Wellness

Chicago Printmakers Collaborative -  4912 N Western Avenue

What could be a better way to get "back on track" and prioritize self-care than by setting some time aside to pursue a creative passion and learn a new form of artmaking! Whether you're exploring printmaking for the first time or rediscovering it, the Chicago Printmakers Collaborative offers private and group classes perfect for de-stressing, unwinding, and focusing on your creative wellbeing. Group classes fill quickly but the CPC has wonderful instructors who can tailor a private tutorial to fit your needs. The studio also offers one-day, customized workshops for small groups. 

The studio believes that the act of viewing and living with art nourishes the soul and inspires thought and creativity. CPC offers a wide array of work made by artists both local and from around the world. Those who feast their eyes on the beautiful things shown in the CPC workshop often take these visions with them, and are the better for it.

The Chopping Block - 4740 N Lincoln Avenue

The Chopping Block is all about creating healthy habits, such as cooking your own food!

Knife Skills: This is our most popular class with good reason! Learn how to slice, dice, and chop your way to being more efficient in the kitchen. When you have good knife skills, you enjoy cooking more and you can incorporate more vegetables into your diet.

Wednesday, 1/8/25: Click here to register. (this class is also offered several other times throughout the month)

Vegetarian Boot Camp: Whether or not you are vegetarian, we can all benefit from incorporating more plant-based foods in our diets. This one-day immersion into vegetarian cooking will explore flavors and ingredients from many cuisines as well as vegetarian proteins. Saturday, 1/4/25: Click here to register. 

Culinary Boot Camp 1: This is the ultimate class toward creating confidence in the kitchen. In just 5 days, you’ll learn the same cooking techniques covered in professional culinary school that have been adapted for home cooks. January/February Saturday session: Click here to register.  January M-F session: Click here to register.

New in 2025!

Build a Better Grain Bowl: We love grain bowls because they are hearty, healthy, and customizable meals perfect for weeknights. Tuesday, 1/7/25: Click here to register.

Mocktail Happy Hour with Mixologist Christophe Bakunas: Whether you celebrate Dry January or just want some ways to limit alcohol consumption in the new year, join us for a special NA class featuring two creative and seasonal zero-proof cocktails. Friday, 1/31/25: Click here to register.

Lena Rose Beauty - 4645 N Rockwell Street

Winter Body Treatment: Hydrating Body Treatment with Guided Meditation Indulge in the ultimate relaxation experience with our hydrating body treatment and guided meditation. This service begins with a deeply nourishing body wrap infused with restorative ingredients to replenish your skin's moisture and leave it feeling soft, smooth and radiant. As your body absorbs the hydrating benefits you'll be guided through a soothing meditation designed to calm your mind, promote inner healing and release tension. The combination of physical rejuvenation and mental relaxation will leave you feeling completely renewed and balanced. Available January 2nd through March 2025.

50 mins $150

Lincoln Square Dental Spa - 2150 W Lawrence Avenue

The NOW Massage Lincoln Square - 4715 N Lincoln Avenue

Ease your mind, body and spirit NOW!

First-time guests can book a massage at our Member Rate between NOW and Fri, 1/10/25!

$85 for a 50-minute massage (Reg. $130)
$115 for a 80-min massage (Reg. $160)

Old Town School of Folk Music - 4544 N Lincoln Avenue

New Year's Resolutions and Songwriting: A Workshop with Kacie Swierk The holiday season can often race us to the end of the year. With calendars full of deadlines, commitments, and events, it can be hard to make time for our art in the bustle. With this December workshop, I seek to offer a space to explore how songwriting might exist for us in the new year. Both with reflection and conjecture, we’ll first ask why songwriting matters: the world is inundated with writers - why us too? Then, using a worksheet as a guide, we’ll seek to set individual goals based on how we’d like songwriting to exist in our life over the next twelve months. In addition to discussion, we’ll dive into various writing exercises with the hope of offering some ideas for your daily or weekly practices. 
 
*All levels of songwriting experience welcomed (including just an interest!)
*Please bring a notebook and a pencil for the writing exercises!

Eye See Ravenswood - 4735 N Damen Avenue

Merz Apothecary - 4716 N Lincoln Avenue

Amidst the whirlwind of activity of the new year, it can be hard to find the time & space for much needed rest and relaxation - but even the 5 or 10 minutes it takes to make a cup of tea can signal your nervous system to slow down and unwind. These are some of Merz's favorite herbs for a restorative, relaxing cup of tea:

Oatstraw - makes a nourishing, mild and slightly sweet cup of tea. Just as your morning oatmeal is a nutritious daily habit for your digestion, a daily cup of oatstraw tea has cumulative benefits for your nervous system, soothing frayed nerves and comforting digestion too.

Skullcap & Passionflower - I love these two as a pair, working together to ground and center the mind. These two are perfect for encouraging a calm presence in the moment and soothing an anxious mind that might tend to spin!

Lavender - this quintessential herb embodies relaxation in its every aspect - its soothing color, intoxicating fragrance and mild floral flavor. A cup of lavender tea should be taken in with all the senses, taking the time to sip slowly, breathe in the delightfully fragrant steam and savor the moment.

Each of these herbs can be used separately or blended in countless ways for a delightful cup of tea of your own design. There is also a blend that incorporates Chamomile, Catnip and Peppermint too - the Mellow Moon Sleep Tea. By popular demand, this limited edition tea will now be available year round!  You can shop Mellow Moon Tea here.

Bloom Yoga Studio - 4663 N Rockwell Street

Fit City Kids - 2540 W Lawrence Avenue

Fit City Kids has 2 amazing 8 week programs starting the week of January 6th for all of the older kids looking to stay active and get stronger this winter.  

S.W.E.A.T. (ages 8-12) M: 4-5:30PM

Strength.
Work ethic.
Emotional and Mental Awareness.
Attitude.
Teamwork.

SWEAT combines the fundamentals of working out with life lessons you learn by being a part of a team. Each 8-week session will be themed around a specific book that will help kids understand the importance of taking care of their mind, body, and emotions while understanding perspectives and roles of a team dynamic. This class is great for kids already in sports or those that aren’t interested in sports and looking to belong to a team.

This session’s book is from the GREAT, late Kobe Bryant & his media company, Granity Studios. “WIZENARD is a basketball story about a local community team who gets a new coach with magical powers. But there are no easy answers in the magic- it will take lots of hard work to make them into winners- both on & off the court. We think the student athletes will relate to their struggles & their dreams. Their successes & their challenges. And we know they’ll love the action."

Though this book is themed around basketball, our class is not. The fitness class will be themed around the lessons in each chapter and how to work together as a team while also getting better as individuals. 

All of Coach Kim's classes focus on strengthening the 7 Foundational Movements (Squat, Hinge, Lunge, Push, Pull, Carry and Crawl) to set themselves up for success in whatever way they like to move their bodies!

*Book will be provided for all enrollees*

Register Here: S.W.E.A.T

STRENGTH IN GIRLS (9-13) T/TH: 5:30-7:30 PM (can sign up for 1 day if both don't work)

Strength in Girls is an 8-week session designed to help young females (9-13 years) navigate the world of fitness and social pressures. They meet with Coach Kim 2x a week on Tuesday and Thursdays from 5:30-7:30PM at Fit City Kids. The class is split into 2 portions. The first half will cover workouts where they’re learning how to move their body effectively and efficiently while introducing them to various forms of weights and equipment. The second half of class will be a workshop where we discuss different topics each week, including:

*Fueling our Body
*Social Media and Body Image
*Types of Stress and Ways to Navigate it
*Body Awareness and Self Talk
*Practice and Planning: Setting Ourselves Up for Success

Each session comes with a T-shirt (new year = new design and color!) and guest workshops from other woman owned businesses in Chicago that relate to our topics! 

Register Here: STRENGTH IN GIRLS

Please reach out to our Athletic Program Manager and Strength and Conditioning Coach, Kim, with any interest or questions: Kim@fitcitykids.com

Fleet Feet Sports - 4762 N Lincoln Avenue

Start the New Year off right at Fleet Feet! 

Made w/ Love Organic Vinegar

Ready to Reset? MwOrganic Vinegar has specific product lines that contain essential ingredients to detox, relieve stress and anxiety, cleanse, and promote heart health. And don't forget, all of the vinegars have "the Mother", naturally occurring probiotic you need daily!

Goodbye Holiday Calories! Let's shake off those holiday pounds with MwOrganic Vinegars Detox Duos: Apple Lemon Ginger, Lemon Ginger Turmeric, Ginger-Ginger! 

Hello Exercise! Push through your workout with MwVinegaRx: select Butterfly Pea Flower to release mental and muscle stress/anxiety, calming Lemon Lavender and Tart Cherry Lime to promote sleep recovery!

Hair & Skin Cleanse! with MwFloral Vinegars to promote shiny hair/beard, eliminate dandruff, eczema and stop hair shedding. Choose Romantic Rose, Hibiscus, Tropical Orchid,  Camomile Dandelion Vinegars.  And yes, enjoy them on salads or as a mocktail/tea. Also great for your pets skin & stinky feet!

All products are hand-fermented, organic, free of sugar, calories, sodium, preservatives. And always... Made w/Love! Mw! Find more information at: MadeWithLoveVinegar.com. Or locally at Eco Flamingo, 47501 N. Rockwell

Pistachio Yoga - 5206 N Damen Avenue

Youth Yoga Series for kids 6th - 9th grade. Pistachio Yoga's youth yoga program is designed specifically for middle school kids to Freshman in high school , providing a fun and safe environment for them to learn and practice yoga. Our experienced instructors use age-appropriate techniques to help children improve their overall well-being.  Click here for registration details. 

Thistle & Thorne - 4361 N Lincoln Avenue

Thistle & Thorne offers a variety of services to help you achieve and maintain your 2025 health goals. We provide acupuncture, herbal medicine by board certified herbalists, and cupping, along with our lifestyle and nutritional recommendations to keep you on track between treatments. Our goal is to provide exceptional care while educating our patients to provide lasting relief. 

We treat a wide range of health issues, including pain, migraine, women’s health, fertility and pregnancy symptoms, injury recovery, insomnia, and many more to help keep you in balance. 
 

Winter Hours: We are now open on Fridays! Here are our current hours:

Tuesday - Thursday 6:30pm-8:30pm

Friday - 9am-4:00pm

Saturday - 10:00am-2:00pm

Thistle & Thorne is in-network with multiple insurance companies and can confirm your acupuncture coverage before your first visit. We also offer multiple out of pocket package options to keep your healthcare within your 2025 budget.  Schedule here to take charge of your health this season!

USTA Chicago

USTA Chicago runs cardio tennis classes at River, Gompers, and Welles Parks that will continue running this winter in the parks whenever the weather cooperates. Here is how it will work:

• Registration sites are open at https://playtennis.usta.com/ustachicago/Coaching.
• Registration will be for SINGLE classes only; so, we are basically moving to a kind of “drop-in” (but pre-paid) class format.
• Registration opens one week before the class date.
• Classes will run as long as we have AT LEAST 4 players registered. There is a limit on the number of players in a class (in most cases it is 16).
• Classes may be cancelled if the forecast calls for temperatures below 35 degrees. Courts must be clear and dry.
• If classes are cancelled, all registered players will receive a text confirming the cancellation. They will also get a refund of their registration fee.

The classes are on Monday mornings at 7:30 (Gompers), Tuesday afternoons at 1:00 (River), Wednesday mornings at 7:30 (River), Thursday mornings at 7:30 (Welles), Thursday afternoons at 1:00 (River), Thursday evenings at 6:00 (River), and Friday mornings at 7:30 (Gompers). Registration for all can be found here.