Making Friends with Your Body
A personalized, physician-guided health improvement program leading to more ease, trust and confidence.
Make Changes You Can Feel. Build Habits You Can Keep.
Beyond another workout, movement or exercise class, this deep dive into your support structure for this life will bring you a new, trusting relationship with your new best friend.
Facilitated by Mark Kalina, MD, and Paula Nascimento.
Who this group is for
- Move with greater ease and confidence
- Support balance, flexibility, mobility, and everyday function
- Build realistic movement habits
- Feel less disconnected from or critical of their bodies
- Age with strength, vitality, and independence
- Experience movement in a welcoming community
- No special equipment or previous movement experience is required
Our 8-Week Journey
We begin by noticing how stress, fear, aging, and judgment can shape our relationship with movement. Through gentle exploration, the goal is to listen to the body instead of forcing it.
FOCUS: Feet/ Ankles
We explore breathing, the nervous system, muscular tension, posture, balance, alignment, and fluid movement, including GYROTONIC-inspired movement principles. FOCUS: Knees/Legs
We focus on strength, stability, mobility, and small successes that can rebuild trust. The week includes practical movement for everyday function.
FOCUS: Hips/ Pelvis
We explore discomfort with curiosity rather than fear, working with the body instead of against it. The emphasis is on comfort, flexibility, recovery, resilience, and leaving behind the 'no pain, no gain' mindset. FOCUS: Spine/Ribs
We connect movement with energy, circulation, balance, and independence, then begin designing a realistic personal movement plan built around activities you can enjoy. FOCUS: Shoulders
We celebrate progress and build a personal vision for integrating movement into everyday life with kindness and consistency. The program ends with a beginning: a more trusting, lifelong relationship with your body. FOCUS: Neck/Head
We begin by noticing how stress, fear, aging, and judgment can shape our relationship with movement. Through gentle exploration, the goal is to listen to the body instead of forcing it. FOCUS: Balance/ Walking
We explore breathing, the nervous system, muscular tension, posture, balance, alignment, and fluid movement, including GYROTONIC-inspired movement principles. FOCUS: Putting IT and the new you All Together
Each Program includes:
- One consultation with Dr Mark Kalina in your home, his office or by Facetime
What every group visit includes:
- Practical medical and movement education
- Open discussion and shared learning
- Nervous-system regulation practices
- Simple weekly home practices
- Encouragement, laughter, and connection
Facilitators
Program Details
Format
8 Weeks
Meet 1x/ Week
Session length
90 minutes per session
Dates and time
Wed September 16 9:30am-11:00am (First Session)
Location
162 S Rancho Santa Fe Rd Ste B55 Encinitas CA 92024 (Second Floor, CoCardio Suite)
Price and payment options
$995
Capacity and enrollment cutoff
10 people