Senior Movement & Mindfulness with Erin Doty

senior movement and mindfulness with Erin Doty

Since 2016, Erin Doty has worked with retirement communities, independent and assisted living facilities, senior centers, and memory care and dementia care locations leading movement and mindfulness classes.

Erin is passionate about celebrating seniors and helping them age in place with inspiration and optimism. She teaches senior public classes and 1:1 classes to increase confidence, strength mentally and physically, maintain energy, and experience a bright mind and memory.

Erin has helped and witnessed senior and dementia care clients gain mental well-being, increase speech, social engagement, stable movement, and experience greater optimism with the movement and mindfulness classes that she teaches. 

Erin Doty works with senior facilities along the Front Range and on Zoom nationwide.

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.

Book Below with Erin Doty for your senior wellness programs. 


Below are the events and classes with descriptions that Erin Doty, owner of HK Higher Knowing, LLC offers.

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
  • Enhance Brain & Body Resilience
    • Independent & Assisted Living – 45 minutes. $75  
    • Memory Care – 30 minutes. $75  
    • Weekly, Biweekly or Monthly
  • Neuropathy & Parkinson's Support
    • * Includes tuning forks and a sugilite gemstone singing bowl.
    • * Residents receive 1:1 sound support.
    • Independent & Assisted Living – 60 minutes. $95
    • Memory Care – 45 minutes. $95
    • Weekly, Bimonthly or Monthly
  • Water Yoga
    • Independent – 45 minutes. $95
    • Monthly
  • Gemstone Singing Bowls & Sound Resonance  
    • *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 – 45 minutes. $135
    • Memory Care – 45 minutes. $135
    • Staff support and relaxation - 45 minutes $135
    • Monthly or quarterly
  • Tech Tutorial
    • Independent and Assisted Living - $75
    • 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.

Erin is a certified death doula, end of life educator, and offers grief support.

  • Mind & Heart Matters at the End of Life
    • Independent & Assisted Living – 45 minutes. $75  
    • Weekly, Monthly, or Quarterly
  • 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.
    • Discover what your legacy project is and how to complete it.
    • The meaning and reason for a legacy project.
    • Craft projects to include as creative expression and memory engagement.
  • $250 with onsite craft supplies. $300 craft supplies included.

The following death doula classes are 45 minutes. $75

  • Grief & Loneliness - This is a heart opening class about how to navigate grief and loneliness. Enjoy a heart healing singing bowl meditation.

    Aging in Place - Learn how to age in place and stay vital in your senior years with at home exercises, learn ways to increase memory and energy, and take-home resources to support you.  Enjoy a heart healing singing bowl meditation.

    Improving the Five Senses - As we age, our sensory experiences change.  Learn how to deepen awareness of the five senses to increase balance, mobility, communication, memory, and energy.  Enjoy a heart healing singing bowl meditation.

    Death Acceptance - What to expect and how not to fear death.  Enjoy a heart healing singing bowl meditation.

  • 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.

Here are more descriptions of the classes and are written for easy additions to an online or printed newsletter. *Reference Erin Doty, Movement & Mindfulness instructor, and End of Life Planning and Grief Support at your location.
   
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  

Erin Doty is your teacher, and she is passionate about working with seniors since 2015. She offers public and private movement and mindfulness classes in Fort Collins and Denver. Her classes are welcome to all. Erin offers instruction about the body, mind, and how to feel more inspired amidst challenges, and how to access more joy!

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  

Your teacher is Erin Doty and has worked with seniors for a decade teaching mindful movement and yoga.  She experienced immobility for two years of her life due to chronic illness. She shares the benefits of yoga for increased mobility, mental health, brain function, balance, and more joy!  Erin Doty is certified ERYT-500 level yoga and meditation teacher with ten years of experience.

Awareness & Sensation for Neuropathy & Parkinson's Support

Neuropathy & Parkinson's movement and mindfulness class increases awareness and understanding about how to manage and navigate neuropathy and Parkinson's. Class includes seated postures, movement to increase aerobic activity, flexibility, strength, balance, and enjoy relaxation. Learn about spatial awareness, how to improve tactile sensation, and a powerful and natural pain management technique to reduce cortisol, support the nervous system, and increase mental health and wellbeing. Experience powerful wellness techniques, visualizations, and a sound experience with a sugilite gemstone signing bowl and tuning forks to support nerve and brain health. *Variations for all levels of participation offered in each class. 

Erin Doty is trained in neuropathy and Parkinson's, understands pain relief and shares mindfulness for wellbeing.  She experiences neuropathy due to chronic Lyme disease. She is passionate about working with seniors since 2015. Her classes are welcome to all. Erin provides 1:1 appointments and movement and mindfulness classes along the Front Range.  Erin offers mind, body, and soul inspired movement and tips on how to access more joy in each moment of life, even amidst challenges and pain.

Enhance Brain & Body Resilience

Learn about what changes in the brain as the body ages. Optimize sensory awareness, coordination, and memory with techniques to support and accept changes in sight, hearing, taste, touch, and smell. Experience powerful wellness techniques, visualizations, and sound healing to explore all five senses and brain hemisphere integration. Take home brain games for brain health and resilience.

Erin Doty, your teacher, has experience with traumatic brain injuries, TBIs and has worked with top brain specialists in Colorado. In addition, she is educated about senior brain health due to aging, dementia, and Alzheimer's. She is passionate about working with seniors since 2015. Her classes are welcome to all. Erin provides 1:1 appointments and movement and mindfulness classes along the Front Range.

The Mind & Heart Matters at the End of Life
Join Erin Doty, death doula and grief worker, to discuss why the mind and heart matter at the end of life. Death comes to us all, and Erin is passionate about normalizing and offering curiosity about the end-of-life experience. End of life planning not only includes logistics, and it also combines mental, emotional, energetic and spiritual planning. Tending to the mind and heart prior to death gifts one a more peaceful death and richer life until the final breath. Learn inquiries that help heal the heart, shift anger, reduce isolation, and pain now and at the time of death. Experience body and breath techniques that shift heaviness or imbalance in the mind or heart to reduce confusion and fear. Leave feeling lighter in the heart and clearer and more inspired in the mind. 

Erin Doty is a certified death doula and educator and grief worker. She helps clients and families prepare for the sacred rite of death logistically, mentally, emotionally, energetically, and spiritually. She is passionate about normalizing conversations about death and grief to help others live life well and with inspiration. Her classes are welcome to all. Erin provides 1:1 appointments in person or remote by Zoom for end of life and grief support. 

Tech Tutorial

Are you frustrated with your phone and technology? Learn about how to use your smartphone with greater ease.  Learn what apps are best to support seniors.  Stay connected during isolation and with loved ones and friends at all times with Zoom video chat.  Learn how to use Zoom on your phone and computer. Bring a pen and paper with you to take notes. Talk led by Erin Doty, Tech Overload Specialist.

Gemstone Singing Bowls & Sound Resonance

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

*NEW SOUND ADDITIONS*

  • Ocean drum
  • Blue Kyanite, black tourmaline singing bowl
  • Natural citrine singing bowl
  • Empyrean quartz singing bowl
  • Theta chimes

Erin will guide you on a peaceful meditation for peace and optimal health. We join with our own instruments of sound by singing and humming.
 
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, nervous system regulation teacher, sound 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.