n the field of education, in order to be effective and to persist, it is critical that we take care of ourselves. This workshop will approach self-care from the vantage point of about 3,000,000 years of evolution as a bipedal ape and about 200,000 years as a modern human. During that time the conditions in which we lived (foods we ate, type of movements we made, stress we were exposed to, etc.) shaped our genome. While the world has changed greatly in the last 10,000 years due to cultural evolution, our genome, based on biological evolution, has changed very little. We will discuss a basic wellness strategy that helped produce such a vibrant and healthy species. We will also come to a greater understanding of why we now are becoming more unhealthy in this country, and discuss how we can redirect this path in ourselves and our students to a more healthy outcome.