TO: Sonoma State Employees
FR: Wellness Program, Payroll and Benefits
Wellness Webinars
We are excited to share this month’s wellness webinars offered by Kaiser Permanente and United Healthcare. These webinars are open to all employees regardless of your health plan election. Webinars remain available on-demand for six months after the live stream (with the exception of the live Calm Meditation Sessions which are available only at the time of the event).
Eating Healthy During the Holidays
Enjoy the holidays while maintaining your best health.
December 13, 2023 (Noon - 1pm)
Register
Understanding Diabetes
Learn about diagnosis, complications, and how to reduce pre-diabetes and diabetes risk.
Available On Demand
Healthier Ways for the Holidays
Learn helpful tips that may make your holidays healthier, learn coping mechanisms that may help with holiday-related stress, as well as how to address financial and family stress during the holidays.
Available On Demand
Calm Meditation Sessions (2 live sessions offered)
15-minute de-stress exercises using the Calm app.
December 13, 2023 (10 - 10:15am)
Join here at the time of event
December 27, 2023 (2 - 2:15pm)
Join here at the time of event
National Health Observance: Healthier Ways for the Holidays
- Dietary guidelines: Tips for creating healthy eating patterns
- Understanding financial well-being
- Mindful eating
- Eat healthy for less
Yoga Classes
Lunchtime yoga classes continue and are open to all experience levels. A great opportunity to meet employees from other units, while also taking a break to stretch and have a midday reset.
- Mondays and Thursdays (12:05 - 12:55pm, Ives 80): Meditative Yoga with Jeanne Janae
- Tuesdays and Wednesdays (12:05 - 12:55pm, Ives 80): Yoga Flow with Kim Purdy
Mindfulness and Self-Care Classes
Please join our 30-minute virtual Mindfulness and Self-Care classes with Dr. Andy Wallace, SSU Philosophy professor (pre-registration required). Each class begins with a short description of mindfulness followed by a 15-20 minute mindfulness-based exercise and concludes with a poem. Dr. Wallace will also be available following the class for further discussion.
“The benefits of mindfulness stem, I believe, from the role that it plays in the human caregiving system. Kindness, compassion, and love are the system’s core emotions, and unconditional acceptance of self and other is its raison d’etre. When we meditate mindfully we activate or elicit those emotions and learn to care authentically for ourselves in the same loving spirit as we authentically care for others.” - Dr. Andy Wallace (bio)
These mindfulness classes are held on Fridays from 12 - 12:30pm and will continue throughout the fall semester. Employees interested in attending are asked to please register in order to receive the zoom link for the class.
Additional information regarding our SSU Employee Wellness programs can be found here: https://hr.sonoma.edu/payroll/