratitude

Learn more about the practice of gratitude and its positive effects on our mental, emotional, and total wellbeing. Get practical tips on how you can incorporate thankfulness into your daily routine from certified health and life coach Abby Horton.

Caring for Aging Populations/Caring for the Caregiver

How to plan, prepare, and care for challenges related to aging. Topics covered include care giving fatigue, aging-related health concerns, and aging-related stress.

Clean Living Lifestyle

Find out more about the 5 benefits of clean living, while reaching your goals of a healthy lifestyle and protecting the planet. We will explore how to “ditch and switch” for cleaner, safer household and personal products. 

Creating Good Habits That Last

Habit change is foundational to all health and wellness goals.  Learn how to cultivate healthy habits and how to “habit stack” for sustainable health and wellness. 

Create Your Own Exercise Program

Not all exercise routines are created equal. In this in-person class, we’ll cover the principles of an effective exercise regimen and how to tailor a program to fit your goals and current fitness level.

Cultivating a Resilient Mindset

Discusses the importance of resilience, offers a deep dive into what cultivates resilience, and provides a toolkit of resources for fostering personal resilience. A brief workshop is included so that participants can walk away with a resilience care plan in process.

Diabetes: The Sweet Truth

Designed to help those currently living with Diabetes those at risk for developing Diabetes. Topics covered include Diabetes Type 1, Type 2, prediabetes, and Gestational Diabetes.

Diverse Populations and Health Equity

Designed to address unique Minority Health Concerns, in addition to health disparities, access to care, and inclusive health practices.

Don’t Miss a Beat: Your Path to a Healthier Heart

This class is more than heart health. Learn how to care for your heart, brain, and circulatory system for overall improved health and wellbeing.

Don’t Wait, Hydrate!

Learn about the benefits of drinking water, how poor hydration affects the body, why it is important to drink water during physical activity, and how to stay hydrated during hot summer months.

Don’t Stress About Stress

Examines the relationship between health and wellness and the importance of self-care.  Learn specific strategies to develop and support positive coping strategies and resilience.

Exploring Mindfulness Practices for Relaxation

Uncover the power of breathwork in this webinar on nervous system regulation and stress management. Learn diverse techniques for relaxation and a balanced, mindful life.

Exercise and Special Populations 

Life presents new hurdles and sometimes we have to navigate around those hurdles with thoughtful exercise choices.  Join Whitney as she provides insight into exercising safely with osteoporosis, arthritis, and other physical limitations we might encounter as we age.

Experience the Power of Resistance Bands

Discover the simplicity and versatility of resistance bands as Michela Snell from UREC, guides you through a few exercises designed for all fitness levels. Experience an accessible and enjoyable workout that will help you build strength and improve flexibility. *Workout attire recommended but not required. Free resistance bands provided.

Fertility and Nutrition

5 Practices to Thrive 

Learn the 5 Wellness Basics you need to master to Thrive with your health and wellness journey.

Flexitarian Diet

Learn how this is more of an eating strategy for long-term health rather than the newest fad diet.

Hidden Sugar & How to Spot Them

Let’s learn how to spot hidden sugars in the foods and beverages we consume. Join Megan McManus, senior food and nutrition student, as she explains what added sugars do to our bodies and how to find better alternatives.

Improving Your Sleep Health

What is Sleep Health? What is great Sleep Health? What is concerning Sleep Health? How can we optimize Sleep Health? In this class, Heather Gunn, Assistant Professor in Psychology and licensed clinical psychologist will answer these and other questions about sleep across the lifespan.

Learn to Successfully Manage Your Blood Pressure

Learn why controlling HBP is important, the medications involved, self-measuring blood pressure, and dietary changes that can help with HBP.

Nutrition for Exercise Performance

Join Health Promotion and Wellness dietitian Sheena Gregg as she shares tips for optimal nutrition pre- and post-workout and the overall benefits of eating for physical activity.

Organize Your Life

Getting and keeping everything organized often feels like it’s an impossible task. This class will cover the fundamentals of how to “organize your life” one step at a time. 

Overcoming Overwhelm

Feeling Overwhelmed? Let’s take the first steps to overcoming overwhelm at home and work through developing organization, rhythms, and routines. 

Resiliency Series

Bounce back from challenges and bring out the resilience you already have within you! You will also have the opportunity to practice the skills you learn in this workshop-style series to build competencies in mental toughness, energy management, and strong leadership. Read more about each class.

Saving Your Skin from the Sun

Let’s learn how we can best protect our skin from the harmful rays while still enjoying the beautiful outdoors.

Strength and Mobility

Strength and mobility go hand in hand. Strength training can lessen range of motion, so it’s important to find balance. Learn how training on the Reformer can promote optimal well-being through full body movements, rhythm and flow and precision. 

Successfully Navigating Menopause

Hormones, hot flashes, and night sweats. Perimenopause and menopause are not often discussed but should be as these are significant changes in a woman’s life. Join University Medical Center Registered Dietitian Suzanne Henson as she discusses nutrition and this stage of life and how to feel your best as you navigate these changes. 

The Ketogenic Diet: Is It for Me?

Low carbohydrate diets have been popular for years, but what makes the ketogenic diet different, and who is it appropriate for? Join UA registered dietitian Sheena Gregg as she shares an overview of the keto diet to help you determine if this therapeutic diet is appropriate for you and your health goals.

The MIND Diet: Eating for Brain Health

Have you ever thought about eating in a way to prevent cognitive decline? Using elements of both the Mediterranean diet and the DASH diet, the MIND diet has been ranked as one of the Top 5 Diets for Overall Health by US News and World Report. Join UA registered dietitian nutritionist Sheena Gregg as she shares what the MIND diet is and how to incorporate it in your everyday food choices.

Your Health After 40

Preparing you for continued health after 40. Topics covered include recommended medical visits, testing, vaccinations, tailored nutrition and exercise for those 40 years and older. All ages are welcome! It is never to early to plan for continued health.