Pregnancy Exercise classes will no longer be held but replaced with private one to one sessions on a Saturday Morning at 11.00am.
This comprises a 90 minute session where exercise in pregnancy, preventative and remedial movement to manage pelvic pain will be taught. Included in this is a short meditation session.
Partners welcome. Contact jane on 0418 556 840
I am very excited about now doing classes at the Wolper Rehabilitation Hospital in Woollahra. I am doing Acquarobics for the moment and looking forward to putting on more classes.
Pregnancy Aqua Class at 6.00pm Monday evenings
I have shuffled the time table and am now only doing Mother and Baby classes on Wednesday and Fridays. Looking forward to see you then.
He Broke the Law to Build a Better Nursing Home
One doctor’s radical crusade to change how we think about aging
February 3, 2016
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By Josh Walker
February 3, 2016
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Credit: The Washington Post
Part of the TRANSFORMING LIFE AS WE AGE SPECIAL REPORT
Dr. Bill Thomas, a Harvard-trained physician and a 2015 Next Avenue Influencer in Aging, has a message he’d like to share with the world: Growing older is a good thing.
A recent Washington Post story highlighted Thomas’s crusade to change attitudes about aging and encourage people to think of “post-adulthood” as a time of enrichment. “Thomas believes that Americans have bought so willingly into the idea of aging as something to be feared that it has become a self-fulfilling prophecy leading to isolation, loneliness and lack of autonomy,” the article stated.
In 1991, Thomas became the medical director of a nursing home in upstate New York. He found the place, as the Post put it, “depressing, a repository for old people whose minds and bodies seemed dull and dispirited.”
Animals in a Nursing Home
So, what did Thomas do? The Washington Post explains:
“[Dr. Thomas] decided to transform the nursing home. Based on a hunch, he persuaded his staff to stock the facility with two dogs, four cats, several hens and rabbits, and 100 parakeets, along with hundreds of plants, a vegetable and flower garden, and a day-care site for staffers’ kids.
“All those animals in a nursing home broke state law, but for Thomas and his staff, it was a revelation. Caring for the plants and animals restored residents’ spirits and autonomy; many started dressing themselves, leaving their rooms and eating again. The number of prescriptions fell to half of that of a control nursing home, particularly for drugs that treat agitation. Medication costs plummeted, and so did the death rate.
“He named the approach the Eden Alternative — based on the idea that a nursing home should be less like a hospital and more like a garden — and it was replicated in hundreds of institutions in Canada, Europe, Japan and Australia as well as in all 50 U.S. states (the animal restriction in New York was voted down).”
Thomas has also pioneered small, intimate residences that he calls Green Houses, where residents have their own bedrooms and bathrooms.
The result: “Within six weeks, they had to send a truck around to pick up all the wheelchairs,” Thomas told the Post. “You know why most people [in nursing homes] use wheelchairs? Because the buildings are so damn big.”
Deepak Chopra and Eckhart Tolle live in a rare joint appearance.
Sometimes no matter how much work we do on ourselves, or how many spiritual books we read, or how diligently we practice yoga and meditation (all good things!) . . .
What our heart, mind, and soul really need – indeed what they are aching for – is an experience that takes us out of our daily life and shifts everything.
So that we don’t only practice the principle of mindfulness, we absorb it into our being. We let it seep into our consciousness, fill us up, and change us from the inside out.
This is an opportunity to have that experience.
At An Evening with Deepak Chopra and Eckhart Tolle: Awakening to Higher Consciousness, two of the world’s most prolific, bestselling spiritual authors and leaders, Deepak Chopra, MD, FACP, and Eckhart Tolle, PhD, will share their combined 40 years of insights on higher consciousness, teach the art of being present, and deliver a message of peace.
Together they’ll explore some of life’s biggest mysteries, including how to let go of fear and stress, connect to our true selves, cultivate more joy and creativity in our lives, and experience a sense of well-being and oneness.
Being in the presence of these spiritual masters means you will leave:
• Intensely conscious of the present moment – and experiencing the deep sense of equanimity and peace that awareness brings.
• Having experienced yourself as an interconnected divine being – supported by and in the flow of universal forces greater than you.
• Grounded in the truth that you are not your thoughts – you are not the thinker – you are beneath the mental noise.
• In touch with the true essence of your inner being – beyond fear and immune to criticism.
• With more insight, intuition, creativity, and clarity – to help you bring forth your unique gifts and make your important contribution to the world.
An Evening with Deepak Chopra and Eckhart Tolle: Awakening to Higher Consciousness happens one time only at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles on Saturday, Feb. 27 at 7 p.m. with New York Times bestselling author and motivational speaker, Gabrielle Bernstein as the host.
We hope you’ll join Deepak Chopra and Eckhart Tolle to get more intimately connected with your true nature, that deep place of knowing and being within all us – the place from which we can adeptly solve life’s problems, act from complete integrity, feel an abiding sense of connection and belonging, and create the life of our dreams.
Get all the details and reserve your seat for this once-in-a-lifetime experience right here.
For questions, please contact chopraonlinehelp@chopra.com.
Mindfulness is key to everything especially when we exercise.
Human movement is about sensing our own performance, mindful how we move. The slower we move the more time for our mind to kick in to tell us “what we are doing”. While performing any movement or exercise we start with the intellect – in our heads, “how to do it”. But how it feels “when we do it” is often remarkable different. Feeling and responding to how our centre of mass moves relative to our base of support makes all the difference to the performance.
Daily practice of mindfulness deepens our understanding and it and as Eckhart Tolle says, we begin to discover the vastness of the space within our bodies, shifting from the subconscious mind to the conscious mind.
Balance, Falls Prevention, stretching and strengthening all require that knowledge of the inside of our bodies, not the workings of our minds but the inside of our skins.
Yes combine mindfulness and Falls Prevention and you come up with mindfulFALLSprevention.
Mindfulness is the essence of Falls Prevention. Mindful of where our body is in space, mindful of our vision and how vision relates to Falls Prevention and as well, knowing how good is our sense of balance that originates in the inner ear.
If any of these three systems are not up to speed we can do something about it.
Our -MindfulFALLSprevention mastery classes deconstruct the weak elements that lead to falls and we use specific exercises to address them one at a time.
Agility, age or fitness is of no concern to us as we all had to start somewhere. You will be guided, monitored and encouraged to exercise to your ability and you will amazed how quickly your balance improves.
Call 0418 556 840 for more information.
The bladder workout: Tame incontinence without surgery
An overactive bladder (also known as urge incontinence) causes a sudden urge to urinate, even when your bladder isn’t full. For some people it’s simply a nuisance. For others, the urge can’t be controlled, which leads not only to incontinence but also to a potentially severe negative impact on quality of life.
Bladder training can go a long way toward helping with urinary incontinence. Bladder control training entails learning to urinate on a schedule (timed voiding) and doing pelvic muscle exercises.
Here’s a step-by-step bladder-training technique:
1. Keep track. For a day or two, keep track of the times you urinate or leak urine during the day.
2. Calculate. On average, how many hours do you wait between visits to the bathroom during the day?
3. Choose an interval. Based on your typical interval between needing to urinate, set your starting interval for training so that it’s 15 minutes longer. So, if you usually make it for one hour before you need to use the bathroom, make your starting interval one hour and 15 minutes.
4. Hold back. On the day you start your training, empty your bladder first thing in the morning and don’t go again until you reach your target time interval. If the time arrives before you feel the urge, go anyway. If the urge hits first, remind yourself that your bladder isn’t really full, and use whatever techniques you can to delay going. Try the pelvic floor exercises (also called Kegels), or simply try to wait another five minutes before walking slowly to the bathroom.
5. Increase your interval. Once you are successful with your initial interval, increase it by 15 minutes. Over several weeks or months, you may find you are able to wait much longer and that you feel the urge less often. After four to eight weeks, if you think you have improved, do another diary. Compare your initial diary to your second diary to note the improvements in voiding intervals and voided volumes—this process reinforces the bladder training process.
No one should have to live with incontinence. For more ways to keep incontinence from getting in the way of doing the things you love, buy Better Bladder and Bowel Control, a Special Health Report from Harvard Medical School.
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Pregnancy exercise class participants can ask for discounted parking for the after hours Tuesday and Saturday classes. $19.00 for 5 sessions to be used at any time. For info ask Jane.