Senior Offerings with Erin Doty
Since 2016, Erin has worked with retirement communities, independent and assisted living facilities, senior centers, and memory care and dementia care locations.
Erin's witnessed senior and dementia care clients gain mental well-being, increase speech, social engagement, stable movement, and experience greater optimism with yoga and mindfulness classes.
During COVID, Erin has inspired elderly clients to use her techniques during pandemic regularly.
A 79-year-old female client reports, she used a movement and breathing technique Erin taught her at the beginning of pandemic every day for 30 minutes. The client reports gaining energy and strength to not need her walker to stand up.
Below are the events and classes with descriptions that Erin Doty, owner of HK Higher Knowing, LLC offers.
Erin is certified and insured. She wears a mask for safety with all contracts during cold and flu season, as I am a death doula and work with other senior centers in Front Range. I am happy to use a microphone, if one is provided by the senior center.
Senior Offerings with Erin Doty – HK Higher Knowing, LLC
Senior Offerings & Rates
(Invoices paid by credit card add $5)
- Stretch & Strengthen
- Independent & Assisted Living – 45 minutes. $75
- Weekly or Monthly
- Balance and Mobility
- Independent & Assisted Living – 45 minutes. $75
- Weekly or Monthly
- Chair Yoga
- Independent & Assisted Living – 45 minutes. $75
- Memory Care – 30 minutes. $75
- Weekly, Biweekly or Monthly
- Water Yoga
- Independent – 45 minutes. $75
- Monthly
- Gemstone Singing Bowls
- *30 minutes set up time and pack up time needed before and after event.
- Great for relaxing sound meditations, music at birthday parties, live music at community events, wellness fairs.
- Independent & Assisted Living – $125
- Memory Care – 30 minutes. $125
- Staff support and relaxation - 30 minutes $125
- Quarterly
- Grief Support
- Independent & Assisted Living – 45 minutes. $75
- Memory Care – 30 minutes. $75
- Staff - 30 minutes $75
- Monthly group events to discuss grief and learn about grief.
- End of Life Planning Series
- 4-part monthly series on end-of-life topics including:
- How to prepare legally, mentally, physically, energetically, and spiritually for death.
- Great for families and residents.
- I offer Zoom classes on site for those who cannot attend in person.
- Monthly or quarterly
- $250
- Legacy Projects
- 4-part monthly series to create a resident legacy project.
- Projects include a journal.
- How we all create legacy projects.
- The meaning and reason for a legacy project.
- Craft projects to include as creative expression.
- $250 with onsite craft supplies. $300 craft supplies included.
- On-Demand Classes
- All of the above classes are available live on Zoom and on-demand for family outreach and those who cannot attend in person.
- Set up a Zoom call to discuss details.
Stretch and Strengthen
Stretch and Strengthen class includes seated and standing postures to increase strong bones, a clear mind, and flexibility. Weights and exercise bands are used to stretch and strengthen the physical and mental body. This class offers low impact movement on joints with variations to support you during class. We enjoy laughter in class and uplifting connection. *Variations for all levels of participation offered in each class.
Benefits of Stretch & Strengthen
- Increases breath awareness
- Boosts energy and immunity
- Improves posture and memory
- Supports healthy joint mobility,
- Reduces stress
- Stronger brain and coordination
Balance and Mobility
Balance and Mobility offers techniques and movement to assist increase strength and help you stand and move with confidence and safety. Learn about posture, the importance of your big toe for balance, and posture and visualization techniques to combat the fear of falling. Have fun with gentle movement, seated and standing, along with coordination exercises to build focus.
Free stuck connective tissue and relieve aches and pains. Enjoy feeling more freedom in the head, neck, shoulders, low back, hips and legs. Walk out of class feeling motivated for the day. Variations for all levels of participation offered in each class.
Your teacher is Erin Doty and has worked with seniors for a decade in Virginia and Colorado. She experienced immobility for two years of her life due to chronic illness. She shares proven techniques to regain mobility and balance for the body. She is a trained Fascia Yoga teacher with over ten years of experience.
Chair Yoga
Chair yoga is beneficial for any fitness level, from active seniors to those recovering from an injury and surgery. Chair yoga benefits those with reduced mobility or flexibility by improving muscle tone, strength, and balance. Enjoy gentle movement, breath techniques for relaxation, community connection, and receive more joy! Variations for all levels of participation offered in each class.
Chair yoga offers these benefits:
- Low impact on joints
- Greater flexibility
- Eliminates stress
- Improves pain management
- Encourages circulation and immunity
- Combats depression and anxiety
- Improves balance
- Better sleep
- Promotes independence and well-being
Gemstone Singing Bowls
Relax with the vibrations and soothing sounds of gemstone-infused singing bowls sound experience.
HK Gemstone-Infused Singing Bowls & Sound includes:
- Koshi chimes
- Tibetan tingsha cymbals
- Frosted quartz singing pyramid
- Blue fluorite, pink and green tourmaline, selenite, aquamarine, selenite singing bowl
- Emerald singing bowl
- Quartz singing bowl
- Aquamarine and amethyst singing bowl
- Carnelian singing bowl
- Black tourmaline and malachite singing bowl
- Lepidolite singing bowl
- Ocean drum
- Blue Kyanite, black tourmaline singing bowl
- Natural citrine singing bowl
- Empyrean quartz singing bowl
- Theta chimes
If you are new to singing bowls and sound baths, please know certain tones may not always be harmonious for everyone.
Erin will guide you on how to breathe when energy moves in the body as sound vibrations clear and balance the body and mind. Some people do not like singing bowls, and that is okay. Erin experiences sensitivity to sound, and she chose the singing bowls she plays based on their lower harmonic tones that soothe the nervous system.
The gemstone singing bowls use sound and vibrations to relax and balance the body.
An adult body is composed of 60 to 65 percent water, which is a very good conductor for sound and vibrations. Every cell in our body absorbs the sound and the sound moves through the energy meridians of our body. We have 72,000 energy meridians connecting the body, mind, and organs systems together. Sound baths offer a full body regenerative experience.
Sound healing is completely non-invasive and is a great alternative therapy for relaxation.
Singing bowls benefits:
- The sound frequencies then slow down brain waves to a deeply restorative state, which activates the body's system of self-healing.
- Sound waves from the bowls act on the energy field of your body and offer relaxation.
- It is not the sound from the singing bowls. It is the vibrations that lead to its effects.
- Singing bowls reduce cortisol in the body and boost immunity by stimulating immune cells.
- Sound baths balance and clear the mind. Offers a renewed sense of purpose, well-being, calm, and happiness.
Erin Doty is a certified meditation and nervous system regulation teacher and crystal practitioner. Erin Doty owns HK Higher Knowing, LLC
- In person or Zoom sessions available.
- Book a 15-minute Zoom call to work with Erin Doty.