Montana University System Wellness-Lifestyle Education

• Ask an Expert

Do you have questions about diet or exercise? Ask an Expert!

Ask an Expert is a program that provides one-on-one confidential consultation with a Registered Dietitian and/or an Exercise Specialist.

This program is delivered by phone and e-mail.

Registered Dietitian: Marya Bruning, RD

Exercise Specialist: Heidi Kaminski, MS

Click here for the Ask an Expert Program Overview and Guide:

Program Overview & Guide

Click here for the enrollment documents:

Program Application (complete online)

Program Application (Print hardcopy)
Application Instructions

Questions? Contact Lisa at 243-2025 (Missoula) or 1-866-644-2025 (toll free) or by e-mail (Lisa.Hofman@umontana.edu).

Personalized diet or fitness program detail

Cost: Free to you (one program/year/expert)

How: Fill out program application and return

What: Experts provide up to three phone consultations and design a personalized diet or fitness program for you.

• DesktopSpa™

Are you looking for a way to integrate healthy practices into your daily life to reduce stress and increase your effectiveness, energy, and performance? Then DesktopSpa is the right program for you! Imagine audio and video wellness exercises using yoga, relaxation, tai chi, ergonomics and many other highly effective techniques delivered directly to your work or home computer! DesktopSpa can be programmed to deliver these unique, brief and highly effective exercises at regular intervals to keep you energized and healthy throughout your day.

DesktopSpa is offered as a Wellness benefit to MUS Insurance plan members only, and is password protected. Please contact your campus Wellness office to retrieve your password and begin your "mini-treatments."

Link here >>> Enter DesktopSpa

• Healthy Thinking Program

New Healthy Thinking Sessions to be announced. Check back for details. Click here to view a Powerpoint presentation of the 2008 Healthy Thinking Pilot Program
>Healthy Thinking Pilot Program

• Telephonic Classes

Make Peace with Food

Make Peace with Food is a class based on the top selling book by Evelyn Tribole, M.S., R.D., called Intuitive Eating: A revolutionary program that works.

•Free yourself from chronic dieting forever! •Cope with emotions without using food! •Shift your focus from weight to health!

When: Once a week for 4 weeks beginning Wednesday Feb 4th!
Class Times: you have 2 options. noon-1pm or 6:30-7:30pm.

Where: Telephone conference call (toll free phone call from your home or office phone).

Cost: $15 (includes the book and handouts)

Register: Download Registration Form for preferred class time- to be announced

and submit to:

MUS Wellness
225 Romney Gym
Bozeman, MT 59717

• Online Class

Small Steps to Health and Wealth

Many Montana families are financially stressed because of the downturn in the economy. MUS Wellness and MSU Extension are teaming up to help families cope (and improve their health at the same time)!

Small Steps to Health and Wealth™ (SSHW) is an exciting two-session program that can help you find financial solutions in these tight economic times plus the added benefit of learning creative ideas to improve your health! SSHW will be offered to MUS employees on November 6th and 13th during the noon hour.The sessions will be taught via the internet (instructions will be provided on how to download free online program). Presenters Marsha Goetting, MSU Extension Family Economics Specialist, and Lynn Paul, MSU Extension Food and Nutrition Specialist, will show you how to use the same strategies to change both your health and financial situation. You’ll quickly realize how much your health and personal finances are connected. Every participant will set goals in health and/or wealth and take action by identifying small, doable steps for achieving personal goals.

You must register for the program by March 28th, 2009 so you can be sent the workbook that is used during the session. Thanks to financial support from MUS Wellness and MSU Extension, the cost is only $5 for each participant, reduced from $25. A past participant said, “I’ve lost 15 pounds since the SSHW class and have automated savings for the first time since I’ve been married.” You can view more success stories at: www.montana.edu/sshw/successstories.html

When: to be announced

Where: Online class via the internet (click here for instructions on how to download free online program >instructions )

Cost:

Registration Deadline:

How to Register: print application and submit

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