Friends Life Care's 2012 VigR Enrichment Workshops brochure.

1. Fall 2012
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Enrichment
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© 2012 Friends Life Care
Workshops
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For More Information
For answers to your questions, including
information on registration, refunds, discounts
and cancellation policies, please contact:
Friends Life Care
Elise Lamarra, RN, BSN
Vice President of Clinical Operations VigR™ is a proactive, research-based
Phone: 215-628-8964 program that helps participants
E-mail: elamarra@friendslifecare.org improve their current quality of life and
the trajectory of their aging experience.

2. VigR: A Program From Friends Life Care
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Finding Inner Peace Through Yoga
New Workshops Added! Erika Tennebaum and Tina Devine, Workshop Leaders
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The word vigor means “active bodily or mental strength or force.” Vigor makes the oga has been practiced for more than 5,000 years. Today, nearly 11 million
difference between aging and aging well. Although Americans are living longer, Americans enjoy its many scientifically demonstrated benefits for body
we’re not necessarily living better. Many adults spend years, or even decades, and mind. If you have ever wanted to try yoga and meditation, but felt
in a state of steady decline. VigR™ is uncomfortable jumping into an ongoing class at a gym or studio, this course is
designed to help change all that. Pursue VigR at Home for you. Here’s your chance to learn about and experience the ancient practice
in a supportive, educational environment. This active six-session workshop
Explore VigR in the classroom
VigR=Vigor includes discussion of the eight-fold path of yoga, a gentle practice of asanas
and at home, too, with VigR
At Friends Life Care, we believe a eMeetinghouse, our unique (postures) and experimentation with a different meditative technique each week.
combination of vitality, independence, online community. Connect Please wear comfortable clothing. Yoga mats are provided for all participants.
growth and resilience (VigR) is with fellow attendees, share your Erika Tennebaum is a certified yoga instructor at the YogaLife
required to stave off the effects of ideas, and see how your fellow Institute where she completed the 500-hour yoga teaching
chronological aging. That’s why we’ve classmates are doing. Also as a certification program and is currently enrolled in the yoga therapy
created a program to help participants VigR participant, you’ll receive training program. She was a contributing writer to Yoga Living
understand and improve these four a take-home binder for each magazine, teaches private yoga lessons, has led yoga workshops
essential factors. workshop you attend to help you and weekend retreats, and teaches classes tailored for older adults.
remember and apply what you’ve Tina Devine, M.A., is a certified yoga instructor. She also completed the
VigR Enrichment Workshops learned. 500-hour yoga teaching certification program at the YogaLife Institute
We are delighted with the success of our where she teaches meditation. During her more than 20 years of yoga
VigR program and the funding we have secured to support practice, Devine has trained other instructors in both the yogic and
it. With the aid of grant monies, we can offer our fall 2012 Buddhist traditions. She is best known for combining meditation, yoga
Online Enrichment Workshops at the same drastically reduced and storytelling to create integrated, engaging classes.
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R egistrat prices as the spring courses, making them available to a
Now wider audience. Presented by respected leaders in their Mondays thursdays
Ava ilable! fields, these interactive educational sessions explore Oct. 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 Oct. 4, 11, 18, 25
diverse topics, from exercise to improving emotional Nov. 1, 8
Nov. 5
resilience.
10:30 a.m. to Noon 10:30 a.m. to Noon
Enroll Now and Save Even More
In addition to our special fall 2012 pricing, we are also offering an early-bird Location Location
registration incentive. See page 11 for details. Now you can register either by mail YogaLife Institute St. Dunstan’s Church
or online with a credit card. Just visit www.friendslifecare.org and click on the VigR 111 Lancaster Avenue 750 Skippack Pike
Enrichment Workshops tab on the left-hand column. Devon, PA 19333 Blue Bell, PA 19422
Tuition (includes DVD and yoga mat)-space is limited
Our VigR Enrichment Workshops are made possible in part through generous support from:
Friends Life Care Member $105
Enterprise Foundation
Evans Assistance Fund Non-member $125
Friends Foundation for the Aging
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3. Exercise: A Prescription for Vitality NEW! Unlock the Health Secrets of Tai Chi
Brian Walls, Workshop Leader Steven Arbitman, Workshop Leader
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ew factors contribute as much to vital aging as an active lifestyle. Emerging any benefits of the ancient Chinese discipline of tai chi have been
research indicates that even moderate amounts of aerobic exercise promote documented. Considered the “supreme ultimate” martial art, tai chi seeks
neuronal growth in the brain. This active six-week program teaches participants to develop body and spirit. It can help enhance balance and prevent falls,
about the nature of movement and provides pain-free ways to exercise and strengthen increase resistance to disease (including osteoporosis), improve mood and alleviate
the body. Each 90-minute session covers issues of fitness and aging and also serves as depression, and increase leg strength. This active six-session workshop teaches
an exercise class. Brian Walls introduces fun new exercises that may help improve and participants of any fitness level and ability about the breathing, stretching and leg
prolong your life. You’ll leave this workshop with a personal exercise routine specific strengthening that is part of the slow, meditative movements of tai chi. Participants
to your fitness level and an exclusive DVD with all course exercises demonstrated should wear comfortable clothing.
by the instructor. Among previous participants, 90% demonstrated improvement in
Steve Arbitman is a teacher by training and currently holds classes for
eight specific areas of strength and endurance. Participants should wear comfortable
healthy seniors under the auspices of Chestnut Hill Hospital. He has
clothing.
practiced tai chi for over 40 years, and has earned awards and medals in
Brian Walls, DPT, USAW, is the cofounder and lead strength and regional tai chi competitions. He has been a student of Laoshi John Chen
conditioning coach at Whole Health 4 You Rehabilitation and Fitness in at the Ba’Z Tai Chi Studio since 1997. Arbitman was granted permission
Philadelphia. A trained physical therapist, Walls specializes in creating to teach in 2004. He has taught classes and demonstrated tai chi for
programs that enhance physical fitness and improve everyday quality of people all ages at health clubs, assisted living centers, children’s summer camps and tai
movement. He has served as an adjunct professor at Chestnut Hill chi festivals.
College and conducts certification workshops for fitness instructors in
the Philadelphia area. Walls also serves as a wellness coordinator at Friends Life Care.
Location
Fridays
Tuition
Tuesdays Wednesdays Ba’z Tai Chi Studio
Oct. 5, 12, 19, 26
5235-43 Ridge Avenue
Oct. 2, 16, 23, 30 Oct. 3, 10, 17, 24, 31 Nov. 2, 9 2nd Floor
Nov. 6, 13 Nov. 7
Philadelphia, PA 19128
10:30 a.m. to Noon
10:30 a.m. to Noon 9 to 10:30 a.m.
Location Location
IHM Conference Center Friends Center City Riverfront
(St. Aloysius Center) Community Room
401 South Bryn Mawr Avenue 22 South Front Street
Bryn Mawr, PA 19010 Philadelphia, PA 19106
Tuition (includes exercise DVD)
Friends Life Care Member $105 Friends Life Care Member $105
Non-member $125 Non-member $125
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4. Improving Sleep for Better Health Navigating Transitions in the Second Half of Life
Michael Grandner, Workshop Leader Paul Hilt, Workshop Leader
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leep is as crucial to overall health and well-being as physical activity and good s we age, change is inevitable. Our children leave the nest. We spend a
nutrition, yet millions of Americans forgo sufficient sleep or suffer from sleep lifetime working, and then face retirement or semi-retirement. Physically,
problems that prevent them from obtaining adequate rest. Left untreated, sleep it becomes more difficult to do things. Personal changes can force us to
problems can take a serious toll on health and significantly reduce quality of life. This rethink who we are and what we genuinely want. In four sessions, this engaging
three-session workshop introduces the science of sleep and helps participants better program takes you through a series of practical activities to help you choose how to
understand the relationship between sleep, health and longevity. Michael Grandner live meaningfully in the next stage of life. Active discussion with Paul Hilt and like-
provides techniques for maximizing sleep, separates truth from myth, and helps minded participants provides down-to-earth support, perspective and guidance.
participants recognize and manage common sleep issues. Participants keep a sleep The end result: increased clarity about the path ahead and greater focus on the next
diary and complete a questionnaire, then receive a detailed interpretation of their steps. As one Friends Life Care member said after participating in this workshop,
personal sleep habits at the end of the program. “This is the best six hours I’ve ever spent in a course.” A book and online strengths
assessment are included. Optional one-to-one coaching is available for an additional
Michael Grandner, PhD, is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of
fee, after the course ends.
Pennsylvania Center for Sleep and Circadian Neurobiology. Grandner
studies the way sleep and sleep-related behaviors relate to longevity, Paul Hilt is the founder of Hilt & Associates, a coaching and consulting
mental health, obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease. He is an organization. He is best known for his innovative Wind-At-Your-Back
active member of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, the Sleep Coaching Process. Hilt works with a wide variety of clients, including
Research Society, the Society for Behavioral Sleep Medicine and the ARAMARK, Citizens Bank, the Social Security Administration, Girl
Pennsylvania Sleep Society, for which he serves on the board of directors. Many of his Scouts of the USA and numerous school districts. He cofounded the
papers have been published in peer-reviewed scientific journals. Knowledge Management Group of Philadelphia and has taught graduate
and executive MBA classes at St. Joseph’s University.
Location
wednesdays
Media Municipal Center
Oct. 10, 17, 24 Parlor Room Location
Tuesdays
301 N. Jackson Street Doylestown Country Club
10:30 a.m. to Noon Oct. 30 401 Pebble Road
Media, PA 19063
Nov. 6, 13, 20 Doylestown, PA 18901
6:30 to 8 p.m.
Tuition (includes a computerized sleep analysis) Tuition (includes Strength Finders book and assessment)
Friends Life Care Member $85 Friends Life Care Member $105
Non-member $105 Non-member $125
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5. NEW! Meditation for Memory and - SESSI NEW! Explore Your Future
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strategies for envisioning a purposeful and rewarding future. The session
indicates that meditating regularly can change brain
provides practical ways to reach your goals by addressing a variety of questions: What
structure—and in just a few months. After eight weeks of mindfulness-
has influenced me? Who am I now? How can I realize my dreams? How do I create
based stress reduction, a type of meditation, this small research study used MRI
an engaged life? Whether you are thinking about life after the end of a career or you
scans to demonstrate significant gray matter density growth in areas of the brain
are starting a new one, this moving program helps you begin an internal dialogue and
involved in learning and memory, empathy and compassion, sense of self, and
consider what is truly important.
emotional regulation, when compared with a control group. Decrease in gray
matter of the amygdala also correlated with a decrease in self-reported stress levels Mady Prowler, MSW, is the Assistant Director of Coming of Age and
of study participants. This 90-minute session teaches meditation practices that can the editor and publisher of “Inspiring Opportunities,” an e-newsletter
help sharpen and calm the mind. Participants receive a copy of Butera’s book on that provides a listing of paid and unpaid work opportunities, community
meditation. events, and timely news for people aged 50 and over in the Philadelphia
area. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, Prowler has served
in executive and marketing communications positions and as a
Robert Butera, M.Div., Ph.D., directs The YogaLife Institute in Devon,
consultant for several nonprofits and government agencies. She serves on the executive
Pennsylvania. He trains meditation and yoga teachers and yoga
board of the National Adoption Center and is a charter member of the Parent-Alumni
therapists. Butera publishes Yoga Living magazine. The yoga programs
Council at The Philadelphia School.
follow his books, “Classical Yoga Study Guide” (2001), “The Pure
Heart of Yoga: 10 Essential Steps to Transformation” (Llewellyn, 2009)
Location
and “Meditation for Your Life: Creating a Plan That Suits Your Style” Thursday
Free Library of Philadelphia
(Llewellyn, 2012).
Oct. 25 1901 Vine Street
Location Philadelphia, PA 19103
Thursday 10:30 a.m. to Noon
YogaLife Institute
Oct. 18 111 Lancaster Avenue
Devon, PA 19333
Noon to 1:30 p.m.
Tuition (includes lunch and a book) Tuition
Friends Life Care Member $45 Friends Life Care Member Free
Non-member $55 Non-member Free
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Participants receive the “Hay Group Resilience Workbook”—a self-guided tour E-mail Address
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them. The workbook also provides access to the Resilience Factor Inventory, a web-
Course Selection Please check workshop title and location and circle price.
based assessment that measures your current level of resilience.
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Workshop Title
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q Finding Inner Peace Through Yoga $105 $125
Dean Becker, is managing director and cofounder of Adaptiv Learning
q Devon, PA q Blue Bell, PA
Systems, an organization that develops and delivers resilience training
programs to companies, schools and individuals worldwide. Becker q Exercise: A Prescription for Vitality $105 $125
holds a BA in psychology and an MBA. A recognized expert in the q Philadelphia, PA q Bryn Mawr, PA
field of individual and organizational resilience, Becker is a popular
q Unlock the Health Secrets of Tai Chi $105 $125
executive coach, facilitator and speaker. He has delivered hundreds of
presentations and workshops on resilience to Fortune 100 companies, including q Improving Sleep for Better Health $85 $105
Verizon, Merck, Johnson & Johnson and Sprint Nextel. Becker is a member of Friends q Navigating Transitions in the Second Half of Life $105 $125
Life Care.
q Meditation for Memory and Mood $45 $55
Location
Tuesday q Exploring Your Future Free Free
Church on the Mall
Nov. 13 Plymouth Meeting Mall q Boost Your Resilience! $45 $55
500 West Germantown Pike Early-bird discount: Take $10 off each course (see details)
Noon to 1:30 p.m. Plymouth Meeting, PA 19462
Total $ $
Early-Bird Discount – Save $10
Enroll at least one week before the start date and take $10 off the tuition fee
Tuition (includes box lunch) for each workshop you select. Early-bird discounts do not apply to single-session workshops.
Friends Life Care Member $45 Total amount of your check $
Please make check payable to Friends Life Care, enclose this form and mail to:
Non-member $55
Friends Life Care • 531 Plymouth Road, Suite 500 • Plymouth Meeting, PA 19462
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