Blue Zones Project
Participating Organizations
Connect your faith-based or other organization to the community and to well-being. Leaders of all denominations can share Blue Zones Project® programs with their congregations to help attract new members and inspire current members to increase their attendance. These programs are designed to inspire, encourage, and promote well-being within any organization, so your members are more socially connected and equipped to positively impact one another and the entire community.
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Gaynor Early Learning Center-Greater Naples YMCA
Naples, FL, 34109
As Naples largest preschool, the YMCA Gaynor Early Learning Center Preschool helps care for and educate children from infancy through preschool. Currently, the center serves over 200 children ages 3 months to 5 years. School readiness rates for children graduating from the program are in the 95th percentile. Children have access to everything the 20-acre campus has to offer including nature trails, swimming, a gymnasium, and world-class curriculum taught by award-winning teachers.
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Glades Golf and Country Club
Naples, FL, 34112
The Glades Golf and Country Club is a community of 1,200 units, located just three miles from the Gulf of Mexico. The community offers a wide variety of activities, including golf, tennis, bocce, yoga, water aerobics, and bowling. The clubhouse is busy with numerous activities, including holiday dances. The Pines is the 18-hole par 70 course, with many lakes, sand traps, and twisting fairways. The Palmetto is an 18-hole par 55 executive course, an exceptional par 3 course enjoyed by golfers of all skill levels. Golfers can walk both of these courses. The 19th Hole is the community's restaurant, serving lunch and dinner Monday through Saturday, with a brunch offered on Sundays. Chef Brian has updated the menus for both daily offerings and special events to offer a variety of Blue Zones options. The Glades also features nine swimming pools and ten championship tennis courts.
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Grace Care Partners
Naples, FL, 34102
Grace Care Partners is a trusted provider of care management and life coaching services for seniors, offering expertise in aging well. Our dedicated care managers and life coaches are passionate about helping seniors navigate the complexities of aging and live their best lives. With their extensive knowledge and experience, they provide personalized support, guidance, and practical strategies to enhance the overall well-being of seniors. Our care managers focus on coordinating medical care, advocating for the best possible quality of life, and ensuring access to essential resources. Meanwhile, our life coaches offer tailored guidance and motivation, empowering seniors to set and achieve meaningful goals, maintain a positive mindset, and find fulfillment in their golden years. Together, our compassionate team at Grace Care Partners is dedicated to empowering seniors to age gracefully, maintain their independence, and embrace the joys of life in their later years.
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Grace Place for Children and Families
Naples, FL, 34116
Grace Place puts faith into action, providing pathways out of poverty by educating children and families. Our vision is that all families in Golden Gate have access to education to break the cycle of poverty. We believe that education transforms lives, promotes dignity and enhances self-esteem. We understand that an investment in the education of all members of the family - child, adolescent and adult - creates a powerful educational culture in the home and long-term achievement for both children and families.
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Greater Naples Fire Rescue District
Naples, FL, 34119
The Greater Naples Fire Rescue District is a high-performance emergency service provider. The organization is the largest fire district in the State of Florida, providing emergency and Fire and Life Safety services to the East Naples, Golden Gate, Isles of Capri, Ochopee, Everglades City, Port of the Islands and Chokoloskee communities. To achieve Blue Zones Project recognition, The Greater Naples Fire Rescue District began Walking Moais, removed unhealthy snacks, like doughnuts from their meetings, and had their resident Chef, Captain Craig Weinbaum, incorporate healthy, plant-based recipes into the newsletter.
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Guadalupe Center
Immokalee, FL, 34142
Guadalupe Center is a purpose-driven, nonprofit organization with proven results in creating endless possibilities for the students of Immokalee through education and fostering personal and academic success that leads to economic independence. To become a Blue Zones Project Approved™ worksite, Guadalupe Center began hosting walking meetings to encourage their employees to move more during the day, added an Edible Garden, which allows employees to connect with nature and relieve stress, as well as to encourage healthy eating choices with the organically grown fruits and vegetables. In addition, staff members are invited to attend yoga classes on Wednesday afternoons.
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HBK CPAs and Consultants
Naples, FL, 34103
HBK is a multidisciplinary financial services firm, offering the collective intelligence of hundreds of professionals committed to delivering exceptional client service across a wide range of tax, accounting, audit, business advisory, valuation, financial planning, wealth management and support services to improve the performance and effectiveness of businesses and personal financial well-being. Blue Zones Project has helped HBK employees ditch the soda and choose a healthy alternative thanks to our SWFL office implementation of fruit infused water available in the office. HBK employees also participate in a daily wall sit challenge, which has encouraged physical activity and promoted discussion between coworkers.
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Her Rooted Wellness
FORT MYERS, FL, 33908
I am a Family Nurse Practitioner, Certified Functional Hormone Specialist, and women's health coach. In my practice, Her Rooted Wellness, I specialize in helping women to optimize their hormones and overcome chronic gut symptoms by getting to the root cause of their symptoms. I utilize a holistic, natural approach focusing on nutrition, lifestyle, and targeted supplementation if needed. At Her Rooted Wellness, I support my clients on their journey to mind, body, and soul nourishment and strive to create a safe and welcoming space where all women feel deeply understood and cared for. With 10+ years of experience in the health space and advanced education in functional medicine, hormones, and gut health, I offer evidence-based care that's compassionate, empathetic, and tailored to your unique health journey.
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Ikon Journeys
Naples, FL, 34120
Iconic Journeys is a boutique experiential travel company that prides itself on working closely with its distinguished clients to create a vision for their personal journey, to deliver on this vision with unbridled passion, and always go above and beyond. "Tourism is a "feel good" industry and we wanted to ensure that our clients enjoy the same "feel good" lifestyle by promoting a healthier more enjoyable life," stated Maria Ferrera, marketing & client relations manager of Iconic Journeys. By helping our clients experience new cultures, eating habits and food expands our client's perception of a healthy diet and how to implement them at home."
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Including ALL Children
NAPLES, FL, 34105
The Mission of “Including ALL Children” is Teaching Social, Emotional and Academic Skills by Valuing Diversity, Inspiring Respect & Increasing Confidence in Adults and Children. We work with families and teachers of individual children, and sometimes adults, who might act, think, communicate or behave in ways that many others aren’t familiar with – yet. We work to facilitate positive team-centered practices where the individual plays a key role in helping the rest of us learn new skills and ways of working positively together through the challenges. Training takes the form of in-class or in-home observations, staff in-service trainings and self-paced on-line courses.
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Integrative Direct Primary Care
Naples, FL, 34119
Direct Primary Care (DPC) is a membership-based healthcare plan where the PATIENT contracts DIRECTLY with the PROVIDER! It allows you, the patient, to have primary healthcare access — think concierge care — that is affordable. It gives you better control of your healthcare spending and is tailored to your individual needs. With Direct Primary Care, your annual physical, follow-up visits, sick visits, urgent care visits and general healthcare maintenance questions are covered under one monthly investment, for the equivalent of a monthly cell phone bill.
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Island Coast Dentistry
Naples, FL, 34103
At Island Coast Dentistry we are a dedicated team of professionals with Dr. Jeffrey Skupny, 2 dental hygienists, 2 dental assistants, an appointment coordinator and a financial assistant. Our mission is to deliver outstanding dental care with first rate customer service. We are committed to helping our patients create their best desired smile using cosmetic dentistry, restorative dentistry, and preventative care.
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IslandWalk HOA
Naples, FL, 34104
Island Walk, one of SWFL's premier gated communities is located in North Naples, just minutes from the famed Gulf Coast beaches. Most of Island Walk's 1856 homes offer views of our lakes and inlets; others look out onto tropical landscaping. The community is renowned for its full calendar of social events, classes, and club activities, as well as for fully –functioning town center, library, pools, tennis and bocce courts, and fitness center. Residents volunteer on numerous committees to benefit the success and vitality of our community.
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It Starts With You Wellness
Naples, FL, 34116
It Starts with You Wellness focuses on providing specific skills for anxiety sufferers to find relief. Michelle is an anxiety coach, who draws her knowledge and expertise from a combination of her own personal experience with anxiety and panic, and methods from different modalities she has learned along the way. Her methods create a well-rounded approach to managing anxiety and panic. In addition to the information found on the website, Michelle provides online classes and/or one-on-one private sessions via Skype, for those looking for a more in-depth, personal approach.
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Joyful Yoga and Ayurvedic Spa
Bonita Springs, FL, 34134
With a combined teaching experience of more than 48 years, Joyful Yoga offers more than 50 classes per week to suit any body, newcomer or experienced yogi! Joyful Yoga hopes to make yoga even more accessible to every body. In addition to yoga, Joyful Yoga & Spa has five massage therapists on staff as well as three Aestheticians providing a myriad of facials, peels, energy therapies, waxing, detoxification, electrolysis, permanent make-up and much more
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Jubilee Fellowship of Naples
Naples, FL, 34109
Jubilee Fellowship of Naples started in 2013 as a Bible Study group, led by Pastor Dan Lamey. In January 2015 the group of 30 decided to form their own non-denominational church, forming a partnership with Aston Gardens at Pelican Marsh. Jubilee Fellowship began with with worship services every Sunday morning and weekly Bible Study each Tuesday evening. The congregation prides itself on being a joyful, friendly community, welcoming both Aston Gardens residents and the larger Naples community.
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Just Breathe LLC
Naples, FL, 34116
At Just Breathe LLC, we believe the mind, body, and spirit of a person can support wellness with proper nourishment. Naples only “Salt Mine” provides measured halotherapy treating upper respiratory conditions, sinus conditions, allergies, inflammation, skin conditions, and anxiety-stress-depression in a hermetic environment with several tons of food grade Himalayan salt. This is a simulated micro-environment meant to mimic a salt mine that uses a highly dispersed dry mineral salt for inhalation to treat many disorders over hundreds of years. We infuse all our treatments with healing music, aromatherapy, and good intentions. We have a Reiki Master-Teacher providing energy healing offering crystal healing, chakra cleansing, aura readings, ear candling, and private treatments blessing homes-businesses by appointment. Our Holistic Health practitioner has all-natural programs for SiBO-IBS, Bariatric coaching, pain management, anxiety-stress relief, guided meditations, guided diaphragmatic breathing, and next generation nutraceuticals.
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Kava Culture Kava Bar
Bonita Springs, FL, 34134
Kava Culture Kava Bar became a Blue Zones Project recognized organization by having healthy options at meetings and events, hosting cooking demonstrations, discouraging the consumption of sugary beverages, and hosting well-being events. Kava Bar invites you to "stop in to Kava Bar and relax with a cool shell of the finest Kava on our patio, play a board game, relax with chill music and unwind from your day, bring your computer, and work it like you mean it. Come join the tribe, you may never want to leave."
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Kingdom Mobilization
Estero, FL, 33928
Kingdom Mobilization exists to help individuals discover purpose for the next stage of their lives and develop a strategy for fulfilling their purposes. Kingdom Mobilization helps people live on purpose by participating in the GPS Life Journey process through small groups and/or one-on-one coaching. The GPS Life Journey, developed by Founder and President, Nolen Rollins, is now available in five languages and has been used in several foreign countries as well all across America. Individuals who have participated in the GPS Life Journey are building stronger families, meeting humanitarian needs in improvised regions, starting new non-profits organizations, and making a difference in their personal lives, their families, communities, churches, and globally.
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Lancit Digital Media
Naples, FL, 34119
Lancit Digital Media is a professional video production services company based in Southwest Florida. Our team has earned 16 National Emmy Awards, over 200 broadcast awards including a Peabody Award, Hugo, Prix Jeunesse International, 2 Social Media Star Awards, 2 Telly Awards, numerous Monitor Awards and many Cine Golden Eagles. Lancit Digital Media owns & operates Paradise Coast TV, the visitors channel playing in ~4,000 hotel rooms across Collier County.
