Yoga Chuck in China Yoga Journal

My October 2015 Yoga Journal Magazine article has been reposted in the July China Yoga Journal. I was contacted and ask if it was ok to repost and to send them a couple new pictures.
Feel free to read it 🙂 if you read Chinese. If you click on the link below the full article with pictures opens.

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YOGI| 伽 人

Chuck Burmeister

把瑜伽的力量传递给更多有需要的人

在被诊断出患有多发性硬化症(Multiple Sclerosis)之后,这位来自俄亥俄州的运动员发 现瑜伽有助控制他的疾病症状,并感到自己应与其他人一起分享瑜伽的治愈力。
撰文 / Elizabeth Marglin 图片 / 受采访者提供 翻译 / 刘子新 编辑 / Joy 设计 / 何琪

曾是一名货车司机兼狂热跑步爱好者的 Chuck Burmeister 于 2001 年被诊断出患有多发性硬化症。四年之后,他几乎无法攀登 自家的楼梯。随着病情无法控制地越来越严重,Burmeister 尝试 了所有治疗方法,从类固醇到肌内注射,但无一有用(有些还加 重了他的病情)。他陷入精神抑郁。此后,他阅读了有关瑜伽可 以缓解多发性硬化症症状的研究报告,这促使他订购了世界知名 瑜伽导师 Rodney Yee 的初级瑜伽视频课程,并开始每日习练五 分钟——这是严重虚弱的 Burmeister 所能做到的极限。经过三年 参考不同瑜伽视频建立起扎实的家庭习练基础之后,Burmeister 于 2008 年尝试加入工作室课程,随后又一头扎进导师培训课。 从那时起,他跟随 Yee、Doug Keller(一位瑜伽理疗师)以及他 的启蒙老师 Marcia Miller( 位于俄亥俄州的哥伦布 Yoga on High 工作室的创始人 ) 学习,并取得城市禅宗整合理疗(Urban Zen Integrative Therapy)资格证书。有过与疾病共处的亲身体验, “Yoga Chuck”(这是学生们送他的绰号)全心致力于向他所在

的俄亥俄州社区里那些无法获得充分医疗救治的人群教授瑜伽,从 辅助型生活设施场所和当地基督教青年会(YMCA), 再到专门为 发育性残疾病人提供服务的蒂芬发展中心(Tiffin Developmental Center)。

为何选择瑜伽 ?

瑜伽是治疗我多发性硬化症的最好方法之一,并且它不需要用药。 我的疾病症状,包括“落腿”(一种暂时性膝盖发软症状)、电击感、 痉挛与疲劳,在我坚持习练的情况下都能获得缓解。瑜伽有助我 接受现实、平抚情绪以及摒弃逼迫自己冲向极限的欲望。我在晨 练中收获满满的正能量,并能在接下来的数小时甚至一整天的时 间里都带着这样的能量行事。这让我感到自己仍活在二十几岁的 年纪,可我已经 51 岁了,但我可以像多数二十几岁的人一样行动, 或者比他们做得更好。

促使您服务老年人与残疾人群的原因是什么 ?

多发性硬化症患者与老年人之间存在许多相似点,比如行动空间受限。我相信一 个人在任何年纪、任何环境下都可以重拾因身体灵活所带来的快乐。我很喜欢向 那些有需要的人传授瑜伽,比如我有一些 90 多岁的学员,当他们能够与其他资 深习练者一起完成椅子瑜伽的体式,并因此重拾同他人和自己身体的联结时,会 很快乐。我的个人目标可以归结为,让瑜伽始终接地气,为不同程度的习练者提 供不同的体式变体,并带着善意、幽默甚至是拥抱欢迎所有前来我课堂的人。当 一位资深学员对我说,“你知道我多久没有获得一个拥抱了吗”,我的心都碎了。

您是如何将学员引向成功的 ?

许多学员告诉我,如果没来我这上一周一节的课,他们不会去做任何锻炼。我提 示他们在课堂上挑选一至两个体式,然后自我练习,每周三天。多数情况下,他 们会注意到这一行动所带来的细微变化,并且想要更多。类似这样的小技巧会很 管用。

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Burmeister 碎碎念

Burmeister 与大家分享他的一些 钟爱之物。

书籍

《瑜伽是一种疗愈》(Yoga as Therapy)第二册:运用篇,作者 Doug Keller。这是一本关于调整正 位的宝书。

体式

支撑头倒立(salamba sirsasana) 是我每日必练的体式,有助于改善我 的免疫系统。

静修

大 雾 山 国 家 公 园(Great Smoky Mountains)的一处小木屋。那里的 恬淡景色让我心意平静。

食物

我每年消费四加仑的蜂蜜,也喜欢杂 粮面包、什锦果仁与燕麦粥。

活力助推器

用一汤匙的非精制芝麻油快速漱口 20 分钟,每日 4 次。

Update "Yoga Chuck Health & Wellness

We passed our inspections and plan to hold our first class on Tuesday, February 20th. Here is a list of classes for next week. All classes will be $5 this week except for the New Beginner which is a progressive 8 week class. Cost for this one is $59 for 8 weeks. The first week of New Beginner will be $5 the balance will be paid week 2.
Will not be taking credit cards the first week do to finishing things at the studio and no time to learn the software program I'll be using to manage classes.
 
Monday - No classes
Tuesday - Level I at 9am & 7pm (class time 1:15)
Wednesday - New Beginner at 6:30pm (class time 1:15)
Thursday - Level II at 7pm (class time 1:15)
Friday - Level I at 9am (class time 1:15)
Saturday - No classes this week
 
I'll be adding another Beginner class probably in the afternoon.
 
Please contact me if you have any questions.
 
Looking forward to sharing my passion for Yoga with all of you!!
 
Happiness & Healthy Always,
Yoga Chuck

Yoga Chuck Health & Wellness studio opening Feb 20th

Yoga Chuck Health & Wellness, Classes, Days, Times & Price
Opening Feb 20th

Beginner Yoga: Wed 6:15pm
Level I: Tues 9:00am & 7:00pm, Friday 9:00am
Level II: Thur 7:00pm
Geri-Fit: Starting Monday March 5th. I’m currently teaching at the Allen Eiry Center. It’s a 45-minute, evidence-based group strength training exercise class for older adults.
Moving Toward Mobility: A Free class on the 2nd Saturday of each month 9:30am.
Introductory Yoga: A Free class on the 2nd Saturday of each Month 8am. For those with no yoga experience can comfortably drop in to see what a Yoga class is all about.

Pricing:
$5 first class
$8/class pass
$10/class for drop in
Geri-Fit: $48 eight classes in four weeks and $80 for sixteen classes in eight weeks.
I will have student and over 70 pricing as well as other package pricing once I have the time to work on it.

Classes below coming in the future or will be tested.
*Power Yoga: Coming within 2 months of opening.
*Late at 8 Yoga: Will be an 8pm or later class, will test class.
*Couples/Partner Yoga: Will test class.
*Kid Yoga:
*Mens Yoga: Will probably be a 6:00am Friday class starting within 2 months of opening. This class creates a comfortable environment for men.
*Restorative Yoga: Will begin in the Fall around Holidays. You’ll be supported by props that allow you to completely relax and rest physically and mentally. Each pose is held for 5 minutes or more.
*Chair/Standing/Floor Yoga: Currently teaching at the Allen Eiry Center. I will be moving these 3 classes to the studio Jan 2019. I’ll decide then if I’m keeping one of these classes at AE.
Allen Eiry is a great place for people 50 and older. They have been good to me so I want to keep classes at AE for one year. When I move them to my studio next January there will be no age limit to the classes.

I will provide more detail on classes when I have the time in another month or so.
I’ve been working what seems like non-stop for almost 4 months on transforming 384 W. Market St. Tiffin, OH into a Yoga studio. So my website and FB pages have become very stale, hoping to get them up to speed within the next couple of months.

A simple layout of the studio is a lobby/waiting area, large Yoga room with at least two 6’ x 6’ mirrors, Yoga Wall (for therapeutic as well as advanced Yoga) and I have the ceiling prepared for Aerial Yoga in the future, no plans for at least 1 to 2 years. Hall to a private room completely separate from the main studio and lobby where I’ll conduct my Reiki & Raindrop treatments and a Power Plate (vibration plate for healing and strengthening). I converted one of the two bathrooms into an ADA (handicap) bathroom.

I plan to hire another Yoga teacher at some point to give my students more options.

The big question I’ve gotten lately: When will the studio open? If all goes well I should have a soft opening on Tuesday Feb 20, probably no window signage when opening. I’m hoping the Electricians and plumbers finish this week???? Then I’ll put the rest of the flooring in next weekend along with drop ceiling tiles followed by lots of little things and a final inspection.

Health & Happiness Always,
Chuck

Cancer and Low Body Temperature

In my opinion this is a neat article I found very interesting. I've shared it with my students and wanted to put it out there for anyone interested.

Chuck

Cancer and Low Body Temperature

Featured in this month's Townsend Letter www.townsendletter.com

One of the very common findings I have noticed in cancer sufferers is a low body temperature or at least a very dysregulated distribution of temperature in the body.  I am not here promoting the hyperthermia treatments that are being used to “kill cancer cells.”  I am not necessarily opposed to their use, but we will address in this article the issues dealing primarily with the importance of restoring and maintaining a normal core body temperature.  This is true not just in cancer but in every degenerative disease of our day.

Your core body temperature is the temperature taken under the tongue. When human physiology books refer to the “normal” core body temperature it is presented as a range sometimes listed between 97.0-99.0°F. Understand that the “Normal Range” for temperature or even the normal ranges in blood tests are based upon the average person of our day. That is why “normal” changes periodically, because as our average population continues to get sicker the Normal Ranges must be adjusted. So in this discussion I am speaking about what is an optimal core body temperature – 98.6-99.6°F.
Much emphasis in conventional medicine is usually placed upon feverish conditions; however, a low body temperature can be a much more sinister condition. Where a fever can be viewed as an active developmental and corrective process of the healthy body, a low body temperature can never be viewed as a normal or healthy condition, nor is it a mechanism for a learning or developmental process in the body.
A low body temperature creates a happy home for viruses and chronic infections, and is a sign of degeneration and gradual cellular death.
Low body temperature is the plague of the 21st century. People with low body temperature have a weak reaction to even the most ideal medicines and therapies. As the body’s core temperature decreases all cellular energy also decreases. The cooperative and collective intelligence of the human organism is short-circuited as the body temperature cools. As a result, all cellular functions decrease. There is a decrease in the production of all hormones, neurotransmitters, and other body chemicals necessary for normal healthy regulation.
In this mild hypothermia condition there is an increased susceptibility to infectious disease as temperature drops the acidity of the body increases and the normally predominantly negative polarity of the cells become more positively charged.
The colder the body becomes, the more prone to depression and other psychological abnormalities and all degenerative illnesses of the body, mind and spirit.
Until the causes of the lowered temperature are addressed and corrected, the best that can be hoped for is only temporary or mild improvement of symptoms and a gradual but steady overall decline in health.
Viruses prefer and promote a cold environment and replicate at a much more rapid rate when the body is cold. Viruses are killed and further replication is impeded by maintaining a warm body. Some bacteria such as Lyme spirochetes also prefer and promote a cold environment and can remain in a chronic state as long as their cold environment is maintained. Therefore, in the interest of the prevention and treatment of any viral, bacterial, or chronic illness, this topic must be understood.
The ultimate body coldness is seen in death. When observing a corpse many clinical gems can be gleaned and correlated to degenerative states of human suffering. In death, the blood and lymph fluid of the body solidify and the body becomes stiff and cold. In the same way many chronic cold illnesses such as cancer, Lyme disease, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, diabetes, and heart disease, we see that the body becomes progressively colder. As the body cools, the electrical oscillations of the fluids in the body slow down and there is a shift in the body’s polarity which promotes infectious microbes and cancer.
We can see the same principle of what happens in the body by observing the same dynamics in a water molecule. When the electrical oscillations of a water molecule slows down it becomes a solid, ice, as we speed up a water molecule’s electrical oscillations it liquefies and ultimately becomes a vapor.
The colder a body becomes, the slower the electrical oscillatory rate and therefore the thicker, more viscous, or syrupy the body fluids become. The more viscous the fluids become the more difficult it is for the body to push the fluids through the body. The lymph fluids that are normally supposed to bathe the outsides of all of your cells become progressively stagnant as it is too thick to move efficiently. Now, consider the fact that just like your skin is constantly dying and flaking off and being replaced, so it is that every cell in your body is in a constant state of dying and being replaced. Only now the cold, syrupy lymph fluid cannot wash the dead cellular debris away. As a result the body becomes a toxic waste dump!
Muscles normally have a high demand for energy. Through contraction and relaxation muscles assist in eliminating their own cellular waste products. In a cold body however, the liquidity of the fluids inside of the muscles is gone, and the muscles cannot move the toxins and cellular debris. The deeper you go into belly or center of the muscle, the colder and more difficult it is to move the toxins. Without normal viscosity of the body fluids, muscular contraction and relaxation grinds to a halt, like an engine with no lubricating oil. The belly of the muscle develops a knot that can be felt when massaging the muscle.
This is the knotted, painful, muscle condition commonly known as “trigger points” of Fibromyalgia Syndrome, which is being diagnosed in millions of people every year.
If the low body temperature is allowed to persist and no therapies are applied, even in a palliative manner as in massages to move toxins manually out of the belly of the muscle, the condition follows that of the water molecule. The belly of the muscle, due to the increasing coldness and decreased muscular activity progressively over time reaches the point of zero electrical oscillations at which time the tissue solidifies in a calcified stone in the belly of the muscle.
Interesting research that supports this concept has been performed by Dr. Carolyn McMakin, D.C. using the electro-therapy called microcurrent. The microcurrent is applied through direct contact on these trigger points via vinyl/graphite gloves connected to the microcurrent machine. The trigger points virtually vanish under the gentle touch of the glove when applying the correct electrical frequency. What may be happening here is that the stimulation of the muscle through microcurrent is externally increasing the electrical oscillatory rate of the thickened fluids in the muscle resulting in temporarily restoring the normal liquidity of the fluids allowing the muscles to once again contract and pump out the toxic accumulation. The results are somewhat temporary due to the fact that the underlying condition that created it in our scenario, the overall low body temperature, remains unchanged. However, used in combination with various other corrective measures, this micro current therapy can speed healing in many cases. Relief of Fibromyalgia Through Microcurrent Therapy by John W. Addington ImmuneSupport.com 7-11-2001
The body is set up with dedicated electrical circuits all of which are interdependent and interconnected. A circuit in the body has a specific organ, gland, teeth, muscle, and nerves. If anything goes wrong in one of these organ circuits the circuit energy goes down approximately 60% of normal.
The laws of thermodynamics state if we decrease energy we decrease temperature. Due to the interconnectedness of all the circuits, one circuit in the body cannot go down without ultimately affecting the whole.
Therefore, if the muscle is seizing up and becoming progressively rigid and solidified, what do you suppose the organ that is also on that same electrical circuit is doing? It is likely that to some degree it is also progressively seizing up and solidifying.
In the 50,000 miles of blood vessels, the cold thick blood is more difficult to flow through the veins and arteries. Arteriosclerosis, the progressive hardening of the arteries, and the clogging of the blood vessels is manifesting the exact same problem that is being experienced by every tissue in the too cold body. Edema in the extremities is seen as the muscular walls of the blood vessels seize up and can no longer maintain tone and the fluids leaks out of the pores in the vessels.
I look at many older patients, and some not so old, who are experiencing all the signs and symptoms of death in the extremities. They are dying in their extremities first, from the feet and hands up to legs to the torso. To touch their feet is just like touching an icy, stiff, dead corpse. The foot is deathly whitish blue and etched in blue/black blood vessels from devitalized, stagnant blood.
The overcooling of peripheral blood returning from cold legs and feet causes depression of the temperature in the vital organs with slowing of metabolic processes, particularly in the brain and medullary centers. Cotran R.S., Kumar V., Robbins S.L., Robbin’s Pathological Basis of Disease 4th ed. 1989 pp501. Death occurs when a vital organ reaches the point of being too cold.
Your physician can name your disease, he can call it cancer, he can draw your blood and show you everything that is wrong with it, but he is simply describing the process I have just outlined. When the core temperature of the body is cold every organ, gland, and tissue is affected and becomes hypo-functional or may even become hyper, as in the case of hyperthyroidism, in a last ditch effort to compensate for the hypothermic condition of the body.
Hypo-function in the body means that there are fewer hormones, and less of every chemical involved with normal body and brain function. Even the psyche is affected leading to virtually any type of psychological problem, especially depression. How many people are told that they have psychological depression from a deficiency of a certain brain chemical? Many! Can you see that of course they are deficient in “happy” brain chemicals possibly due to the overcooling of the body?
It might be said that you are dying in direct proportion to the coldness of your body. Follow this logic: Cells degenerate and die in direct proportion to the depletion of oxygen. Blood that is overcooled from a cold core temperature is too thick to efficiently carry oxygen and the lung vital capacity is reduced leading to shallow breathing. This means that the oxygen to carbon dioxide exchange rate in the lungs is minimal. Now combine the degenerative effects of the oxygen deprivation and the cold temperature and the fact that all of this and the overgrowth of microbes promote an acidic environment and you have greatly accelerated cellular degeneration and the onset of life-threatening disease.
There is an optimum body temperature is which all chemical reactions in the human body need in order to maintain health...98.6° F. I can honestly say that I rarely see a new patient come into my clinic with a normal body temperature. One 66 year old woman came in as a new patient with a temperature of 94.6! She was in dire straits for certain. She could not feel her feet and to touch her legs was like touching the legs of a corpse, the legs even looked dead and grey, streaked with blue/black veins of stagnant devitalized blood.
In classic hypothermia, as seen in people stranded in blizzards, it is well known that the circulation of blood in the arms and legs is reduced dramatically, almost to zero, in order to provide protection and warmth to the vital organs. These people will also cease to feel cold and will experience numbness, loss of coordination, mental confusion, and heart rhythm problems. It sounds like I am describing many elderly people, and some cancer sufferers doesn’t it?
One way to treat weather related hypothermia is to give the person warm sugar drinks. Sugar is a cheap, fast burning fuel for your body and therefore generates a lot of heat in the process. This may be why so many people suffering from lifestyle induced cold core temperature are plagued with sugar cravings. Many of them consume copious amounts of sugar in the form of soda pops, chocolate, pastries, and various candies. It may be a craving that is driven by the body’s desire to generate fast heat to keep the body functioning. Sugar cravings should diminish as the core body temperature problems are resolved.
Keep in mind that the body has been too cold possibly since birth, due to multi-generational use of suppressive medicines, vaccines, fever-reducers, heavy metal and chemical toxins, and from the consumption of energetically dead food.
The retraining and resetting of the body’s thermostat is just the beginning of healing the body of chronic illnesses. The normal body temperature must be held steady possibly for a year or more in some cases before the body can undo the damage of a lifetime of coldness.
Understanding your Temperature
Everyone can afford a simple thermometer. Track your temperature when you first awaken in the morning, before even getting out of bed. This reflects your core body temperature, when it is not being influenced by what you just ate, drank, or your activity level. Many of you will likely be surprised to see just how cold you already are. This is the result of generations of suppressive therapies and an imbalanced life. You must save yourself.
Many doctors will undoubtedly say that you need to take a thyroid medication to bring up the body temperature; however this is the same mentality of taking a Tylenol for a headache. If you don’t believe me then ask anyone on the prescription thyroid medicines- what happens when they go off of the medication? The body returns immediately to the previous cold, hypo-functional condition.
One should definitely support the normal functioning of the thyroid, by detoxification, organic iodine, adrenal glandular supplements, and nutritional support, but see the coldness for what it really is, a sign of multi-organ system breakdown, and longstanding or even generational imbalance. Besides, it is the hypothalamus that regulates your core body temperature, along with regulating your degree of motivation and sex drive. The hypothalamus is actually “upstream” from your thyroid, helping the pituitary regulate the thyroid.
The healthy body has daily temperature fluctuations (diurnal) with the coolest temperature upon awakening in the morning hours of 6-8 a.m. and the warmest being in the evening between 8-10 p.m. Tracking of the difference between morning and evening temperature should reveal, in a healthy person, a difference of at least 0.9° F (0.5° C). People with a low body temperature and an overall degenerative condition will find that this temperature variation is minimal. Another unusual finding of dysregulated body temperature is that the evening is often colder than the morning reading.
The body’s best chance at long-term healing increases in direct proportion to the restoration of normal body temperature. The effect of even the most perfectly selected medicines is limited by the available energy in the body to correctly utilize those medicines.
You and your healthcare team must address your body from every direction and with every balancing tool available. You can never truly overcome this condition with pills. Therapies must engage and reactivate and stimulate the rhythmical, metabolic, and nerve/sense aspects of your body, addressing the body, mind, and spirit.
Other supporting therapies designed for restoring the rhythms of the body must be applied. These therapies might include color and sound therapy, hot and cold contrast therapy, life-activity planning, breathing and voice therapy, rhythmical massage therapy, curative movement therapies, and indeed every other treatment from your doctor will address in some way the rhythmical aspects of your body.
Low body temperature must be addressed to bring the body back to balance. The temperature must be elevated to end the dying process of the body and to help the body eliminate the cellular debris or the “sludge” in the body.
Treatment:
• Temperature monitoring and graphing (upon awakening before getting out of bed, and between 8-10 pm after a 30 minute resting period)
• CRT (Computerized Regulation Thermography) for identifying problem areas and tracking of progress.
• Core Warmth™ herbal formula (Hansa Healing Products, Inc.) to open all meridians and restore proper fluid dynamics and warmth regulation in the body.
• Sleep on an Amethyst BioMat® from Richway, Inc., provides detoxification and restoration of fluid viscosity and core body warmth through variable infrared heat and negatively-charged ions from amethyst crystals.
• Full-Spectrum Infrared Sauna Therapy…The best broad-spectrum Infrared saunas are Sunlighten Saunas, un-treated basswood sauna. The Sunlighten is one of the only companies that offer a full-spectrum of infrared wavelengths (Near, Mid, and Far infrared) that come with 6 preset programs that allow you to determine what health issue you want to target, from the comfort of your own home. You can use the preset programs to target, 1) Detoxification, 2) Pain relief, 3) Weight loss, 4) Cardio, 5) Relaxation, 6) Skin health.  These saunas are built to the highest industry standards for the most environmentally sensitive individuals, so there is virtually no outgassing smells and they emit virtually no harmful EMF pollution. Other manufacturers use plastic, hemlock and other materials that in the heat of the sauna can continue to out-gas chemical smells that can cause endocrine system interference, and often emit harmful amounts of EMF pollution. If you have a sauna already and are feeling badly while or after you sit in it, you might just be suffering from the dislodging of toxins in your body, however it could be that you are reacting to the wood or plastic of the sauna, or the emitted EMF pollution from the electronics in the sauna. The specific sauna we use at the Hansa Center is the Sunlighten six person, basswood, broad-spectrum sauna, equipped with Chromotherapy, and Acoustic Resonance Therapy (ART) to achieve even deeper and more profound healing. The healing music played for the Acoustic Resonance therapy in the sauna is frequency-enhanced tones that have been shown to harmonically optimize the cellular and potentially genetic functioning. Often we use Michael Tyrrell's Wholetones CD and have seen a "quantum leap" in our results. Obviously I am passionate about this form of healing. I am a big fan of combining multiple ways of facilitating health in the body. Medical Neurology has determined that the more ways we can therapeutically address and affect the nervous system, the more rapid, deeper and longer lasting the healing. So in this one therapy that you can do safely at home you get to sit relaxed, and enjoy the best infrared technology, color therapy (The sauna is bathed in an infinite range of colors of your choosing.), at the same time you are using therapeutic music that sends healing sound frequencies, such as 528 hertz, which is the same sound frequency used by genetic engineers to repair DNA!
• Natural-Bristle, Dry skin brushing morning and evening (Entire body)
• Detoxification Bath Therapy…4 cups Epson Salt 64oz. Hydrogen Peroxide 3% in warm bathtub. Soak for 20 minutes one bath per night before bedtime.
• Mustard foot bath (Hansa Healing Products, Inc.)… at least once per day, preferably in the morning or early afternoon.
• Solum Aesculus Oil (Uriel Pharmacy, Inc.)… This oil and essence is great for restoring the warmth organization of the body. They also are beneficial for chemical sensitivities, and those suffering from weather-change barometric-related sensitivities. The oil and essence are low odor products made by Uriel Pharmacy, Inc. This oil can be added to a bath for all over body application or be used as massage oil. May be applied as needed.
• Chiropractic spinal, pelvic, and cranial alignments combined with specific homeopathic, nutritional, glandular, and myofascial support using Bio-Resonance Scanning™, or other body circuit balancing technique…as dictated by your healthcare professional.
• Vibration Station®… work up to 20 minutes per day. (Or other movement therapies)
• Therapeutic Massage using various homeopathic and herbal ointments (Uriel Pharmacy, Inc.) and therapeutic essential oils (Young Living Essential Oils company)
• Dietary Changes… call Dr. Jernigan for pamphlet on cooling foods and warming foods for restoring optimum body temperature.
• Learn to control the mind and emotions, picking higher vibrational thoughts and emotions…see Hansa Center blogs (www.hansacenter.com) and Dr. Jernigan’s book, “Everyday Miracles by God’s Design”

Adding Geri-Fit Classes

I'm now certified as a Geri-Fit instructor. Next week I'll be teaching the first Geri-Fit class at the Allen Eiry Center in Tiffin Ohio. Mondays & Wednesdays 1:15-2:00 p.m. it's an 8 week program with 2 classes per week. If interested contact the Allen Eiry Center to register or contact me for more information  (contact info below). Maximum 25 students for the first session. You have to be over 50 years old to become an Allen Eiry member ($25/year) and the Geri-Fit Program is $80 ($5/class) for the 16 classes. Wear comfortable cloths, bring a set of 2-pound dumbbells and water. Plan to do only what works for you as we build strength and so much more.

Geri-Fit has been in business for over 15 years starting in the Cleveland, Ohio area.

What is the Geri-Fit program?
"Geri-Fit® is a tier III (highest level) evidence-based health promotion program for older adults that helps to rebuild strength that's been lost through the aging process.  Any older adult, regardless of their age or fitness level, can participate.

The Geri-Fit® program requires a set of light dumbbell weights, a sturdy chair, band, and water to drink during the workout. There's no dancing, choreography or floor work and both men and women can enroll. Geri-Fit is challenging, effective and very safe to do. Participants will literally turn back the hands of time each time they do the workout and they will marvel at the results this program has to offer.

The workout is considered a "progressive resistance exercise program" meaning that once the participants have built up enough strength and endurance using a set of 2 or 3-pound dumbbells, they can graduate to using heavier dumbbells weights in order to become even stronger. In essence, Geri-Fit is bodybuilding for seniors! A typical Geri-Fitter will work up to using a set of 4 or 5-pound dumbbells within a year's time.  The Geri-Fit exercise program also incorporates stretching, stability and balance training for fall prevention, cardiovascular activity for heart health, and gait exercises to help improve walking.

In addition to the wonderful strength gains that are accomplished with the program, older adults will also see an improvement in balance and functional capacity which will help lessen their chance of falls. They'll also see an improvement in activities of daily living such as carrying groceries, being able to get in and out of a car, standing up from a seated position, picking up a pet, walking up and down stairs, and just being able to walk freely again.

Geri-Fit is an ideal ongoing evidence-based self-management support program for chronic disease management, i.e., diabetes, heart disease, arthritis, behavioral health, obesity/weight loss/weight management, as well as chronic pain management." -Francesca Fisher, creator of the Geri-Fit® exercise program for older adults.

Allen Eiry Senior Center
28 Hopewell Avenue
Tiffin, OH 44883
Tel: 419-448-9774
diraesctiffinohio@yahoo.com
http://alleneiry.com/

Happy & Healthy,Geri-Fit
Yoga Chuck
chuck@yogachuck.com
419-443-0381

     

Parkinson's and Cycling

"Parkinson's and Cycling"
The video below is from the NBC Evening news that aired about a month ago. Back in 2013 I had posted information on my site about this very same thing and then re-posted it in 2015 after I spoke at a Parkinson's support group meeting. Now that it has gotten more attention and making it to the evening news I wanted to share with you the latest information.
What I've talked about in the past is that I believe it not only works for Parkinson's, but I get benefits that help with my MS.  Click https://www.yogachuck.com/re-posting-spinning-cyclings-medicine/ to see what I shared about how I believe spinning on either a stationary or road bike works and helps someone with a neurological disease. Just to be clear, it's not a spinning class at a fitness center. You are spinning the peddles 85 - 90 RPMs. Depending on your fitness level, this may not be possible without some kind of assisted devise forcing you to turn at those RPMs.

Happy & Healthy,
Yoga Chuck

Breakthrough Drug to Treat MS Wins FDA Approval

Breakthrough Drug to Treat Multiple Sclerosis Wins FDA Approval

Ocrevus has just been approved by the FDA. A drug like this has been a long time coming. Watch the NBC Evening News video below showing a patient who no longer needs the use of a wheelchair. Too bad it only works on two of the four types of MS. The two are Relapsing forms of MS (sudden flare-ups and remissions) to include Relapsing-Remitting MS and Primary Progressive MS (and it's the first drug for Primary Progress MS). For those with one of these two types of MS this drug would definitely be worth trying.
In 2005, when I was at my sickest point, I was told by my neurologist at the Cleveland Clinic that there was nothing more they could do for me since they had exhausted most every treatment, including chemotherapy, and nothing worked. I've been drug free since 2008 when I improved to the point I could function daily without any significant symptoms or a decline in health. Lifestyle changes that includes Yoga, I believe, changed my life to the healthy state I'm in now. If this drug was out in 2005, I would have been on it in a heartbeat. When you're in an accelerated downward spiral you'll do anything to slow down or reverse the illness decline. MS is a chronic disease so who knows what tomorrow will bring for me. At least I know Ocrevus is available If I ever need it in the future and I'm hoping it's the beginning for even better drugs and hopefully even a cure for MS.

Breakthrough Drug to Treat MS Wins FDA Approval

Breakthrough Drug to Treat Multiple Sclerosis Wins FDA Approval

Ocrevus has just been approved by the FDA. A drug like this has been a long time coming. Watch the NBC Evening News video below showing a patient who no longer needs the use of a wheelchair. Too bad it only works on two of the four types of MS. The two are Relapsing forms of MS (sudden flare-ups and remissions) to include Relapsing-Remitting MS and Primary Progressive MS (and it's the first drug for Primary Progress MS). For those with one of these two types of MS this drug would definitely be worth trying.
In 2005, when I was at my sickest point, I was told by my neurologist at the Cleveland Clinic that there was nothing more they could do for me since they had exhausted most every treatment, including chemotherapy, and nothing worked. I've been drug free since 2008 when I improved to the point I could function daily without any significant symptoms or a decline in health. Lifestyle changes that includes Yoga, I believe, changed my life to the healthy state I'm in now. If this drug was out in 2005, I would have been on it in a heartbeat. When you're in an accelerated downward spiral you'll do anything to slow down or reverse the illness decline. MS is a chronic disease so who knows what tomorrow will bring for me. At least I know Ocrevus is available If I ever need it in the future and I'm hoping it's the beginning for even better drugs and hopefully even a cure for MS.

Happy & Healthy,
Yoga Chuck