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Our newsletter provides members with information on current industry trends and recent chapter updates.

Winter 2020

President’s Message
Chapter Business Updates
Mind
Body
Soul
BP Spotlight
National Events and Info
Our Business Partners
Insights From Our Sponsors

Summer 2019

Message from Our 2019-2020 President, Rose A. Jaworecki
Chapter Business Updates
Mind
ALANYC Chapter – Member Spotlight
Body
Soul
National Events and Information
Welcome Our New Business Partners
Business Partner Listing
Insights From Our Sponsors

PRISM 2019

Body

ALANYCis Energizing

fitALANYC & SUSTAINABILITY TEAMS – In September, we held an educational and engaging lunch-and-learn entitled, Stay Fit While You Sit. The event was hosted and sponsored by our BPs, Rosemary Farrell of Arenson Office Furnishings, while HumanScale, provided demonstrations with ergonomic chairs, monitor stands as well as an ergonomic desk that raised and lowered for corrective stand/sit posture needs. Members enjoyed seeing the actual furniture samples Human Scale made available. In addition, Dr. Edmund Shockey of Empire Sports and Spine presented to us how understanding proper body alignment, and, performing various daily exercises at our desk would help relieve the pain and degeneration of our bodies while sitting too long. Dr. Shockey demonstrated corrective exercises, and desk yoga to relieve a host of issues from slouching, carpal tunnel, headaches, stiffness and fatigue. At the end of the presentation, Dr. Shockey offered complimentary Posture Screenings, a technology he uses in his everyday practice, that provides patients with specific information about their individual challenges. Dr. Edmund Shockey is a board-certified physician specializing in the field of chiropractic care. For more information about Dr. Shockey, checkout their website here.

The Stay Fit While You Sit session was well received! Members refreshed themselves and were ready to take on their remaining day re-energized! Additional thanks to Team Member Janet Casiano who assisted in organizing the event as well as the introduction of Dr. Shockey to our members.

For the month of October, members and their firms enjoyed a complimentary desktop wellness series courtesy of a collaboration between fitALANYC and Lance Breger and his team at Infinity Wellness Partners (IWP). A 30-minute wellness webinar entitled Avoid Office Body, commenced the series in October and was followed by weekly 15-minute webinars, which included: It’s Time to Unwind, Stretch & Move, Fall Fitness Program and Healthy Brown Bag Lunches. Registrants were able to enjoy these brief wellness sessions directly from their desktops each week, providing a well-needed respite to their day. Many thanks to Lance and the IWP team for their generosity and we look forward to collaborating with them again.

During the past holiday season, fitALANYC and the Sustainability Teams collaborated with the Law Firm Sustainability Network (LFSN) and the Community Services Team for a “Holiday Trot” to help us feel great during the cold weather and burn off those extra holiday pounds! Since the human body is a microcosm of the natural world, Holiday Trot participants were urged to think about eating fresh, healthy and organic (local too!) to stay fit and keep pollutants out of their bodies and the environment. The Holiday Trot began on December 2 and ended on December 15. The winners for the most steps during the step challenge, was SANTA’S SLEIGH, with a whopping 877,928 steps, which translates to nearly 440 miles. The team also received ALANYC’s donation to its charity of choice: FOOD BANK NYC

Check out the overall Team totals and Charity organizations selected:

Team	Santa’s Sleigh	Souper Heroes	Tinsel Toes	Red Hot Chili Steppers	ALANYC Globe Trotters	Too Hot to Trot
Capt.	Santa Medina	Lesya Osipova	John Connolly	Thomas Barone	Brett Arnold	Lucy Shyti
Org.	Food Bank NYC	City Harvest	WOGA NY	St. Jude’s	Alzheimer’s Assoc.	Jack Martin Fund
Dec 2	53,984	31,964	58,043	64,880	49,630	53,477
Dec 3	48,112	40,099	57,513	63,093	53,442	60,258
Dec 4	56,867	40,562	58,187	54,110	49,631	72,752
Dec 5	61,219	49,257	61,680	54,176	58,958	61,158
Dec 6	59,360	48,682	69,821	49,078	58,869	63,611
Dec 7	59,398	39,719	64,294	49,036	46,342	47,459
Dec 8	58,788	48,406	59,382	52,576	34,011	38,618
Dec 9	53,761	45,294	58,036	51,718	60,874	55,142
Dec 10	68,875	52,918	61,781	57,280	62,786	58,873
Dec 11	59,694	57,324	59,782	60,249	53,375	61,906
Dec 12	74,661	48,704	63,702	62,831	46,257	61,178
Dec 13	76,236	56,895	64,045	74,571	53,655	44,289
Dec 14	75,574	49,517	56,031	59,404	43,334	61,905
Dec 15	71,399	42,405	61,621	64,894	37,493	49,661
Totals	877,928	651,746	853,918	817,896	708,657	790,287

Congratulations to Marie Carole Tertulien (Red Hot Chili Steppers) with the most steps of 265,864 (132 miles) and winner of a $25 gift card from ALANYC. We would also like to recognize those with over 200,000 steps each: Nellie Lefteratos (Tinsel Toes): 258,011, Rose Jaworecki (Too Hot to Trot): 217,424 and Cassandra Jackson (Santa’s Sleigh): 210,353. We are all winners in our Holiday Trot Challenge! The teams in total took 4,700,432 steps, equivalent to 2,350 MILES (a distance of walking to Las Vegas from New York).

We hope you enjoyed the Holiday Trot Challenge! All should be proud of what you have achieved. Special thanks to Gayatri Joshi, Executive Director at LFSN for putting this challenge together and bringing to fruition all our fitALANYC charity endeavors. Special thanks to Mark Shore of Atlas Consulting, who donated $200 to team Santa’s Sleigh’s second Charity, Backpack Foundation! Stay tuned for upcoming events from the Sustainability Team including a “show and tell” presentation by the Department of Sanitation illustrating appropriate disposal of various office waste and several Earth Month events!

Rory Celentano
Team Lead, fitALANYC
rcelentano@mofo.com

Nadia Wagner
Co-Lead, fitALANYC & SUSTAINABILITY TEAM
NWagner@bdlaw.com

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