✔️ Jump off the All-Or-Nothing train and commit to a sustainable health journey
You’ve been here before – last year at this time, actually! We invite you to invest in yourself by gaining knowledge that will make you better able to choose a smart path, gain momentum and sustain it throughout the year.
✔️ Marina Wellness Week is not a 1-Week Transformation or Weight Loss Program.
Your instructors will teach you how to craft your own lifestyle in a way that respects your time, your budget and your preference with free options such as community walks and volunteering, traditional dancing, outdoor activity or other paid programs that ensure maximal accountability and support.
✔️ Exercise Sampling Focused on Having Fun & Consistency
Every day, you will get to sample different exercise and mind-body practices such as Yoga, Run/Walk, Strength Training, Hula Dancing, Core Exercises, Stretching & Meditation. Short exercise demos give you a chance to try a new form of exercise and see if you actually enjoy it enough to do it regularly!
✔️ Local Health & Wellness Professionals At Your Service
Monterey Bay Moves Partnered with Blue Zones Project, CSUMB, Disc Golf Jellies and Na Haumana to present a wide variety of exercise and community activity programs. You will be spoiled for choice and feel supported when it comes to making an action plan for 2022.
All Sessions will be offered in-person at Vince DiMaggio Park Building. Indoor masks are required regardless of vaccination status.
Run/Walk + I Want to Live Forever, A Blue Zones Project Approach to New Years Resolutions
6:00-6:30 PM – Run/Walk:
Bring your favorite sneakers for an easy run/walk interval exercise session. We’ll do a group warm up, lead you through heart strengthening and metabolism boosting intervals and finish with a nice cool down. You may choose to walk, jog or run. This exercise session is a great intro for those looking to join our Couch to 5 K running Program or our 5K Fun Run Program (starting January 17, 2022)
– Come dressed in layers, bring a headlamp if possible and bring a water bottle. We recommend bringing an extra shirt/sweater or jacket if you plan on attending both the run/walk and workshop to change into dry clothes after the exercise session.
6:30-8:00PM – I Want to Live Forever, A Blue Zones Project Approach to New Years Resolutions
Please join us for fun and informative double presentation to learn how the longevity research of National Geographic Explorer, Dan Buettner, is transforming local communities and empowering people with tangible tools and techniques to live a longer, better!
Monterey Bay Moves Owner Elizabeth Plante will share her multiple failures and experience with New Year’s Resolutions, vision for the future of the community and seemingly impossible dream to live forever.
This workshop aims to:
Presented by : Elizabeth Plante, Monterey Bay Moves
Guest Speaker: Tanja Roos, Blue Zones Project Monterey
This presentation is open to all teens and adults of all levels of experience.
Bring a pen and journal or notepad
This Presentation is FREE to anyone in the community. Attendance is limited. Sign Up is required
Proactive Stretch & Roll + Diets, Cleanses, Detox, Disordered Eating Habits and Why You Just Can’t Keep Going Like This
6:00-6:30 PM – Proactive Stretch & Roll
Bring your exercise/yoga mat and dress warm for an outdoor stretching and meditative practice. During a ProActive class, you can expect to learn about mindfulness, breathing and meditation practices, perform stretches, learn how to release tensions in your body and proper movement patterns to keep you moving pain-free.
– Come dressed in layers, bring an exercise mat and a headlamp if possible + a water bottle. We recommend bringing an extra shirt/sweater or jacket if you plan on attending both Proactive and workshop.
6:30- 8:00PM – Diets, Cleanses, Detox, Disordered Eating Habits and Why You Just Can’t Keep Going Like This
Put your hand up if you are your own worst critic! Learn about shape and weight overvaluation and how negative self evaluation affects your eating habits.
Experienced dieter with “the slowest metabolism in the world” who puts on 5 lbs just looking at a cookie and Monterey Bay Moves Owner Elizabeth Plante will explain how our “common” standards around weight and shape have created this dualistic and highly moralistic view of human bodies : thin and curvy in the right places for women on one side + lean and strong for men on the other side VS all the other bodies. She will sprinkle her presentation with examples of her own struggles and success with weight loss, injuries, body transformation and acceptance of herself in the present moment.
This workshop aims to:
Presented by : Elizabeth Plante, Monterey Bay Moves
This presentation is open to all teens and adults of all levels of experience.
Bring a pen and journal or notepad
Attendance is limited. Sign Up is required
Yoga + Stressed to the Gills – How Weight Fluctuation and Incomplete Stress Cycles are Linked
6:00-6:30 PM – Yoga Flow
Bring your exercise/yoga mat and dress warm for an outdoor yoga class. Welcome to Yoga Flow, a beginner-friendly slow-flow class, wherein slow does not necessarily mean easy, but accessible to yogis of all levels. This class is a great introduction to yoga.
– Come dressed in layers, bring an exercise mat + a water bottle. We recommend bringing an extra shirt/sweater or jacket if you plan on attending both Yoga and workshop.
6:30- 8:00PM – Stressed to the Gills – How Weight Fluctuation and Incomplete Stress Cycles are Linked
Description coming soon
Presented by : Amanda Kirk, Monterey Bay Moves
This presentation is open to all teens and adults of all levels of experience.
Bring a pen and journal or notepad
Attendance is limited. Sign Up is required
Bootcamp + HIIT, Cardio, Strength or Yoga? Exercise Speed Dating to Choose the Right Program for You
6:00-6:30 PM – Bootcamp
Bring your exercise/yoga mat and dress in layers for this super fun class! “Bootcamp” is designed to help build muscle strength and endurance as well as improve your cardio. This class includes circuit training, cardio exercises, body weight exercises and finishers with core training and stretching for a complete workout.
– Come dressed in layers, bring an exercise mat + a water bottle. We recommend bringing an extra shirt/sweater or jacket if you plan on attending both Bootcamp and workshop.
6:30- 8:00PM – HIIT, Cardio, Strength or Yoga? Exercise Speed Dating to Choose the Right Program for You
Description coming soon
Presented by : Monterey Bay Moves Instructors
This presentation is open to all teens and adults of all levels of experience.
Bring a pen and journal or notepad
Attendance is limited. Sign Up is required
Kickboxing + Non Exercise Activity and Community Fitness : So Many Options To Choose From!
6:00-6:30 PM – Kickboxing
Bring your biggest smile and pent up energy and dress in layers for this super fun class! Kickboxing is non-contact class that combines martial arts techniques with fast-paced cardio. Perfect for anyone looking to break a sweat and let some energy out!
– Come dressed in layers and bring a water bottle. We recommend bringing an extra shirt/sweater or jacket if you plan on attending both Kickboxing and seminar.
6:30- 8:00PM – Non Exercise Activity and Community Fitness : So Many Options To Choose From!
Exercise is about more than doing reps in a gym or eating miles on a running trail. Non exercise specific activity is vital for the human body and mind to thrive, yet we tend to hyperfocus on “fitness” as a narrowly defined concept. Learn about what you do day to day that enhances your health, what you can add to your routine without adding to your schedule or workload and gain a new understanding of movement as an elixir of life.
Professor of Kinesiology at CSUMB, Dr Lisa Leineger is not only a wealth of knowledge about the science behind movement in the human body, but her work extends beyond the classroom. Her involvement with Exercise is Medicine allows her to make a difference on campus and promote activities that improve participants’ health markers, stave off critical illness, reduce stress and bring joy!
Local Disc Golf Club leader Nick Kite will share with you what disc golf is all about, where and how you can play it locally and give you all the information you need to participate with a club.
Presented by : Elizabeth Plante, Monterey Bay Moves
Guest Presenters: Dr. Lisa Leineger, CSUMB & Nick Kite, Monterey Bay Disc Jellies
This presentation is open to all teens and adults of all levels of experience.
Bring a pen and journal or notepad
Attendance is limited. Sign Up is required
Hula Traditional Dancing + The Surprising Benefits of Meditation & Breath work
9:00-9:30 AM – Hula Traditional Dancing with Na Haumana * FREE *
Na Haumana will be teaching hula and Tahitian style combinations in a fun/captive 30 minute. Any participant at any level can dance. It’s a great way to strengthen your muscles without weights. As the lesson are being taught the instructor will go over the culture parts of the movements, or song as well.
– Come dressed in layers and bring a water bottle. We recommend bringing an extra shirt/sweater or jacket if you plan on attending both Hula and seminar.
9:30- 10:30PM – The Surprising Benefits of Meditation & Breath work
We all breathe, and yet many of us don’t know how to breathe properly. We breathe without thinking and yet we think without end.
In this workshop we will talk about the connection between breath and meditation and also how they are different. We will learn how to properly breathe and what different styles of breathe are meant for which purpose. You will learn basic meditation techniques as we break down the myths and barriers many people have towards meditation.
This workshop aims to:
Help you understand the benefits of meditation and breathwork.
Breaks the myths of meditation.
Learn how to properly use your breath
Introduce you to the different types of breathing techniques
Offer and introduction to a meditation practice.
Presented by : Amanda Kirk, Monterey Bay Moves
This presentation is open to all teens and adults of all levels of experience.
Bring a pen and journal or notepad
Attendance is limited. Sign Up is required
Sub30 Core + It’s Cold, It’s Dark, I’m Tired – Practical Tips to Follow Through With Your Resolutions in the Dead of Winter
10:45-11:15 AM – Sub30 Core
Sub30 Core is a bodyweight only core program that is both intense and extremely well balanced to challenge all your core muscles. With each workout lasting between 20 and 30 minutes, you will strengthen your abdominals and back muscles in no time. This workout is challenging and super rewarding!
– Bring an exercise/yoga mat, come dressed in layers and bring a water bottle. We recommend bringing an extra shirt/sweater or jacket if you plan on attending both Sub30 Core and seminar.
11:15AM- 12:15PM – It’s Cold, It’s Dark, I’m Tired – Practical Tips to Follow Through With Your Resolutions in the Dead of Winter
Description coming soon
Presented by : Elizabeth Plante, Monterey Bay Moves
This presentation is open to all teens and adults of all levels of experience.
Bring a pen and journal or notepad
Attendance is limited. Sign Up is required
