Better Breathers Club sponsored by La Mesa Rehab

Meet others with lung disease diagnoses for support, encouragement, and learning the tools you need to live your best quality of life. Better Breathers Club (BBC), features educational presentations on wide range of relevant topics from oxygen use, medications, and therapy options to improve your breath. Meetings are led by an American Lung Association trained facilitator.

Benefits

• Breathing techniques
• Therapy for your lungs
• Medications and other treatment options
• Supplemental oxygen: equipment use and care

• Lung transplants

Meeting every last Thursday of each month @ 1:00pm at: 

Health & Wellness Library
9001 Wakarusa Street, La Mesa, CA 91942 (Behind Grossmont Hospital)

Contact them to join:

Email: BBCLaMesaRehab@gmail.com
Phone: (619) 825-5010

Fall Prevention Task Force

The County of San Diego Health and Human Services Agency, Aging and Independence Service sponsors the San Diego Fall Prevention Task Force, a community-based coalition composed of healthcare providers, senior service providers, and community advocates. Their mission is to reduce falls and their devastating consequences in San Diego County.

Meetings are the 2nd Tuesday of the month from 1-2PM via ZOOM (not in June, September, December).

Details: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/8763393359

Meeting ID 876 3339 3359

Call-in Option: 1-253-215-8782

Fundraiser for my Robotics Team (Karma Yoga)

It's been a hot minute since I posted but just to let you all know I'm alive and well but overloaded with activities in school. I am still teaching just four classes a week (see schedule: Copley YMCA and Lemon Grove Library), and still in school full time, and STILL coaching Eli's robotics team the https://kinematicflyingchickens.blogspot.com/.

We are hosts of a fundraiser this Saturday night 3/29/25 at the Greek Chicken in El Cajon and if you bring in the flyer when you order or pickup, our team will receive a generous 20% of the proceeds. 

We are not a school team with built-in lab resources and funding, nor do we have ongoing corporate sponsorship. We are privileged and grateful for the sponsors that helped us get through this season and hope you can help us keep our equipment current moving into the next. A new motor can cost $25 or  more, and any test equipment is far more expensive. Our "flock" is ready to take on new learning challenges for their third season and your attendance at this get-together will surely help!

I need yoga, and a 2025 New Class Announcement

It's been a long semester at PTA school and frankly. I'm tired. My brain is full and my path is clear, but my emotions are all over the place, and I'm looking forward to a long break this holiday season. What I miss other than "free time" is practicing yoga, as both a student and a guide. My home practice is non-existent except for deep breathing exercises I try to do when I wake up with anxiety in the middle of the night. 

I so enjoy taking a public yoga class; the energy from a room full of people focused on practice, the guidance of another voice, and the space carved out just for yoga are what my practice craves. When I am at home, there are thousand (or more) distractions not the least of which is my computer sitting there waiting for me to log on to study, or the piles of laundry yet to be done, or the groceries in the fridge that cannot assemble themselves into a meal.

What I should more accurately say is more than I miss yoga, is that i NEED yoga. I need to be in a room with people that have at least one thing in common with me: a dedication to yoga, whether that's with me practicing as a student or as a guide.

New Regular Classes at YMCA

You all are aware that I am an huge advocate for the YMCA; I've worked there since 2015 and always enjoy the classes I teach and attend there.

So without further ado, I would like to announce that starting this February 7, I will be teaching the following two weekly classes (at least until June) at the CopleyPrice YMCA on El Cajon Boulevard:

• Friday 11:20-12:15 PM Hatha (mat) Yoga
• Friday 12;30-1:25 PM Chair (gentle) Yoga

Special Class Series at YMCA

Cancelled - will try to reschedule later this year.  

Restorative Yoga Workshop at Copley YMCA this October

Wonderful news! The Principles of Restorative Yoga workshop led by skilled instructor Rene de los Santos is open for registration! In this four-part workshop, you will learn the key principles of Restorative Yoga. Aimed for all levels, this workshop will teach you how to use props to initiate deep relaxation of the body, mind, and spirit. Restorative yoga is beneficial for balancing a more active practice or decompressing after a stressful day.

Dates:  October 4, 2024, October 11, 2024, October 18, 2024, October 25, 2024

Time: 6:30-7:30pm

The workshop is open to ANYONE interested and cost is $95 (select Y memberships receive a 25% discount). 

Sign up at the membership desk, or call 619-280-9622. For any questions, please contact Rosa Ruiz at rruizgarcia@ymcasd.org or call 619-280-9622 Ext. 178.