Everyone needs a happy, healthy body and mind to cope with everything life dishes out. The stress of daily routines, advancing a career, raising children, or taking care of an elderly parent sometimes piles up so high that it’s hard to see anything but the next To Do list! Even when you are taking excellent care of yourself, events such as divorce, the loss of a loved one, a hospitalization or unwelcome news about your health can make it seem like you are just putting one foot in front of the other.

I’ve discovered one simple strategy that consistently improves just about every area of my life, and the lives of my women friends. Simply put, that strategy is: Move more! Play more!

You are invited to a very special event.

Go back to nature for a long weekend movement get-away this
Halloween Weekend

Join us at Carter Caves State Resort Park

Oct. 29 — Nov. 1, 2009

Thursday evening through Sunday noon

Your Hosts:

MERIAH KRUSE, Feldenkrais Practitioner

KAREN NIXON DIGIROLAMO, Gentle Yoga teacher

AMY ROSS, Green Belt Nia Instructor

Get away. Take a breather from the work you do, the people you take care of, the ambitions you pursue, the worries you entertain. This is a unique time and space put together for women, because we know how much you do, and how much you deserve to let your hair down and jump into something truly invigorating. Join us. Come together, enjoy nature, relax, move, play, laugh – take part in some healthy and hearty, transformative FUN! We have planned it all with you in mind; you will notice surprising and organic results!

What's so unique about it all? At first we thought of doing a retreat, making a time for you to rest. But we decided that, based on our own personal experience, a better recipe would be to:

Move more! Play more! So that's what we have cooked up for you.

Try something new! Choose to move with our expert instructors, to hike in the woods, to loll aroud reading a good book or talk with friends, in a place where the food is delicious (plus you don't have to cook it), and there are no chores to do! Three playful and gentle movement approaches are available. The days are designed so that you can take them all, but we encourage you to take as little or as much movement class as you want. It's YOUR getaway!

Movement and play nurture and transform us:

• Clearing away our mental and physical ‘cobwebs’
• Providing a new perspective and renewing our energy
• Helping build healthy bones; improving brain and heart function
• Bringing us into our calm center, where we can think clearly and make better decisions
• Satisfying our urge to live in the present moment
• Releasing endorphins into our systems, literally changing body chemistry and possibly adding years to life on Earth

October 29 - November 1, 2009

Halloween Weekend

Carter Caves State Resort Park

Olive Hill, Kentucky

Brought to you by Be Free to Move.