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  • Description: In this 5-minute video, Juliana Berfield, PhD, E-RYT 500, CPT, guides you through mastering the elbow plank, a great exercise to boost your core strength!

  • Probiotics

    13 Dec, 2023
  • Description: Join Nancy Campbell, MS, an exercise physiologist at Dana-Farber for a quick lower body workout. This video features five exercises for your major muscle group in the lower body and core. Both standing and seated modifications are available. You will need a mat and chair, a small mini-band or TheraBand is optional.

  • Description: Join Nancy Campbell, MS, an exercise physiologist at Dana-Farber for a quick upper body workout. This video features five exercises for your major muscle group in the upper body and core. Both standing and seated modifications are available. You will need a mat, chair and some light to medium dumbbells (soup cans or water bottles can be substituted).

  • Description: Ramel Rones, Tai Chi Master, demonstrates Qigong and Tai Chi techniques with a focus on the lungs and heart, which can be practiced sitting, standing, or lying down.

  • Description: In this 17-minute video, music therapist Heather Woods, MA, MT-BC guides viewers in a body scan meditation with the presence of live music. Research shows that listening to live music during meditation may help focus an active mind, decrease heart rate, anxiety and pain, and guide you to a deeper relaxation.

  • Description: In this 13-minute video, music therapist Heather Woods, MA, MT-BC guides viewers in a diaphragmatic breathing exercise with the presence of live music. Diaphragmatic breathing is a deep breathing exercise that fully engages the diaphragm and increases the efficiency of the lungs. Research shows that diaphragmatic breathing may help reduce stress and increase relaxation.