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  • Introduction Workshop & 4-Week Class

    Register for both the Introductory Workshop and 4-Week Class and Save! Introductory Workshop: Sunday, May 5th, 1:30 to 3:00 pm 4-Week Class, Tuesday's, May 7th thru 28th from 10:45 to Noon Cost: $75 Denver Ki-Aikido 1592 S. Broadway, Denver 720 934-1098

    $75.00
  • Balance Lab

    Ongoing balance training for students who have completed a Minding Your Balance™ workshop or class Meets Tuesday mornings, 11 am to Noon $55 for 4 Classes $15 drop-in fee

    $15.00 – $55.00
  • Introductory Workshop

    Denver Ki-Aikido 1195 S. Lipan, Denver, CO, United States

    In this workshop you will learn easily accessible mind/body techniques that can be put to immediate use to improve balance in everyday movement, exercise and sports. Date: Sunday, September 15th Time: 2:00 to 3:30 pm Cost: $25 Location: Denver Ki-Aikido 1592 S. Broadway 720 934-1098  

    $25.00
  • Introductory Workshop – Subscriber Discount

    In this workshop you will learn easily accessible mind/body techniques that can be put to immediate use to improve balance in everyday movement, exercise and sports. Date: Sunday, September 15th Time: 2:00 to 3:30 pm Cost: $20 (Subscriber discount $5 off $25) Location: Denver Ki-Aikido 1592 S. Broadway 720 934-1098  

    $20.00
  • Workshop + 4-Week Class Subscriber Discount

    Sign up for both the Introductory Workshop and 4-Week class for a $15 discount! Introductory Workshop + 4-Week Class Workshop - September 15th, 2:00 to 3:30 pm 4-Week Class - Tuesdays September 17 to October 8th, 1:00 to 2:00 pm $75 (Subscriber Discount $10 off $85) To learn more about the Workshop and Class and to sign up for just one click the links: INTRODUCTORY WORKSHOP - September 15th 2:00 to 3:30 pm 4-WEEK CLASS - Tuesdays, September 17th to…

    $75.00
  • Introductory Workshop + 4-Week Class

    Sign up for both the Introductory Workshop and 4-Week class for a $15 discount! Introductory Workshop + 4-Week Class Workshop - September 15th, 2:00 to 3:30 pm 4-Week Class - Tuesdays September 17 to October 8th, 1:00 to 2:00 pm $85 To learn more about the Workshop and Class and to sign up for just one click the links: INTRODUCTORY WORKSHOP - September 15th 2:00 to 3:30 pm 4-WEEK CLASS - Tuesdays, September 17th to October 8th, 1:00 to 2:00…

    $85.00
  • 4-Week Class

    Denver Ki-Aikido 1195 S. Lipan, Denver, CO, United States

    In this 4 weeks series you will learn easily accessible mind/body techniques and exercises that can be put to immediate use to improve balance in everyday movement, exercise and sports. Date: Tuesdays September 17 thru October 8 Time: 1:00 to 2:00 pm Cost: $75 Location: Denver Ki-Aikido 1592 S. Broadway 720 934-1098

    $75.00
  • January 2025 5-Week Class

    Denver Ki-Aikido 1195 S. Lipan, Denver, CO, United States

    Tuesdays, January 14 thru February 11 from 10:30 am to 11:45 am

    $75.00
  • January 2026 Balance Basics

    Minding Your Balance™ Basics Class Tuesdays, January 20 thru February 17 10:30 to 11:30 am Denver Ki-Aikido, 1195 S. Lipan

    $75.00

Focus on Balance & Motion in Space

Olympic figure skating has mesmerized me this past week. The gravity defying jumps and lifts, the poetry of connection between partners, the graceful flow of movement across the ice, the high speeds, precision, and artistry. Amidst the spirals, swizzles, and multiple-rotation jumps in the air I am captivated by a seemingly simple component that only comes to mind when it fails – balance.  I’ve also been catching up on brain research regarding the same. Researchers continue to develop a better…

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Conquering Gravity – The Conscious Art of Balance

Watching videos of my great-niece learning to walk, I am struck by her dedicated focus on the task of upright balance – and the pure joy in the accomplishment of that task. It reminds me of her delight when, as a wee babe, her father would fly her around the room in his arms.  Now she flies through space on her own small feet. Balance is a wonder, an amazing feat (no pun intended) that we learn to accomplish at the beginning…

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Stubbed My Toe

A stubbed toe – not a big deal, right? Except that when my little toe collided with the leg of a chair, it broke (my toe, that is, not the chair). While I didn’t fall, a tiny fracture in one of the smallest bones in my body has managed to upend the last three weeks of my life. A broken toe doesn’t just hurt – it potentially makes me more vulnerable to a fall. As I seek safe, pain free…

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Winter Walkways

Colorado winter, true to form, is whiplashing from extreme cold and snow to balmy spring-like weather. The sunny blue sky days entice us outdoors only to find treacherous conditions underfoot – walkways that change unpredictably from packed snow to slush to wet concrete to black ice.  Of necessity, I find myself consciously tapping the balance lessons I teach as I walk my beautiful and large dog Rusty through the snowy neighborhood. (A shout out to neighbors who shovel their own…

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Happy (and safe) Holiday Decorating!

If you feel a bit unsteady while putting up the holiday decorations, know you are not alone – and take heed.  Last year, the Consumer Product Safety Commission reported that nearly 15,000 people were treated in emergency rooms for holiday decorating-caused injuries, half of which involved falls. Standing on ladders, reaching, twisting, and leaning to get the lights or the ornament in the perfect spot, checking to see if the garland is draped just right while ignoring the boxes at our…

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Holiday Travel Tips

Many of my Minding Your Balance students visiting family this holiday season are expressing concern about the balance challenges inherent in air travel. From navigating crowded concourses to pulling, carrying, and lifting luggage in and out of overhead bins to stepping on and off moving walkways and negotiating narrow airplane aisles, air travel provides ample need and opportunity to mind one’s balance. Here are a few quick Minding Your Balance tips for staying steady and safe during holiday travel: To learn more get…

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Go to Your Happy Place

The link between postural control and emotion runs deep, revealing itself in common expressions that convey feeling or mindset through a physical image, for example, thrown for a loop, on shaky ground, sure-footed, in a slump, and standing tall. Medicine has also long noted the connection, and in recent years, brain research has uncovered multiple neural links between balance and emotion processing regions of the brain. More than simply causal, how we feel and how we carry ourselves interconnect with…

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Conquering Gravity

The Conscious Art of Balance Watching videos of my great-niece learning to walk, I am struck by her dedicated focus on the task of upright balance – and the pure joy in the accomplishment of that task. It reminds me of her delight when, as a wee babe, her father would fly her around the room in his arms.  Now she flies through space on her own small feet. Balance is a wonder, an amazing feat (no pun intended) that we learn…

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Real in a Place

“The connection to place remains deep: touching the core of our being. Landscape is our mirror, our book of revelations…” Suzannah Lessard, The Absent Hand: Reimaging Our American Landscape I just finished a thought provoking read about the American landscape – as in the literal physical places we inhabit – that provides unexpected insight into the primacy of our relationship to the spaces we navigate in everyday life. The Absent Hand, by Suzannah Lessard, takes the reader on a vivid…

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