By Mark Ambrogi
When Kathy Woods moved from Chicago to Fishers a little more than a year ago, she found that many people didn’t know about the exercise program, Ageless Grace.
“The best way to show them is to do it with them,” Woods said. “So I have the activity director watch or do it with us. The people are learning but more importantly the activity directors are learning about Ageless Grace.”
While Woods can teach some classes, she knows she can’t teach every day multiple times a day so her goal is teach the activity directors.
Woods has conducted free Ageless Grace demonstration classes at Bickford of Carmel, Carmel Health and Living along with Allisonville Meadows and NorthRidge Gracious Retirement Living in Fishers. She also has given complimentary classes at the Indiana Parkinson Foundation and the Prairie Lakes Health Campus in Noblesville and SarahCare of Indianapolis.
“It is so different from any of the other exercise programs,” Woods said. “We sit in a chair for stability. A lot of the people are using a walker or a wheelchair. But it’s not just for those people, it’s for all of us. Ageless Stress strengthens the core. It helps with fall prevention.”
Woods, a certified Ageless Grace educator/trainer, started Ageless Grace Indiana as a combination business and support group.
Ageless Grace is a body and brain fitness program based on the science of neuroplasticity, movement, mindfulness and music. It uses 21 simple tools for lifelong comfort and ease, which are done while sitting in a chair.
“We are changing the brain and reconnecting the brain to old neurons and making new ones,” Woods said. “There is so much more to this than doing jumping jacks and raising your hands and stuff like that.”
Woods has a website, AgelessGraceIndiana.com, which goes to a Facebook page.
