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Thanks for Attending Wellness Day 2024!
Wellness Day is an annual event that aims to encourage students, staff, and faculty down the path to a healthier lifestyle and to provide a means of awareness to the services that are available to assist them in their day-to-day lives. SFU’s Vancouver campus was thrilled to host this year’s event on March 13, 2024.
The focus of the event was on featuring local vendors and SFU departments who provide products and services that can positively influence the health and well-being of the SFU community. SFU departments like Athletics & Recreation, Organizational Health, the Multifaith Centre, and the Simon Fraser Student Society (SFSS) were onsite to help inform our community about the many resources and services available at SFU. Pacific Blue Cross and local gyms, Feel Good Fitness and Kalev Fitness Solution, provided valuable health and wellness info. Feel Good Fitness even brought a rowing machine that students, staff, and faculty could use to test their endurance!
In addition to all of the helpful resources and information, attendees were treated to a delicious variety of food and drink samples from some amazing local businesses. Some of the tasty treats on offer were healthy and decadent nut butters from Loki’s Foods; hydrating and delicious Hydralyte drinks; crunchy and satisfying lentil-based Chipls from Prairie Goodness; and refreshing and good-for-your-gut probiotic drinks from Kindred Cultures—just to name a few!
We always aim to include a fun, creative, and stress-reducing activity at Wellness Day, and this year we featured a candle painting station. Attendees were welcomed to sit and paint at their leisure, and then take home their beautifully decorated candle. A few of our favourites were decorated with flowers, cats, cherries, and ice cream cones.
SFU Spirit Day also took place at this year’s Wellness Day event. The goal of Spirit Day is to celebrate school spirit and show our love and pride for SFU by rocking our best SFU swag or red clothing. Members of the SFU Cheerleading team were onsite to run fun games and activities in the Spirit Day Lounge, and hand out heart-shaped cookies.
Thank you so much to everyone who attended this year’s Wellness Day event, and a special thank you to all of the amazing vendors who participated! Keep an eye out for the various Wellness programming options that run throughout the year at SFU’s Vancouver campus and for details on the next Wellness Day event.