A Typical Day at Green Mountain

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Throughout your stay at Green Mountain at Fox Run, you will be guided through our core program components in the areas of nutrition basics, mindful eating, emotional eating, intrinsic exercise, stress management, and body positivity.

A typical day at Green Mountain offers a healthy balance of classes, and experiences to support your health, mind, body, emotions and spirit. The day, while full, offers you time to practice the skills you’re learning and choice to meet your individual needs.

From the beginning of your stay, we help you focus on what will make your lifestyle changes meaningful and sustainable.

At Green Mountain, you are welcomed into your day with our early morning movement class:

7:00 AM

Step into your day with a whole body movement experience integrating cardio, strength flexibility, and mindful self connection….all without any equipment! Morning movement classes may include:

  • Tai Chi
  • Mindful Morning Movement

8:00 AM Breakfast

Following simple guidelines, you will quickly learn to select a balanced nutritional meal, selecting from delicious choices ranging from freshly baked muffins, fresh fruit, nut butters and eggs.

9:00 AM

Enjoy fun and educational workshop/lecture classes in the areas of Intrinsic Exercise or Nutrition Basics.  Reconnect to the joy of movement, create your own fitness plan and move beyond your resistance to exercise.  Learn to reconnect to normal eating and raise the quality of the foods you eat.   Classes may include:

  • Find Your Fitness Soul
  • Overcome Exercise Obstacles
  • Redefining Healthy Eating

Explore strength and conditioning classes, using weights, body weight and a variety of resistance equipment.  All fitness levels are welcome; every class is adaptable to a variety of needs. Strength and conditioning class options include:

  • Your Core clinics
  • Back care through exercise
  • Pilates
  • The Green Mountain Travel Workout

10:30 AM

Try on one of a variety of movement options to address cardio conditioning. Discover what you LOVE to do!  Select from classes including:

  • Zumba
  • Circuit Blast
  • Cardio on the Fitball

Attend a skill practice session, experiential class in one of our specialty areas, which may include
Behavioral special topics, like Mindful Journaling, or a session in Personalizing your Eating Plan.

12:00 PM  Lunch

Featuring a variety of delicious and satisfying entrees, our menu items range from hearty soups and chili, to fabulous salads, like garbanzo bean, feta and tomato salad.  We even include healthy versions of some of your favorites, even pizza!

1:00 PM

After lunch, our educational workshop or practice sessions focus on a variety of issues within our core content areas of stress management, body positivity and mindful eating.   At Green Mountain we understand that true health promoting change needs to address the whole person.  Topics include:

  • Body Positivity
  • Stress Management
  • Mindful/Intuitive Eating

2:30 PM

Afternoon offers more movement experiences, or attend workshop classes in our binge and emotional eating series:

Movement options include:

  • Green Mountain Aquatics
  • Vermonting or Snowshoeing – enjoying our beautiful landscape, through hiking or snowshoeing
  • Fitness Specialty workshops

Workshop options:

  • Compulsive, Emotional and Binge Eating series
  • Nutrition & Eating Repatterning
  • Women’s Health
  • Consults with professional staff

3:30  PM

Snack including delicious and energy boosting treats, featuring yogurt, fresh fruit, nut butters, and our ever popular Green Mountain Truffle!

4:15 PM

As you wind down your day, we offer facilitated opportunities for you to share, discuss, and integrate what you’ve learned during the day, as well as gentle movement and relaxation options like yoga, progressive relaxation and mindful meditation.

6:00 PM

Dinner  continues your culinary adventure with our amazing chef creations.  Featuring local and organic ingredients, you’ll enjoy favorites like Shrimp Scampi, Tangine of Moroccan Vegetables, and Chicken with Cous Cous, and Grilled Salmon with Sesame Glaze.

7:00 PM

Nightly evening programming includes:

Just for fun activities, like Game Night, Karaoke and Movie Night

Select educational workshops

Cooking demonstrations by our talented chefs

Friday evening outings include visits to local merchants and art centers for craft classes

 

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