Summer Update!
Happy Summer!
Thank you to all who voted for Kim Burns DPT, OCS Physical Therapy and Sports Rehabilitation for Cascades Best 2025. We won silver (second place) for best physical therapy in the Bellingham Area! It continues to be an honor and a pleasure to work with each and every one of you to restore your natural strength and flow of movement! We look forward to continuing to serve the Bellingham community and keep you doing what you love!
The small group classes are on pause for the summer. Here is what’s coming up starting in September! Head to https://www.ptwithkimb.com/classes for more information or email sea2summitpt@gmail.com to reserve your spot!
STABILITY WITH HYPERMOBILITY
For next fall, I will be changing the structure of the Stability with Hypermobility class to be ongoing and all levels instead of cohort groups. That means that anyone who is living with hypermobility can join in the class at any point whether they are in ongoing PT treatment or not. Each class will begin with time for questions! This will be focused on teaching Kim’s highly successful corrective exercise progression especially tailored for those living with hypermobility to restore active posture control, help reduce pain, repeated injuries and increase comfort with daily life and physical activity for people who are living with Hypermobility. The hope is also to create some community for others living with Similar difficulties. Email sea2summitPT@gmail.com or text 360-927-5375 to enroll.
Dates/Times: Mondays and Wednesdays 530-630 pm starting Monday September 8
Class fees: First class drop in $10, $25 per individual class or $60 for 3 classes paid ahead of time ($20 per class).
FITNESS FRIDAYS LUNCH HOUR CIRCUIT CLASS
Have a set of weights or kettle bells at home that you don't know what to do with or get back into using? Want to learn a home fitness routine circuit that is safe and effective for conditioning the core but also strengthening the arms in legs? This class is for learning kettle bells for strength and endurance training. It’s designed for optimized core stabilization along with the tone, definition and strength in the arms and legs for synergy and even muscle balance. Strengthening and toning for fitness with low risk for injury. This is an excellent supplement to your established work out routine, can be used for your “core day” or as a strength and endurance training circuit on its own. Email sea2summitPT@gmail.com to reserve your spot.
Dates/Times: 1215-115 starting Fridays September 26
Class fees: First class drop in $10, $25 per individual class or $60 for 3 classes paid ahead of time ($20 per class).
These single classes will be offered through Joy of Pilates Studio, specific dates to be determined.
FASCIA ELASTICITY AND BALANCE
Feeling tight and stiff? This class will help. Learn self myofascial release and muscle energy techniques to remove the blocks to your natural movement flow or make the most of your recovery days to prevent accumulation of tension or stiffness in your muscles. You may bring your own cupping set, scraping tools and tennis/lacrosse ball. Class fee $30 Email sea2summitPT@gmail.com to reserve your spot.
POSTURE AND BODY MECHANICS
Get back to the basics! Most body pain, regardless of where it’s coming from, stems from posture and body mechanics that keep you misaligned against gravity. Learn corrective exercises build muscle memory to help find and maintain neutral posture and good body mechanics with ease. Learn how to find and maintain neutral posture and optimal body mechanics for common movements and postures experienced throughout the day. Turn your day into a corrective exercise by bringing yourself back to the best posture and alignment throughout the day and with your job duties, usual exercise for fitness for healthier movement. Class fee $30 Email sea2summitPT@gmail.com to reserve your spot.
BALANCED BREATH
Balance the Breath for a more balanced nervous system and musculoskeletal system. The relationship of the breath and healthy nervous and movement systems goes back thousands of years to the yogis of India. In more recent history, Joseph Pilates recognized the importance of breathing to support heathy movement. Current research ties in Pilates’s Wisdom with Gray Cook’s teams’s research on the link between breathing patterns and kinesiology (the science behind movement) with Jon Kabat Zinn’s use of breathing techniques to train the nervous systems responses around pain and the NOI group’s ground breaking research and Alan Gordon’s work on the links between trauma, anxiety and pain as well. This class is a practical application of all of these systems to build a more balanced nervous and movement system by harnessing the power of the breath. Balance your sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system. Create an independent breath that works with, not against, your movement system. Restore and uncover the flow and synergy within that is naturally there within your movement and nervous system. Class fee $30. Email sea2summitPT@gmail.com to reserve your spot.
Enjoy the rest of your summer!
Best, Kim Burns DPT, OCS
