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Shift your mindset in relationship to your body image and food interactions while learning new skills to create a thriving lifestyle over this 12-week course. Identify factors that impact your weight and develop habits to support the life you want. Integrate psychological tools for sustainable motivation that supports a positive self image. Learn useful information about fitness and eating before, during and after menopause. Participate in cooking demonstrations to create fast and nutrient dense meals. Attend weekly in person sessions, have supplemental materials to take home and interact with the robust online component to continue growing throughout the course and after.

The cost of the 12-week program is $450.  Payment plan options are available at checkout. Elite Members at Aerial Dance save $40.

This course is open for any woman who wants to improve her relationship with her body. You do not need to be a current member of Aerial Dance to enroll. Take control of your mindset and wellbeing by joining Redefining Nourishment starting in February.

ENROLLEMENT CLOSES JANUARY 31st.

Course Content

Some of the most significant barriers to women’s wellness are misinformation about health and hyperemphasis on weight. Understanding how diet culture has negatively impacted your eating habits and body image can help you escape its trap. Recognizing that a healthy body comes in many sizes and your habits are what truly influence your health is where your power lies.
The people in your life deeply impact your beliefs and habits surrounding food and your body. Desiring social acceptance gives cultural fads power over your eating choices and appearance. Investing in connections with others that nourish your wellness goals is the path to sustainable health.
Movement is critical to your health and longevity but is not limited to exercise. Food is critical to your life; understand the basic nutrition terms to make more informed decisions that lead to increased wellbeing and satisfaction. This class ends with a hands on cooking session!
Your body does not exist to look good; it exists to survive and participate in your life. Complex biological systems maintain balance with your eating and weight. To work with your body, rather than work against it, is to utilize this natural wisdom.
If being mean to yourself worked, you would be the size you wanted. Self-compassion is a critical component to your internal relationship and supports sustainable motivation.
Learn how your body processes food and utilizes the energy from it. Leverage nutrition science facts to dispel mainstream diet misinformation. Learn practical, cheap and clever food handling techniques to make cooking fun. This class ends with a hands on cooking session!
Everyone has an opinion on what your body needs. Practice tuning in to what your body actually asks of you. Differentiate physical cues, emotional reactions, and thought patterns to help manage your eating and exercise actions.

Every woman will go through the menopause transition. What does it mean? What can be expected? And, most importantly, how can you deal with it? Learn strategies for minimizing menopausal symptoms with strong physical fitness and helpful nutritional concepts.

Nutrition is for life, not for just today. Incorporate nutrition everyday in a satisfying way so you can improve your well being now and when you’re 60. Learn fun ways to increase your food variety and enhance your quality of life with food. This class ends with a hands on cooking session!
Honor your body’s internal cues even when you are inundated with information and stimuli from your busy daily life. Progress comes from taking small opportunities for wellness and learning to reset when needed.
Women inherently know how to nourish. You see others grow and learn to love themselves with the support of your compassion. Turn this gift inwards, and receive the support you provide.

Your Hosts

Emily O’Connor, MS, LPC, PMH-C

Emily has been supporting individual wellness as an outpatient mental health counselor for the past six years. The treatment of eating disorders, body image concerns, and perinatal mental health are her main areas of clinical focus. Her counseling approach draws on evidenced based practices and modern science from a root of compassion and warmth. She challenges the pervasive impact of shame on women’s relationships with food and their own bodies through different stages of life. Emily strives to empower women through education and utilization of natural resources in the mind and body for healing.

Paula Brusky, PhD

Dr. Paula Brusky is the founder of Aerial Dance Wi. After performing globally as a world class bassoonist and a collegiate instructor, Paula left the music world to focus on building strength and confidence in women through the aerial arts. She uses her PhD research skills to bring the latest science to the fitness world.

Alicia Brown, RDN

Alicia helps women improve their nutrition and overall satisfaction with food by finding confidence with home cooking, understanding nutrition science basics, and strengthening their mind-body (and food-body) connection. Once caught up in disordered eating, Alicia transformed herself into a dietitian who ditches unnecessary food restrictions and prioritizes food joy and nutrition integration instead. After six years working 1:1 in private practice seven years total as a dietitian, Alicia continues to take women out of the dieting cycle by guiding them toward ways of eating well, without food rules, for life.

Marina Heck, CMC, CNC

When Marina transitioned into menopause five years ago, she decided she wanted to help other women. Marina recognized that there was still little information regarding what can be done to cope with the symptoms and changes that occur in women’s bodies. Therefore, she has decided to help educate women on the how’s, why’s and do’s of the body and mind to help with this transition. She has several certifications ranging from nutrition, personal training, life coaching, and of course menopause. With her knowledge and personal experience, Marina is dedicated to helping every woman feel her best.

12 weekly meetings at Aerial Dance Appleton from 5:30-6:50pm on Mondays starting February 12 and concluding April 29.

Binder of materials.

Online activities including additional exercises, videos, check-in and more in a very robust SLACK group. (don’t worry, we’ll teach you how to use it the first week!)

Cooking Experiences! Three times during the Monday sessions will have a hands on cooking time where you will implement some of the materials and enjoy nutrient dense food that is also tasty .

Menopause Specialty Class. All women go through it, let’s actually talk about it and what to expect from a body and food perspective with a specialist.

12 fitness, dance and flexibility classes at Aerial Dance (at either Aerial Dance location: Appleton or Green Bay) during the course. Sign up for: Fitness FUNdamentals, Vertical Barre, Hammock Fit, Pole Strong, Pole Flow, Floor Flow, Dance Cardio, Aerial Yoga and Bendy Babe.

 

The cost for the full 12-week program is $450. 

Payment plan options are available at check out.

All ELITE Members at Aerial Dance receive a $40 savings.

 

Who is this class for?

This class is open to women of any size, shape, or fitness level who are over the age of 18.

If you have ever struggled with your weight, struggled with body appreciation, or wasted valueable head space berating yourself for a food choice then this course is for you!

If you have history of dieting, poor self-image, or struggle with all or nothing mindset then take this course to learn an alternative way of living!

Do I need to be a Member at Aerial Dance to take this course?

No, this course is open to Aerial Dance Members and non-members. Basically, if you’re a woman and want a better relationship with your body, then this course is for you! By signing up for the course, women who are not already Elite Members at Aerial Dance will be given  24 classes to use from our Fitness, Dance, and Flexiblity program during the duration of the course; you can choose to get your movement on with us or not, but you’re already going to be here so maybe stay for a class after attending the course sessionss!

Will I lose weight?

This is not a weight loss course. The goal is create a health relationship with food and your body. You will leave armed with useful knowledge about both and the start of habits that will help you create a thriving health life. Weight loss may happen with your new tools, habits an knowledge, but learning to let go of diet culture will definitely be freeing!

What happens if I can’t make a class?

The in-person sessions on Mondays are going to be excellent and you’ll want to attend as many as you can. But life, it happens! So in addition to the Monday session you will have a binder with materials covered and access to a robust online learning resource. So missing a class isn’t the end of the world, you can still learn the materials.

What if I have a chronic condition or allergies?

The three hands on food days will give you the ability to customize anything you eat so you can choose to avoid anything that doesn’t agree with you!

Will this be virtual?

No. There is not a virtual option at this time. If you miss a week you will be given the content via the online portal in the form of notes and slides but not a recorded video of the session. The organizers feel strongly that combating shame through community is an important part of this jounrey which means attending and connecting.

Terms & Conditions

By registering for a Redefining Nourishment you are purchasing a 12-week course. This is non-transferrable. No sharing, exchanging, or refunds. By registering you are responsible for the full payment regardless of your attendance or participation.

 

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