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Yoga for Carepartners

Schedule: Thursdays

Time: 10:00a - 11:30a
Location: Resilient Living Center | Movement Studio
Facilitator: Kate Keefe
Cost: Members $220 | Non-Members $275 | Drop-in $20/session
PLEASE NOTE: If you will drop in, please register at least 24 hours in advance of the class you plan to attend.

Designed for: Individuals who consider themselves a carepartner to someone living with dementia
Open to: Exclusive to individuals who consider themselves a carepartner to someone living with dementia

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Course Description:

This small group program introduces the benefits of yoga to carepartners. Explore ways to become grounded, refreshed, and rejuvenated while connecting with a community of others that share the experience, challenges, and stressors of being a carepartner.

This course will introduce a series of adapted postures to help relax, stretch, and strengthen your muscles and breathing techniques that can help you improve your health, wellbeing, and stress management.

This class is an invitation to make time for self-care, take a break, and explore new ideas to help manage stressors associated with being in the role care partner. Chairs and mats will be accessible to all.

In this class you will learn:

- A series of adapted postures

- Breathing techniques

- Strategies to support coping
- To re-frame your reactions in response to stressors
- Techniques to help improve sleep

Facilitator Biography

Kate Keefe OTD, OTR/L| Wellbeing Director of Healthy Lifestyle Innovation
Kate Keefe, OTD, OTR/L, Therapy Practice Lead at LiveWell has over 24 years of experience working with persons living with cognitive change related to Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia. As an occupational therapy practitioner, Kate focuses on discovering the retained abilities of persons living with cognitive change and teaching care partners how to adapt the environment and communication to support their loved one’s best ability to function.

Kate recognizes the stressors associated with being in the role of care partner. As an OT (Occupational Therapist), she builds awareness with care partners to support their own health and wellbeing by making slight changes to practice self-care and use various stress management techniques.

Kate studied and received her Yoga Teacher Training (YTT) 200-hundred-hour certification in 2007. She has facilitated many yoga classes over the years to support adults and seniors as they explored self-care practices to promote healthy postural alignment, safe movement, and deep relaxation through use of yoga breathing techniques and spiritual exploration.

When:

Thursday, February 15, 2024, 10:00 AM until Thursday, April 18, 2024, 11:30 AM

Where:

Resilient Living Center | Movement Studio
1261 South Main Street
Southington, CT 06479

860.628.9000