Beyond disability: A yoga practice with Matthew Sanford

Beyond disability: A yoga practice with Matthew Sanford is a 50-minute DVD that shows how everyone can practice yoga at home while seated. This video is a complete adaptive yoga class. Students with spinal cord injuries demonstrate each section.

Want to check it out? Email us at cedir@indiana.edu.

Let's Dance!

Looking for some fun exercise for youth with developmental disabilities? The YMCA adapted dance program is set to start on September 14th. Dance is fantastic for most youth with developmental disabilities and a wonderful way to stay active.

Questions? Contact: Angela Dilts, Preschool/Youth/Camp Director at the Monroe County YMCA. adilts@monroecountyymca.org

Local YMCA Fundraiser

Do you love the YMCA? Live in Monroe County? On Saturday November 10th, the Monroe County YMCA is having a free 1 mile Participation Walk. This walk is open to anyone in the community with a disability. Registration is ongoing up until 8:45 the morning of the walk. Participants are encouraged to get sponsorships to raise money for the YMCA's "Y for All" program. Funds are to be turned in the day of the walk. Participation prizes will be awarded and the top fund raiser will receive an additional prize.

Want more information? Contact the YMCA at (812) 332-5555.

Active imagination activity book

Written by a Board Certified Occupational Therapist, the book Active imagination activity book: 50 sensorimotor activities to improve focus, attention, strength, & coordination provides fun, easy, and imaginative exercises that will help build the skills necessary for your child to meet the challenges of everyday life at home, school, and out in the community.

Want to check it out? Email us at cedir@indiana.edu, or try using worldcat.org to find it in a library near you.

Video Contest from the National Center on Physical Activity and Disability

Attention, filmmakers! The National Center on Physical Activity and Disability is sponsoring a video contest entitled, "How do you get enough?" NCPAD is a nonprofit organization focused on physical activity and health promotion for people with disabilities.

Being physically active is good for everybody. This is especially true for people with disabilities who tend to participate in less physical activity, carry excess weight, and have higher rates of chronic heart disease and other health conditions. The intention of this video contest is to illustrate to society that people with disabilities do live healthy active lifestyles as well as share various ways to get physical activity for individuals with disabilities and activity limitations.

Whether it's indoor or outdoor, recreational or competitive, solo or team, easy or intensive, show us (and the rest of the world) how you (successfully or unsuccessfully) get enough activity in a 1- to 10-minute video clip! See the video contest rules and entry form at http://www.ncpad.org/newsletter/newsletter.php?letter=123&section=1593. For a sample video, please visit http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AGgD9rFdsA.