Form Fitness & Function

04/05/2025

Looking for some volunteers tomorrow and Monday. It's a really wonderful workshop for care partners. Please share! And thank you!

Would you like to help The Poise Project, a local Asheville NC nonprofit, expand our workshop program for care partners of people living with long-term care needs?

We need some interested volunteers to attend two free public workshops focused on the needs of care partners this Sunday & Monday, April 6 & 7, from 2pm-4:15pm at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Asheville, 1 Edwin Pl, Asheville, NC 28801.

Dates: Sunday, April 6 & Saturday, April 7

Times: 2pm-4:15pm each day

Location: Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Asheville, 1 Edwin Pl, Asheville, NC 28801

Please register at this link, as we have limited space:
https://www.thepoiseproject.org/asheville-pwp

We have just trained three new instructors to teach our “Partnering with Poise: Care for the Care Partner” workshop.

We are looking for some friends in Asheville who might be interested in volunteering to attend our workshop sessions so that these new instructors can have the opportunity to practice teaching this curriculum. You do not need to currently be a care partner to attend.

Our new instructors are from Montana, Vermont, and Eastern North Carolina. After they finish their training week here in Asheville, they will go home and begin teaching these workshops to care partners in their local communities. Monika Gross, the Executive Director of The Poise Project, is the training instructor, and she will be supervising both workshop sessions.

"Partnering with Poise: Care for the Care Partner” is an evidence-based program originally developed by The Poise Project with funding from the Parkinson's Foundation and the Alzheimer’s Foundation of America. Our workshop is adapted from Alexander technique, which is a well-established training in the performing arts to help manage stressful situations, prevent strain or injury, and improve overall functioning in daily life.

You will learn some practical skills that can help reduce stress and prevent physical strain, and feel refreshed at any time of day, without adding any extra time or tasks to your day.


Please register at this link, as we have limited space:
https://www.thepoiseproject.org/asheville-pwp

PLEASE JOIN US FOR A VERY FUN, ENJOYABLE, AND EDUCATIONAL FREE PUBLIC WORKSHOP!

AND PLEASE SHARE THIS INFORMATION, ESPECIALLY WITH ANY CARE PARTNERS YOU MIGHT KNOW.

"Partnering with Poise: Care for the Care Partner" has been researched through the University of Idaho. Our research can be viewed at this link: www.thepoiseproject.org/tpp-research

03/20/2024

The US National Science Foundation will be running a Total Eclipse Livestream on April 8. So if you are not able to be in the wondrous Path of Totality, you can enjoy this peaceful and amazing process visually.

The link below will go live on April 8.

Learn about the Sun's corona, hear from solar physicists, watch the 2024 total solar eclipse from across the country.

04/16/2022

DeWayne Barton is an activist and generational resident and land owner in my town of Asheville NC. He gets things done! If you are interested in supporting a significant urban project that is carefully designed to repair decades of "urban planning" harm done in Affrilachia to generations of Black residents in the Asheville area, I strongly encourage you to support the Blue Note Junction project. The Poise Project supports this project and will offer future support for the proposed health space that would be a place where Alexander technique and other health-positive modalities could be shared with the community.

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/support-bipoc-community-through-blue-note-junction #/

Imagine a space that is vibrant with diversity; bustling with creative local business ventures; alive with edible plants, gardening classes and healthy cooking workshops; and exemplary in its ability to heal, rejuvenate and uplift entire communities through artistic performances, wellness opportunit...

10/17/2020

Alexander technique training is available wherever you are, right now, to help you meet challenges that this pandemic is bringing into your lives.

Please know that these supportive strategies and skills can be learned now, when they are of greatest help, right where you are.

If you would like to arrange for one-to-one sessions that bring the embodied learning of Alexander technique directly to you and with decades of teaching experience to support you, please contact Monika Gross directly: [email protected]

05/08/2020

Announcing a free online symposium, open to all interested in Alexander technique as an intervention, entitled “Current Scientific Research and Models for the Alexander Technique” on May 18th at 12 noon Eastern time.

This is an opportunity to view how AT is making its way forward and reaching more people through our better understanding of how contemporary science supports and clarifies this transformative work. Consistency in language and a grounding in contemporary, peer-reviewed scientific aspects of the AT principles is really essential for us to advance and enter the mainstream of the general public, removing barriers to access for broader socioeconomic groups in the 21st Century.

Dr. Tim Cacciatore, Assoc. Prof. Rajal Cohen, Prof. Ian Loram and Dr. Patrick Johnson will present an overview of what current science has to offer the Alexander Technique. This 2.5 hour in-depth symposium addresses the urgent need for updating our scientific understanding of our work. It also aims to help AT teachers to better communicate with scientists, medical professionals, and AT colleagues.

For more information and to sign up, visit:

www.alexandertechniquescience.com/symposium2020/

For those who cannot join live, please sign up for information about accessing the post symposium video.https://www.alexandertechniquescience.com/symposium2020/

12/03/2019

Facebook is offering a matching donation to The Poise Project for any donation made on Giving Tuesday (December 3) starting at 8:00am ET. This is a very moving 1:00 minute video of Marian in Mount Holly NC describing how The Poise Project and her Alexander technique course supports her as a family care partner. We all know there are so many others who this work will benefit - every day!

You can learn more about The Poise Project at www.thepoiseproject.org

Marian participated in our "Partnering with Poise" course for care partners in Mount Holly NC in Fall 2019. She lives with and cares for her husband who…