Kickstart Your Year with Wellness and Community!
As we enter 2025, it’s the perfect time to set intentions, try something new, and prioritize your well-being. Over the next few months, we plan to bring you opportunities to grow, connect, and take charge of your health.
Be:Well Snack Break
Friday January 17 at 10:30am
Join us for a refreshing start to the new year with a wellness snack break! Let’s come together to start the year with some healthy treats, share goals, and connect in a relaxed, welcoming atmosphere. It’s the perfect opportunity to embrace wellness and kick off 2025 with great company and positive vibes. We also want to let you know what we have coming up in the next few months. We can’t wait to see you there! Click here to download the flyer.
January Monthly Movement Break: Self-Defense with Malena Goerl
Monday, January 27, 2:00pm, Klickitat/ Skamania Rooms
The Importance of Self-Defense
January is Personal Self-Defense Awareness month! Self-defense is an essential life skill that empowers individuals to protect themselves and others in potentially dangerous situations. Beyond physical techniques, it fosters confidence, situational awareness, and quick decision-making under pressure. Learning self-defense can also reduce anxiety by giving you tools to feel safer in your daily life. Join us as we learn the basics of self-defense from Malena Goerl, ESD 112 Communications Manager, who studied self-defense techniques for five years and has a Green Belt in Krav Maga. Click here to download the flyer.
Hearts of Affirmation in the Break Room
It has become a tradition to decorate the break room with hearts-of-affirmation during the month of February. The hearts will go up on Monday, February 3rd and remain up through the month of February. Please stop by the breakroom for some positivity, and you can even add your own affirmation to a heart and post it in the breakroom. Just look out for the table with blank hearts and pens!
American Heart Month & National Wear Red Day
Friday, February 7
Did you know that cardiovascular disease is the number one killer of women, killing more women than all forms of cancer combined? Or that most cardiac and stroke events can be prevented through education and lifestyle changes? The American Heart Association’s Go Red for Women movement was launched in 2004 with the goal of raising awareness for cardiovascular disease in women. It is also a great reminder to be active and focus on keeping your heart healthy! We invite you to join us and wear red on Friday, February 7th to support awareness of cardiovascular disease.
Take photos of your team wearing red and send them to bewell@esd112.org – we’d love to share them! And, if you’d like, feel free to include a description of who you are wearing red for.
The American Heart Association has many great resources on things you can do to prevent cardiovascular disease. The topics listed below are just some of the many you can find on their website:
- Good Nutrition Defense Against Heart Disease
- Exercise to Prevent Heart Disease
- Heart Doctor Explains Cholesterol
- Warning Signs & Symptoms of Heart Attack and Stroke
February Monthly Movement Break: Yoga Heart Focus with Bre Higgins
Thursday, February 19, 2:00pm, Wahkiakum
Yoga is a wonderful way to improve overall health and well-being, and its benefits for heart health are particularly remarkable. Through gentle movements and focused breathing, yoga helps reduce stress, lower blood pressure, and improve circulation—all essential for maintaining a healthy heart. By promoting mindfulness and relaxation, yoga supports the heart both physically and emotionally, making it a powerful practice for reducing the risk of heart disease and enhancing cardiovascular wellness. Join us for a heart-focused yoga session to show your heart some love! Click here to download the flyer.
Save the Date! ‘Couve Clover Run
Sunday, March 24, 8:30am
We’re taking the Wellness Walks to the next step (get it?) at the 11th Annual ‘Couve Clover Run on Sunday, March 23rd, 2025. Throw on your green shirt, grab your shamrock accessories, and join us at this family-friendly event where you can walk or run the scenic 1, 3, 7 or 10 mile routes along Officer’s Row, Fort Vancouver and the Columbia River Waterfront. Kids 12 and under are free! It’s fun and it’s also for a good cause – the race supports local charities, including the Foundation for Vancouver Public Schools and Evergreen School District Foundation. Click here to register – we’ll see you at the finish line!
Click here to download the flyer.
Discount Code for 10% off your tickets: ESD112TEN
Wellness Walks
Come join us for a weekly wellness walk! Meet in the ESD 112 lobby at the times listed on the monthly Wellness Walk schedule to take a stroll outside. We plan to walk, rain or shine, so please plan accordingly.
- 1st Tues of the month @ 10:00am
- 2nd Wed of the month @ 3:00pm
- 3rd Thurs of the month @ 10:00am
- 4th Friday of the month @ 3:00pm
If you aren’t at the ESD 112 Vancouver campus, we welcome you to get a group together and take a walk at your location, at a time that works best for you. We’d love for you to share any pics and email to bewell@esd112.org.
Want to Join the Be:Well Team?
We are looking for folks who are passionate (or just plain curious) about wellness. Feel free to fill out this Quick Form to submit your Be:Well committee member application. We meet virtually once a month, and we welcome all employees whether they work on site or elsewhere within the community.
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