WHAT: Ladera Inglewood Boomer Health & Wellness Festival
WHEN: Saturday, May 19, 2012, 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
WHERE: Yvonne B. Burke Senior Community Center, 4750 W. 62nd Street, Los Angeles, CA 90056
WHY: Bringing east and west medical practices and practitioners to inform the community regarding their health needs.
COST: Free! Free massages, free giveaways!
More details on panels and speakers TBA! Please note we are encouraging all Boomer attendees to walk/carpool to the Boomer Festival. The group/organization/church with the most attendees that walk to the Festival will have an opportunity to win special prizes, including tickets for the Venice Art Walk on Sunday, May 20!! Pets are not allowed on the Boomer Festival premises. Thank you!!
Festival Description:
The Ladera Inglewood Boomer Health & Wellness Festival is at 4750 W. 62nd Street, LA 90056. This family friendly festival will reflect the active lifestyle of today's baby boomer generation (and beyond) and their concerns for a sustainable, healthy, sexy... and FUN lifestyle! Come and get inspired to "Keep It Movin'! Free massages and giveaways! Good Food vendors, Music and Dance! FitKids Zone!
Health screenings, and health workshops that highlight the coming together of Western & Eastern medicine for our health & vitality. Workshop topics to be covered include stress management; Prevention and wholistic management of such illness as heart disease, stroke, diabetes, arthritis, depression, pms, headaches, alzheimer's, lupus, and obesity; healthy caregiving and elder care including fall prevention; and the healing power of art, creativity, laughter and Boomer Romance!
Activities will include healthy cooking and raw/live food demos and samples; yoga, tai chi and meditation, aromatherpy and massage therapy; Tree planting, urban gardening and composting workshop & green thumb gardening tips; and harvesting, preserving and canning your garden harvest, all by some of LA's top food chiefs, yoga teachers, gardeners and arborists.
Exercises for boomers and their families will be demonstrated by one of L.A. leading fitness guru ... Mr. Jessie L. Drummer. Jessie promotes "Keep It Moving" by drinking lots of his designed "Fresh & SEXXA H2O.
There will be Dance demos from bellydance, to ballroom to linedance, stepping, to salsa to Zumba! Panel discussion with Vann Duke of SecondHalf Fitness, Named "Top Fitness Trainer" by the San Francisco Chronicle! End of the day dance tribute to Don Cornelius/Soul Train Finale!
Ladera Inglewood Boomer Festival will celebrate the Tuskgee Airmen by screening the film "Double Victory", with the LA Tuskegee Airmen Chapter in attendance.
Boomer Marketplace Vendors will share the latest in consumer resources, innovative products and information from experts in the areas of finance, legal, transportation, care-giving, health care, housing, real estate, positive aging, business and other special services.
Hosts include Youth Greening & Los Angeles County of Parks & Recreation and Top Ladies of Distinction Ladera Heights Chapter.
Health screenings, and health workshops that highlight the coming together of Western & Eastern medicine for our health & vitality. Workshop topics to be covered include stress management; Prevention and wholistic management of such illness as heart disease, stroke, diabetes, arthritis, depression, pms, headaches, alzheimer's, lupus, and obesity; healthy caregiving and elder care including fall prevention; and the healing power of art, creativity, laughter and Boomer Romance!
Activities will include healthy cooking and raw/live food demos and samples; yoga, tai chi and meditation, aromatherpy and massage therapy; Tree planting, urban gardening and composting workshop & green thumb gardening tips; and harvesting, preserving and canning your garden harvest, all by some of LA's top food chiefs, yoga teachers, gardeners and arborists.
Exercises for boomers and their families will be demonstrated by one of L.A. leading fitness guru ... Mr. Jessie L. Drummer. Jessie promotes "Keep It Moving" by drinking lots of his designed "Fresh & SEXXA H2O.
There will be Dance demos from bellydance, to ballroom to linedance, stepping, to salsa to Zumba! Panel discussion with Vann Duke of SecondHalf Fitness, Named "Top Fitness Trainer" by the San Francisco Chronicle! End of the day dance tribute to Don Cornelius/Soul Train Finale!
Ladera Inglewood Boomer Festival will celebrate the Tuskgee Airmen by screening the film "Double Victory", with the LA Tuskegee Airmen Chapter in attendance.
Boomer Marketplace Vendors will share the latest in consumer resources, innovative products and information from experts in the areas of finance, legal, transportation, care-giving, health care, housing, real estate, positive aging, business and other special services.
Hosts include Youth Greening & Los Angeles County of Parks & Recreation and Top Ladies of Distinction Ladera Heights Chapter.
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