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Wellness Your Way Retreat

PJCC Wellness Your Way Retreat

Wellness Your Way!
Personal Wellness Retreat
Sunday, November 11 • 1:00 – 4:00 pm
Register at the Welcome Center (Download a Registration Form here)
Call 650.378.2702

Join us for a day of retreat; make YOU your number one priority!
Experience nurturing workshops, workouts, spa cuisine, wine tasting, and an eclectic marketplace.

Explore:

Your relationships with food
Stress relief ~ Life relief
Pilates
Feldenkrais
Gentle Yoga

Marketplace featuring vendors such as:

• zubrub
• T K Metal Arts
• Jockey Person to Person
• Mary Kay Cosmetics
• Foster Ink
• Thirty One
• Athleta
• Eminence Organic Skincare
• and more!

Experience:

Mindful Breathing with the Art of Living
Meditation with Rabbi Lavey Derby
Massage
Paraffin waxing

Enjoy:

Spa cuisine and snacks
Meaningful connections
Permission to make YOU your number one priority

Registration Information

Registration is Required.

• When registering, you will select a total of four sessions.
  (Please note that only one session of spa services is available per person during the event.)
• If you choose "Dream Big!" as one of your sessions, you will only choose a total of three sessions.
• $25 registration fee (Includes your personal gift bag)
  

Register at the Welcome Center or call 650.212.7522.

Download your Registration Form here.

Schedule

Session Descriptions

1:15 - 2:30 pm

Dream Big! (workshop)
Sharon Giordano, PJCC Director of Marketing and Creativity Champion
Do you have aspirations and personal goals but aren’t sure how to achieve them? In this class, you’ll learn how to set and achieve your goals, and why they are important to your success. Topics include techniques, categories, and using simple methods that everyone can master. Each participant will create a vision board, unique to your personal goals to inspire you on your journey. Big or small, these steps will help you bring clarity to your goals and accomplish more. This is your chance to kick yourself into action, have fun, and dream big!
Bring a photo of yourself; magazines optional for vision board. Some will be provided in class. (1.25 hours with optional break)

1:15 - 1:45 pm

Pilates Ski Conditioning (workout)
Rosalie Helsel, Certified Pilates, TRX Instructor and Avid Skier
Ski season is right around the corner, and it is time to get ready. (Can’t you smell that crisp mountain air and feel the wind in your hair?!) Rosalie will guide you through a customized workout geared to strengthen all the muscles that are engaged when skiing. If you plan to hit the slopes this ski season, this is your class.

Mat Pilates with Props (workout)
Pam Harris, certified Pilates, Personal Trainer and TRX Instructor
Explore the fundamentals and basic principles of Pilates to gain core strength, flexibility and improve posture while learning to incorporate the Pilates right, small ball, and other props. Don’t miss this fabulous and challenging workout.

Stress Relief/Life Relief (workshop)
Ellen N. Resnick, LCSW
Apply unique techniques to help you better manage stress, and cultivate more balance while juggling multiple responsibilities and commitments. Learn to live with greater joy!

Beautiful Skin Workshop (workshop)
Candy Tong, PJCC Esthetician and Skin Care Maven
Learn the causes, prevention and cures for hyper pigmentation – one of the greatest contributors to an aging complexion. Dull, hyper pigmented skin reads as “old skin”. Learn how to prevent and correct it to looker younger and more vibrant. This workshop will feature Eminence Organic Skin Care, exclusive European formulas made by hand.

Spa Treatments
Spa Team-(See descriptions at the end)

 

2:00 - 2:30 pm

Golf Pilates on the Reformer (workout)
Fumiko Luk, Certified Pilates Instructor renowned for helping golfers improve their game
Master your golf game on the Pilates Reformer! Learn techniques to improve your golf game while reducing your risk of injury and back pain with this specialized workout.

Tai Chi (workout)
Marlon Bishop, Gold Medal Competitor in Taiji, North America and China
Tai Chi is taught world wide as a way to find a state of mental calm and clarity. This low-impact experience combines mental focus with physical progress for a healthy lifestyle. Come and find your inner Tai Chi master!

Beginning Yoga (workout)
Debbie Mobley, Yoga Instructor Extraordinaire
Are you ready to try yoga but you’ve felt intimidated to walk into the Yoga Studio? This is the perfect time to experience yoga with other beginning students in a safe and non threatening environment, on a day that is planned completely with you in mind. Your instructor brings a special gentleness and openness to yoga that you are sure to enjoy.

Heal Your Relationship with Food (workshop)
Ellen N. Resnick, LCSW
Learn methods to help you refocus your relationship with food, and its nurturing place in your life.

Spa Treatments
Spa Team - (See descriptions at bottom)

2:45 - 4:00 pm

Dream Big! (workshop)
Sharon Giordano, PJCC Director of Marketing and Creativity Champion
Do you have aspirations and personal goals but aren’t sure how to achieve them? In this class, you’ll learn how to set and achieve your goals, and why they are important to your success. Topics include techniques, categories, and using simple methods that everyone can master. Each participant will create a vision board, unique to your personal goals to inspire you on your journey. Big or small, these steps will help you bring clarity to your goals and accomplish more. This is your chance to kick yourself into action, have fun, and dream big!
Bring a photo of yourself; magazines optional for vision board. Some will be provided in class. (1.25 hours with optional break)

2:45 - 3:15 pm

Pilates Jump Board for Bone Strength (workout)
Monique Molino, PJCC Pilates Coordinator
You can prevent bone loss and the aged, Osteoporotic gait and posture that go with it by eating plenty of calcium-rich foods and including weight-bearing exercise in your wellness routine. Pilates Jump Board is an ideal weight-bearing exercise to maintain or increase your bone strength – and today’s the perfect day to give it a try. This class is appropriate for students who are familiar with Pilates; prepare for a fun and challenging workout.

Stretch and Core (workout)
Michele Mandell, PJCC Group Exercise Manager
Experience a perfectly-balanced core workout, plus learn stretches you can do every day to help reduce injuries and improve range-of-motion, posture, and flexibility. This workout sounds simple (and dare we say a bit “old school”), but it will have you looking – and feeling – like your best self.

Myofacial Release (workout)
Serena Lucchesi, RYT
Learn self techniques of how to massage away aches and pains by using your own body weight, round foam rolls and small balls. These techniques help to correct muscle imbalance, increase range of motion and neuromuscular efficiency, decrease muscle soreness and relieve joint stress.

Take A Breath: An Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation (workshop)
Rabbi Lavey Derby, PJCC Director of Jewish Life and Dedicated Meditator
Meditation is one of the most natural and rewarding of all human activities. It is an effective technique for stress reduction: it brings balance, rest, a growing inner peace, and contributes to physical, emotional and mental wellbeing. Join Lavey for a session that will give you permission to appreciate your BEing.

Spa Treatments
Spa Team - (See descriptions at the end)

3:30 - 4:00 pm

Back Strength with Pilates Reformer (workout)
Kevin Simmers, Former Professional Ballet Dancer
Want to be your strongest, best self? Back pain getting you down? Experience this invigorating, safe back workout on the Pilates Reformer. We can’t promise an extra 3 inches of height, but you will walk taller and have a spring in your step!

Zumba Sentao™ (workout)
Vanessa Moore, Licensed Zumba Instructor
The brand new Zumba Sentao™ workout takes the thrill of the fitness-party and partners it with explosive, chair-based choreography to strengthen, balance and stabilize your core, and step up your cardio work in a whole new way. You will feel the beat and learn how to use your own body weight to enhance muscle strength, improve definition and endurance, and tone your physique. Come learn why Zumba® is loved the world over.

Feldenkrais (workout)
Serena Lucchesi, RYT
Would you like to experience greater wellbeing, pain reduction, increased flexibility, and improved coordination? Join Serena for this Feldenkrais workout. We call it a workout, but it’s more of a pleasurable, gentle-movement workshop. Come try it for yourself.

Mindful Breathing with Art of Living (workshop)
Art of Living
Experience a powerful program of breathing that will help you reduce stress, improve health and wellbeing, improve mental clarity, and enhance creativity. One breath can change your life! Learn and experience how.

SPA TREATMENTS

(Choose two services during one ½ hour session)
(1:15 - 1:45)
(2:00 - 2:30)
(2:45 - 3:15)
(3:30 - 4:00)

Hand Rejuvenation Massage (spa treatment)
Your hands will be refreshed and re-hydrated after this soothing massage.

Re-Energizing Chair Massage (spa treatment)
The Therapist will focus on balancing your energy, while providing a soothing massage.

Aromatherapy Foot Massage (spa treatment)
Relax and rejuvenate with this soothing foot treatment that includes warm aromatherapy-infused moist towel wraps, followed by a moisturizing massage.

Paraffin Hand Hydration (spa treatment)
Enjoy a luxurious paraffin wax hand treatment. This paraffin treatment will leave your hands feeling moisturized and rejuvenated.