WELCOME TO BUILDING BETTER BALANCE

See the latest articles written by Vanessa Kettler.

BALANCE NEWS has 100+ features on aging well through exercise.
DANCER NEWS focuses on dancing safely & beautifully as we age.
GRACE NEWS describes a new dance form with great benefits.

Articles on fall prevention, balance improvement, reduction of symptoms from arthritis, neuropathy, and many other posts detailing how to handle many of the challenges that aging presents. 
Features on general guidelines for dance, important alignments to get right, lower back relief, recuperating from injury, anatomy of the spine and other subjects that help us dance safely along with several unique exercise techniques that improve spine health.
GRACE is a new dance form developed in 2025-6 that addresses some of the problems with traditional dance training. GRACE helps you relieve the stress that causes injury, while healing the joints, especially of the spine, in the process extending the careers of those older or injured.
Descriptions of exercise routines which address specific problems for those older, including exercise for neuropathy, arthritis, advice about walking, knee, shoulder, neck or lower back pain as well as a recommended 30 minute exercise regimen you can do daily.
This is a special page devoted to entertaining film clips presenting the best of Hollywood dance of the 1930s, 40s, 50s and beyond.  Fred Astaire, Eleanor Powell, Gene Kelly and Cyd Charisse are some of the fabulous dancers featured. You will get to see film of their best dances along with analysis of why they are great. The newsletters also have a special section devoted to fantastic dances from the movies and Broadway with a little classical ballet thrown in.

The Building Better Balance DVDs were developed to help you deal with many of the challenges of the aging process that most of us feel daunted by. The DVD classes teach you how to not only improve your balance but also to reduce the symptoms that come with aging: stiffness, weakness, loss of stability not to mention loss of self confidence.

DVDs are no longer available for online purchase. For more information call (707)318-4476 or e-mail Vanessa by clicking on the link at the bottom of the page.
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