Join us for a community walk on Tuesdays, 5-6 pm around pristine water and healing nature at Lake Junaluska. The walk is a beautiful opportunity to boost your health, happiness, and social connection. If the temperatures are below 41 degrees, or there is a 51% chance of rain, the walk will be canceled.

The meeting point for walkers is The Labyrinth next to the Memorial Chapel. Invite a friend or bring your dog along for a happy walk. For questions contact Marga Fripp at margacfripp@gmail.com or text/call: 828-424-1398.

🌷 Why Walk with Us?
In a time when the epidemic of isolation and loneliness is acute and mental health challenges severely impact our bodies, families, and collective lives, we must create intentional communities that move together in the way we are wired to move: as a pack, an interdependent community driven to sustain joy, good health, and meaningful connection.

🌹Walking Makes Us Happier
Research shows that walking boosts our happiness hormones (endorphins, dopamine, and serotonin). It elevates our mood and fights depression, increases our life-force energy, helps us process emotions, and improves our sleep. Walking in community reduces loneliness and improves mental health and well-being by connecting people with like-minded communities.

💓Walking Protects Your Heart, Memory, and Well-being
Scientific studies also show that walking offers a wide range of health benefits. Walking protects against cardiovascular illnesses and memory decline, lowers blood pressure and blood sugar, eases the pain in the joints, and prevents the loss of bone mass for those with osteoporosis. Join us to make friends, be happy, and feel enlivened!