We have programs to meet the differing needs of faculty, staff, students, alumni, and patients and their families. The list of programs below will tell you when and where to find them, and includes contact information to learn more.

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Arthur Ashe Student Health & Wellness Center

Here you can find expert instruction in: life skills courses, massage, yoga, tai chi, gi gong, acupuncture and many other areas. Only current registered students are eligible. Please visit their website for more information. Location: 221 Westwood Plaza. Contact: www.studenthealth.ucla.edu

Ballroom Dance Classes

Ballroom dancing is a team sport and an excellent form of cardiovascular exercise. This class will emphasize leader/follower technique, graceful movement to music, and ballroom safety. Foundations of ballroom such as fox trot, swing, and waltz will be taught to illustrate principles of good ballroom dancing. We currently offer 60-minute classes on Mondays from 5:00 - 6:00 p.m. taught by Shearon Bogdanovic. Classes are FREE and open to staff, faculty and students. Location: UCLA Medical Center, Dr's Dining Room 16-111 CHS.
*If you are taking the class for the first time please click here, print included waiver form and bring it with you to the class.
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Bio-Feedback Sessions at the UCLA Staff & Faculty Counseling Center's Work-Life Program

Bio-feedback is a treatment technique in which people are trained to improve their health by using signals from their own bodies. A session lasts 60 minutes, and you can receive up to six sessions. Bio-feedback is available to staff and faculty and there are no fees. Location: UCLA Wilshire Center, 10920 Wilshire Blvd. #380, Los Angeles 90024. Contact: (310) 794 0245

Chair Massage (Rehabilitation Services)

Location: UCLA Medical Center; Room 87-250. For an appointment, call (310) 206 3055.

Circle of Caring. A Renewal Program for Healthcare

This program was engages healthcare professionals in the ethical practice of creating a sustainable lifestyle, providing an opportunity to learn skills in renewal, stress managemen and burnout prevention.  Experiential learning and the creation of new patterns, generate an energizing and transformational weekend that reconnects one to the powerful meaning of one's work.  A three-day weekend seminar, held at Lake Arrowhead, is offered in the fall and spring to staff and faculty and follow up day retreats are available in Malibu twice a year. Please refer to the program brochure for further information. Please contact UCLA Healthcare Ethics Center. Contact: (310) 794 0185; or visit www.healthcare.ucla.edu/ethics/circle-of-caring

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Hoop Dance Classes

Hoop dance is a great exercise modality that is fun and a great low-impact cardiovascular workout. In order to Hoop dance all you need is an adult-sized hula hoop and music (both provided for class participants) and you will learn how to maneuver it stylistically around the body! There are many benefits of Hoop dancing: It builds core strength, tones your entire body, provides an intense cardiovascular workout, develops balance and coordination, increases flexibility, and decreases stress. Mostly, you will have lots of fun and lots of laughter! Please join us every Tuesday evening from 5:00 - 6:00 p.m. and Thursday evening from 5:00 - 6:00 p.m. or 8:00 - 9:00 p.m. at UCLA Medical Center, Cafeteria Vending Area with Clarice Marsh. Classes are FREE and open to staff, faculty and students.
*If you are taking the class for the first time please click here, print included waiver form and bring it with you to the class.
  Print a flyer for this class.

Jazz Dance Classes

Are you looking for an easy way to shed some pounds? Want to increase your coordination? Or do you just want to have some fun with good music and friendly faces? Then join us on Tuesday evenings from 5:00 - 6:00p.m. at UCLA Medical Center, Dr's Dining Room 16-111 CHS with Laura W. Sheehan! This class concentrates on basic jazz dance movement/technique, with the goal of increasing your flexibility, building confidence, and experiencing the joy of movement. Classes will start with a quick warm-up, followed by across-the-floor work to improve technique, and end with a short dance combination (usually a new one each week). Styles will vary from week to week, from funky disco to balletic lyrical to jazzy swing to rock & roll. Beginners welcome! Wear loose, comfortable clothing and shoes that don't have heels or sticky tread. Classes are FREE and open to staff, faculty and students.
*If you are taking the class for the first time please click here, print included waiver form and bring it with you to the class.
  Print a flyer for this class.

Mindful AwarenessPractices (MAPs) for Well-being Program

Have you ever wanted to learn mindfulness meditation?  
UCLA’s Semel Institute for Neuroscience & Human Behavior
Presents
The Mindful Awareness Practices (MAPs) for Well-being Program
Sponsored by the Mindful Awareness Research Center (MARC) and the Cousins Center for Psychoneuroimmunology (PNI).
For more information and to register for classes please go to the MARC website at www.marc.ucla.edu or call 310-206-7503.

"Music for the Seasons" presented quarterly at the Semel Institute

Every season is the season for music. Enjoy these carefully chosen selections at noon-time piano concerts presented quarterly. Music for the Seasons is free for students, faculty and staff. Location: Lois Joylon West Auditorium, 720 Westwood Blvd., Level C , (Room C8-183). E-mail announcements are sent to those with a mednet address.

Spiritual Care Department Services

Stress Assessments and Counseling at the UCLA Staff & Faculty Counseling Center's Work-Life Program

A stress assessment will help you discover just how much stress you are under each day; counseling can teach you to manage it. Please call the number below to arrange an appointment. This is open to staff and faculty at no charge. Location: UCLA Wilshire Center, 10920 Wilshire Blvd. #380, Los Angeles 90024. Contact: (310) 794 0245

UCLA Creative Arts & Healing Program

Founded by the UCLA Pediatric Pain Program, these workshops explore "Healing and Transformation through Art." Past workshops have discussed music, poetry and writing. Staff, faculty and students are eligible; the cost of each workshop is $40. Location: 22-464 MDCC, 10322 Le Conte Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90095. Contact: (310) 823 0731; www.mattel.ucla.edu/pedspain/home.php

UCLA Healthcare

Each quarter a varied range of health enrichment programs are offered by a number of departments within the UCLA Healthcare system. These are comprised mostly of lectures on various mental and physical disorders. This is open to staff and faculty at no charge. Contact: healthcare.ucla.edu/shared/community-events

UCLA Recreation Center

"Get your workout in where you work.  UCLA Recreation offers gym memberships that include state of the art cardio and strength machines, basketball, racquetball, tennis courts, pools, rock wall and access to an array of wellness programming including yoga, pilates, dance, and the arts.  See http://www.recreation.ucla.edu and select Memberships for more information.

Weight Watchers’ Corporate Solutions “At Work” Program

The “At Work” program is tailored to the needs of working people. A specially trained Weight Watchers’ group leader deals with topics like:

-    Coping with coffee breaks and candy machines
-    Brown-bagging with Panache
-    Beating the 5 o’clock syndrome
-    Fitting exercise into a busy schedule
-    Maintaining motivation
-    Effects of time pressure and stress on eating habits

Weight Watchers ”At Work” is an on-going lunchtime program held once a week at noon. It is a pre-paid program based on a fee of $11.95 per week. For more information please contact Brenda Boulton at Weight Watchers (310) 202-1504.
Boultonb@weight-watchers.com

Wellness Plan Trainings

Open to both Campus and Healthcare side employees -- These classes provide an opportunity for the plan to present information about the plan’s services, as well as to answer questions from employees. Plan representatives provide an overview of the plan and more detailed information about Wellness programs offered by the plan (emphasis on Wellness). The plans may provide a Wellness speaker, as well as provide health screening to members who attend the trainings (varies by presentation). Plan members are provided the opportunity to learn how these programs can help them to make health care decisions that are right for themselves, balance work and family, overcome emotional and financial burdens, and improve their health and quality of life. These trainings are offered once a year and are broken into four sessions, one session for each plan.

For more information about Health Plan Trainings refer to your Training and development catalog. Registration for these trainings is also available online through the SkillNet Online Enrollment System.

Yoga Classes

People have enjoyed the physical, psychological and spiritual benefits of yoga for some 4,000 years. We currently offer 60-minute classes on Wednesdays and Fridays, from noon to 1:00 p.m. Classes are open to staff, faculty and students, and each class is $8, paid monthly. Payment may be made at the class location: UCLA Medical Center; Room A2- 236A. Space is limited! To register, contact Evie Kumpart: (310) 825-1045, or evie@mednet.ucla.edu. Additional yoga classes will be added soon …. Look for notices!
*If you are taking the class for the first time please click here, print included waiver form and bring it with you to the class.
  Print a flyer for this class.

Yoga Works Studio - Westwood

Yoga Works gives our corporate clients a free week of yoga + 20% off of the first package purchased.  UCLA employees are eligible for discounted corporate rates at any Yoga Works locations through a corporate subsidized yoga program.  Individual packages will all begin on the first of the month and come in increments of 1 month, 6 months or 1 year (cost decreases based on length of package).

1-month unlimited – Yoga Works studios- $95.00
6-month unlimited – Yoga Works studios - $570.00
One year unlimited – Yoga Works studios - $1140.00

Single classes at Yoga Works are $18/class.  Regular rate is $ 125.00/month.  Contact:  Radhika Battan to enroll at (310)234-2700 or e-mail at radhika@yogaworks.com