Wellness

Make sure to pack your Fitbit, Apple Watch, or carry your smartphone to participate in the AAPA 2027 Step Up Challenge!

Engage in some friendly steps competition with your fellow attendees. Work your way up the leaderboard and compete for great prizes!

You have the option to compete on your own or as part of a team.

More information regarding prizes is coming soon.

Give your mind a break between sessions. Challenge your colleagues to a game, work together on a puzzle, or do some coloring!

Join us for morning fitness, led by a PA! Classes are open to all and are filled on a first-come, first-served basis.

Cardio Kickboxing

Saturday, May 22 | 6 – 6:45 a.m.

The ultimate ab-defining cardio challenge combines traditional kickboxing moves with high intensity interval training set to heart pounding dance music. Join the party for an unbelievable calorie burn. Higher and lower intensity options are shown to make this class accessible for all fitness levels.

SoulFusion

Sunday, May 23 | 6 – 6:45 a.m.

Meet your soulmate workout! SoulFusion has elements of Yoga, Pilates and Barre. Each class is a creative blend of yoga inspired flows, short cardio bursts, balance sequences and body weight and weighted strength training exercises. This is all set to crazy fun music! It offers modifications for all levels in the group exercise environment. This class improves strength, balance, and flexibility and can increase all over fitness levels. It is driven by music, movement, and motivation! SoulFusion is all of your favorite workouts wrapped into one.

Power Yoga

Monday, May 24 | 6 – 6:45 a.m.

Tune into deep breaths and your inner strength. This vinyasa style class explores steady movement and includes some challenging balancing or strength holds. Options will be shown for the various postures to make this class appropriate for all levels. This class will end with slow, rewarding, and relaxing stretches. This ancient yoga practice is good for mind, body, and soul.

PA Boot Camp

Tuesday, May 25 | 6 – 6:45 a.m.

This is a total body strength and conditioning group fitness class with a little bit of cardio thrown in for fun. There are no weights or special equipment, just your own body weight. Modifications will be shown for all fitness levels.

Your personal wellness coach is back! An internationally recognized mindfulness speaker, trainer, and author of “A Year of Mindfulness for Beginners,” Lee Papa returns to Phoenix with her Mindfulness Lounge™ and wellness content for everyone. Join her for mind-shifting microlearning sessions designed to support and elevate your emotional intelligence and overall well-being.

Choose from guided visualizations, relaxation practices, AAPA-favorite meditations, and powerful topical wisdom bites. Check out individual descriptions below and plan your schedule to catch every insight-packed experience at this year’s conference. Explore the sessions early; you will want to return again and again.

Saturday, May 22

An Introduction to Mindfulness and Guided Meditation

8:30 – 9 a.m.

Reset. Realign. Recharge. Kick off your day with practical mindfulness techniques that are easy to learn and powerful to apply. Join Lee Papa for an inspiring session combining gentle instruction, a sensory reset, and a guided meditation designed to help you reconnect with yourself. Using her free digital download, Roadmap to Living Mindfully, Lee will help you explore self-love, self-care, and self-mastery while setting powerful intentions for your personal and professional growth at AAPA 2027.

Waterfall Energy Cleansing Meditation

9:30 – 9:50 a.m.

Step into a moment of stillness and renewal as you’re guided through a powerful visualization designed to help you release stress and restore balance. Imagine standing beneath a refreshing waterfall, allowing the soothing flow to wash away what no longer serves you — leaving you lighter, clearer, and more energized. This session blends mindfulness and guided imagery to support your emotional and mental well-being. You’ll leave feeling recharged, centered, and ready to move forward with a greater sense of calm and clarity. Cheapest vacation ever!

Microlearning Session: Frontload Your Health: Mind, Body & Spirit

10:30 – 11 a.m.

In high-demand roles and fast-paced healthcare environments, your own health often gets tossed into the “I’ll deal with it later” pile until later shows up as burnout, brain fog, emotional depletion, or illness. Frontloading your health flips that dynamic. It means building guardrails of healthy practices and giving your well-being a front-row seat in your life, before demanding schedules, meetings, or other people’s emergencies take the wheel. This session helps you explore how to prioritize yourself first with self-care, so you can guide others with clarity, calm, and capacity.

Journey on a Cloud Meditation

11:30 – 11:50 a.m.

In this uplifting guided meditation, you’ll begin your journey in a peaceful glass house, a sanctuary of stillness where you feel safe and grounded. From there, you’ll gently release worry, pain, and anxiety as you rise above them, floating effortlessly on a soft, billowy cloud. From this elevated perspective, you’ll see challenges with greater clarity and compassion, gaining insights that bring both lightness and understanding. Bring your blanket — it gets chilly up there, but the view is worth it.

Wellness-Inspired Living: An Interactive Conversation

2:30 – 3 p.m.

Lee Papa leads an engaging Fireside Chat exploring how small shifts in awareness can create meaningful change in everyday life. Through conversation, you’ll discover how your thoughts shape your well-being, how mindfulness builds greater resilience, clarity, and presence, and how to move from feeling stuck to living with greater intention and alignment across mind, body, and spirit. Whether you’re looking for practical tools, a fresh perspective, or simply a moment to reset, this interactive session includes audience Q&A and leaves you with insights you can immediately apply.

Crystal Cave of Rejuvenation Meditation

3:30 – 3:50 p.m.

Step into one of Lee Papa’s most popular guided journeys, an extraordinary inner-visual experience designed to restore, release, and renew. You’ll be guided deep into the far reaches of an ancient crystal cave, a sanctuary of healing and expansion filled with the restorative powers of selenite and other minerals. Here, you’ll experience the crystals and energies that your inner wisdom naturally gravitates toward for your highest healing and rejuvenation. This beloved journey invites you to return again and again, discovering something new each time. Allow yourself to drift into the quiet spaces of your subconscious, where clarity, restoration, and deep rejuvenation naturally unfold.

Sunday, May 23

An Introduction to Mindfulness and Guided Meditation

9:30 – 10 a.m.

Reset. Realign. Recharge. Kick off your day with practical mindfulness techniques that are easy to learn and powerful to apply. Join Lee Papa for an inspiring session combining gentle instruction, a sensory reset, and a guided meditation designed to help you reconnect with yourself. Using her Roadmap to Living Mindfully, Lee will help you explore self-love, self-care, and self-mastery while setting powerful intentions for your personal and professional growth at AAPA 2027.

Wellness Microlearning Session: The Empath’s Edge

10:30 – 11 a.m.

Have you ever been called too sensitive? Do you feel things too deeply? Being an empath means deeply feeling the emotions and energies of others, a gift that can either overwhelm or empower you. Drawing on expert insights and mindfulness training, this session explores how empathy, when anchored in self-awareness and healthy boundaries, transforms from a potential liability into your most powerful tool for connection, leadership, and well-being.

Journey on a Cloud Meditation

11:30 – 11:50 a.m.

In this uplifting guided meditation, you’ll begin your journey in a peaceful glass house, a sanctuary of stillness where you feel safe and grounded. From there, you’ll gently release worry, pain, and anxiety as you rise above them, floating effortlessly on a soft, billowy cloud. From this elevated perspective, you’ll see challenges with greater clarity and compassion, gaining insights that bring both lightness and understanding. Bring your blanket — it gets chilly up there, but the view is worth it.

Waterfall Energy Cleansing Meditation

2:30 – 2:50 p.m.

Step into a moment of stillness and renewal as you’re guided through a powerful visualization designed to help you release stress and restore balance. Imagine standing beneath a refreshing waterfall, allowing the soothing flow to wash away what no longer serves you — leaving you lighter, clearer, and more energized. This session blends mindfulness and guided imagery to support your emotional and mental well-being. You’ll leave feeling recharged, centered, and ready to move forward with a greater sense of calm and clarity. Cheapest vacation ever!

Crystal Cave of Rejuvenation Meditation

3:30 – 3:50 p.m.

Step into one of Lee Papa’s most popular guided journeys, an extraordinary inner-visual experience designed to restore, release, and renew. You’ll be guided deep into the far reaches of an ancient crystal cave, a sanctuary of healing and expansion filled with the restorative powers of selenite and other minerals. Here, you’ll experience the crystals and energies that your inner wisdom naturally gravitates toward for your highest healing and rejuvenation. This beloved journey invites you to return again and again, discovering something new each time. Allow yourself to drift into the quiet spaces of your subconscious, where clarity, restoration, and deep rejuvenation naturally unfold.

Monday, May 24

An Introduction to Mindfulness and Guided Meditation

8:30 – 9 a.m.

Reset. Realign. Recharge. Kick off your day with practical mindfulness techniques that are easy to learn and powerful to apply. Join Lee Papa for an inspiring session combining gentle instruction, a sensory reset, and a guided meditation designed to help you reconnect with yourself. Using her Roadmap to Living Mindfully, Lee will help you explore self-love, self-care, and self-mastery while setting powerful intentions for your personal and professional growth at AAPA 2027.

Journey on a Cloud Meditation

9:30 – 9:50 a.m.

In this uplifting guided meditation, you’ll begin your journey in a peaceful glass house, a sanctuary of stillness where you feel safe and grounded. From there, you’ll gently release worry, pain, and anxiety as you rise above them, floating effortlessly on a soft, billowy cloud. From this elevated perspective, you’ll see challenges with greater clarity and compassion, gaining insights that bring both lightness and understanding. Bring your blanket — it gets chilly up there, but the view is worth it.

Waterfall Energy Cleansing Meditation

10:30 – 10:50 a.m.

Step into a moment of stillness and renewal as you’re guided through a powerful visualization designed to help you release stress and restore balance. Imagine standing beneath a refreshing waterfall, allowing the soothing flow to wash away what no longer serves you — leaving you lighter, clearer, and more energized. This session blends mindfulness and guided imagery to support your emotional and mental well-being. You’ll leave feeling recharged, centered, and ready to move forward with a greater sense of calm and clarity. Cheapest vacation ever!

Wellness Microlearning Session: The Youth Effect

11:30 a.m. – 12 p.m.

True radiance comes not from what you apply to your skin, or how much you tan but from how you live your life. And the light that is amplified from within shines through. This session blends Carl Jung’s psychology with spiritual wellness, showing how mindfulness, kindness, empathy, emotional healing, and authentic communication can visibly transform your energy and your appearance. A mindful approach to ageless presence.

Journey on a Cloud Meditation

2:30 – 2:50 p.m.

In this uplifting guided meditation, you’ll begin your journey in a peaceful glass house, a sanctuary of stillness where you feel safe and grounded. From there, you’ll gently release worry, pain, and anxiety as you rise above them, floating effortlessly on a soft, billowy cloud. From this elevated perspective, you’ll see challenges with greater clarity and compassion, gaining insights that bring both lightness and understanding.

Bring your blanket — it gets chilly up there, but the view is worth it.

Crystal Cave of Rejuvenation Meditation

3:30 – 3:50 p.m.

Step into one of Lee Papa’s most popular guided journeys, an extraordinary inner-visual experience designed to restore, release, and renew. You’ll be guided deep into the far reaches of an ancient crystal cave, a sanctuary of healing and expansion filled with the restorative powers of selenite and other minerals. Here, you’ll experience the crystals and energies that your inner wisdom naturally gravitates toward for your highest healing and rejuvenation. This beloved journey invites you to return again and again, discovering something new each time. Allow yourself to drift into the quiet spaces of your subconscious, where clarity, restoration, and deep rejuvenation naturally unfold.

Tuesday, May 25

The Recovery Session: Mind, Body & Spirit

8:30 – 9 a.m.

The spirit is willing, but perhaps the body enjoyed a little too much PA Night Out? We’ve got you. You don’t have to think, speak, or even shower if you don’t want to; just shuffle over to the Mindfulness Lounge and slip into recovery mode. Through guided relaxation, energy clearing, and soothing sound therapy, you’ll recharge mind, body, and spirit while meeting Lee’s special singing bowl, Rosie, whose gentle vibrations may be exactly what your nervous system ordered.

Waterfall Energy Cleansing

9:30 – 9:50 a.m.

Step into a moment of stillness and renewal as you’re guided through a powerful visualization designed to help you release stress and restore balance. Imagine standing beneath a refreshing waterfall, allowing the soothing flow to wash away what no longer serves you — leaving you lighter, clearer, and more energized. This session blends mindfulness and guided imagery to support your emotional and mental well-being. You’ll leave feeling recharged, centered, and ready to move forward with a greater sense of calm and clarity. Cheapest vacation ever!

Wellness Microlearning Session: The Clarity Code, How Honest Communication Begins Within

10:30 – 11 a.m.

True connection begins where assumption ends. In this insightful microlearning session, you’ll explore how pausing the inner narrative and speaking from presence creates space for authentic truth, understanding, and repair to unfold naturally. Most conflict isn’t caused by what’s said — but by what we think it means. Let’s get into it together!

Crystal Cave of Rejuvenation Meditation

11:30 – 11:50 a.m.

Step into one of Lee Papa’s most popular guided journeys, an extraordinary inner-visual experience designed to restore, release, and renew. You’ll be guided deep into the far reaches of an ancient crystal cave, a sanctuary of healing and expansion filled with the restorative powers of selenite and other minerals. Here, you’ll experience the crystals and energies that your inner wisdom naturally gravitates toward for your highest healing and rejuvenation. This beloved journey invites you to return again and again, discovering something new each time. Allow yourself to drift into the quiet spaces of your subconscious, where clarity, restoration, and deep rejuvenation naturally unfold.

Take a much-needed break at the Relaxation Massage Station and get a FREE massage!

Take a moment for yourself amid the excitement of the Expo! Step into our Wellness Break area to pause, recharge, and reconnect with what matters most. Whether you’re looking to stretch and move, restore your energy through guided meditation, explore a more inspired approach to well-being, or discover new perspectives on authentic connection, these short, engaging experiences offer an opportunity to reset your mind and body. Stop by, take a breath, and leave feeling refreshed, renewed, and ready for what’s next.