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  Spotlight: Stephanie Meyers, MS, RDN

  25 Apr, 2022
  Description: As a child growing up in North Dakota where her family owned a farm, Dana-Farber nutrition manager Stephanie Meyers MS, RDN, grew accustomed to her grandmother cooking everything from scratch.
  
  
  “She would send me to the garden with a laundry basket and tell me what to pick,” says Meyers. “Being so up close and personal with food—how wonderful and nourishing it could be—imprinted on me deeply.”
  
  Despite her background, Meyers thought that she might get into journalism in college. “I now think that’s hysterical,” she says. “That would never be a good fit for me.”
  
  “My advisor asked me, ‘What do you like to read about?’” she recounts. “I told her nutrition and food and she recommended I take a class. Things immediately clicked.” Meyers immediately changed her academic track to include nutrition.
  
  After her undergraduate studies, Meyers took on a year-long internship at Brigham and Women’s Hospital where she worked with oncology patients for the fir...
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  Spotlight: Ramel Rones, Tai Chi Master and Mind/Body Instructor

  29 Mar, 2022
  Description: Veteran Tai Chi and Qigong Instructor Provides Complementary Care at Zakim Center
  Qigong, meditation, and Tai Chi instructor Ramel Rones’ main goal for his courses at the Leonard P. Zakim Center for Integrative Therapies and Healthy Living is to empower patients and their families. “Through Qigong, I give patients the tools to deal with their symptoms,” he says.
  
  He has been teaching these practices at Dana-Farber for almost two decades, offering courses to patients, their families, and staff. “My patient students range from just diagnosed to those in treatment, and to, finally, survivors. They can all benefit at every stage of the cancer journey.”
  
  Rones says that Qigong, Tai Chi, and meditation may help manage treatment symptoms like frozen shoulders, chronic pain, joint pain, lower back pain, migraines and osteoporosis.
  
  “When I started, this was all called alternative care, but that has changed to integrative, which I think is more suitab...
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  New Virtual Drop-In Classes on the Class Schedule!

  1 Mar, 2022
  Description: Check the Class Schedule tab for full class descriptions and access!
  Beginners Aerobics/Cardio Workout, with Juliana Berfield, PhD, E-RYT 500, CPT
  
  Every Thursday from 12 - 12:30 p.m., starting March 3rd 
  
  This 30-minute aerobic cardio workout class will help get your heart rate up and pumping in a fun way! Aerobic cardio exercise promotes cardiovascular endurance and helps improve cognitive skills, posture, balance, overall mental health and mood. Suited for beginner to intermediate levels with modifications available. 
  
  This class will be held webinar-style, meaning that fellow participants and instructor do not have the ability to see you. The instructor can see your name and anything you type in the chat, but no one else. This program may be recorded.
  
  Dance & Movement, with Anna Krotinger, MBE
  
  Every Monday from 2 -3:00 p.m., starting March 7th
  
  This class aims to create a community around dance ...
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  ANNOUNCEMENT: Limited Live Yoga Schedule

  7 Jan, 2022
  Description: During the months of January and February, Juliana will be offering live yoga classes (Yoga Flow, Chair Yoga Flow, and Chair Stretch & Strength) on Wednesdays only. Her Tuesday and Thursday classes have been cancelled due to a temporary change in schedule. We apologize for any inconvenience, but encourage you to browse the Digital Library to take our previously recorded yoga classes whenever you'd like!
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  Meditation With Live Music Now Webinar-Style!

  5 Nov, 2021
  Description: Meditation with Live Music classes will continue being offered three times a week, however, the format of the class will revert back to webinar-style. This means that only the instructor's screen will be visible on the screen. The instructor and fellow participants will not be able to view one another on the screen. You can continue to use the Chat feature to communicate with the class.
  
  Please contact us with any questions!
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  13 Weeks to Wellness Starts Week of 9/20!

  2 Aug, 2021
  Description: The Zakim Center for Integrative Therapies and Healthy Living is currently enrolling participants for 13 Weeks to Wellness ─ an online nutrition program. This course is designed to help you rekindle healthy habits in challenging times. Each supportive small group meets one hour per week and gives you the tools and guidance needed to establish new routines that meet your health and wellbeing goals.
  
  Stephanie Meyers, MS, RDN, Nutrition Coordinator in the Zakim Center will guide you to implement a behavior-based Mediterranean approach to eating. This is not a diet, but a lifestyle intervention program facilitating shifts in both food habits and mindset as they relate to behavior change. Each week you’ll receive practical nutrition suggestions, new recipes and asynchronous links to enhance learning. The curriculum emphasizes your personalized learning and goal setting week-to-week.
  
  In addition to creating flexible and sustainable nutrition plans we’ll discuss how...