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City Sports to Open in Wellesley


 City Sports today announced that its newest retail location is scheduled to open the last week of September at 475 Washington Street in Wellesley, Mass. which is set to be one of the Boston-based brand’s most innovative and tailored consumer shopping experiences to date.

City Sports plans to celebrate the official Wellesley store launch with a free consumer event, which will include music, refreshments and over $1,000 in prizes for party participants.

“At City Sports, we pride ourselves on giving our customers a uniquely unmatched shopping experience, and each new store opening is a chance to up the ante in that arena,” said City Sports President and CEO Jeff Connor. “Being a Boston-born company, we are especially excited that this new space will be showcased right in our own backyard in Wellesley.”
At over 10,000 square feet, City Sports’ Wellesley hub is set to provide the ultimate shopping experience for the brand’s athletic clientele.  The store is located on Washington Avenue on the site of the former St. Moritz location.  ”The space is iconic in Wellesley, and we are excited to transform it into an exciting new experience for the community,” Connor said.  ”We have once again engaged our architecture and design partners at Gensler to take it to the next level.”

City Sports and Gensler have previously collaborated on the retailer’s dramatic Georgetown store in Washington, DC and, most recently, on the redesign of City Sport’s downtown Philadelphia location.  ”We took the opportunity to bring the City Sports urban aesthetic to the outside of the store with a combination of wood, metal and transparency,” said Julie Reker, associate at Gensler, of the Wellesley space.

The Wellesley store design features a dramatic facade with a wraparound steel awning and tall windows that showcase the interior design and product assortment.  Inside, the space will house a freestanding footwear wall and an interactive electronics room that offers shoppers the use of in-store iPads to access information about products on the company’s website as well as the ability to wear-test headphones.  Other store features include an “energy station” with sports drinks and snacks, and lockers for participants in City Sports’ group activities, including its popular weekly Run Club and Boot Camp series which will be launching in October.

Aptly situated on the Boston Marathon route, the Wellesley store will house a haven for runners and other sport-specific enthusiasts as it displays a multi-boutique feel in the form of designated shopping areas separated by activity and gender. One area will include a specially curated woman’s section, which will offer private fitting rooms and a communal table, featuring an iMac, that will allow for female customers to reference City Sports’ online Bra Finder which is set to launch on the brand’s website when the Wellesley store opens.

City Sports’ Wellesley opening event will take place on Saturday, October 1 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and is open to all patrons. A festive and family-friendly atmosphere is planned with a DJ, treats from PinkBerry and raffles worth over $1,000 of in-store merchandise, including a BOB™ stroller and a GoPro™ digital camera. The first 100 customers to enter the store at the start of the event will also receive a free City Sports gift bag and have the chance to win the brand’s signature grand prize: one free pair of shoes a month for an entire year.

For more information and updates on the Wellesley store opening, please visit the official City Sports website at citysports.com.


 

Inaugural Race Wellesley First 5k/10k

On Saturday, September 10, the Wellesley Chamber of Commerce held its inaugural Race Wellesley First 5k/10k Challenge at the Boston Sports Club with the help of lead sponsor First Commons Bank. The day included both a 5k and a 10k, along with a youth fun run/walk, a carnival, an award ceremony and raffle drawing, and an outdoor pool party.

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The National Institute of Whole Health to Host International Speaker and Author Dr. Eva Selhub

Acclaimed author to teach ”Techniques to Regain Your Sanity and Reclaim Your Health” at workshop series starting on March 19, 2011 at Newton-Wellesley Hospital.


  The National Institute of Whole Health (http://www.niwh.org), the pioneer of Whole Health Education ® and Whole Person Care™, today announced they will be hosting a workshop series conducted by Eva Selhub, MD, the NIWH newest faculty presenter and author of The Love Response: Strengthen Your Natural Ability to Heal (Ballantine Books, 2009). Starting on March 19, 2011 at Newton-Wellesley Hospital, Selhub will be conducting a public workshop series, Techniques to Regain Your Sanity & Reclaim Your Health. 

For health and medical professionals, as well as consumers, Techniques to Regain Your Sanity & Reclaim Your Health will instruct individuals in how to address and treat stress, stress physiology and the related physical, mental and emotional problems that people and patients experience daily. The workshop series provides a practical program that provides a framework, tools and techniques to rid the body of the ravaging effects of life’s everyday stressors, overcome hurtful past events and shape an empowered personal future. 

Techniques to Regain Your Sanity & Reclaim Your Health will address how to change one’s physiology quickly and lastingly through the deliberate evocation of a series of biochemical reactions in the body that lower blood pressure, pulse, respiration, and adrenaline levels; counteract the unhealthy effects of fear and stress; and allow us to experience the myriad health benefits of nature’s own antidote–love and affection. Participants will also learn how to become aware of thoughts, physical and emotional attitudes, actions and behaviors without judgment, in order to move beyond conditioned responses to find calm and peace.

 A mixture of lecture and experiential exercises will enrich the learning, and practitioners will be able to use these techniques with their patients immediately in their practice. Continuing education contact hours are available for nurses and allied health professionals. 

A staff member of Harvard Medical School, Selhub served from 1999 until the end of 2007 as Medical Director of Mind/Body Medical Institute founded by the pioneer of mind/body research, Herbert Benson, MD, now part of the world-renowned Massachusetts General Hospital. Newly named The Benson-Henry Institute for Mind/Body Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital (BHI), Dr. Selhub now serves as a Clinical Associate for BHI/MGH. She has lectured throughout the United States and in Europe and trained healthcare professionals from all over the world. As an expert in the stress physiology and the mind/body approach to patient care, she has been involved in the training of healthcare professionals from all over the world. Dr. Selhub’s lectures are based on the mind/body connection, the physiology of stress and coping, their relationship to illness and on enhancing the love that heals. 

The workshops will be conducted on March 19, 2011, April 2, 2011 and April 23, 2011 from 9 am – noon at Newton-Wellesley Hospital in Newton, MA, located at 2014 Washington Street. With the exception of the lecture on April 2, all will take place on the 2nd floor of the Shipley Auditorium. The April 2 event will be held in the Allen Riddle room, which is located off the Hospital’s parking garage.

 Admission is $29 per person per workshop and reservations are required. For more information, visit www.niwh.org or to register call 888-354-HEAL (4325).


About the National Institute of Whole Health

Founded in 1977 and headquartered in Wellesley, MA, the National Institute of Whole Health (NIWH) offers the most respected and credentialed integrative whole health certification programs in the US. NIWH’s offerings include the Norman Cousins Award nominated Best Practice Whole Health Education certification program. The Whole Health Educator program for Nurses, endorsed by the American Holistic Nurses Association along with the Whole Health Nutrition Educator certification program and Whole Health Coaching certification program, can be completed via on-line distance learning. Recognized nationally as the pioneers of Whole Health Education®, the school has instructed thousands of students from varying health occupations from all over the U.S., and now offers on-line distance learning with students located on five continents. For more information, visit www.niwh.org  or call (888) 354-HEAL (4325).