Join Certified Essentrics Instructor Susan Mead for a new one-hour documentary film, Forever Painless, followed by a 30-minute Essentrics class.

Chronic pain is the most common cause of long-term disability in the United States. Twenty percent of American adults accept back spasms, throbbing joints, arthritis ache, and other physical pain as an inevitable consequence of aging, illness or injury. But the human body is not meant to endure chronic pain. Miranda Esmonde-White has spent decades helping professional athletes, ballet dancers and Olympians overcome potentially career-ending injuries and guiding MS patients and cancer survivors toward pain-free mobility. Now, in Forever Painless, she shows everyone how to heal their aching bodies and live pain-free.

The root of nearly all pain is movement—or lack thereof. We need to move our bodies to refresh, nourish, and revitalize our cells. Without physical activity, our cells become stagnant and decay, accelerating the aging process and causing pain. People who suffer chronic pain often become sedentary, afraid that movement and activity will make things worse, when just the opposite is true: movement is essential to healing.

In Forever Painless, Miranda provides detailed instructions for gentle exercise designed to ease discomfort in the feet and ankles, knees, hips, back, and neck—allowing anyone to live happier, healthier, and pain-free no matter their age.

Essentrics (aka Classical Stretch on PBS in the U.S. since 1999) dynamically stretches and strengthens every muscle in the body, rebalancing the muscular structure with continuous rotational movements. The unique flowing movements of the Essentrics™ program have been proven to simultaneously slenderize and tone the abs, waist, and back with simple yet powerful strengthening exercises. This is a full-body rebalancing technique that works through the muscle chains to liberate joints, relieve tension and empower the muscles. 

About the teacher
After spending the first 20 years of her career in the business world, Susan E. Mead, M.H. became a health coach and certified herbalist in 1996. She also has a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration, has been a Certified Yoga Instructor since 2000 and is a Level 4 Certified Essentrics Instructor. Susan’s first book, Take Back Your Body was published in 2009 and she's been a volunteer with Courtesy Ski Patrol since 2007.

About the library's Health Perspecitves Series
This is an ongoing, once-in-an-occasional series of talks, workshops and films that brings together professional expertise in nutrition, exercise and general health for free community programs at the Bud Werner Memorial Library.