It’s Gonna be A Perfect Day at the Beach with these 3 Exciting Move, Eat, and Live Wellness Day Activities
ACEF & Surfer Mick present the 1st Annual Hot Sand Volleyball Tournament and Wellness Day at Pere Marquette Beach in Muskegon
Saturday, August 22, 2015
Official Schedule of Events and Program Brochure
1st Annual Hot Sand Volleyball Tournament, Speaker Series & Wellness Day: Purpose
According to the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the Center for Disease Control’s (CDC) State Cancer Profiles, Muskegon County is the only county in Michigan for which incidence rates of all cancers (both sexes, all cancer sites, all ages) increased for the latest available reporting period (2007-2011) [1].
There are many possible explanations for geographic variations in cancer rates including differences in lifestyles, medical care availability and delivery systems, screening practices, reporting practices, and environmental exposures.
We thought we create this event to draw attention to this undesirable, rising trend of cancer incidence in Muskegon County, by showcasing important lifestyle changes for cancer prevention and in survivorship with, fun, educational activities.
Surfer Mick and The Absenger Cancer Education Foundation (ACEF) Want You to Know
Mind-body modalities such as yoga, qigong, thaichiwa, dance & movement can help control weight, build lean muscle, promote strong bone, muscle and joint maintenance, decrease the risk of obesity, and help you manage stress effectively.
Combining healthy eating and physical activity can help prevent a range of chronic diseases, including heart disease, cancer, and stroke, which are the three leading causes of death. Physical activity can also be an essential part of cancer outcomes.
If you have cancer or chronic disease, yoga, qigong, and meditation, among other mind-body medicine modalities, can help you manage symptoms more effectively.
It’s Gonna be A Perfect Day at the Beach!
Please join the speakers, authors, practitioners, movement and local health care experts who have graciously volunteered their time to present and showcase their latest evidence-based mind-body medicine practices and work for 21st-century health care.
Official Schedule of Events and Program Brochure
3 Exciting Move, Eat, and Live Wellness Day Activities
Schedule of Day’s Events
All Speaker Series and Movement Classes are FREE and Open to the Public
Shirley McKeown and Joan Dion with escorts Brian McKeown and Surfer Mick.
6:47 am: Event Kick-Off
FREE 1-Mile Sunrise Beach Walk at Pere Marquette Park
The Muskegon Matriarchs of St. Francis de Sales have both turned 90 years young in 2015, and are the perfect wellness ambassadors to lead the Sunrise Beach Walk at Pere Marquette Park. Shirley McKeown and Joan Dion with escorts Brian McKeown and Surfer Mick.
Movement Classes (Area 1) & Health, Wellness & Integrative Medicine Expo Speaker Series (Area 2)
Karri Absenger, LPN, RYT | ACEF
08:00 am: Gentle Sunrise Yoga
Movement Class: Karri Absenger, LPN, RYT | Absenger Cancer Education Foundation (ACEF)
Karri works for Comfort Keepers, a leading provider of in-home care services, in West Michigan. Karri also served as a yoga teacher and instructor for Certified Nurse Assistant courses (CNA) at Muskegon Community College. She teaches Senior Chair Yoga at Four Points Center for Successful Aging, Gentle yoga at the local YMCA, and Hatha yoga at Lakeshore Yoga Center.
Karri has a passion for sharing her knowledge of living a well-balanced life, shown through her nursing and teaching experience. Her expertise makes her ACEF yoga classes suited for cancer survivors, caregivers, people living and managing chronic disease and people who are just starting out on their journey to better health and wellness.
If you plan on participating in this class, please read the disclaimer at the bottom of this page, bring water for hydration, a towel and/or yoga mat, and a willing attitude. Please wear comfortable clothes.
Werner Absenger, PhD, MSc, Absenger Cancer Education Foundation
08:00 am: Meditation for Relaxation and Stress Reduction
Speaker Series: Werner Absenger, PhD, MSc | Absenger Cancer Education Foundation (ACEF)
Werner is going to speak about meditation, a mind-body medicine practice used throughout history to increase calmness and physical relaxation. It is important to know that mind-body medicine modalities focus on the interaction between your brain, mind, body, and behavior. Thus, meditation can help you manage stress, improve psychological balance, help you cope with illness, and help you enhance your overall health and well-being.
Ed Jackson
4th Dan Shotokan Karate | Yoga | Shiatsu | Aikido
09:00 am: Golden Temple Qi Gong
Movement Class: Ed Jackson, 4th Dan Shotokan Karate, Yoga, Shiatsu, and Aikido
Ancient Temple Style-Qigong comes from Emei Mountain Temple in Western China. The main focus of the practice is to improve heath and longevity.
- Taps unused potential
- Strengthen organs
- Cleanse physical and emotional toxins Increase bone mass
- Integrates mind, body, energy
If you plan on participating in this class, please read the disclaimer at the bottom of this page, bring water for hydration and a willing attitude. Please wear comfortable clothes.
Lisa Ziemelis, MT-BC, NMT
09:00 am: Music Therapy in Cancer Survivorship
Speaker Series: Lisa Ziemelis, MT-BC, NMT | Soundwaves Music Therapy
Lisa joined the team at the Absenger Cancer Education Foundation because of her interest in exploring the effects that music-assisted relaxation has on anxiety levels in cancer survivors. Lisa’s talk will focus on some of the benefits music therapy can offer for cancer survivors.
Marcia-Geissinger
10:15 am: Zumba
Movement Class: Marcia Geissinger
Marcia has been a Group exercise instructor and personal trainer since 2000. She also is certified to teach Mat and Studio Pilates as well as Zumba, Zumba Gold and Aqua Zumba and Tai Chi. She is an enthusiastic individual and a strong motivator. Prior to working in Fitness, Marcia was a public school teacher for 33 years. She enjoys working with people and believes ANYONE can be fit, healthy and improve strength, and stamina. Marcia LOVES to move. Besides teaching classes you can find her biking, hiking, skiing, snow shoeing or walking her dog, Max
Mission Statement: To provide effective quality activity in group fitness classes and personal training tailored to individual needs.
Belief: All participants/clients have great athletic and physical potential. Most people fulfill personal potential with guidance, accountability and motivation.
If you plan on participating in this class, please read the disclaimer at the bottom of this page, bring water for hydration and a willing attitude. Please wear comfortable clothes.
Kathy Blough, Psy.S Author of “The Experience of Being Diagnosed with Cancer.”
10:00 am: The Experience of Being Diagnosed with Cancer
Speaker Series: Author Kathy Blough Psy.S | Sagepoint Institute for Integrative Health | Kathy’s Book
Although thankful she has never been diagnosed with cancer, as a wife, daughter, granddaughter, niece, friend and therapist of those diagnosed, Kathy has come to learn that treatment is far more than what is happening in the body. Kathy believes that successful treatment must encompass the whole person, including the mind and spirit. Kathy is going to elaborate on her research, mini-monograph, and her husband’s cancer diagnosis and approach to care.
Surfer Mick | Holistic Health Chef | Entrepreneur
11:00 am: Thaichiwa Born to Move
Movement Class: Surfer Mick | Holistic Health Chef | Entrepreneur | Surfer Mick’s
Mick Von Doxtater has studied martial arts since the mid-seventies and has taught Thaichiwa Vital Energy work since the late nineties. In Thailand vital energy is called Chee Wa. In other parts of the Asian world it is called, Chi or Qi. In the West it is mostly referred to as Vital Energy or Life Force. Mick is certified to teach these Thai healing postures by Wat Pho in Bangkok, Thailand. Wat Pho is the center of all Thai Healing and Massage. The Kingdom of Thailand has registered these healing postures and they are now part of UNESICO’s – Memory of the World. If you do Thaichiwa movement you become your own moving World Heritage site. Come out and discover how these time-tested, low impact, healing moves can calm your spirit, strengthen your body and boost your mind’s power.
Mick has worked with: Americore-Vista, FEMA, The Red Cross, Salvation Army Disaster Relief, Oxfam, The Royal Thai Government along with many schools, churches and other faith-based NGO’s.
Mick continues to lecture and teach classes and workshops at: Hospitals, Universities, Museum’s, Fortune 500 Companies, Resorts and Casino’s here and abroad.
Mick is an active, Holistic Wellness Consultant and designs personal life force wellness plans for the home and office through the – Gaia House Initiative.
If you plan on participating in this class, please read the disclaimer at the bottom of this page, bring water for hydration and a willing attitude. Please wear comfortable clothes.
11:00 am: Laughter Circle
Speaker Series: Cheryl Schneider, RN-BC, BA, CWC, CLL, AE-C, CDE | Access Health
Cheryl’s presentation introduces participants to the benefits of laughter as an adjunctive approach to working with people throughout the human services spectrum. Once you let go of the resistance and embrace laughing, life becomes more positive creative, and lighter. Laughter is highly beneficial for everyone, irrespective of physical condition or background.
Surfer Mick | Holistic Health Chef | Entrepreneur
12:00 pm: Clean Sky, Clean Water, Clean Food
Speaker Series: Surfer Mick | Holistic Health Chef | Entrepreneur | Surfer Mick’s
Please join holistic health chef Mick Von Doxtater aka Surfer Mick as he talks about his lifelong clean food philosophy and about using the correct foods when beginning a new workout program.
As the owner of a bodybuilding gym in the early 80’s Mick started his culinary journey with a blender and a portable grill. These two simple yet important tools were all that was needed to make protein drinks and grilled chicken breast which were and still are the foundation of a bodybuilder’s diet. Simply put, the main point of this lecture is to remind people that we are all bodybuilders!
The Tao of Prevention – PUSH ON program was created by Mick to give people a tool they could put to work immediately if and when they decided to pursue a new healthy lifestyle and workout routine. PUSH ON is a simple and quick mind map that can keep you on course the rest of your life. Save the date and join the talk. Surfer Mick.
Kelly Klecka Winters | RYT 200 Yoga Alliance
01:00 pm: Restore, Refresh, and Revitalize
Movement Class: Kelly Klecka Winters | RYT 200 Yoga Alliance | Muskegon Yoga Center
Kelly currently teaches at Muskegon Yoga Center. She grew up in North Muskegon and moved to Colorado in 1996. It was there that she discovered the benefits of practicing yoga. Kelly practiced consistently, made the move back to West Michigan and, as her practice deepened, she pursued her certification through Third Coast Yoga Studio in 2010.
Kelly found Muskegon yoga in 2008, and she has been there ever since. Having experienced how yoga transformed her life on and off the mat, Kelly empowers her students to connect with their breath and body to help balance and transformation in their lives.
If you plan on participating in this class, please read the disclaimer at the bottom of this page, bring water for hydration, a towel and/or yoga mat, and a willing attitude. Please wear comfortable clothes.
Dr. Himelhoch. Author Transformational Leadership: and High-Intensity Interval Training
01:00 pm: Transformational Leadership and High-Intensity Interval Training
Speaker Series: Author Dr. Carol Himelhoch, PhD | Siena Heights University | Dr. Carol’s Book
Carol Himelhoch, PhD, (The University of Michigan) is Professor of Management and Organizational Behavior at Siena Heights University in Adrian, Michigan. Her management experience spans Tier 1 automotive manufacturing operations, marketing, advertising, and retail management. Dr. Himelhoch will speak about her research, which according to Miki Carey, owner of Gardens CrossFit, is “A new way to think about fitness, health, and occupation.”
Daniel Morrow
02:00 pm: Basic Chi Lung Style Karate Movement
Movement Class: Daniel Morrow
Daniel Morrow has been a practicing martial artist since 1985. He is a 5th Degree Master in the Chi Lung style under Michael J Cain. Daniel has been a lifelong health and fitness advocate training and teaching martial arts in the Grand Rapids area for over 15 years.
Daniel’s education and professional careers consists of a computer science degree, and a license from the United States Customs and Border Protection Agency as a Licensed Customs Broker.
He owns and is the CEO of Superior International Wholesale Company a wholesale distribution company in Sparta, Michigan.
If you plan on participating in this class, please read the disclaimer at the bottom of this page, bring water for hydration and a willing attitude. Please wear comfortable clothes.
Lorraine J. Pearl-Kraus, PhD, CS, FNP-BC
02:00 pm: Optimizing Wellness in Cancer Survivorship
Speaker Series: Lorraine J. Pearl-Kraus, PhD, CS, FNP-BC Network Program Director, Betty Bloomer Ford Cancer Rehabilitation Program, Mary Free Bed Rehabilitation Hospital
Dr. Pearl-Kraus is going to give a brief overview of Mary Free Bed’s brand new facility in Grand Rapids, as well as, the Yoga, Food & Friends study now underway.
Dr. Pearl-Kraus joined Mary Free Bed in 2012 as Coordinator of the Betty Bloomer Ford Cancer Rehabilitation Program. A board-certified Family Nurse Practitioner, she has more than 30 years of advanced-nursing-practice clinical experience in the areas of oncology clinical research trials, neurosurgery/ trauma and primary care. Dr. Pearl-Kraus also has taught graduate-level clinical and research courses for more than 20 years.
Laura Armenta
03:00 pm: Wellness Dance Workshop and Interactive Contemporary Dance Performance
Movement Class: Laura Armenta | Laura Armenta Dance Company
Live Drumming will go with this unique movement workshop. Discover intension and emotion through guided movement improvisation.
Laura Armenta, dancer, choreographer, yogini and entrepreneur has 30 years of professional experience. A movement expert with great expertise on holistic disciplines and various forms of dance.
On the realm of holistic lifestyle and fitness, Laura worked with Amway Corporation in Grand Rapids for 11 years, as an instructor, personal trainer, and wellness consultant.
She also shared her expertise with other local companies like Steelcase Corporation, the DHS Kent County Human Services Complex and more. Laura Armenta has lectured, taught and presented at Hope College, Grand Valley State University, Davenport University, and Grand Rapids Community College.
Additionally, Laura’s programs: Playful Yoga and Diversity Through Dance, have conducted hundreds of school assemblies in West Michigan, exposing vivacious youth, to the Art of Dance and the Discipline of Yoga.
If you plan on participating in this class, please read the disclaimer at the bottom of this page, bring water for hydration and a willing attitude. Please wear comfortable clothes.
Wendy Borden. Executive Director, The Revive and Thrive Project
03:00 pm: Nutritional Support for Cancer Care & Beyond
Speaker Series: Wendy Borden, MSc, MSc | The Revive and Thrive Project
Wendy will be speaking about the important role of nutrition both during and after cancer treatment. Selecting healthy foods will supply the body with the nutrients to nourish, repair and heal the body along with reducing the risk of a reoccurrence.
Wendy is the Executive Director of the Revive & Thrive Project in Grand Rapids, a nonprofit that provides cancer patients with nourishing meals during the healing and recovery process. The meals are prepared by teens who engage in culinary and gardening opportunities.
Official Schedule of Events and Program Brochure
1st Annual Hot Sand Beach Volleyball Tournament
Volleyball Tournament Format:
- Men’s Doubles
- Women’s Doubles
- Adult Co-Ed
- Girls’ Doubles 14/16/18’s
Volleyball Registration
08:00 am at Pere Marquette Park
Entry Fees for Beach Volleyball Tournament
- Youth: $20.00
- Adults: $25.00
Tournament Director
Peter van der Oord (231) 282-1062
Prizes and Giveaways
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Reference:
[1]: Source: National Program of Cancer Registries Cancer Surveillance System (NPCR-CSS) January 2014 data submission. State rates include rates from metropolitan areas funded by SEER.
Disclaimer:
With my participation in any of the 1st Annual Hot Sand Volleyball Tournament and Wellness Day events, I hereby agree to indemnify and hold harmless The Absenger Cancer Education Foundation (ACEF) and Surfer Mick’s and their officers, directors, employees, agents, and volunteers, from and against any and all liability, claims, demands, causes of action, expenses (including attorney fees), and loss or damages in any way relating to the 1st Annual Hot Sand Volleyball Tournament and Wellness Day taking place on August 22, 2015, regardless of whether any such injury to or death of persons or damages or destruction of property is due or claimed due to any negligence or fault of the aforementioned parties. I hereby consent to the use of any photographs or videos taken by The Absenger Cancer Education Foundation (ACEF) and Surfer Mick’s and other sponsors on the day of the events in its promotional or fundraising materials, or for use on their websites. *The Absenger Cancer Education Foundation (ACEF) and Surfer Mick’s do not furnish accident/illness medical insurance. All medical and any other related bills due to injury or sickness while participating in this program will be the responsibility of the participant. I certify that I am in good health. My participation in events signifies that I have read and agree to all the conditions set herein.
