Maybe you were part of last year’s inaugural May Movement Challenge? Here’s a video showing the highlights from a month-long array of free, accessible online movement classes. This year we have several of the same…
An Unusual Fall
- October 4, 2021
- Tagged as: balance, fall, fall prevention, flexibility, movement, Pilates, yoga
Falls don’t always happen when you’re standing. Although balance and fall prevention classes help increase your odds of preventing a near fall, some falls are just unusual accidents. Like sitting in a chair where the…
Rock Climbing & Acquired Disability Peer Support Group
- September 26, 2021
- Tagged as: acquired disability, disability, movement, paraclimbing, stroke, support groups
Christina Leffmann, or Roma as she prefers to be called, is passionate about indoor and outdoor rock climbing as well as the Acquired Disability Peer Support Group she started. In June Roma traveled to Salt…
Movement is Medicine: Get Your Daily Dose
- April 25, 2021
- Tagged as: dance, movement, neuromuscular disease, respiratory health, stroke recovery, yoga
It’s the May Movement Challenge! This podcast episode explains all you need to know about the #MayMovementChallenge2021 featuring Stanford University’s Research Physical Therapist, Tina Duong. Tina’s worked with both children and adults with spinal cord…
If I can’t dance to it, it’s not my pandemic
- December 16, 2020
- Tagged as: autism, blind, coping, dance, disability, pandemic, spina bifida
If Emma Goldman were alive and experimenting with the virtual life, she may have said something like this. Why not dance through the pandemic? It’s good physical exercise, ignites oxytocin, and can bond you with…
Are you feeling stressed out? With all that’s going on in the world — pandemic, civil unrest, job loss, hurricanes, wild fires — it’s difficult to avoid stress. Laughter therapy, or laughter yoga, might help…
That is me; I still have my hands, says the 4-year old girl after waking up in the hospital and being told by her mother that she had lost her legs. The little girl grew…
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Hug A Tree & Live Longer
This month we have both Earth Day and Arbor Day so it’s high time to be amongst the trees. Even if you are hunkered down in the safety of your home during the pandemic, you…
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Coping with a Coronavirus: Trees, Yoga, and Essential Oils
A retired nurse, physical and yoga therapist, and mental health professional offer strategies for coping with uncertainty, anxiety, and all those other emotions caught up in this season of the pandemic. Verla Fortier, author of…
Diabetes? Two personal stories about movement and plant-based diet
- October 24, 2019
- Tagged as: balance, chronic pain, dance, diabetes, diet, exercise, insulin, motivation, movement, nutrition, routine, spinal fusion
Dianna Rowley, diagnosed with diabetes type 1, was a professional dancer. Although she had health issues in her childhood she wasn’t diagnosed until her early 20s when she experienced a major health crisis. Her journey…
