Spinning Wheels
Coming Home
and
Looking Forward
Community Focus! Ideal for people with Parkinson's, for people who care about people with Parkinson's, or just anyone interested in Parkinson's and how to live better with the disease. Register Now!
Sessions Include: Urban Poling, Stretching, Cycling, Support Groups for People with Parkinson's and People who Care about People with Parkinson's, Art, Boxing, Yoga, and PWR!
Registration is now CLOSED. If you have just discovered that you can attend the Retreat please email jimandkristap4p@gmail.com
October 22nd and 23rd: Mt Tabor Fairgrounds, Milford, ON
Coming Home and
Looking Forward
Oct 22-23, 2022
2179 COUNTY ROAD 17 C,
Milford, ON K0K 2P0
The Spinning Wheels Tour has successfully completed their journey across Canada. Their message to people with Parkinson's is twofold: get active in any way you love and find your community to provide you with support and hope. People need to be empowered to know that hiding from their diagnosis is not the answer. Partners, families and friends need to know where to find answers. The Coming Home and Looking Forward retreat is a chance to bring people connected to this disease together to meet each other, form community, share resources and try many different and beneficial activities.
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OUR SESSION VOLUNTEERS
We have secured some of the best people in the field of helping people with Parkinson's Disease
to try and bring you the best experience possible.
Sunhan Anderson
Physiotherapist
Sunhan completed her doctorate degree in Physical Therapy in 2006 at the University of Minnesota. She is certified in LSVT BIG, PWR! Moves, and Rock Steady Boxing. She is an Urban Poling Master Trainer. Sunhan's main focus is on the rehabilitation of people with neurological diagnoses, with a specialty in Parkinson's Disease. Sunhan strives to promote an active lifestyle and helps people return to activities that bring joy in their lives by providing evidence-based treatment.
Sue Smith
Physiotherapist
Susan has been a neurological physiotherapist for over 20 years. She is a clinician and past owner / clinic director of a private neuro-rehabilitation clinic in Ottawa. Susan has focussed her career on the assessment and treatment of neurological disorders. Over the past 12 years her caseload and continued education direction have primarily focussed on Parkinson’s Disease (PD). Susan is passionate about working with people with PD and helping / empowering them to manage their disease, improve their functional abilities and quality of life so that they can live well with PD. Susan is an advanced level Bobath therapist, expert level John Barnes Myofascial Release therapist, a certified LSVT BIG clinician (research-based exercise protocol program for PD), a trained PWR! clinician (Parkinson Wellness Recovery Approach) and PWR!Moves instructor and a Rock Steady certified coach, (using boxing techniques as an intense exercise to impact PD).
Erin O'Brien
Erin O’Brien is a passionate PWR!Moves Parkinson’s Fitness Instructor and Personal Trainer in Kingston, Ontario.
Erin's PWR!Moves classes give her constant opportunities to witness amazing growth and improvement in participants' mobility and strength. She loves seeing their optimism and determination improve as their hard work unleashes new kinds of power. It is especially exciting to watch participants begin to achieve more than they ever thought they could!
Erin loves that the PWR!Moves teaching program is research based and has been proven to help improve a variety of Parkinson’s symptoms. She is devoted to serving the Parkinson’s community and celebrates every chance to connect with PWP and their care partners.
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Randy Brotman
B.Soc. Sc. Hon Rec Personal Trainer Specialist Parkinson’s Cycle Coach PWR!Moves Instructor Randy has been a personal trainer for the past 18 years. The last 6 years with a focus on exercises and sport directed to the Parkinson’s community. She has been actively involved with the Toronto based Rigid Riders cycling group and has started a Parkinson’s specific cycle class that continues to operate online via Zoom. Randy has certifications from the Brian Grant Foundation ( Exercise for Parkinson’s Training), Neurofundamentals & Essentials of Elite Performance Training from Z Health (Neurocentric training for health and fitness professionals.) Her work’s focus is on ‘being active to stay active’. Vigorous exercise is a key component of her programming approach. Emphasis always placed on understanding how to find new ways to approach old tasks all while in a safe, encouraging and FUN environment.
Ali Muir
Physiotherapist
Alison is an experienced neuro physiotherapist with over 30 years working in neurological rehabilitation. She is an Advanced Bobath trained therapist and uses combined treatment approaches, incorporating Myofascial Release, Bobath and neurological researched based principals. She is an LSVT BIG Clinician and also certified as a BIG for Life Clinician, a PWR!(Parkinson Wellness Recovery) Therapist and PWR! Instructor, a Certified Rock Steady Boxing Coach and has PD Warrior Level 1 & 2 Certification. Alison has experience with Atypical Parkinson’s including Progressive Supranuclear Palsy (PSP), Multiple System Atrophy (MSA), Corticobasal Degeneration (CBD), Dementia with Lewy Bodies (DLB) & Vascular Parkinsonism. She has achieved ‘Advanced’ level in the John F. Barnes Myofascial Release curriculum and is certified to teach both Nordic walking and Activator pole use. Both are excellent tools to increase the intensity of walking, which is of particular importance in the management of people with Parkinson’s.
Alison has also been a Consultant (pro bono) to Boxing4Health and volunteered her time for many years, to coach and educate the trainers and works with the boxers. The class setting is an ideal environment for support and camaraderie for people with Parkinson’s. Consultation involves ensuring that the exercise classes follow the principles of Parkinson’s research for exercise on amplitude and intensity, pioneered by Dr. Becky Farley and her research. Ali is also a consultant volunteering her time with the PWR! Retreat - a retreat and conference for people with Parkinson’s and their care partners. Alison also brought PWR! to Ottawa for the PWR! MOVES instructor course.
Highlights:
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LSVT BIG® Clinician (for Parkinson's Disease)
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LSVT BIG® for Life Certified Clinician
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PWR! Moves® Therapist
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PWR! Moves® Certified Instructor
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Rocky Steady Boxing Coach
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PD Warrior ® Level 1 & 2
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Nordic Pole Walking Instructor
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Activator Pole Walking Instructor
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Advanced John F. Barnes Myofascial Release Approach™ therapist
Advanced Bobath Approach Physiotherapist
Kristina McIntosh
Dance Instructor
Kristina McIntosh trained at the Pia Bouman School for Ballet and Creative Movement, Quinte Ballet School of Canada and dance intensives at Banff Centre for the Performing Arts, Pittsburgh Ballet School and Princeton Ballet School. Upon graduation, she attended Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University), graduating with a Theatre Diploma and Royal Academy of Dance teaching certificate. Kristina performed with the Paula Moreno Spanish Dance company before starting her teaching career with the Pia Bouman School for Ballet and Creative Movement. In 2000, Kristina joined the faculty of the Quinte Ballet School of Canada for both the Professional and Recreation divisions. She has a teaching certificate from the Cecchetti Society, and teaches their Dancing with Parkinson’s program at QBSC
Saturday Night
Spinning Wheels Tour at Slake Brewery
The Spinning Wheels Tour was a cross Country cycling tour held this past Summer. Three people with Parkinson's and One Person Who Cares started their journey on June 25th in Victoria. They reached Conception Bay South, Newfoundland on September 17th. The journey consisted of 8000km cycling and 50,000m of elevation gain. Along the way the Spinning Wheels Tour raised awareness about Parkinson's Disease, the benefit of Community, and the positive impact of strenuous activity. They also raised over $120,000!
Come meet Darlene Richards-Loghrin, Mike Loghrin, Steve Iseman, and Jim Redmond at Slake Brewery at 7pm as they talk about their 3 month adventure. Thanks very much to Slake Brewing for providing us an amazing location!
The Spinning Wheels Tour Team!
