Discover your potential for freedom of movement, starting today.
Gain movement confidence.
Improve your reaction time when life throws you a curveball.
Increase your strength and endurance so that you can participate in more activities with your friends and family.
Transform your fundamental movement habits, proprioception, and body mechanics for improved spinal health.
Practice recovering from life's perturbations before they happen.
Deanna Savant brings over 30 years of experience as a physical therapist, specializing in orthopedics, Pilates, Yoga, balance, and vestibular rehabilitation.
Don’t just take our word for it. Long time client J.L. explains why she values the Balance Ready™ series: “While I practice yoga and walk regularly, these routines totally enhance my ability to move confidently and gracefully throughout the day. I've been a Deedee 'fan' for years and look forward to every online session--I want to participate because of how much better I feel afterwards."
Lifetime access
Balance in 3D - 31 min
Re-Activity - 35 min
A Day In the Life (at Home) - 39 min
A Day in the Life (in Community) - 41 min
Building Dynamic Strength and Awareness - 45 min
Stretches for your off days - 10 min
Balance consists of three body systems: your inner ear (vestibular system), your vision, and your proprioception. Proprioception is the knowledge where your body is in space. Close your eyes, and lift your hand as if to hold water in your hand. You do not need to have your eyes open to know that your palm is facing the ceiling or the sky. Proprioception can decrease with pain, a sedentary lifestyle, or nerve issues such as neuropathy. When it decreases, we tend to depend more on our visual system to achieve functional balance.
But your visual system is an imperfect substitute. There are times when your vision is decreased, eliminated or distracted. You may be fumbling to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night when it is dark. Or you walk down a street and hear a sudden loud noise to your side or back and instinctively turn your head towards it, even though you are still walking forwards - the mismatch of your movements and the visual inputs can challenge your balance.
The way forward is to improve your proprioception, your awareness of how your move and how you are positioned in space. There are many ways to train proprioception: dance, martial arts, yoga, Pilates, to name a few. But none of these programs, and indeed few if any exercise programs, truly train you in practicing daily movements, broken down into components and then reintegrated into the whole movement, in addition to proprioceptive training. Balance Ready™ is meant to complement your existing exercise program and inspire you to move more.
For your safety and comfort:
If you are in discomfort with any exercise in the class, or if the class is going to fast for you, slow it down, decrease your range of motion, or skip the exercise and wait or fast forward to the next one! But if you have tired muscles after class or the next day: Congratulations! You have challenged yourself!
You have lifetime access to your course to repeat each class as often as you wish. Improving your balance and movement confidence takes weeks to months, not days. You are doing nothing wrong if you don’t see immediate improvement. Keep going, stay the course! My jokes may get old but the exercises do not! The changes will be subtle but real - you will start to become more aware of improvement, and activities of daily living will get easier to perform.
