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Healthy Steps Class

A program designed by Sherry Lebed, professional dancer, and her two brothers who are both doctors, for their Mother during her recovery from breast cancer. She and the Lebed Method have been recognized in People magazine, Coping and her research data has been published in the Journal of the American Physical Therapy Association. She’s been on the Today Show as well as Good Morning America. The program has a 25 year track record and is practiced by thousands of breast cancer survivors across the country and even in Australia and Europe. And now they are doing it here in Murrieta, too.

There are a number of benefits from doing this program of gentle dance like movements done to music. Reduction of pain, increased range of motion increased energy, release from frozen shoulder, reduced depression, assistance in structural rebalancing, promotion of positive self image and joy, stimulation of the lymphatic (immune) system, reduction and or deterrence of lymphedema, weight stabilization, and a re-establishment of a sense of beauty and sexuality.

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