Join Us As We Improve Our Health and the Health of Nepalese Women!

SD Rehab and Women’s Health Foundation have partnered to bring health to both the women of Nepal and the women of Chicago!  Postural Pilates - Strength and Vitality Throughout Our Lifetime, a one hour fitness class, will be offered August 23rd at 10 a.m. All donations will go towards Women’s Health Foundation’s upcoming humanitarian and medical mission: Secret Shame: Uterine Prolapse Among Women in Nepal. 

Here is a little information on the class that will be offered: Designed by a rehabilitation specialist and pilates instructor with extensive knowledge of the body’s anatomy & natural alignment, this class can only improve your posture and vitality!  This class is appropriate for all levels of fitness and includes the use of foam rollers, resistive bands light weights and Pilates mat exercises to increase your overall flexibility, improve your core strength, and align your spine. Participation will help you to look and feel better throughout your lifetime!

So come out and help improve the lives of Nepalese women and help boost your own health and wellness too!

Postural Pilates - “Strength and Flexibility for a Lifetime”

Where: SD Rehab 1962 North Bissell Street, Chicago, Illinois

When: Saturday, August 23, 2008

Time: 10am-11am

$15.00 Donation

This class is appropriate for all levels of ability. To register, call SD Rehab at 773.477.7599

SD Rehab is sponsoring this class to assist the Women’s Health Foundation in their fundraising efforts. All proceeds from the class will go to the Women’s Health Foundation, a non for profit organization dedicated to the health of women.

We hear from women all the time, “I know I should do my pelvic floor exercises (i.e. Kegels), but I always forget.”  Well, we wanted to make it easy for your to be mindful of “The Biggest Set of Muscles We Never Work Out!”, as we say - your pelvic floor.

Introducing the Total Control Widget:  http://www.totalcontrolprogram.com/widget/

For those of you that are new to widgets, think about those handy icons you can open or download to your desktop that tell you the weather, the time or perhaps track the stock market. 

The Total Control widget, when “hidden” looks discreetly like a line green square button.  When you click on it and open the widget, you will see our Total Control gal, Tilly, standing in front of an old-fashioned elevator.  Click on the elevator and you will be cued to perform 10 pelvic floor lifts, each held for 10 seconds and each followed by an extremely important 10 second rest.

The coolest feature of the widget is the customization.  You can program the widget to open on your desk top up to two times a day - hence your built-in reminder to “Just Do It!”, to quote a famous sports apparel company.  We recommend twice a day, say at 10 & 2 (that would be 10 a.m. & 2 p.m., unless you are a night owl).

One note, the first time you download the widget, you will be instructed to download Yahoo Widgets first.  Don’t be scared, it doesn’t mean your desktop will be littered with other icons - unless you want it to.  We try to bring you cool innovations, but are, of course, a non-profit, so it was more economical for us to build the widget within Yahoo Widgetland. 

Please let us know your thoughts by email our Director of Marketing (and chief widget architect), Molly at molly@womenshealthfoundation.org or reply to this blog.

 So, as always, stay “Fit, Sexy & In Control!”

Yours in pelvic health,

Missy