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The Bakken Center’s new Nourishment in Every Season workshop provides skills, strategies, and inspiration to prepare delicious, healthy food.

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The University of Minnesota Earl E. Bakken Center for Spirituality & Healing's Integrative Health and Wellbeing Research Program is a multidisciplinary team of scientists, clinicians (think chiropractors, physical therapists, advanced practice nurses), and mindfulness experts with expertise in complementary and integrative pain care.

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Community feedback is at the heart of a project to improve pain management care to underserved groups.

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The Bakken Center’s yoga focus area originally grew out of a combined endeavor with academic courses that are now part of the Center’s Tibetan Healing Initiative (THI). As the course offerings in both areas expanded, they each split into unique focus areas with separate content offerings and experiences.

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Integrating wellbeing into diversity and inclusion efforts to create a healthier, happier, and more resilient workplace 

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It’s estimated that one in four people will develop cancer at some point in their life, and with that cancer diagnosis comes a lot of uncertainty.

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Ranging in ages from 22 to 67, the new cohort of future health coaches includes a decorated military veteran, an experienced nurse, and a marketing pro – all of whom were drawn to the program by a desire to help others define and lead a healthier life.

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There are many things in life we don’t notice or fully appreciate simply because we are too close to view them within a greater context of space and time.

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Reflections on 30 REALLY GOOD Years