Geriatric exercise, balance, and fall prevention
This class improves propioception—the awareness of the position and relation of the parts of the body, and their relation with the space—in order to improve balance and prevent falls. We use chairs to improve confidence and safety for participants who required it. We use music and fun group exercises. The class starts with a warm up that promotes body awareness and range of motion. Then we move into a cardio-respiratory section with fun movement combinations using coordination and rhythm. After that, we use elastic, bands and weights to work with upper and lower body strength. We finish the class with balance exercises, and flexibility.
I have taught this bilingual English/Spanish weekly class to groups of older adults who participate in the Always Active Program at Bethany Senior Housing Center, 30th Street Senior Center, and the Bethel Center since 2012.
Classes on hold due to COVID-19 restricitions.
This class improves propioception—the awareness of the position and relation of the parts of the body, and their relation with the space—in order to improve balance and prevent falls. We use chairs to improve confidence and safety for participants who required it. We use music and fun group exercises. The class starts with a warm up that promotes body awareness and range of motion. Then we move into a cardio-respiratory section with fun movement combinations using coordination and rhythm. After that, we use elastic, bands and weights to work with upper and lower body strength. We finish the class with balance exercises, and flexibility.
I have taught this bilingual English/Spanish weekly class to groups of older adults who participate in the Always Active Program at Bethany Senior Housing Center, 30th Street Senior Center, and the Bethel Center since 2012.
Classes on hold due to COVID-19 restricitions.
Body Dynamics and Aging Process I
I teach this class at the Institute of Aging on Mondays 11:00-12:00 as part of the CCSF Older Adult Program. Classes on hold due to COVID-19 restrictions.
The goal of this class is to provide tools to improve body awareness and movement to seniors who have middle to severe movement limitation. I use movement and meditation techniques that improve awareness of the present moment and promote relaxation. I guide participants into gentle movement using guided visualization, breathing, pictures and music. You can watch a fragment of a class in this link https://youtu.be/vxCpMohSSIw
We use chairs to improve confidence and safety, and materials and props that provide sensory stimulation such as feathers, fabrics, elastic bands, balls. I adapt the class to the needs of participants, encouraging big movements and expansion of the body in space, elements that are beneficial for participants with dementia and Parkinson disease.
This class aim to:
I teach this class at the Institute of Aging on Mondays 11:00-12:00 as part of the CCSF Older Adult Program. Classes on hold due to COVID-19 restrictions.
The goal of this class is to provide tools to improve body awareness and movement to seniors who have middle to severe movement limitation. I use movement and meditation techniques that improve awareness of the present moment and promote relaxation. I guide participants into gentle movement using guided visualization, breathing, pictures and music. You can watch a fragment of a class in this link https://youtu.be/vxCpMohSSIw
We use chairs to improve confidence and safety, and materials and props that provide sensory stimulation such as feathers, fabrics, elastic bands, balls. I adapt the class to the needs of participants, encouraging big movements and expansion of the body in space, elements that are beneficial for participants with dementia and Parkinson disease.
This class aim to:
- Improve body awareness and proprioception
- Improve posture, and flexibility
- Relax and release tension
Body Dynamics and Aging Process II
Class on hold due to COVID-19 restricitions.
Class on hold due to COVID-19 restricitions.
- In this class we use elements of experiential anatomy, Body-Mind Centering, and Brain Dance to awaken and create awareness of the different systems of the body: the bones, fluids, organs, muscles, and nervous system.
- We move in the space in solos, duets, and groups. We remember and re-learn the patterns of movement that we developed while we were in the uterus and during the first two years of life (yield, push, reach, pull, spinal, homologous, homolateral and contralateral). In addition, we dance using the rhythms of the fluids of the body (lymphatic, synovial, cerebrospinal, arterial blood, venous blood, intracellular, and extracellular fluid).
- This class improves propioception—the awareness of the position and relation of the parts of the body, and their relation with the space—in order to improve balance and prevent falls. We use chairs to improve confidence and safety for participants who required it. We use music and fun group exercises.
