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- OPTIMISM AND MOTIVATION
- MANAGE SYMPTOMS
- REGAIN LOST FUNCTIONS
- SLOW PROGRESSION OF DISEASE
Welcome to Parkinson’s Online Fitness Program
Health Care Providers often tell People they have this incurable, progressive disease. For many, PWPD tremor, muscle stiffness, freezing, slow movement, loss of coordination, and balancing and falling has taken away their ability to live independently and enjoy life. Our Parkinson’s Online Fitness exercise program offers PWPD a way to keep their symptoms from worsening. KHAI provides a comprehensive functional fitness training program with a 95% success rate in improving PWPD activities of daily living skills. KHAI provides a total body-mind workout to restore lost functions and improve fitness, coordination, agility, flexibility, strength, balance, gait, and posture. Our mission is to reduce stress and increase confidence in PWPDs to live independently and enjoy life doing things with family and friends.
What makes Parkinson's Online Fitness training different?
Most fitness training programs help keep the muscles strong, energy, and stamina high as long as the person can endure the training. The challenge is that Parkinson’s is a brain problem, not simply a physical one. Many PWPDs fail physical fitness training programs because they can no longer control their bodies or minds. Our Parkinson’s Online Fitness Training programs train the brain, simultaneously with the body and mind, to regain control of the body’s functions that support independent living. Join our class and let us help you focus on stabilizing your health and maintaining your independence. Your Life can become better, your symptoms more manageable and you can gain back balance, coordination, dexterity, strength, flexibility, endurance and can live a high quality, happy life.
Since 2003, Mwezo Kudumu of Kujiweza Healing Arts has been remarkably successful at helping hundreds of people, between the ages of 40 – 100 PLUS cope with motor and non-motor dysfunctions caused by Parkinson’s.
Join our Parkinson’s online Fitness class today!
ABOUT US
With over 20 years of experience working with people with Parkinson’s, we take your functional fitness and mobility challenges very seriously. We understand the suffering caused by Parkinson’s, the tremor, freezing, stiffness, slowness of movement, stooped posture and other stability and mobility issues. Our goal is to help you improve your health and slow the progression of the disease. We have taken a wide variety of exercises, and systematized and tailored them to fit the specific needs of people living with Parkinson’s.
BENEFITS
- Mobility
- Coordination
- Flexibility
- Hand Dexterity
- Balance
- Small Motor Skills
- Posture
- Convenient
- Function Better
- Feel and Look Better
- Make New Friends
- Have Fun!
Registrations/ Question/ Consultation Form
CLASS SCHEDULE
| CLASS | *TIME | LOCATION |
|---|---|---|
| Parkinson’s Exercise | Monday 10:00 am-11:00 am | ZOOM |
| PEP Exercise | Tuesday 10:00 am-11:00 am | ZOOM |
| Walking for Balance | Tuesday 11:30 am-12:00 pm | ZOOM |
| Stanford Supportive Care | Tuesday 2:30 pm-3:30 pm | ZOOM Private |
| Parkinson’s Exercise | Wednesday 10:00-11:00 am | ZOOM |
| Walking for Balance | Thursday 10:00 am-11:00 am | ZOOM |
| Stanford Supportive Care | Thursday 12:00 pm-1:00 pm | ZOOM Private |
| Tai Chi/Qi Gong | Saturday 10:00 am-11:30 am | ZOOM |
*PST(Pacific Standard Time)
CLASS DESCRIPTION
Online Walking for Health & Balance (WFHB)
Walking is one of the best and most popular exercise activities available to help older adults stay physically, mentally and functionally fit. This class helps restore confidence and develops the renewed standing and walking skills needed to move about safely. The class offers breathing, stretching, balance, aerobic, strength and cognitive training all set to music to help improve coordination and timing. Chair Fitness is offered simultaneously, so don’t let your health conditions, cane or walker stop you! Talk with your doctor, grab your sneakers and join the class! Whether you are on a walker, in a wheelchair, need pre- or post-surgery re-habilitation or just want to get some serious exercise and have some fun, this class is for you!
Online Tai Chi/Qigong for Health & Balance
Tai Chi/Qi gong for Health & Balance An ancient art healing exercise that combines slow deliberate movements, meditation and breathing exercises to help improve circulation, energy and body alignment. It is the perfect exercise practice to help older adults improve their health, functional muscle control and their quality of life regardless of age or physical condition. This class is extremely helpful to people with Parkinson’s, cancer, circulatory, respiratory, immune system, digestive, asthma, arthritis, mental, emotional and other health challenges. In addition, Tai Chi is performed as a therapeutic exercise to promote healing and spiritual development and to improve balance control, sensory and cognitive awareness and to reduce the risk of falling.
Online Parkinson’s Exercise
The important reasons for People Living with Parkinson’s (PWPD) to exercise is to stay healthy, manage systems, slow the progression of the disease, keep from falling and be able to maintain their independence. Our Parkinson’s Exercise Program is a regimented physical and functional fitness exercise program designed to improve daily living skills and to help cope with symptomatic challenges like tremor, balance, gait, flexibility, strength, hand grip strength, posture, endurance, walk speed, agility, timing and coordination. Research shows that by exercising 2.5 hours a week PWPD (People Living with Parkinson’s) can improve cognitive functions, mental mood and memory, reduce the risk of falling and promote a sense of well-being throughout all stages of the disease. Many motivational tools are used to keep PWPD striving to maintain a quality life.
Online Restorative Chair Yoga
Restorative Chair Yoga teaches both standing and seated postures that are suitable for all fitness levels. It reduces stiffness, tightness, aches and pains and provides tools for handling memory and emotional challenges like stress, depression, anxiety and other physiological disturbances. This is one of the best tools that you can use to counter the negative impact of aging. This yoga class has proven with regular practice one can enhance balance, strength, flexibility, improve health and help avoid falling. Moreover, it improves your mood, attitude and self-image to help you feel good about yourself.
FUNCTIONAL FITNESS & PHYSICAL FITNESS TESTING & ASSESSMENT
Because of their stiffness, slowness, and weakness, many PWPDs feel they can no longer enjoy activities with their family and friends. Many believe the decline in their health has taken their ability to live safely and independently. Our functional fitness testing and assessment can offer a solution. Testing is our way of evaluating, monitoring and assessing
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a client’s ability to complete the task of daily living as it relates to their strength, flexibility, and ability to function independently. We provide the most comprehensive evaluation to clearly and accurately determine the PWPD functional fitness, intervention, and training needs.
Physical Readiness Consultation
Feel free to request any support service with or without consultation. Our Physical readiness consultation evaluates symptoms and determines the support that is needed. We listen to the PWPD to find out what they are doing and what the doctors and physical therapists are suggesting and make recommendations about where the PWPD should begin. Once you decide to join the ParkinsonsOnlineFitness program, a staffer will contact you to establish your training schedule.
Massage for Relaxation and Health Improvement
Muscles Stiffness and rigidity and joint tightness and pain can severely reduce strength, flexibility, mobility, and overall function of PWPD. As sensory perception is loss there is decline in cognitive awareness which limits independence, the ability to care for oneself, and the ability to perform the activities of daily living. Researchers found that massage for Parkinson’s can identify the location of body tension, relieve stiffness and rigidity, reduce stress, promote relaxation, and improve cognitive function. Research indicated people receiving a one-hour full-body massage weekly experienced reduced symptoms and less pain.
Personal Training for Parkinson’s
Personal training can help PWPDs stay on top of everything they need to do to maintain health, wellness, and fitness as the disease progress. A personal trainer develops an exercise therapy program targeting the specific needs of the individual. The goal is to improve functional fitness and cognitive awareness to enable PWPDs to stay active and independent and to enjoy a quality life. The training regime will work to help PWPD cope with and adapt to symptoms as they change. A personal trainer can increase PWPDs’ capacity to enjoy life and do things like visiting friends, going to the theater, traveling, gardening, golfing, and playing with grandkids at the park. Personal trainers specializing in Parkinson’s fitness understand PWPDs’ unique challenges and can design a fitness program focusing on individual goals.
WHAT WE CAN DO FOR YOU
With our years of experience and success with hundreds of Parkinson’s exercise class friends, we are capable of providing you with the best type of exercise to fit your body’s needs. We provide you with the tools and will work to inspire and motivate you to take control and do all that you can to create a quality, happy life.
WHAT YOU CAN ACHIEVE
Medical science tells us the nature of the disease, but you do not have to wait and get worse.
We understand that adapting to a new fitness program when you have chronic health problems can be challenging. To be
better prepared to cope with symptoms and slow the progression of Parkinson’s, you have to start looking at the
prospect of exercising for the rest of your life. Our objective is sharing insight concerning the importance of incorporating
functional fitness exercise a part of your lifestyle. The success we have seen with hundreds of people and their
testimonies has convinced us to know that with a firm commitment and regular practice of our exercise techniques, you
can improve your health and slow the progression of the disease.
Parkinson's Self Assessment Rating Scale
Identify your Symptoms-Click below to download free form and submit the filled form at info@parkinsonsonlinefitness.com
Donate Today
Many people have lost their independence suffering isolated and alone due to mobility challenges, pain, or symptoms associated with their illness. Some suffer from mental and emotional distress due to grief or frustration with their condition. Kujiweza Healing Arts Institute offers free visitations and consultations to help individuals cope with their situation. Will you help us make life better for people living with these insecurities? Please select any amount, or type in any custom amount on the form below.
INSTRUCTORS
Mwezo Kudumu and Jane Kerr, of Kujiweza Healing Arts Institute, have over 20 years experience teaching Tai Chi, Functional Fitness and Balance exercise to people with Parkinson’s. They currently offer Online training programs for Stanford Supportive Care, Palo Alto, California, Parkinson’s Association of Orange County, California, Long-term Care Facilities and individuals around the United States. Pre-registration is required.
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