From yoga and boot camps to art seminars and self-care sessions, July is bursting with Whole U events to get you energized and engaged at work! Our Raise the Bar summer wellness challenge gets underway July 9, offering teams and departments across the UW the opportunity to implement and experiment with strategies for prioritizing wellness [...]

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Call her a professor. Call her a Buddhist chaplain. But before anything else, call Jane Compson what she calls herself: a curator. “I’m not a psychologist; I’m not a neuroscientist; but one of the things I think I am quite good at is explaining concepts to laypeople, because I am one myself,” says Compson, an [...]

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Where’s the best place to prioritize your own health and wellness this summer? Right here at the University of Washington! Beginning this July, join us for our Raise the Bar Summer Wellness Challenge, a team activity that both supports and challenges departments to create a healthier and more positive environment at work. We’ve supercharged last summer‘s [...]

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Start off Summer 2018 with improved mental and physical well-being by signing up for one (or both) of two 8-week yoga series with The Whole U and UW Recreation. Each series costs only $45! Summer Vinyasa Yoga at the HUB Starting July 11  •  Wednesdays, noon to 1:00 p.m.  •  HUB The Summer Vinyasa Yoga series is a dynamic heat [...]

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Each year, hundreds of staff members at the University of Washington come together to nominate and honor their colleagues for the Distinguished Staff Award—the highest staff honor at the University. “The Distinguished Staff Awards celebrate the amazing contributions of staff who work tirelessly to make the UW one of the best public research universities in [...]

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The academic year is coming to a close, but summer is just around the bend. With the fresh start to the season comes a host of new events, seminars, and our signature summer team wellness challenge, Raise the Bar! If you’re spending summer on campus with us, you definitely don’t want to miss out on [...]

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When it comes to wellness, physical health is often prioritized over mental health. While physical health is an important component of our overall wellbeing, mental health is another large aspect that at times is considered as an afterthought, if even at all.  Speaking of mental health, mindfulness is one method that has been shown to [...]

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Because fitness is about finding what fuels you, The Whole U is partnering with Any Hungry Husky / UW Campus Food Pantry for UW Fitness Day. Register to participate and bring a nonperishable, shelf-stable food item to Husky Stadium on Wednesday, May 2 to help sustain and grow this service vital to community health and wellness. When hunger hits, [...]

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On Saturday, March 24, Danny Arguetty will lead Mindfulness, Movement, and an Open Heart, a day-long yoga retreat at UW Seattle’s wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ – Intellectual House. Whether you consider yourself a dedicated yogi or are just beginning, this retreat is a unique opportunity to lengthen your yoga practice, tap inner strength, and recover balance in life. You can register here, [...]

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March is National Nutrition Month and the perfect time to dive into our final month of Dare to Do, as we Dare to Fuel, focusing on clean, healthy, and energy filled eating.  With a variety of active and mindful events this month, you are sure to stay inspired on your path to total well-being and [...]

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In the last 150 years the human experience has become faster-paced, more stimulated, and much more scheduled. If we zoom back and digest this in the context of how long human beings have been around (about 60,000 years), it is clear that our human instrument is grappling to adapt to a very different lifestyle. While [...]

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This February, take a step back to assess your overall wellbeing and then take strides forward to your wellness goals as we Dare to Improve. With tons of events focused on stress management, meditation, financial wellbeing, and overall organization, February is sure to help you build on progress you made in January to building a better, [...]

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