Ruth Stricker Honored For Her Many Lifelong Contributions As A Humanitarian
Posted: August 10, 2019 in Independents
Ruth Stricker Honored
MINNETONKA, MN – Ruth Stricker, humanitarian, wellness pioneer and international spokesperson for the mind-body connection was honored on August 9th at The Marsh, A Center for Balance and Fitness with the presentation of an artistic life casting of her hands by renowned sculptor Don F. Wiegand. The life casts capture Ruth’s hands in the fluid movement of Tai Chi, symbolizing her roots, philosophy and her life’s work dedicated to balance.
“It is an honor to celebrate Ruth Stricker and the extensive impact she has brought to humanity through her many and varied lifelong contributions. Life casting is a 7,000 year-old process used to honor and memorialize presidents, popes, and great leaders such as George H.W and Barbara Bush, as well as famous and unsung heroes throughout history. Unlike sculptures crafted to represent individuals, life casts are exact replicas of an individual’s iconic features. The life-casting process is both an artistic as well as a spiritual experience in which the person actually engages with the casting material and participates in the process that honors them.” – Don F. Wiegand
About Ruth Stricker
With a global view, Ruth fully integrates Eastern and Western philosophies into her professional and personal life. In her words “the resiliency of the human spirit” makes it possible for us to find a sense of wellbeing in our lives… that our challenge is to be emotionally resilient and physically healthy to handle change and stress. Ruth and her late husband Bruce Dayton together have been very active in the community and around the world including the former Soviet Union and the People’s Republic of China, supporting the fitness and spa industries, health education, medicine, mental health, the arts and culture. She generously lends support to groups, causes and hurting individuals where she feels called to make a difference.
About The Marsh
In 1985, Ruth Stricker founded The Marsh, A Center for Balance and Fitness in Minnetonka, Minnesota. Blending allopathic and alternative disciplines, The Marsh opened with an acupuncturist and a cardiologist working side by side…a blending unheard of 34 years ago. Now in its third decade, The Marsh stands alone as a comprehensive center of innovative programming and services, welcoming all. Dr. Andrew Weil has described The Marsh as “a center of the future… a combination of spa, hospital and health club.”
