Exercise is a girl’s best friend.
According to the American Academy of Family Physicians, women reap a variety of benefits when they exercise regularly: It lowers blood pressure, reduces cholesterol and cardiovascular disease, prevents diabetes and improves mood and cognitive function.
Plus, it gives you that awesome release of endorphins—that “runner’s high” that leaves you feeling happy, relaxed and ready to tackle the world.
Carole Clausen, senior director of wellness at Fellowship Village, a leading aging services provider part of the FellowshipLIFE system, has seen many transformations. “Exercise has so many benefits. It’s holistic: Your body, your mind and your soul are interconnected,” she says.
VIBE Fitness, which is open to the public with a monthly membership, offers state-of-the-art fitness equipment from Life Fitness, Hammer Strength and Peloton. “Opening to the public was the vision of our CEO Brian Lawrence to align the aging community in Basking Ridge with the services that we offer on campus: VIBE Fitness, Thrive Med Spa and VIBE Day Spa & Salon that will open this spring,” she says. “We want the community to come on campus so our residents can continue to be a part of the surrounding town and interact with their neighbors who live in Basking Ridge.”
At VIBE Fitness, residents participate with community members in exercise and yoga classes designed to build strength and flexibility, with seated and standing options. “We partner with Les Mills to offer high-end and high-level fitness classes for Fellowship Village and its surrounding community,” Clausen says.
Staff takes a personal approach to each member’s fitness and beauty goals. “Nothing is cookie-cutter. Whether someone comes on campus for VIBE Fitness, Thrive Med Spa or the VIBE Day Spa & Salon, we do a consultation to understand their priorities for their health and well-being to formulate programs designed for their needs,” Clausen says.
How we look and how we feel are intimately connected. Current research has shown that activities involved in maintaining beauty have a positive influence on our emotional and physical well-being. These positive internal experiences can result in decreased stress, give your self esteem a boost and prompt you to be more social.
And with aging, sometimes we need a little help. “At Thrive Med Spa, we focus on conservative treatments, such as Botox, Morpheus8 Microneedling with radiofrequency and Emface, a non-surgical treatment that stimulates the nerves and contracts the muscles in the face, giving it a subtle lift,” says Jennifer Reickman, director of aesthetics and beauty at Fellowship Village. “Emsculpt Neo also creates muscle in areas of the body that are hard to contract as we get older. It’s like doing about 28,000 crunches in 28 minutes in one treatment.”
Other treatments include IV vitamin therapy for when people are feeling rundown and Emsella, which uses high-intensity focused electromagnetic technology to cause deep pelvic floor muscle stimulation to improve control of the pelvic floor muscles and bladder to help with incontinence.
The new VIBE Day Spa & Salon offers massage, manicures and pedicures, medical-grade wig treatments and extensions, and stylists and barbers—a perfect way to celebrate the hard work you’re doing for your wellness.
Learn more at FellowshipLifeInc.org/Fellowship-Village.