POP Santa Fe Community Home Page
Last updated on February 5, 2026.
POP Santa Fe wants to be Northern New Mexico’s premier center for Parkinson’s wellness, collaboration, and community. To do this, we have embarked on a capital campaign that will not only expand our facilities, but make POP Santa Fe the community hub for people living with Parkinson’s in Northern New Mexico.
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PD Clubhouse
Last Saturday of the month 1pm Mountain.
Support Group
Second Thursday of the month 1:30pm Mountain.
Pickleball
Monday and Wednesday at 1pm Mountain.
Announcements
- How to Build Strength and Resilience … while living with chronic, progressive illnessThis educational, supportive, and action-oriented program is for people with Parkinson’s Disease or dementia and their caring partners. Registration required! View flyer.
- Stress-Busting Program for Family Caregivers starts 3/17/2026The Stress-Busting Program (SBP) for Family Caregivers™ is a program that provides support to family caregivers of people with chronic illness. It is proven to:
- Reduce caregiver stress
- Reduce anxiety
- Reduce anger/hostility
- Improve quality of life
The program runs for 9 weeks, 90 minutes per week, via Zoom. Classes meet 12:30-2:00pm. Registration is required.
Upcoming Events
Rock Climbing for PD
February 21 @ 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm MST
Starting on Saturday 1/24 (and every following 3rd Saturday of the month), the Santa Fe Climbing Center will have open climb time from 2 - 3:30 for everyone in the PD community.
Indoor rock climbing is a total-body workout that requires problem solving in the moment. It's great exercise and open to everyone - PwP, care partners, friends, volunteers and coaches. All participants must sign the waiver. Many thanks to Andre, the owner of the SF Climbing Center, for setting this up for us!
Find out more »PD Clubhouse: Chair Feldenkrais with Serina Carrasco
February 28 @ 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm MST
Serina Carrasco
The Feldenkrais Method is a gentle modality developed to improve our everyday movement and heal chronic pain. The primary way we do this is through bodily awareness and re-learning how to move from a place of skeletal stability so the muscles don’t have to work so hard.
Find out more »Support Group: Neuroacupuncture
March 12 @ 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm MDT
Speaker: Dr. Jason Hao – Neuroacupuncture
Chinese Scalp Acupuncture is a contemporary acupuncture technique integrating traditional Chinese needling methods with Western medical knowledge of the brain. Scalp acupuncture is a modern technique with just 39 years of history. Scalp acupuncture has been proven to be the most effective technique to treating acute and chronic central nervous system disorders. Dr. Hao will discuss the benefits of neuroacupuncture for people with Parkinson’s Disease.
Dr. Hao and his assistant will demonstrate and discuss the benefits of this technique for those who are interested. This event will be 2 hours long.
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