Classes
Mobility and Balance
Instructor: Courtney
In this class we will work on your balance, strength, and mobility to help you move better through life. Class will consist of barre work, chair work, and strengthening using Thera-bands and/or small weights. These are appropriate for any level. We will modify all exercises to make sure you are working within your comfort zone.
About Courtney
Courtney has been a personal trainer through AFAA since Dec 2006, Certified in Corrective Exercise, and has 15 years of dancing experience. Her goal is to help her clients become empowered through body and mind and helping them to lead a fulfilling life.
Frequency: Weekly
Tai Chi
Instructor: Harry Grimm
Open the Door to Tai Chi is a beginner class that is easily adapted to either standing or seated movements. This basic program strips away the nuances of tai chi that often make it seem difficult or out of reach for many people.
About Harry
Grimm has been involved with teaching movement, better health and fitness since 1984. Since that time he has taught thousands to be safer, healthier and more confident in their everyday lives mostly through the study of martial arts.
Frequency: Weekly
Foundation Training
Instructor: Harry Grimm
Foundation Training is a safe and effective exercise program created to help change movement patterns. These simple and transformative exercises are designed to naturally heal back pain, strengthen your core, and improve posture. You will feel the difference.
About Harry
Grimm has been involved with teaching movement, better health and fitness since 1984. Since that time he has taught thousands to be safer, healthier and more confident in their everyday lives mostly through the study of martial arts.
Frequency: Weekly
Mat Yoga
Instructor: Elaine Malone
Mind-body therapies like yoga are also a practical therapeutic approach in MS because of their low risk of physical stress. An added benefit is the ability to calm yourself and decrease stress through breathing and meditation techniques.
About Elaine
Elaine’s classes are geared towards increasing balance and strength with an emphasis on functional movement, with the realization that everyone’s functional movement may not be the same. “I work with one’s abilities and emphasize it is a yoga practice….not yoga perfect.” Classes are modified for those who need to practice from a chair, as well as those who want to take their practice further.
Frequency: Weekly
Chair Yoga
Instructor: Elaine Malone
Mind-body therapies like yoga are also a practical therapeutic approach in MS because of their low risk of physical stress. An added benefit is the ability to calm yourself and decrease stress through breathing and meditation techniques.
About Elaine
Elaine’s classes are geared towards increasing balance and strength with an emphasis on functional movement, with the realization that everyone’s functional movement may not be the same. “I work with one’s abilities and emphasize it is a yoga practice….not yoga perfect.” Classes are modified for those who need to practice from a chair, as well as those who want to take their practice further.
Frequency: Weekly
Functional Core Training
Instructor: Spencer Richardson or Samantha Huntington
Meant2Move
Certified Instructors Samantha Huntington or Spencer Richardson
This class uses bodyweight exercises to help strengthen the core muscles and stabilize the spine during movements. (No equipment necessary.)
Register at Spencer.richardson317@gmail.com or (239) 919-4733
About Spencer
Years of helping clients reach their goals has lead me to a holistic approach to health and fitness. Extensive education and experience in human movement has helped me completely customize my client’s workouts and stretch routines. Maximizing someone’s health and fitness starts with assessing exactly what they need! Proper posture, muscular balance, movement patterns, and old injuries are all accounted for when I help clients take back responsibility for how they look and feel.
Frequency: Weekly
Flexibility Training
Instructor: Spencer Richardson or Samantha Huntington
Meant2Move
This class uses beginner stretching exercises to help relieve tension and stiffness from the whole body.
Register at Spencer.richardson317@gmail.com or (239) 919-4733
About Samantha
Samantha’s passion for fitness started with gymnastics where she successfully competed through school and college across the State and Nationally within England. After college she was appointed head coach for a club outside of London and coached women’s artistic gymnastics at a high performance level for a number of years.
Frequency: Weekly
Ellio Pilates for MS
Instructor: Vicki Brown
This Pilates class focuses on the needs of those with multiple sclerosis. Includes breath work, flexibility, core strength, balance, stress relief and more. Work is done standing, seated on chair and/ or mat.
You will need a mat or towel and a chair (preferably a harder chair without arms).
Please call Vicki at 239.770.8670 to register.
About Vicki
I love to work with a wide variety of ages and needs, and have had years of experience working with mature clients, as well as with special conditions like Arthritis, ALS, MS and Parkinson’s Disease. I also specialize in posture and movement patterns that can be life changing.
Frequency: Weekly
Classes are for Registered Clients
Classes and services of the Multiple Sclerosis Center of Southwest Florida are for qualified registered clients and their care-givers. To become a client, contact Beth@MSCenterswfl.org.
