University Health Services

Spring 2025 Know Your Numbers Health Screenings: 

• Wednesday, January 22
  • Registration
• Tuesday, January 28
  • Registration

Why know your numbers? 

Knowing your numbers is one of the best ways to evaluate your health by identifying your risk and providing motivation for managing your health. Even if you feel great and look healthy, you may not know what's going on inside. Many diseases are "silent" and affect your health long before you feel anything wrong. 

Know Your Numbers is a voluntary, fasting health screening including total cholesterol, HDL, LDL, triglycerides, glucose, and blood pressure. Receive your confidential results (seen only by Be Well at Work - Program staff) and resources for follow-up immediately. Plan for 20-30 minutes to complete the screening. 

How to Register:

1. Click on the linked dates above
2. On the Know Your Numbers header select "Register"
3. Next select "Add"
4. Choose your appointment time and select "Add"
5. View the Registration Summary and click "Register"

Click here for more instructions and step-by-step photos.

Testimonials 

"My appointment was this morning and I can’t begin to say thank you enough for offering this service. I took advantage of it last year and, unfortunately, my numbers were so unhealthy that I was advised to contact my doctor immediately. My numbers were not even close to the healthy range. It was obvious that I needed to do something. Given the needs of other people in my household, I had been postponing my own checkups and now it was time to get in. As a result of your setting off the alarm, I am now happy to say that a year of medication (lowest dose I am happy to write), healthier eating, more exercise ---- drum roll please --- I have excellent numbers! Thank you so much for this service. It is invaluable. I’ll be back next year to check again and make sure I stay on track."  

6 Week Healthy Lifestyle Program 

Weekly, Tuesdays and Thursdays from March 27 - May 1

12:10-1pm | In Person, Various Locations

Instructors: Kim Guess and Tomas Handelsman 

Registration (Coming Soon)

I CAN is a month-long, in-person wellness program for beginners. This program includes fun group workouts with a certified personal trainer, a hands-on cooking class, a grocery tour, nutrition workshops, goal setting, and optional fitness testing before and after the program. Past participants appreciated being part of a group and the fun, connection, and accountability this format provides.

Tue 2/4

12:10-1pm | Hybrid: Tang Education Center or Zoom

Register here!

Instructor: Kim Guess 

Doodling is loosely defined as drawing aimlessly. However, it is anything but useless! Doodling may improve recall of verbal information and can help stop people from losing focus when they need to pay attention. In general, creative activities can lower your blood pressure, decrease stress, support your immune system, and increase your ability to be more productive. Learn more about this non-intimidating art form and try out a few sample doodle patterns. Supplies will be provided to in-person attendees.

Thu 3/13

12:10-1 pm | Tang Education Center

Register here!

Instructor: Kim Guess 

Make greeting cards with us using upcycled materials such as magazines and old calendars. Creative activities can lower your blood pressure, decrease stress, support your immune system, and increase your ability to be more productive. Writing hand-written cards can help increase social connection and boost your own self-esteem. Writing cards/letters can be a calming activity, allowing for reflection and self-expression, which can help lower stress. Writing by hand instead of typing helps the brain process information and supports emotional health. Supplies will be provided.

Fri 3/14, 4/11, 5/9

12:10-1pm| In-Person @ 251 Hearst Gym

Instructor: Tomas Handelsman

Registration links (click date): 

• 3/14 Class 
• 4/11 Class 
• 5/9 Class 

Looking to get active and try something new? Join us for our new Cardio Kickboxing workshop, where you can get a great workout and learn beginner kickboxing techniques. This no-contact class will incorporate kickboxing techniques with bodyweight exercises to provide a full-body workout! 

Fri 2/7, 3/21, and 4/18

12:10-1pm| In-Person @ 251 Hearst Gym

Instructor: Patricia Juárez

Registration links (click date): 

• 2/7 Class 
• 3/21 Class 
• 4/18 Class 

Join us throughout the semester as we explore a variety of dances across different cultures. Through the semester, this dance class will introduce us to both Cumbia and Aztec Dance. Cumbia, the Afro-Colombian rhythm, blends musical and cultural elements from Native Indigenous Peoples and is practiced throughout Latin America and the United States. Aztec Dance, which is also known as Danza Azteca-Chichimeca, is an Indigenous Ceremonial, Warrior and Ritual dance that comes from central regions in Mexico.  

Read more about the instructor: Patricia Juárez

Please note, the upcoming semester will alternate classes between fully virtual and fully in-person classes! Check below for which classes will be held remotely or in person.    

In-Person Classes @ 251 Hearst Gym

• Fri 2/14 and Fri 4/4

Zoom Classes

• Fri 3/7
  

12:10-1 pm

Instructor: Laurie Ferris

Registration links (click date): 

• 2/14 In-Person Class
• 3/7 Zoom Class
• 4/4 In-Person Class

Join us at Hearst Gym or on Zoom to learn basic yoga poses and breathing techniques to transform your practice into a moving meditation. Practicing yoga can release tension in your joints, give you a greater range of motion, and offer increased comfort in all aspects of your life.  Comfortable clothing and bare feet are recommended.  

Friday, Feb 21

12:10-1pm

In-Person @ the Tang Center Section Club

Instructor: Annie Yeh

Register here!

Join yoga teacher and cellist Annie Yeh, founder/creator of Legato Cello Yoga®, for a nourishing session of mindful movement and breath with calming cello music. We start with a 35 minute gentle to moderately challenging slow flow to unwind, stretch, strengthen and refresh the body, accompanied by Annie’s original recordings of the Bach chorales on 4 cellos. (See The Bach Quadrupletet).
Then you'll get to deeply rest in a 15-minute Savasana accompanied by a soothing live cello sound bath.

Optional: If you are inclined, you are invited to stay for an extended cello savasana, or guided yogic chanting, depending on what the collective energy calls for.

Please wear comfortable clothing layers. Yoga props will be provided.
Please plan on arriving a few minutes before the class to sign a waiver form and get settled on your mat.

Ask the Dietitian provides UC Berkeley faculty and staff a convenient and dependable way to receive answers to questions about health and nutrition from a qualified health professional. 

Thu 2/13 | 12:10-1pm

Hybrid: Tang Education Center (Section Club) AND on Zoom

Instructor: Kim Guess, RD

Register here!

These fun finger food recipes can be served for brunch, at a tea party or any other party, or scaled to single servings for make-ahead breakfast or lunch at work! Demonstration, recipes, and samples provided.

See Cook Well Berkeleyfor the recipes from past workshops 

Tue 3/18 | 12:10-1pm 

Hybrid: Tang Education Center (Section Club) AND on Zoom

Instructor: Kim Guess, RD

Register here!

Eating vegetables that are in season means they will likely taste better, be more nutritious, and cost less. Demonstration, recipes, and samples provided.

See Cook Well Berkeley for the recipes from past workshops 

Tue 4/29 | 12:10-1pm 

Hybrid: Tang Education Center (Section Club) AND on Zoom

Instructor: Kim Guess, RD

Register here!

Eating lower on the food chain uses less natural resources and provides your body with loads of valuable nutrients. Whether it’s a meatless meal once a day or week, or eating mostly plants at every meal, there are benefits to your health and your planet. Demonstration, recipes, and samples provided.

See Cook Well Berkeley for the recipes from past workshops 

The lactation rooms on campus are available to faculty, staff, and students. Most of the rooms are equipped with hospital-grade electric breast pumps, compatible with personal attachments. For more information, including locations and registration, visit our Breastfeeding Support page.   

Breastfeeding Your Baby/Returning to Work or School

Tue 4/8 | 1-4:15pm | Virtual 

Register here!

Speaker: Tina Benitez, IBCLC 

This class is FREE to UC Berkeley faculty, staff, students, and their spouses/domestic partners.

This 3-hour class is taught by a certified lactation consultant and is broken up into two parts.
The first portion of the class, 1-3 pm, addresses breastfeeding basics and problem solving. The second portion of the class, 3:15-4:15 pm, covers returning-to-work planning and breast pumps. Those who have already attended a breastfeeding class are welcome to join the last portion of the class.

Register for the class:  

• Faculty and staff - click the linked date above or register here.
• Students and all others enroll by emailing breastfeeding@lists.berkeley.edu or calling (510) 643-4646.

Mondays | 12:10-12:30 pm | Online 

Class Link  

Join Liza Schlosser-Olroyd for a short mindfulness practice at 12:10 on Mondays! As we continue working and living through unprecedented times in many ways, developing a mindfulness practice is a nourishing way to fill our own cups and cultivate resilience over time. This is a chance to come together and share a mindful moment with one another before we take on the rest of our week. Hope to see you there!

About Liza: Liza Schlosser-Olroyd (she/her) is a Cal alum and is now on staff supporting communications for Research, Teaching, and Learning (RTL) and the Advising Strategy + Training program. She is an experienced trauma-informed yoga teacher (RYT), meditation facilitator, and wellness coach in service of empowering survivors to reclaim our body-mind-souls through gentle practices that support a flourishing, embodied lived experience. Liza is a queer femme who loves nature, whole-foods plant-based cooking, crosswords, running with a good audiobook, and being a student of this life that facilitates growth opportunities at every turn. 

See the Smoking Cessation webpage for cessation support services and referrals to telephone counseling, online programs, text and app programs, and local classes.