May/June Updates!

It's been 70 days since we went online! I can't believe it!

I just wanted to let you all know we will be having class on Monday 5/25 - Memorial Day. 

We will exercise (same times as usual) and also have our cooking class in the afternoon as a cookout/grill party! Feel free to join with some of your favorite food! If you have any of your favorite plant based recipes for potlucks and parties, email them to me and I'll add them to our recipe page! I have started adding our recipes and will add Erin's as soon as I get them! 

https://www.roguept.com/plant-based-cooking-class

Hope to see you Monday!

1. When can we get back to the gym??

When I sent out the survey about when you guys would feel coming back in person, and when I sent a video discussing things afterwards, I didn't mention that this all really depends on the State of California reopening plan. That reopening plan is multi-phase and stage. With the openings of businesses starting last week, I thought we would be moving into the next phases sooner than later, but at the moment there are no details about when exactly that will happen! So stay tuned, and I'll keep you updated! As of today more businesses are opening in Orange County, so that gives me  hope again that we might be able to get back to the gym by mid June!

2. Our Exercise Class Schedule will stay the same, but we will be adding some fun things!

~There is a dance instructor who is a professional dancer and has been teaching classes for people with Parkinson's in South Orange County. I have heard great things about her classes and we are in talks to offer some dance classes at Rogue when we reopen! In the mean time, you can start dancing from home!

She is teaching dance classes through zoom on Mondays and Wednesdays at 11:30-12:00pm. I will add those classes to our schedule with the zoom links!

~I have a physical therapy colleague up in Northern California who also specializes working with people who have Parkinson's who teaches Yoga for PWP on Fridays 1:00-2:00pm. I will also add that class to our schedule with the zoom link!

For both of these classes, we also plan to record videos to put in the library too! 

3. Our afternoon meeting schedule will be adjusted slightly. 

We have had a great time meeting with Renee for our Mental Health Wellness meeting on Friday's at 1pm. We will have one more meeting next week and then starting in June, we are going to take a break from that meeting. We also hope to start and in person meeting with Renee in the future, so I'll let you know when that will start!

4. New Video Library on Vimeo

I know not everyone has gotten into our new video library yet. I know it is a little confusing, but the email you got was from "Rogue In Motion", because it was sent from the website, not directly from my email. It was originally sent on Friday May 15th. You do not need to enter any payment information!

The email looks like this (sorry it is so huge, I can’t get the website to resize it):

So you need to click on the "Start Watching Now" and that is how you get free access. If you need me to send the email again from the system, just let me know, it is easy for me to send it!

I think those are all the pertinent updates! I hope you are all doing well and that we see each other soon!

Claire