Check out the details for Commit to Get Fit 2008, including running workshops, free lifestyle change seminars, and the May 25 Walk and Run.

Sign up for one of Wellness Institute's new approaches to weight loss including Waist Management, Pound the Pounds, and Weight Loss Coaching.

Registration opens March 20 at 6 a.m.

Interested in upcoming Wellness Programs and Classes? Check out the program guide in the Winter the Winter 2008 issue of Positively Healthy magazine now available for download on the Positively Healthy page.

In this issue:
Health Education and Program Guide . . . 6-13
Getting Proactive on Respiratory Illness. . . 4
Rapid Response for Better Outcomes . . . . . 5
Lifestyle Change for Mental Health . . . . . .14
Talking Openly about Patient Safety . . . . 15

Our Health Risk Appraisal for businesses was featured in a Winnipeg Free Press supplement about Manitoba's Top 15 Employers. We developed the comprehensive HRA as part of our workplace health strategy for Seven Oaks Hospital, and now it's available for your company too! Read the Top Companies story below or find out more about our services to business in the Workplace Health section of our website.

Last year Wellness Institute experimented with adding short activities after some of our popular Stretch and Go sessions.

The 15-minute Stretch and Go sessions are led by a Wellness Consultant eight times a day on weekdays to help get your muscles ready for activity. Last year we added mini-obstacle courses, floor hockey, and balancing games to much acclaim so this fall we've expanded the activities we offer after stretches to include more games, and more variety of activity. We're hoping that more members will join in, and interact with staff and each other. A weekly schedule, beginning with the first week in October is posted by the bleachers in the west gym. Download the schedule here if you'd like to know what's coming up, or just show up at any of the stretch sessions and join in the fun!

Too hot to be active outdoors? Come in from the heat for our August special: Join in August and get September FREE!

More on membership categories and options.

COMMIT TO GET FIT
Series of Community Events
TAKE CHARGE OF YOUR HEALTH
WELLNESS FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY

Check out some of the photos from this year's Commit to Get Fit Run added to the site recently. It's an impressively broad group that participates and we're already getting started on ideas to make it bigger and better next year.

Speaking of ideas, we're looking for ideas for our new Outdoor Wellness Program. We experimented with some Cross Country Skiing and bike rides at Birds Hill and then kicked it off last weekend with a group canoe on the Assiniboine River. We're looking for more ideas from members and non-members to make the outdoors part of our facility.

And speaking of bikes join us at Birds Hill Park for our Sunday Morning Bike Club or get on board for the Outdoor Wellness team entry in the MS Bike Tour at Riding Mountain Park in September.