A seated Tai Chi practice can have both physical and emotional health benefits. Tai Chi instructor, Ralph Somack, has taught tai chi to seniors, people with dementia, stroke survivors, people using wheelchairs and this week…
Link to Podcast Audio An episode to catch everyone up on what’s been going on in the life of someone in their early 60s with a progressive health condition. Waning energy prohibits many of us…
Why is Movement my Medicine?
- March 26, 2023
- Tagged as: accessible, aging, gyrokinesis, range of motion
I don’t know who coined the term movement is medicine, but it resonates for me. My early experiences with exercise were not joyful; grade school physical education was bad medicine. But once I started dancing…
Over the past month there’s been some chatting — with a Professional Patient and a few virtual friends sharing how they cope with the holidays. I noticed a Facebook posting from a high school classmate…
Uncover the stronger part of yourself…
- July 21, 2022
- Tagged as: coping, movement, Pilates, rehabilitation, spinal cord injury
Liz Ann Kurdrna, Pilates instructor, feels like her emotional recovery from a rock climbing injury is ongoing yet “knowing that I have to show up for someone else…by teaching…it helps. It helps you uncover the…
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…
