MAKING VESTIBULAR VISIBLE
Online Classes to Increase Mobility
Firebush, Inc. is a nonprofit organization incorporated in 2017 with a mission to give back to the community through funding that allows health and fitness professionals to provide safe, high-quality health and fitness classes at no charge to the elderly or anyone with mobility challenges. On January 9th VeDA hosted a live event on Facebook, YouTube and LinkedIn with founder Gloria Harris to talk about these free classes and how they can help people with dizziness and imbalance.
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Dr. Kathleen Stoss, DPT
Under the Vestibular Disorders associations making Vestibular visible I’m Dr. Kathleen Stross, a Vestibular physical therapist and volunteer with Vita. Today we’re going to be talking to Gloria Harris, the founder of firebush, fit to dance, a nonprofit organization that offers free virtual group fitness classes to the elderly, and anyone with mobility challenges. Welcome, Gloria.
Gloria Harris
I’m very excited to be here. Thank you. Yes,
Dr. Kathleen Stoss, DPT
you bet I was gonna tell them about you. But I thought it would be better coming from you tell us how you created and got got this passion for conducting classes, to seniors, and then really growing this nonprofit that you have today.
Gloria Harris
Thank you so much. It is a passion I’ve operated off of passion to start this nonprofit. But my journey began back in the 80s when I was in my 30s 35. And I realized, Oh, I’m getting old. And I worked for a health care provider in Miami, Florida, a teaching hospital. And I saw where there was so many people coming in with conditions that could have been at least managed or prevented with simple movement with exercise. And I learned a lot over the years about the business side. So I got bit with the entrepreneur book back in the 80s. But I maintained my regular career. And I did take and teach classes, I maintain my certification. So when I retired in 2014, I knew I wanted to go right back to that population, which has now gotten older, half time, because back then there was very little time, money was a priority for other things. And it took really, to get older to appreciate how Exercise and Movement and fitness can really give you a good quality of life. So my beautiful,
Dr. Kathleen Stoss, DPT
I love that you know, and as a physical therapist, we believe that movement is medicine. And I know a lot of things are food is medicine, but movement is medicine as well. And there is just it’s just an integral part of a holistic, healthy lifestyle. So I can see that by seeing the shine in your face and the excitement in your voice that you have integrated that as a holistic health belief that you have. And so you retired and and tell me about how you decided that movement that you were going to, to introduce would include dance, it says fit to dance, tell me about that.
Gloria Harris
Well fitted dance was the name of the studio in Miami, it was fitting to dance because that was the craze aerobic dance studios. Were calling it everywhere. And that’s where I got my first certification. That’s actually when I fell in love with exercising again. Because dancing did not feel like I was really working, although I was sweating, and I was getting a good workout in. So in 2014, it was just easy to re energize fit to death. But I added the number two for one is the second fit to death. But I’m new that I want it to cater to older adults, those that they’re calling adult seniors and elderly, which I’m fit in both categories. But I wanted to say hey, we’re fit to dance. Also, we can dance even though we’re getting older, we’re just gonna do it differently. And so when I came up with fit to dance to my focus was on seniors. And I had a eye opening experience when I’m tired and went to the gym to start applying for jobs, and I didn’t dye my hair. And so I was having a hard time getting a job. So I signed up and got certified as a senior fitness instructor. Oh, neat. And then I started getting calls from not the gym, but from other community locations and geriatric clinics and they were referring their patients to my class. I got so many that I said I can’t do all of these myself. That’s counterproductive. But my background is human resources. And so it just seemed natural for me to start doing recruitment, training, going through the whole process I did for 40 years. And firstly, it was fit to dance which is the recruitment branch, and then fibers which gave us more latitude to offer the classes free some of them In Miami, that was a charge. And even then for people working, priority was groceries, gas, clothes, shelter. And so I knew what would be money and time. Well, now we’re retired. So I eliminated the money.
Dr. Kathleen Stoss, DPT
Love that. So you So you turned it into a nonprofit organization where you could then receive funding and support to offer it free. I mean, that’s the key because people want to do things. But there are lots of barriers to entry to that to join a gym costs money. And I know right now, there are probably all kinds of fees and promotions. But after those run out, then all of a sudden that feat, the dues increase, and you’re stuck in a monthly expense that sometimes it’s hard to get out of. So that’s tremendous. So firebush.org we have people in the in the comments already excited to see you and to take a look more, so I put up there a banner with your website, firebush.org. And, you know, the first question that I’m thinking is probably on most minds is tell us tell me there’s got to be a meaning to the word firebush
Gloria Harris
is it is I don’t want to get philosophical. But if you went to Sunday school, and there was a burning bush, that’s kind of where I got the idea from. And the second part of it is, I’m an avid gardener, I love. I am a master gardener with a universal board. And I thought I want to blend the two of them together. And so fibers and that connection with the the mystery of a fireplace and even the plant fibers is a very amazing plant all plants are. But that’s where I came up with fibers just simply fibers of a person who can be on fire for what they have a passion for. And the whole idea for fibers was I didn’t realize this was novel, to offer a service at no charge. Now I realize the novelty of it is that it is a lot of work to keep the funding coming. But the reward is so much greater than the money seeing people who give us in their chats. comments that say, I’m not dizzy anymore from taking glorious class. Now, we might go into that a little bit. But those kinds of feedback. Just last week, we had one of our participants say I’m going to be away, because I’m having surgery. But I want to get my strength up. And I’m going to come to this class to surgery, some kind of way fibers has created the social family feeling, even though it’s online community classes, of course, socialization is natural with that. But I’m just amazed that five was online classes. People are chatting to each other and, and saying, you know, I’m lucky like we did earlier, I’m up here in cold Chile, Colorado. And I don’t like to brag, but I’ve always said it’s nice and sunny in Florida. So far, Bush has really grown to be so much more than what I thought it to be. In the beginning. I thought it would be just me and my retirement plan. I have to say yes.
Dr. Kathleen Stoss, DPT
So you started this with classes locally, and then took it online, and then took it free. And then you started to see some of this magic. And obviously this fairy dust has been sprinkled on this product and on you I can see that and then see the enthusiasm and why people come to be in community and at vita. We’ve believed so much in community. And we are so excited to offer programs that bring our community together because people when they’re going through struggles really benefit from knowing that they’re not alone, and that somebody understands them. And I and I imagine you have stories, is there any particular story you have that you could share that maybe encouraged you along the way to say I really need to open it not only to help the seniors but mobility challenged or people who and how did you learn to adapt your class and your offerings to those with with unique challenges?
Gloria Harris
Well, first of all, I want to thank the volunteer who works who puts a lot of work in with us, and she’s active with the Vestibular disorder Association. She’s the one that pointed me to your organization. And we’re always looking for really genuine partners who have the same passion and the same mission As we do, and when I spoke to Kathleen, we immediately know the connection was there. And so one of the, you know, I’ll give you, I’m gonna give you my personal story, because I didn’t know about Vestibular disorder. However, there was a time in I’m 73. So I’ve had some peaks and valleys. And in one of my valleys, I was going through a lot of stress, and dizziness to the point where I could barely walk. Now, I thought it was because I was eating and gaining weight, which probably did a tribute to it. But I was really being afraid about why am I dizzy, developed anxiety disorder, afraid to go anywhere where I was alone, and not having to walk by myself. And so some kind of way. I knew if I got back to my teaching classes, even though I might feel fearful that I might get too dizzy. If I just get back to teaching classes again, I’ll feel better. That’s where I began to develop a workout that would keep me from being able to keep me from having to feel be fearful that oh, I’m overworking. And I’m, like I was in my 40s at that time. And the
Dr. Kathleen Stoss, DPT
interject something, let me inject something that you said, that’s really worth repeating. You didn’t wait until you felt better to start your class, you did what you thought you needed to do for health, until you begin and you were thinking that it was going to be helpful, and then you felt better. So this do think feel I talked about this a lot. You know, we can’t wait until we feel good enough, we have to do what we know is going to be useful and helpful. And that is part of our best self, but to do it. And then we might be convinced that it’s going to work. And then we feel better. So we don’t I love that. And I think that bears repeating that doing something even showing up to the class, being social. setting realistic goals and being a part is because you’ll find somebody who will pull you off the wall and bring you in for a little bit at whatever level you can participate in. Right? Right.
Gloria Harris
Well, we sometimes say stop watching and stop doing because we have people come online and we see them just watching. They want to see what it’s about. And then after a while they start bobbing their head or doing something for me. It was knowing that I had to move only because fitness and exercises always pulled me through. I was a single mom of three kids. I had a very high stress job. And no wonder that you know, I was experiencing vertigo, credit to go on cruise not here in Florida, I don’t want to go on a cruise, I want to get dizzy. But what I started fibers, I thought about those people who are fearful to go to the gym. So let’s go back to why we have more folks coming to an online class or to a community class for one, some some seniors, transportation is an issue. For sure. Driving, you know, don’t want to be out of that traffic. And then if you’re in a group fitness class, and I’ve taught many group fitness classes in the gym for 15 years, almost, you want to feel like you can move like everyone else. And if you can’t, that’s discouraging. And as an instructor, you have 1520 people in your class, you can’t single them out, because that makes it worse for them. So when I started firepush It was those personal experiences and talking to other instructors and being a part of a strong senior fitness group that said, Hey, let’s cater let’s cater to those barriers. Let’s let’s we don’t have a problem with time. Let’s remove the transportation, mess, remove the money, let’s remove the fear and tell the look and standing. Do whatever works for you. And that’s all of our classes, whatever whatever format we have, we tell them you can sit or you can stand or you can do both. I even tell them touch the wall lean on the wall lean on it. Yeah, but don’t stop moving to this class is over because that is um
Dr. Kathleen Stoss, DPT
I love it. I love it. You know and when you’re struck with symptoms, whether they’re new and acute, we call it or whether they’re chronic and you have good days and bad days and people in this audience I know are used to saying you know, I can’t I can’t I can’t and it sounds like you are gifted and in removing those barriers and returning can’t to can and can’t Until will even just a little bit.
Gloria Harris
Let me tell you, I have been able to recruit fantastic instructors. These are instructors who already came with their passion. And we do train we do orientation and training every other month. I
Dr. Kathleen Stoss, DPT
think I have a picture of him. So tell me about that kicked.
Gloria Harris
Oh, okay. So the structures you see now and this is three we have 21 instructors on board, community and online. Amir the one on the right with a beautiful smile, and then they’ll cut hair, she has a certification and Parkinson she doesn’t come drumming class on Saturday I thought Saturday’s she brings out the drum she said bring that bring out your school, your thoughts or whatever, we’re gonna drum our way. Now how less intimidated can you be to just sit there and beat drums. Now the one in the middle happens to be my daughter. She’s been teaching classes and known about fit to dance since the 80s when she was a little girl. And so she does the clock she choreographed the songs. And when COVID hit that picture is showing us in her studio. And we’ll talk about how COVID really motivated me to continue. And then we have on the end, one of our instructors at a community class, this particular class has a senior group. So we go to senior groups, and this group has about 65 people in that class. What I love about this class is I was one of the instructors as well. And we saw two of the participants coming in on walkers, they will walk in slowly sign in. And one day I looked around, and this particular participant had the walker to the side and was sitting in a regular chair. It just made my heart jump for joy. Because he lost the fear, she knew she wasn’t gonna follow the chair, but she was always having that Walker right in front of her. And we saw people who came in with walking canes, now they kept that cane nearby, but they put the cane under the chair, sit down in that chair and make out a great workout. So this is just three of the 21 instructors who are passionate and it we don’t just have bring anybody on board either they really have to go through a rigorous recruitment screen to be able to teach
Dr. Kathleen Stoss, DPT
the picture of a class some of the class in the community group. And I love that, you know, it’s come as you are, do what you can, and everybody’s going to get something out of it. Movement is medicine for everybody at every every level. Now when you do the online classes too, and I want to tell people stay with us till the end because at the end, you’re gonna give away a free or you’re, you’re allowing everyone a free 15 minute introductory class at the end of this talk. And I think that’s a really wonderful thing to do to be able to check out how your video classes look, are your video classes, just videos of your community class? Or is that a different experience for the people.
Gloria Harris
Online classes are actually offered to anyone, anyone can come and it’s not just me, this particular one is showing me doing a fitness jam of dance jam. The one thing about the aerobic dance jam that has changed for me over the years is you won’t see me doing a lot of spinning around. There’s no turning. You’re not notice if you turn right then turn left. But that didn’t work for me. So there’s no spinning around. And the space is like a five by five space. So there’s no traveling, you know when you’re terrible, and then you come back and for that, for one. It’s distracting as a online instructor. And the other thing that we have is that when we’re teaching classes because it’s online, we have to face the audience most of the time. So we may decide to show you something but we’re facing the audience. We’re facing that crowd. It’s like Don’t look away from me. Keep your face and so this 15 minute video that I made is a dance. And that is the kind of format that helped me through my vertigo my disease.
Dr. Kathleen Stoss, DPT
Yes, well that’s what you answered it even before I got to ask which was how would it adapt to the needs of someone with dizziness or has problems with balance but you’re right that’s key because I’m sure some of the people watching are going oh, I can’t watch everyone moving in front of me sometimes watching someone else move is triggering. So on the online thing it is accommodates those people who might have some of that motion sensitivity or visual motion sensitivity and they Good to see you. And you’re moving or they’re in, they’re facing forward, and they don’t have to spin and turn and so forth. And that makes it much more tolerable. I think that’s, that’s terrific. Is there music. Of course, there’s
Gloria Harris
music. There’s music, the dance, and we have old school music. I mean, I haven’t used it from the 80s. right on up to real music. Yes, some contemporary music. I like some contemporary music, my grandkids sometime, you know, share their music with me. But what we do is we look for music that has a multi purpose, it has a right the right beats per minute, not super fast. And it has the right lyrics. We won’t party lyrics, even if you can’t understand the words, and most of the people do know the words that sing to it. And the other thing about the online is we don’t force you to show yourself if you know most of our people come on, they don’t show them their face. But those who do, they are Janet back. And at the end of my class, I have a dance time where you can pretend you’re getting on the dance floor with spotlight you and I steal some of their moves and incorporate it in my choreography. The other thing though, is we offer yoga chair yoga. And the yoga is really designed to get all the participants to focus on what they’re doing. Now, now a dance, that’s easy, because you got to follow the moves, and you’re focusing. But with the yoga, we really try to introduce that mindfulness in it. And then we know that variety is the key practice and variety. So we have a balance and flexibility class, oh, next, and incorporate some strength training, but it’s mostly to give you the moves, you need to be able to control your balance. And then of course, we have to have strength training, you know, our instructor, Charles uses stretch bands, weights, water bottles, so we have to have that. And then we also have Tai Chi Chi Gong, and I have a very close family member who is getting through a major surgery. She is doing Tai Chi in bed. We have said that like you can do this in bed and sitting and standing. When we get a testimony of someone saying I just got out of surgery on recuperating at home. I couldn’t do the whole class. But I did that breath work. And I moved what I could move better than money better than in fitness and we don’t need the money. But that’s what motivates us. That it’s
Dr. Kathleen Stoss, DPT
it’s true and and that is a beautiful spirit that she has to be able to adapt that herself and some people need help adapting things. And that’s why I think you know, it you come in to, to play where you can help people, is there a way for people to engage with you? You said chat or online. So if they had questions, I’m having trouble with this. Can you help me adapt it? Is there the ability to to do that?
Gloria Harris
Yes, of course, I’ll tell you our online classes were designed with input from seniors, we had eight seniors that were coming to our community class. So before we even launched, we said tell us, so we know one, we had to increase the font size. Who we had to make sure that you could see the Instructor No clutter around them. And the other thing that they share with us was, we need to be able to ask questions. So we opened up the chat. And we had you know, we have a support email service that will walk people through. This is how you open up the virtual class. This is how you can go into chat. And I’m just amazed at how much chatting goes on during class. So there saying thank you, thank you, thank you. But after yoga and tai chi, and sometimes strength training, someone will put a question in. And so we have a producer, we call him a quality support representative in the background, who will bring those questions up, present them to the instructor, and the instructor will answer so we stay on after the class is over to answer as many questions as we can. Now we’ve got a core following now. And so most of the questions have been answered or he he asked, because we don’t just teach we do more talking along with the movement. And in my class, I am constantly talking. And we start off for the dance classes, the choreography. We start off slow showing you the steps because I’ve been to dance lessons. And I’ve come in the middle of a lesson they’re already moving to the pace and I can’t pick it up. So even though people have come and they know the routine, I show them the steps. So first, and then we go to the beat Have a music, which is a manageable fee. It’s not like Boo, boo, boo, boo, boo, boo, boom, it is a nice controlled beat that you can sit in that chair, you can stand up, and you’re having fun. And the next thing you know, you’re doing a cool down, you know?
Dr. Kathleen Stoss, DPT
So, are they are the online classes on demand? Or do they come in a certain time, they
Gloria Harris
are all live, they are online. Now we have gotten the request to provide recordings. So we have them on our website, we have each one of our instructors has a class that we put on our website. And so one day soon, we’re gonna be on YouTube. And I don’t know about Instagram and Tiktok. Because I think that given an introduction is fine. But I think people once they see that least participate in 1520 or 30 minutes of a workout. And that’s our goal. Our goal marketing is very important. But our goal is once we get your attention, we want you to benefit from it. It’s not it’s free, but it’s not cheap. It’s very fun quality. And instructors are so passionate about their classes that they want to make sure, look, I’m teaching this class, and I have my followers, and I know what they need next. So add variety, you know, like one day, one week, if I last month, I focus on diabetes. And so we had the videos and everything on that this month is on Vestibular Disorders. Yeah, and so that’s our focus not only with our own line class, but also with our community classes. So that train is going through for the whole, anybody who’s affiliated with fiber, still hear the same focus, or whatever that help topic and subject is for that month. A
Dr. Kathleen Stoss, DPT
couple of things about that. So this is unique, what I really like is it’s not just an on demand video, there are lots of those exercise videos available that you really by having an assigned time that you show up, let’s say you’re in the one o’clock class, you might develop your own community at one o’clock, there’s chatting, you’ll get to see and be present with the same people. And if you make a regular schedule, and I think that discipline is, hey, it’s New Years. So it’s time it’s a great time to make these resolutions to say schedule and discipline yourself to try to participate in something like that on a regular in in a routine. And I think that’s, that’s very helpful. And I can see that that would be nice for people to show up to a class and then you notice if they’re missing, and you would never,
Gloria Harris
absolutely, we are live classes started in 2020. So this is how COVID motivated me. In March, we get the email and then notice that all of our community classes Stop, just stop just like that, like no more. And my mind went to you can’t do that to the scenes, we got them coming on a regular basis, you just can’t. That’s like stopping in the middle of running without cooling down. And so I got together with some of the instructors, and they were just as upset as I was. And I said, Well, you know, we were playing around with doing virtual for Assisted Living locations who they, they did not allow too many people to come in. And I programmed, we can send in a substitute store for change instructor. So we were already toying with that idea. How do we get virtual in these locations. So we get these eight and a seniors. They’re upset, oh, four or five, most of them didn’t know anything about virtual and not a grandkids are not there to help them. Push the buttons. And so when we designed this class in 2020, some of those same seniors are still coming. And they feel like it is a family. Yeah. And we have had some who’ve been not showing up. And we will send a text because we have we have connections we have we have right now we’ve got about 1000 registered seniors, we’re trying to get at least 50% of them to come to class. They come they come they come they go. But we understand that there are reasons there are legitimate reasons why some people cannot come to class. But over these years, it has formed a family. It’s just amazing. And it’s online. You don’t even see them. I see their name. Sometimes I’ll see an instructor and then I’ll see one of my participants who usually keeps her video on that hasn’t been there a while and I just have to call them out and say hey, I’m so glad to see you’re back. I don’t even know why I don’t I need to know why you weren’t in life happens. I’m just glad you’re back. And I just know firstly, now in the community, that’s a bit of a stronger bond, because though they really get to know each other, and they get to do other activities in addition to their fitness class, but I’m just amazed how online you just form a family.
Dr. Kathleen Stoss, DPT
Well, it’s true. We have been it has online support groups that meet and then of course, Facebook is has many kinds of groups where people find community online. So I think that’s a really, really nice thing people want to belong. And I think once you, you have these health topics you said, and I know that I saw a picture of you with some fruit. So you educate you exercise, you help people live that holistic, healthy lifestyle. Tell me about this? Well, I
Gloria Harris
brought the fruit. But we had another nutritionist from the University of Florida who was doing a talk. And I realized that talk is easy. People will listen to hear it all the time. Eat right, here’s the food plate. So I decided, let me bring you some fruit, that what you can’t send that pitches next to the fruit or the sugary cookies.
Dr. Kathleen Stoss, DPT
I see those I do see them. I was like now
Gloria Harris
would you rather have the sugary cookie, you know, you’re probably borderline diabetic and the sugars not where would you rather have the sugar in this orange and this pear, and the fruit wedfest, the sugar, sugar cookie stayed on the table. And so what we try to do is give them topics that connect to them, like this month, when we talk about the Vestibular disorder, people are gonna be very, very pleased to hear because many of them are experiencing dizziness. And they could be attributed to a lot of things, but to know that there’s an association that can give them the resources that they need to get to the bottom line. And as a physical therapist, I have gone to physical therapists because you know, I think I can do things and I can’t. And I’m like, it’s gonna hurt. That’s why I’m in there because I did something and it’s hurting. But in my class, I encourage the participants that if you have an opportunity, not from but I mean, the opportunity is not going to be a nice one because you injure yourself. But don’t back away from your PT, don’t back away from the keep your appointments go to that physical therapist, I went. And the moves were so simple. I had an SR jaw dislocation. It was so simple, so easy. I’m like, this is not working. But it worked. I was trying to do things on my own. Like, let me google it. I’ll figure it out. Didn’t work. I went to my physical therapist, he hit me up and going in about three weeks. And that was just going twice a week to him. I mean, I did my other things in between, that I was missing my class. And I was acting like I’m okay, forget I was 70 3072.
Dr. Kathleen Stoss, DPT
Well, chances are in every class, no matter where you go, you’re going to have a certain number of people who’ve experienced dizziness and imbalance because of a Vestibular disorder because it is so common one in four people will have a Vestibular problem or symptom at some point in their life. And so you know, just by the numbers, you’ll be finding people and they’ll be talking about and of course, we appreciate you pointing them to beat up and those in the audience listening today know that once it entered their life, they all of a sudden became an ambassador for awareness about Vestibular Disorders, what it is and that you’re not making it up and you’re not crazy, and you have every right and opportunity and support to live as normal a life as possible. And regardless of the Vestibular diagnosis, movement is medicine. And I know with Vestibular disorders, they can go from something that is a temporary condition like benign positional vertigo, where you can maybe become just completely free of symptoms with the right treatment to something that’s chronic and long lasting. And those are independent of age. So you’ve spoken about the elderly, but I think when but your classes that accommodate physical disabilities, and accommodating or managing the amount of movement and turning, those really are focused in and appropriate for the Vestibular community again, regardless of age, so you don’t have to be a senior to participate with you, Gloria and your group, right and firepush
Gloria Harris
we quickly, we still focus in it. Most of our promotion is on seniors and elderly, but we know that people are coming into our classes who are younger. In fact, some kids come you know, I guess somebody’s watching them and we see two or three kids in the class. They’re not doing exactly what we’re doing, but they’re having fun. And so that’s why we say anyone with mobility challenges And that could be across the age across gender is it makes, I think it makes for awhile it was making younger people younger like 3035 feeling that, oh, I can’t come to this class because this is for my mom. And I don’t want to take this from my mom. And I’m looking at them. And I’m like, You know what you need this class because you’ve been sitting all day in a cubicle, and you can see stress on you. Keep the jogging up, keep all of that high intensity, but try slowing down a little bit and focusing on your movements for health, like you say movement is medicine. Focus on that. So a lot of in fact, we recruited one of our instructors through her mom, her mom was coming to our class, she came to the class to see what mom was doing. It’s like you say you go into Zumba. I need to see what this Zumba is because I think she was at that time in her late 70s or early 80s. As she came to the class, and I saw her move in and I said you need to start teaching. You need to become an instructor for us. And she did we trained her we got a certified and she taught us for many, many years. And so mom brought her daughter in. And we’ve had some mother daughter, you know, sit combinations and our community classes. But any age, I mean, like I said, I was in my early 40s When I was experiencing the disease, know about this association. Fill it out myself. Had I known snowing that there was a support group that there were other people. And of course, they always say, Well, you need therapy get to psychiatrists or psychologists like it’s all in my mind. It’s like, Listen, I’m about to fall on the sidewalk. That’s not in my mind. I’m not making
Dr. Kathleen Stoss, DPT
this. Who would choose this is right, you know, who would choose to feel this way? I would certainly not. So that that’s important. And I I want to remind people again, where they can find you. And also want to direct people to the Vestibular Disorders Association website at Vestibular dot o RG, where you can find articles, we have specific articles on fall prevention, Tai Chi, Yoga, home based exercise, and there are tools there and then it sounds like with firebush they also have resources and organization and in these classes, you you’re really doing a great job for covering a holistic approach to health in weather and educating people because knowledge is power. If you want to email Gloria is this right free [email protected]. And, and I know at your website, it has have how to connect them. It and you mentioned physical therapy and I just want to always direct people to if you are needing help finding a provider for your Vestibular problem, don’t forget the stimulus health Vestibular dot o RG and VITAS Healthcare directory, you can go in there, put in your location or your zip code and find a qualified Vestibular provider to help you diagnose and treat your disorder efficiently and accurately. Because that’s why we’re here. And we are happy to be able to bring to you information on these virtual classes that are appropriate and available to all those in the Vestibular Disorders community. Go ahead and tell them again, one more time, I think we’ve had a great lively discussion. And we’ve got we have such great production in the back answering all the questions. If you have any questions for her, go ahead and ask them in the chat. But I think Cynthia is on it. And has has directed people to all the answers and then tell them where they can find you GLORIA All
Gloria Harris
right. So um, if you go to firebase.org, we have all of our online classes on the website. But if you also click to register, you will see our other classes. So we just started last Saturday, one o’clock classes where it’s really focused on medical condition and addressing health issues where you can have a chance to talk so those classes are 30 minutes. Monday through Friday classes are 45 minutes to an hour. And we have a lot of pictures in the gallery of blog. Our whole thing is to let you have fun getting in shape and improving your health. It’s about whatever age you are you want a good quality of life. And so the video you’re gonna see Yeah, that’s me You know, I just get crazy, but know that we have strength training yoga, tai chi, find the movement that works for you. After a while if you’re not a dizzy now, don’t stop working out because you want to prevent it. You want to maintain that good health So enjoy the video. We have more on our website next time
Dr. Kathleen Stoss, DPT
and Excellent thank you for joining us it was a pleasure and I’m going to stand up and do this video and we’re all going to feel better. So thank you again for joining us if you’d like more information but a Vestibular dot o RG remember that we appreciate and need your continuing support here we go we’re gonna take a look at this
Gloria Harris
we’re gonna move like Jagger yeah you ready? I’m gonna show you to move slow in the beginning and then we’re gonna pick speed it up to the beat of the music stars like this please keep down and remember to keep that posture right and breathe to the beat of the music across your chest right now they’re eager to show you got the movie Dagenham Can you move it move it feels a bit of amusing now it’s me a make you barely got yo come on yeah speeded up right down moving moving spin that name how to make me smile this back just a little bit. Now push it to the side you can say beta for the spin it’s about Dr. Phil that stresses that field out at the plane above that ankle and push it up Hey, hey. Stop. Breathe and I breathe and we’re gonna move move to your range of motion for you Hey
Dr. Kathleen Stoss, DPT
ready to Vestibular dot o RG for more videos like this one. Also there you’ll find information support and encouragement to help you find your journey back to balance