Duck Nest
A place to find your balance.Welcome to college. Welcome to new friends, new memories, and some of the best years of your life. But wait—that’s not all. Welcome to midterms, late nights, dead weeks, and stress. But fear not—there’s a place you can go to get away, take a break, and maybe learn something too. Welcome to the Duck Nest.
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Promoting Self-Care and Balance
The Duck Nest helps you develop self-care and life-balance strategies related to stress, nutrition, physical activity, and general wellness. Our center is staffed by Peer Wellness Advocates that understand the challenges facing college students.
Manage Your Stress
Take Care of your Body
Learn from Other Students
Here for You
Drop by the Duck Nest for a quiet break between classes, attend our free workshops or yoga sessions, or take a meditation class. Everything we do is geared to helping you cultivate positive habits and healthy coping strategies for college life and beyond.
Peers Helping Peers
Peer Wellness Advocates are change agents in their communities, act as liaisons to campus health services, and create and implement student-driven health and wellness programs. Want to join us?
- Meditation and relaxation
- Yoga
- Healthy eating on a budget
- Aromatherapy
- Therapy dogs
- Mental well-being workshops
- Wellness presentations
In partnership with: 
- 10:00 a.m.–7:00 p.m.
- 10:00 a.m.–7:00 p.m.
- 10:00 a.m.–7:00 p.m.
- 10:00 a.m.–7:00 p.m.
- 10:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m.
- 10:00 a.m.–2:00 p.m.
- CLOSED
Contact the Duck Nest
Erb Memorial Union, Room 041
(Ground level of EMU near campus copy)
Pilates based exercises are paired with yoga practice and music. This workout is designed to enhance muscular strenth, endurance, flexibility, and balance while centering the mind and reducing stress. We have the mats, all you need is yourself!
Sponsored by PE and Rec
The Student Suicide Prevention Team and the University Counseling Center (UCC) offers this suicide prevention training to students. You will learn how to talk about suicide, recognize suicide risk factors and warning signs, help a friend in need, and utilize campus and community mental health resources. This workshop is free and open to UO students, faculty, and staff.
Take a moment to connect with yourself during this communal meditation circle | Hosted by Arian Mobasser of Oregon Mindfulness (OM)
An open student group of female-identified and non-binary people with a mission of supporting sex positive experiences through open dialogue and self-reflection.
Have you ever tried making pasta for yourself and end up making enough pasta for you, your roommates, and the rest of Eugene? This class while be focused on learning how to make food for one or maybe two! And at the end, you'll be able to take some ingredients home to practice what you learned!
The Duck Nest is partnering with Food for Lane County and UO Housing to bring free cooking classes to campus!
Sign up by going to the following link and reserving your spot with your email address: https://doodle.com/poll/m9dh9dytnyr3wrpz
Learn personalized stress mangement techniques and how to identify the signs, symptoms, triggers, and underlying functions of stress. All students welcome to drop-in.
Learn personalized stress management techniques and how to identify the signs, symptoms, triggers, and underlying functions of stress. All students welcome to drop-in.
Registration is now open for Relax and Renew, a six-week introduction to meditation class that is open to University of Oregon students, faculty, and staff.
This spring's class will take place on Wednesdays, April 18 through May 23, 2018. The class will be held from 5:00-6:00 p.m. in the Duck Nest (on the ground floor of the EMU, room 041).
The instructor for the course is Jude Kehoe, LPN, who is also a Healing Touch Certified Practitioner. She has taught meditation and practiced energy healing at University Health Center since 1998.
Participation fee:
Students: $15 for all six weeks
Faculty/staff: $25 for all six weeks
Advance sign-up is required and space is limited; call 541-346-2770 to reserve a spot.
Gain an understanding of your anxiety triggers and symptoms, and develop strategies for addressing related challenges. All students welcome to drop-in.
Gain an understanding of your anxeity triggers and symptoms, and develop strategies for addressing related challenges. All students welcome to drop-in.
Connect with Us
Does your group want to learn more about stress management, relaxation, nutrition, sexual health, or suicide prevention? Are you putting on a tabling event and wanting the Duck Nest to be a part of it? Our team is available to present to your campus organization or living community.