Healthy-Steps Newsletter

About Healthy-Steps

Healthy-Steps, Moving You to Better Health with the Lebed Method, is a therapeutic exercise and movement program with wonderful music designed to help you thrive! Offering wellness programs for everyone, from young adults to seniors, regardless of health, age or ability level, the Healthy-Steps program improves overall wellness, range-of-motion, balance, strength and endurance, as well as emotional well-being and self-image. A specialized program for children, "Creative Rhythms", is even available to serve the needs of children with Cancer or other chronic illnesses or medical conditions.

Healthy-Steps is offered in over 700 locations worldwide.

Join us today, and take a step towards a healthier life.

Find an instructor near you for a Healthy-Steps / Lebed Method class in your area by going to our website and click 'find a class'. 

    MESSAGE FROM SHERRY

Hello Healthy-Steppers,
I would like to welcome you to our first Healthy-Steps Newsletter for the 'general public'. We hope you will enjoy it

and let us know what you would like to see more of.

to Contact Us with any suggestions or comments

Here you will find a few articles, messages from our Medical Director, our sponsors Amoena and Juzo, as well as some special announcements for you that we hope you will find beneficial.
Our Lymphatic opening is now on Youtube.com/lebedmethod

Don't miss it and also my blog which I would love for you to join in at: www.gohealthysteps.blogspot.com  and www.twitter.com/healthysteps, and of course our chat room on our website at www.gohealthysteps.com. 

Plenty of places for you to go and find out great information, so what are you waiting for?!!!
As the holidays approach don't forget to visit our store on our website at www.gohealthysteps.com. They make great gifts for the ones you love and want to keep healthy.
Check out our calendar and see if I am doing any presentations in your area by clicking here for our calendar - they are FREE to the public. Everything is color coded so you can see all our training locations and my presentation locations as well.  If you find a presentation in your area you would like to attend, email me at sld@lebedmethod.com and I will tell you how to register.

for our training Calendar

If you see a training that you would like to attend and have questions or would like to receive our training packet, email me as well for that.  I would love to hear from you, I love questions!! 
Enjoy our newsletter and let me hear from you about what you would like to see next issue.

My breast cancer survival story is being featured in the next issue of The Breast Cancer Wellness Magazine. This magazine is free for all breast cancer patients and survivors. To receive your free subscription, go to www.breastcancerwellness.org and sign up to have it send directly to your home.

I wish you a happy Thanksgiving and Healthy-Stepping,

Sincerely,
Sherry

BECOME A HEALTHY-STEPS / LEBED METHOD INSTRUCTOR

Want to improve the lives of others, while improving your own life and financial well-being? Then becoming a Healthy-Steps/Lebed Method Instructor is for YOU! This program is a perfect addition for medical centers and hospitals, exercise and fitness centers, dance and yoga centers, etc.

Healthy-Steps certification provides you with access to everything you need to begin and grow a successful a Healthy-Steps program.

email info@lebedmethod.com  for our FREE informational packet.

MESSAGE FROM DR. MARC LEBED, HEALTHY-STEPS MEDICAL DIRECTOR

                                                                   October 22, 2009

"Healthy Steps" (previously known as "The Lebed Method"), is a program of movement and dance that has been actively practiced for thirty years and that has benefited thousands, internationally. The program is designed to aid in the recovery and maintenance of patients, adults and children, living with chronic illnesses (including cancer and Lymphedema) and surgical complications. In addition, those not so afflicted (e.g. seniors, pregnancy) widely benefit from the Program and the sense of community that it engenders.

"Healthy Steps" is specifically designed to allow individuals who are restricted to sedentary lifestyles or who are otherwise unlikely to participate in traditional programs to benefit from a program of exercise and socialization. The program, initially created for breast cancer survivors, has been modified and expanded to incorporate all individuals experiencing chronic disease. "Healthy Steps" was created by a dance specialist and two physicians and represents a medically sound, safe and productive medium for the improvement of participants' physical and emotional health.

The Program has been supported by myriad health care institutions, support groups, and allied health care associations. There have been, to date, two peer review publications associating The Lebed Method with improvement of Lymphedema. In addition, the Program is presently the focus of a study being performed in conjunction with Yale University. The benefit of exercise in chronic disease has been well substantiated in the medical literature and has been supported by health care professionals and institutions universally. The Program has stood the test of time and continues to evolve and flourish.

As the Medical Director for "Healthy Steps", I fully support and promote the Program as a substantiated therapeutic option for all patients living with infirmity. "Healthy Steps" is an excellent adjunct to traditional physical, occupational and Lymphedema therapies. The Program is clearly superior, for its target population, to most if not all traditional exercise programs and its movements are documented to be safe and productive for the physical and emotional health of all participants, including the chronically ill.

MARC R. LEBED. MD, MDR
Medical Director, Healthy-Steps