Tai Chi for Better SLEEP, January 27 - June 16, 2025 11am-12:30pm
January 27, 2025 - June 16, 2025
Westland Meadows 4300 Leisure Lane, Kalamazoo, MI 49006
Contact: Laura Anderson ander359@msu.edu
Tai Chi for Better SLEEP
In-Person
Mondays
January 27 - June 16, 2025
11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. ET (90 minutes)
This series combines Tai Chi for Arthritis and Fall Prevention and the Sleep Education for Everyone Program (SLEEP). Tai Chi has been shown to increase strength, improve balance and posture, reduce stress, increase relaxation, and prevent falls. Tai Chi for Arthritis and Falls Prevention is led by a certified instructor. Modifications will be provided for those who want to attend seated or standing. This program is targeted to help older adults and older adults with disabilities at risk for fall stay active. Participants will also learn techniques to improve the quality and quantity of their sleep. We will cover the relationship between pain and sleep, sleep basics, sleep hygiene, stimulus control therapy, mindfulness, physical activity, and sleep myths. You will be given a sleep challenge to try, so you can track the effectiveness of changing your sleep behaviors.
Sessions include:
- Tai Chi Warm-ups
- Tai Chi Lesson: one or two movements per lesson, progressively leading to completing six basic core movements and six advanced extension movements
- Tai Chi Cool Downs
- Sleep Education: the relationship between pain and sleep, sleep hygiene, and techniques to improve sleep.
- Goal Setting and Check-in
- 16 sessions
- 90 minutes per session
- In-Person
Cost: FREE, thanks to a grant from the Rural Health and Safety Education program.
Please watch the orientation video to learn about the class and see a demonstration of the tai chi warm-ups: https://mediaspace.msu.edu/media/t/1_ziryevlo
This work is supported by the Rural Health and Safety Education program, project award no. 2024-46100-42884, from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture.
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