Welcome to Patient Care Movement
Rejuvenated Body
& Soul
Movement Education and Fitness Classes to support overall wellness, reduce chronic pain, and inspire resilience.
Our Mission
To inspire an accessible, patient wellness movement through building live virtual and in-person classes that educate on and connect us with the joyful sensations of body, mind, and energy
Living as Patients
Our history of illness does not disable us; it empowers us to move in ways that support a more patient and caring world.
Purpose
Our innate human worth remains unchanged when we become patients.
Acceptance
In the fog of our limitations and our grief, it can be difficult to recognize our intrinsic value and find new paths to navigate life,
Tenacity
We must patiently lean into the infinite well of resilience within and make the choice to move forward.
Inspiration
Our spirit empowers us to live with less dis-ease than we might have expected our illness to allow.
Education
Together we learn about our bodies, our minds, and our selves through practices that enable us to perceive more joy, more peace, and less pain.
Nourishment
By learning to live with rather than suffer from our chronic condition, we redefine what it feels like to live unwell.
Transformation
Our illness no longer defines us; our loving, thoughtful actions do.
Service
By showing up for ourselves, we choose to spread our light, laughter, and wellness through our communities.
Our Services
Group Classes
Patient Care Movement offers online weekly classes limited to 8 participants. Our small group classes ensure that each of our students receive high quality, personalized attention. .
1:1 Sessions
Looking for one-on-one guidance to create a customized plan or deepen your understanding of biomechanics and anatomy?
Workshops
Feeling tender? Indulge and re-nourish yourself with a 2 hour workshop.
Education
Learn impactful anatomical languaging to enhance how you educate your clients through lessons that draw awareness to the movement of bones, jones, muscles, and soft tissue as well as nervous, respiratory, and circulatory system basics.
About Us
In Feb 2021, enlivened by the stories of discomfort and dis-ease of fellow chronic illness patients during the pandemic lockdown, Rachel Lando founded Patient Care Movement, an organization that offers accessible fitness classes to those living with limitations. Her vision for classes is that they not only inspire flexibility and strength, but also teach patients how to better manage their functional movement, pain and health.
Through working with patients, Rachel began toying with the idea of RestorACTIVE exercise, a fitness format for the overstressed and fatigued that builds proprioceptive awareness, strengthens pulmonary endurance, exercises mobility, incorporates resistance training, and supports resilient well-being. Resilience, we believe, is the superpower of quick and easy return to a healthy, balanced connective tissue resting tone.
Rachel dreams of the day where every patient more easily manages their stress, lives with less suffering, and has access to real patient and loving care.
Testimonials
What is Fascia?
Fascia is a living paradox; a biological, viscoelastic fabric that creates mechanical continuity and spatial separation between your electrical nerves, your fluid circulatory systems, and your contracting schools of muscle cells.
Why Focus on Fascia?
The Patient Care Movement community believes a deep understanding of our personal, three-dimensional fascial anatomy through movement and rest is key to unlocking layers of chronic pain and returning to life.