LI2DAY Walk - Join Team "STRENGTH FOR LIFE"

Registration is open for the LI2DAY Walk, June 11 and Half Marathon June 12. This is an awesome event that Strength for Life has been involved with for 4 years and both proud and blessed to be a beneficiary of.  Join team "STRENGTH FOR LIFE". If you register by the end of October the registration fee is reduced to $60 from $75 AND you receive a great promotional shirt.

In the last 4 years the LI2Day has awarded Strength for Life $56,900, now we promote the event to others because of our wonderful experience with them, aside from the financials. From year one we have been in awe of the accomplishments, professionalism and camaraderie of the LI2DAY team.

Your obligation is to raise $500 for a GREAT cause, where all the money raised stays on LI. Look at the beneficiaries - they are all our neighbors, helping family, friends and neighbors. As a survivor, you are so honored during this event - with an emotional walk over the bridge ... and if you do not believe you can walk 13.1 miles there is help. If you are concerned and able to walk the 13.1, Strength for Life will train you! Join us and just do it!

The LI2DAY Walk was originally founded in 2004 responding to the critical need for funding of community-based organizations that provide assistance to Long Islanders with breast cancer. Funds raised go to local grassroots breast cancer and other women’s cancer organizations, breast cancer research and the LI2Day Scholarship Fund. The LI2Day Walk is a volunteer-based community event like no other with a constituency of over 1,000 active and enthusiastic participants. LI2DAY is committed to Long Islanders who are fighting breast cancer. LI2DAY has raised over $6 MILLION to assist Long Islanders with medical expenses, transportation, prosthetics and wigs, physical therapy, child care, research and education. NEW: In 2014, LI2DAY expanded its mission to include funding for all can

Strength for Life is a non- profit organization providing FREE exercise classes and wellness retreats to cancer patients/survivors on LI. Our immediate purpose is to help cancer patients feel their absolute best, to regain their ‘strength for life’, improve their daily functional activities, quality of life and self- esteem. The ultimate mission is to educate the medical community on the benefits of adding exercise to the treatment and recovery plan.  In 2010 the American College of Sports Medicine changed their guidelines for cancer patients to “avoid inactivity” and to date there are many studies touting the benefits of exercise.  The medical community needs to be more pro-active in adding an exercise prescription to their treatment plan. Strength for Life is committed to make classes as accessible as possible to all cancer patients/survivors in Nassau and Suffolk counties by seeking donated space at a location convenient to the group to eliminate the travel burden from the survivors.  We provide the equipment for each to keep and continue the exercises at home.  Strength for Life maintains these programs at no cost to the survivor to eliminate any financial burden.

  

Wellness Retreat offers 20 survivors an overnight stay at a local hotel, meals and a variety of classes introducing them to different modalities of exercise and complementary therapies, and the necessary equipment to continue their exercise prescription at home. Classes include but not limited to Zumba, Strength Training, Yoga, Tai Chi, Reiki, Sound Healing, Art / Writing Therapy, Feng Shui for Healing in addition to presentations by Doctors of Naturopathic and Osteopathic Medicine along with other Holistic Healers.  The retreat can best be described by a testimonial from Great Non Profits (below).

I don't even know how to begin to say .....thank you .... My amazing journey with Strength For Life began with a newspaper article given to me by a friend. I took that info to my social worker and from there it was up to me to get actively involved in my healing. And I did.... Monday nights at Winthrop are fun. Jacqui, you make me, us feel alive and loved through exercise. Thank you! When I found out Strength for Life gives us a weekend of healing I couldn't believe it. I still can't believe it. What a beautiful, kind, educational fun, amazing, active weekend I had. Not only did you, Debbie and Theresa exercise my body but also my mind. We had guest speakers that gave a food for thought, more like a feast! We zumba'd, had yoga and had the most enlightened Reiki experience. Thank you! Since breast cancer I do my best to find the silver lining in life. Strength for life has been one of those big silver linings. With Gratitude, Catherine Beriloff To all those amazing, strong women I met on the September 2015 weekend I am sending positive energy to your journey of healing . Namaste 

For more information please do not hesitate to call 631-675-6513 or email strengthforlife@optonline.net