The Whole U

Welcome to The Whole U!

Focused on fostering connection, holistic wellness, and engaging your interests, The Whole U is for UW, by UW. Watch our video to see all we have to offer.

Stay healthy and connected with free, virtual mindfulness and fitness classes. Check out our weekly class listing to select from strength training, yoga, dance, meditation, and more!

Other ways to engage with The Whole U: Listen to For UW, By UW Podcast and never miss your favorite events when you subscribe to The Whole U YouTube.

Register for UW Fitness Day on May 23! Participate at Husky Stadium, UW Tacoma, UW Bothell, or Harborview Medical Center.

The Powerful Health Benefits of Citrus Fruits

Add some extra sunshine and warmth to your diet by eating more citrus fruits! Bright, colorful, fragrant, refreshing, and juicy, citrus fruits are not only delicious for their balanced tart and sweet taste, they are also an essential part of everyday nutrition, packing powerful health benefits beneath that tough, leathery rind. Citrus fruits are rich [...]

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UW Walk Week 2022

Stroll in to Summer with UW Virtual Walk Week! Each year, The Whole U hosts UW Walk Week, a week dedicated to getting outside, increasing movement throughout the day, reducing stress, boosting productivity, and going back to the basics of what it means to move. Join us for a week full of virtual and in-person [...]

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UW Fitness Day: Meet Your Coaches Part V

The Whole U is excited to announce that our annual UW Fitness Day will be returning as an in-person event on May 23. Fitness Day is a one-of-a-kind, campus-wide workout to celebrate movement. This will be the Whole U’s first live event in over two years, and we are thrilled to offer the UW community [...]

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Mental Health Awareness Month: Youth Anxiety Skyrockets in “Generation Covid”

The long-term effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on the mental health of kids and teens – the pandemic generation, or Generation Covid (already truncated to “Gen C”) – is not yet known or fully understood. One secondary effect of the pandemic is already clear, however: after more than two years of remote learning, quarantining and [...]

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UW Fitness Day: Meet Your Coaches Part IV

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Asian American woman with long wavy brown hair, wearing a black shirt with rainbow text that reads "CRIP RIOT", looks away from the camera, against a brick wall.

People of UW: Meet disability justice advocate Christine Lew

Christine Lew is mad, and she wants to tell people about it. It’s not so much that she’s angry, although she feels that kind of mad, too, when she encounters overt ableism or systemic barriers to disabled people. No, Christine’s kind of mad is crazy-mad, insane-mad, mental-illness mad. She has long-term depression and panic-attack-inducing anxiety, [...]

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Get in the Game and Support Be the Match

The University of Washington is proud to be a community partner with Be the Match, an education, research and advocacy organization managing the world’s largest marrow registry which helps connect people living with life-threatening blood diseases and cancers with life-saving donors. Learn more about this partnership here. On Monday, May 23, the Whole U, Be The [...]

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UW Fitness Day: Meet Your Coaches Part III

Save the date! The Whole U is excited to announce that our annual UW Fitness Day will be returning as an in-person event on May 23. Fitness Day is a one-of-a-kind, campus-wide workout to celebrate movement. This will be the Whole U’s first live event in over two years, and we are thrilled to offer [...]

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Meet Some of UW’s Amazing Nurses this National Nurses Week

On May 6 we celebrate National Nurses Day, the first day of National Nurses Week, which culminates on May 12 (Florence Nightengale’s birthday). The first National Nurses Week was celebrated in 1994. In 2020, Washington Governor Jay Inslee issued a proclamation recognizing May as Nurses Month in Washington, recognizing the critical role nurses play in public health and, [...]

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