Programs

A good walk can do wonders for your mental wellbeing.

It improves self-perception and self-esteem, mood and sleep quality, and it reduces stress, anxiety and fatigue. Physically active people have up to a 30% reduced risk of becoming depressed, and staying active helps those who are depressed recover. 

Walking is good medicine: It can help you  reduce the risk of coronary heart disease

People who track their steps take an  average of 2,500 more steps each day.

Walking is good medicine: It can help  you improve blood pressure and blood  sugar levels

About 1,312 steps equal one kilometer.

Taking less than 5,000 steps each day is  considered sedentary

Jobs that get you moving: waiters (23,000  steps a day), nurses (16,000) and retail  workers (15,000)

Interval walkers lost six times more weight  than walkers who maintained a steady  pace, according to a Danish study.

Walking just 21 minutes a day can cut  your risk of heart disease by 30 percent.

Walking is good medicine: It can help you  reduce the risk of breast and colon cancer

Walking uphill activates three times  more muscle fibers than walking on flat  terrain. It also burns up to 60 percent  more calories

 Since the days of Socrates, walking has  been linked to enhanced cognitive  functioning and creativity.

You use an estimated 200 muscles  during walking.

 Musical activities (such as playing an instrument, singing or just listening to music) stimulate the brain, and this brain workout leads to improved brain structure with the formation of new neural connections. 

Now new research suggests that playing music or singing together may be particularly potent in bringing about social closeness through the release of endorphins. Coupled with the effects on endorphins, music seems to make us feel good and connect with others, perhaps particularly when we make music ourselves.

Why is music important in helping with the development of the characters of a person? Music performs this role by stimulating not only the brain and blood flow, but also the mind, body, senses, and all the other human faculties. It also reduces anxiety, high blood pressure, and pain, improves sleep, and enhances moods, motivation, mental alertness, and memory.

Our Music group is facilitated by professional and  passionate musicians who are working in the disability sector. Come and participate: no previous musical experience required only a passion to participate and enjoy. 

Clients engage in a jam session while learning the fundamentals of music, while in a supported environment. Bring your own instruments or use one provided. The music Group is a  program run on building social relationships with others whilst learning about music. No experience necessary and an easy going atmosphere guaranteed, the music program will conclude with an end of program concert.