9 - 10 | The Sugar Blues: The Sugar Blues is a holistic workshop for sugar addicts, and those who love them. | Workshop Room Level 1 |
9 - 10 | Green Cleaning Demonstration | Workshop Room Level 2 |
10- 11 | Fitness for Survivors: Speicialized fitness for cancer survivors. | Workshop Room Level 1 |
10 - 10:30 |
Healthy Weight Loss Workshop | Workshop Room Level 2 |
11 - 12 | Couples Massage | Workshop Room Level 1 |
11 - 12 | Relationships: Can't Live with them, Can't live without them |
Workshop Room Level 2 |
1 - 2 | Human-Identical Hormone Replacement Therapy | Workshop Room Level 1 |
1 - 2 | radKIDS | Workshop Room Level 2 |
2 - 3 | Green and Sustainable Diet | Workshop Room Level 1 |
2 - 3 | Getting the Perfect Job | Workshop Room Level 2 |
3 - 4 | Health Goals that Produce Results | Workshop Room Level 1 |
3 - 4 | Workshop Room Level 2 |
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4 - 5 | Money and Credit Card Management | Workshop Room Level 1 |
4 - 5 | Long Term Care Planning Options | Workshop Room Level 2 |
The Sugar Blues
Presented by Tamara Flanders
The Sugar Blues is a holistic workshop for sugar addicts, and those who love them. This workshop is interactive and entertaining as participants learn how to conquer sugar addiction and emotional eating while building new coping skills for life stresses. By exploring triggers and weaknesses, each participant is able to begin to build their own personalized plan for how they can overcome the sweet tooth in their life. Participants also learn about the health hazards of long term sugar use, dangers of artificial sweeteners, and how to use natural sweeteners.
Times of Economic Crisis: Be competitive finding and getting the perfect job
Presented by Terri Lewis
How can you find the ideal job opportunity? This workshop will include many answers that you may find helpful in these times of crisis. It will teach you how to have a "killer interview" including insider secrets to get you hired and answers to the most frequently asked interview questions. Learn the newest information on appropiate attire for the interview process and how to outprepare the other candidates and land that job that you will love and enjoy.
Money and Credit Card Management
Presented by Tom Heffernan
Reduce the stress associated with financial concerns, by attending this discussion on how to manage your expenses and money so you can meet your personal financial objectives. In addition, an explanation is given regarding how credit card costs can be lowered by rate negotiation and/or payment allocation plans you can implement yourself. The result is the balance is paid off sooner at lower cost with payments that affordable.
Green Cleaning Demonstration
Presented by Shirley Tessier
This will be a fun and fascinating demonstration about Shakleeâs green cleanersâ¦which have been featured on Oprah 4 times, the Rachel Ray show, Better Homes and Gardens, Natural Health, & Parenting magazines. Find out how these cleaners can improve your health, how they can help the environment and landfills, why they are superior to other brands, and how you can save a TON of money with them! See how they work, and how WELL they work. Hear shocking statistics, stories, and eye opening information about the toxins found in household cleaners and their effects on our children and homes. Those who suffer from allergies, asthma, and other sensitivities will not want to miss this. You will enjoy this action packed hour as Shirley, who was a housecleaner for 15 years (and using Shaklee cleaners for over 10 years), shares her stories and cleaning tips, along with the fun demos, and will include audience participation, gifts, free samples, and a special prize drawing at the end for those who stay the whole hour!
In this workshop, you will discuss the basics of menopause, traditional treatment modalities, and recently identified risks of HRT. You will then learn how some patients and practitioners utilize human-identical hormones in customized treatment regimens to help relieve menopausal symptons at the lowest effective dose. Patient Responses, adverse event profiles, cost, and more of HRT vs. traditional commercial therapies will be compared for your knowledge.
This is a community presentation to introduce a new program that the Ulster County Crime Victim Assistance is offering on personal safety for children. It is a 10 hour family centered safety education program thath emphasizes eseential decision-making skills as well as physical resistance options to espcape violence. The curriculum topics range from Home and School Safety, Bullying Prevention, Out and About Safety, to Realistic Defense Against Abduction and Good/Bad/Uncomfortable Touch. This is an evidence based curriculum tha utilizes fun, activity based programs including lecture, safety drills, muscle memory excercises and dynamic simulation.
What is a Green Diet? How do food and lifestyle choices help sustain the planet? This workshop will help you make a personal impact by eating and choosing green. It's offered by local Nutritionist Vicki Koenig, MS, RD, CDN in collaboration with regional Farmers, Chefs and Business People. Resources will be provided to all local CSAs, farmer's markets, supportive restaurants, wineries, breweries and local food community organizations. The Hudson Valley has excellent resources for Eating Green!
Vicki Koenig, MS, RD, CDN
Vicki Koenig is a Masters level Registered Dietitian Nutritionist. She has maintained a private counseling practice and consulting business since 1987. As consulting Nutritionist to the national Stonyfield Farm yogurt company, she writes a popular Wellness Moosletter, answers consumer questions and helps with new product development. Vicki offers onsite Corporate Wellness programs to create a healthier workplace. With personalized goals and group incentives, businesses can have a healthier bottom line. Employees are more productive, use less sick time and insurance usage goes down. Vicki has worked with people of all ages promoting nutrition for wellness while addressing diverse chronic health conditions. Working as a consultant to food companies, businesses, schools and organizations, Vicki communicates healthy nutrition guidelines that make it easy to move towards health. Drawing on her comprehensive knowledge of nutrition throughout the life cycle provides Vicki with a broad perspective when speaking, counseling, consulting and writing; allowing her to specialize in Nutrition for Wellness.
Do you often feel:
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like your needs and wants are not being met?
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intimidated and like you are walking on egg shells?
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misunderstood, overwhelmed and alone?
Do you and your partner:
- fight about sex and money without resolution?
- see things very differently?
- get into power and control struggles?
If you answered YES to any of these questions then attend this FREE workshop. Discussion, suggestions, guided imagery and questions & answers will help you learn to:
- identify your needs and wants and how to get them met
- use a communication technique that greatly reduces reactivity and enhances understanding
- resolve conflict effectively
- understand gender differences
Jeff Schneider

In this workshop, you will set a health or fitness goal that inspires you to action. You will then complete a structure of steps, and begin to take on concrete actions to move your goal forward. You will also discover ways to create a support system to stay on track with the goal. The principles presented are based on a proven methodology that takes into consideration the study of neuroscience, that is, it works in alignment with the way our brains function in our everday lives.
Rose Rubin
Rose Rubin is a Professional Certified Coach(PCC) as designated by the Intenational Coaching Federation. She has coached over 100 clients around health and fitness, personal and business relationships, small business growth and other personal agendas Her clients achieve a very high level of satisfaction with the learning and growth they experience with Rose's dynamic style. Rose is also a trainer, mentor and assessor of coaches for Results Coaching Systems, an International company based in Australia.
An interactive experience where you will explore and reveal a breakthrough concept in the world of diet and weight loss which is forgiveness, acceptance and love. This workshop will explore excerpts of Deborah and Miranda's workbook and illustrate 5 key points to achieving the weight, health and lifestyle participants really want, and the best part are these results stay with you, no more roller coasters! Reclaiming the self is a very important step to this process as we will demonstrate how one can do this along with the reason why will power doesn't work, knowing what you don't want will only get you more of the same and even if you are certain you are doing everything you can, why you aren't getting the results you want or can't maintain them long term. In this modern age, we are facing a health crisis in this country and Just Say YES to the Body You Want addresses healong and a life filled with health, energy and vitality.
A specialization in fitness for cancer survivors. Rather than just lead a general fitness routine that many people could do, the goal of this workshop is to give women information they can take away and use. You will recieve information on the benefits of exercise for cancer, both for managing the effects of treatment and for preventing cancers. This information is all based on published medical studies. You will also learn some basic information on anatomy and physiology, which helps shed light on why we do certain exercises and how to adapt any excercise to fit your needs. There will be special emphasis placed on excercises that help counteract the effects of cancer surgeries and treatments. While this workshop focuses on cancer survivors, the information and excercises are useful for everyone.
Julie Goodale
Julie Goodale, founder of Life-Cise, is a certified Personal Trainer (ACSM) and Cancer Exercise Specialist. Her first career was in music, but her experience of exercising all throughout her treatment for breast cancer led her into fitness. She is passionate about the benefits of exercise before, during and after cancer treatment. Julie provides training in the New York City and Hudson Valley areas, and online at Life-Cise.com . Besides her training and workshops, she writes about fitness and other survivorship issues on her blog, FitnessforSurvivors.blogspot.com . While she still works as a musician, Julie is now also dedicated to helping others stay fit and stay strong.
Learn the keys and hot points for permanent weight loss! You'll also learn how to balance exercise, lifestyle and nutrition into an effective program that can help anyone achieve their health & wellness goals.
Heidi Komasa
From the SPA at MAC Fitness in Kingston
Grab your husband/wife, mother/father, sister/brother, friendâ¦whoever! This workshop allows partners to experience the cumulative benefits of massage, including relief of muscle tension, enhanced flexibility, aid in nutrition of tissues, and encouragement of balance in the body. We believe it just feels good for the mind, body and soul!
You Will Learn:
- Basic massage history and terminology with benefits and contraindications.
- How to establish an environment that feels safe and relaxing with mindful, nurturing touch.
- Basic Swedish massage techniques (strictly nonsexual in nature), and proper body mechanics.
- Quiet centering and breathing techniques.
- How to enhance communication and feedback skills
Presented by Louis Werbalowsky
This workshop reviews long term care planning options, choices and consequences that impact our family, our home and our retirement portfolio. We can't predict, but we can prepare. Plan today so we can enjoy tomorrow.