Announcements
Last updated on April 9, 2024.
- Flash! In-Person meetings and PD Cafe now every week!
Karen St. Clair has volunteered to lead a weekly in-person meeting, every Thursday from 1:30pm – 2:30pm. Our calendars have been adjusted to show the new schedule.
Selected meetings will have a speaker. Otherwise, the meeting is open discussion where you can bring the topic of your choice, provide your wisdom and suggestions to others and share information. The experts are in the room!!
We hope to see you in the Gym on Thursdays at 1:30!
- 48th Annual Conference on Aging
This year’s event will take place at the Glorieta Conference Center September 23 – 24 and is presented by the Aging and Long-Term Services Department (ALTSD).
This year’s conference theme is “Caring Across Generations”. Attendees will have the opportunity to engage in informative sessions, recreational activities, and get connected with important resources.
- New Class: Yoga for Parkinson’s
Adrienne has added a new class to the calendar at the POP Santa Fe Gym!
Yoga For Parkinsons
Mondays @ 3:00 pm-4:00 pm, pay what you can.
Heather Faucher
This class focuses on alignment, posture, balance, strength, and flexibility. Heather incorporates yoga breathing techniques that help with relaxation, anxiety, and also digestive/elimination issues that are common to PD. There are no prerequisites for this class, but it is helpful to be able to get up and down from the floor with moderate ease, although Heather and any support volunteers can help with this. This class is very practical (no woo-woo chanting) and taught in English (as opposed to Sanskrit.) A yoga mat is recommended but not required. Care partners are welcome. Namaste, everyone!
Heather Faucher has worked in the fitness industry for 25 years, teaching cardio kickboxing, group cycling (Spinning), group weight lifting, yoga, core training, and as a personal trainer. She also has a brown belt in Seido (closed fist) karate.
- Connection is Medicine: Rocky – Finding your Corner
Connection is Medicine is built around a simple belief: people living with Parkinson’s need more than information and treatment. We also need places where our voices can be heard with impact, where we can tell the truth about our lives, exercise our creativity, strengthen our sense of identity, and remind one another that none of us has to face this alone.
A new online program has been created especially for the Rock Steady Boxing community: Cinema Therapy: Rocky – Finding Your Corner.
The class will meet online for 16 weeks and use scenes from Rocky, music, guided conversation, improvisation, and creative writing to help participants explore their own lives through the stages of the Hero’s Journey. Participants are required to write and submit one page of original writing every week for the duration of the course via Google Docs.
Tuition for the full 16-week Cinema Therapy: Rocky program is $2,000. Scholarships and reduced tuition may be available for participants who need financial assistance on a case-by-case basis. YesAndX does not want cost alone to prevent someone from exploring the program. Interested participants are encouraged to contact YesAndX to discuss available financial support.
- Stress-Busting Program for Family Caregivers starts 9/22/2026
- Moving Day 2026
Moving Day Santa Fe 2026 was a tremendous success this year, with over 130 active participants and over $77,000 raised by our community to support the Parkinson’s Foundation. Great work, and kudos to everyone who helped out or donated!
Here are some of our favorite photos:
Click on a photo to enlarge it! - Update from Parkinson’s Foundation
There is some exciting news about a new drug being developed to slow or possibly stop the progression of Parkinson’s Disease. Here is the link: https://www.parkinson.org/advancing-research/parkinsons-virtual-biotech. Read down to where it says “clinical trials” and then click on Project Ambroxol.
- Parkinson’s Disease Awareness Month
Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham has designated April, 2026 as Parkinson’s Disease Awareness Month throughout the state of New Mexico.
- Santa Fe Moving Day: May 2, 2026Moving Day Santa Fe
Place: The Montecito of Santa Fe 500 Rodeo Road, Santa Fe, NM, 87505
Time: May 2 @ 9:00 am – May 2 @ 12:00 pm
Register or donate today!: https://movingdaywalk.org/event/moving-day-santa-fe/
Moving day is a national fund-raising event for the Parkinson's Foundation. This year our goal is to raise $60,000 and have over 15 teams.
- How to Build Strength and Resilience … while living with chronic, progressive illness
This educational, supportive, and action-oriented program is for people with Parkinson’s Disease or dementia and their caring partners. Whether you have the diagnosis or are the partner/helper, you each have unique losses—physically, mentally, and emotionally. With the right tools and support, you can build the strength to bounce back from setbacks and create more balance and well-being in your daily life.
Richard Houston, PhD, Clinical Psychologist and Educator, along with Eileen Joyce, Certified Coach/Grief Recovery Specialist, have developed this program. It is sponsored POP Santa Fe and the Memory Care Alliance, and therefore free of charge to participants.
Please contact Eileen to reserve your place as space is limited: email or call 505.428.0670.