There are four main types of exercise that are recommended for seniors:

Endurance activities – Activities like walking, swimming, or riding a bike build stamina and improve the health of the heart and circulatory system.  Studies have prompted the American Heart Association to also recommend resistance training as a way to reduce risk of heart disease and as therapy for patients in cardiac rehabilitation programs.

Strengthening exercises –Activities to build muscle tissue and reduce age-related muscle loss.  Strengthening exercises increase the strength of your muscles, maintain and build bones, improves your balance, coordination and mobility. The health benefits far outweigh the risk of injury, a concern that prevents many elderly people from adding more physical activity to their lives.  Strength training can also have a great effect on reducing falls, the number one cause of death in the elderly.

Stretching exercises - Activities to keep the body flexible.   Muscles trained through vibration exercise not only get stronger but also improve flexibility and mobility. When you stretch, the muscle tissues warm up and increase blood circulation and flexibility. When your muscles receive highly oxygenated blood, the time required to obtain a certain level of flexibility is dramatically decreased.

Balance exercises- Activities to reduce the chances of a fall.  As people age, poor balance and flexibility contribute to falls and broken bones. Resistance exercises increase flexibility and balance, which decrease the likelihood and severity of falls.

Performing these exercises on a Whole Body Vibration platform can increase these results and help you achieve them in less time.  Any exercise that can be done on the floor can be done on a vibration platform.  Whole Body Vibration aids in faster muscle growth, better flexibility, better blood circulation, reduction of sore muscles, improved balance, even healing injuries.

 Exercise is a tested and proven remedy that keeps the body young and vigorous.

Whole body vibration exercise improves circulation and oxygen delivery to feet, hands, skin and hair, as well as organs, glands, muscle and bone.  This increase in oxygen and blood circulation improves our cells ability to eliminate waste, respond to hormonal and enzyme cues and to absorb nutrients. Improving these cellular functions is a necessary part of any plan to slow or repair the aging process.

Whole Body Vibration exercise also stimulates our hormone secreting glands to release many positive chemicals.  It has been said that whole body vibration increases Human Growth Hormone (HGH) levels by up to 361%.  This is a lot more than you can receive from regular exercise.  HGH has been called the anti-aging hormone.   Imagine the difference an increase in HGH can make in your life.  Your mood and energy levels affect everything you do.

Vibration exercise and therapy is a safe, easy and effective addition to your personal longevity and wellness plan.  All of these benefits can be obtained in a 10 minute session, 3-5 times per week!

Vibration training yields an increase in key hormones like serotonin that counter mental lethargy and enhance overall mood while sharpening the ability to focus and concentrate.   Research has shown an increase in serotonin levels after vibration. Serotonin is the neurotransmitter that makes you calm, happy and feel good.  Serotonin happens to be the most widely studied neurotransmitter since it helps regulate a vast range of psychological and biological functions.

 Some people have reported an increase in a feeling of optimism, which has lead to the conclusion that the stimulating effects of the vibration machine can help counteract certain types of depression and loss of motivation.

This alone really makes a difference in the majority of people.  When you feel good you do more!

• Improving employee health
• Reducing preventable health care utilization and lowering health care costs
• Enhancing work performance/ productivity
• Decreased absenteeism
• Improving employee satisfaction and retention
• Reduce Injury and Workman’s compensation claims

The White House’s proposed 2011 budget was released, which includes plans to reduce childhood obesity rates by budgeting $1 billion to improve children’s access to healthy meals, and include $10 million in a federal employee workplace initiative to implement prototype wellness programs.

The plan includes increased federal funding for workplace wellness programs, programs for schools that address childhood obesity, education for healthcare employees, and “individual and community initiatives to help Americans make healthful choices.”

Employee wellness programs are an excellent way to help defray the rising cost of health care. In addition to cost-savings, employers who provide wellness programs report improvements to worker productivity and retention, as well as improving the working environment.

Whole Body Vibration (WBV) allows the equivalent of 60 minutes of conventional exercise to be achieved in just 10 minutes.  It is so effective; three 10‐minute sessions a week are enough to make a considerable difference.  Whole Body Vibration is perfect for loosening up your entire body and relieving stress. Standing on a WBV platform even for just a few minutes will supercharge all the cells in your body and give you energy to continue working. 

This is why many corporations are including WBV equipment in corporate fitness centers.  Because WBV is safe, fast and highly effective, it’s become a great solution for boosting employee health.

Although the mind-body research into the benefits of exercise against dementia may still be just beginning, there is interesting evidence that regular exercise promotes essential cell and tissue repair, including growth of new brain cells.  Previous research has also shown that a regular exercise program can slow the development of Alzheimer’s disease by altering the way damaging proteins reside in your brain.

Physical exercise may also protect against mild thought process impairment by:                               

• Promoting production of nerve-protecting compounds
• Increasing blood flow to your brain
• Improving development and survival of neurons
• Decreasing your risk of heart and blood vessel diseases that can impact brain function

Exercise encourages your brain to work at best capacity by causing your nerve cells to multiply, strengthening their connections and protecting them from damage.  Exercise seems to have an effect on certain chemicals in the brain, like dopamine and serotonin. Brain cells use these chemicals to communicate with each other, so they affect your mood and thinking.

With WBV training, you can get a full body workout in just 10 minutes a day, 3‐5 days a week.  Not only does this modality have all the health and wellness benefits from exercise, it makes these changes accessible very quickly.

WBV training contracts virtually 100% of the muscle fibers of any particular muscle. WBV fires not one muscle group after the other, as typical weight training does, but the whole body neuromusculoskeletal system is being stimulated at once. That is why with WBV your training time is significantly reduced.  WBV requires your body to constantly respond to the rapidly moving platform beneath you. 

Get started with whole body vibration to preserve your brain function now!

The lymphatic system has no central pump but depends on muscle contraction and manual manipulation to move fluid. Deep breathing is another way we can enhance movement of lymph through our bodies. 

You have twice as much lymph fluid in your body as blood. The lymph continuously flows to each cell and drains away the debris in a circulatory system powered only by your breathing and muscle contractions. If the movement of the lymph stopped entirely you would die in a matter of hours.  Whole Body Vibration stimulates the muscles to contract and relax at a very fast rate just by standing on the platform.  

 The science behind how and why whole body vibration works is actually quite simple.  Imagine, with WBV you are standing (or sitting) on a platform that is rapidly moving up to 50 times a second. Naturally, your body must react to the external stimulus of the rapidly moving platform. Since the vibrating platform is constantly moving, all the muscles in your body must also constantly compensate for the movement.  Your muscles are rapidly stretching and contracting as a result of the vibrations.  Therefore you are moving lymph. 

The benefits of lymphatic drainage are very important in today’s environment where pollution, stress and deficient immune systems make many people susceptible to contagious disease and viral infections.  The lymphatic system plays a vital role in the body by regulating the immune system. When the lymphatic system becomes blocked, lymphatic fluid builds up and stagnates causing the entire system to become toxic.

Lymphatic drainage clears blockages, eliminates wastes and toxins from the body, transports nutrients to cells and increases metabolic efficiency, all adding to the reduction of excess fluid and assisting weight reduction. It can also have a calming effect on the nervous system and helps relieve stress and tension.

By cleansing and unblocking your lymphatic system, your general health improves, your immune system is strengthened and enhanced, and your overall energy is increased.

WBV training contracts virtually 100% of the muscle fibers of any particular muscle, whereas weight resistance training only fires about 40%. WBV fires not one muscle group after the other, as typical weight training does, but the whole body neuromusculoskeletal system is being stimulated at once. That is why with WBV your training time is significantly reduced.

The science behind how and why WBV works is actually quite simple. Imagine, with WBV you are standing (or sitting) or a platform that is rapidly moving up to 50 times a second. Naturally, your body must react to the external stimulus of the rapidly moving platform. Since the vibrating platform is constantly moving, all the muscles in your body must also constantly compensate for the movement.

Your muscles are rapidly stretching and contracting as a result of the vibrations. This is why your body fatigues much faster when doing workouts on WBV equipment as opposed to conventional workouts.

WBV stimulates your brain and helps improve balance and stability because the rapidly moving platform forces your mind to react to the new variable you’ve given it. Just standing on the vibrating platform will force all of your stabilizer muscles to react and fatigue from keeping you in one position.

WBV requires very little exertion compared with traditional forms of exercise.  Some studies comparing this training method to traditional strength training have found similar gains in strength and gains in explosive power.

There are many psychological systems aimed at getting peak or improved performance out of people. Most of these systems work solely on the mental aspects of one’s present conditioning. They completely disregard the fact that there is a massive system of semi-autonomous nerve junctions that lie between your senses and your brain.

Whole body vibration technology has an amazing effect on the activity of the nerves. The vibrations from the machine are converted into nerve impulses via touch and two other important senses: spindle organs and proprioceptors. These latter sensors are highly involved in the control of muscles through local feedback loops that are closer to the muscles than the brain (think of reflex actions). Because the vibration is periodic, it creates waves of nerve impulses that travel to the brain. Generally speaking, the experience of this vibration passing through you is pleasurable – it also has the side effect of ‘resetting’ many of the muscular control mechanisms in the body. 

You may find you have increased energy, less stress, sleep better, and have more energy for more traditional workouts.

Regardless of your shape, size, age, or current fitness level, Whole Body Vibration can be worked into your daily routine with ease.  WBV is a safe, fast, and effective way to live healthier and it only takes 10 minutes a day 3 – 5 days a week to achieve measurable results!

You can gain significant health and wellness benefits with less effort and in less time than you could with conventional exercise. You can improve your bone health and core strength, increase your flexibility and coordination, gain greater mobility, carry less body fat and have more lean muscle mass.

Whole Body Vibration exercise also contributes to a more youthful feeling due to an increase in the secretion of serotonin, the feel good neurotransmitter.  Whole Body Vibration can improve muscle strength, but it will also help increase flexibility and range of motion while stimulating the production of collagen, creating tighter, more beautiful skin.

Progress cannot be made without change.  Because WBV is safe, fast and highly effective, it’s become a great solution for a healthier lifestyle.

Reiki is an ancient healing art that is a gentle, non-invasive, natural treatment method. Its origins are ancient Tibetan; it was rediscovered in the late 1800s by Japanese educator Dr. Mikao Usui.  It has no religious affiliation and requires no special belief system or ability to be effective. Reiki works on all levels (physical, spiritual, mental and emotional) and compliments and enhances all other treatment methods.

Reiki is a technique that addresses both chronic and acute conditions, gently and powerfully promoting the normal regenerative processes of the body and mind as well as harmony among all the body’s systems. Medical research has focused on Reiki’s effects rather than how it creates the healing experience.  Reiki is not just a pure healing technique: its biggest value is based on attaining an emotionally healthy state, expanding emotional and spiritual intelligence.  The main difference between Reiki and the other spiritual techniques is that emotional health and love is able to flow through the whole body, whenever practiced.  It becomes much easier to develop healthy emotional habits, while using Reiki: Reiki is emotional healthy energy.  

After Reiki, when you pray, you feel energy of prayer through all body, heart and soul, when you meditate, you feel the flow of energy, and you feel more completely. Spiritual experiences are much deeper, and more useful with Reiki, because you use energy of your spiritual experiences for healing yourself and others.

By practicing the technique people start to change and emotionally become more open:
-People feel much more self-love and self-respect.  The gift of self-healing, self-balancing and healing the others is great one and starts to change emotional intelligence permanently.
- Feel more connected with others and more sensitive to the needs of the others.
- Empathy starts to become natural
- Focus becomes better
- People start to develop spiritual intelligence as well, so they become able to look at what is happening from higher perspective, so Reiki is transforming the fears into love in action.
-They become more spiritually connected to the other people, to the other living beings, to the nature, to the whole planet Earth.

Reiki is useful in every area of human life, you can use it for any situation you want to improve; and put on higher vibrational level.