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This is a comprehensive and holistic hands-on practical course on how to take charge of your lymphedema and your own body and health. 

It will help you understand, what lymphedema is, how it can affect you, how to prevent or manage it simply, effectively, and most importantly by yourself. 

 

The practices are simple, don’t require big time or money commitment and can be integrated into your daily life to ensure your lymph system can perform its vital role optimally. 

 

From proper hydration, and good uncomplicated nutritional advice, to simple lymph drainage techniques, exercise, breathing, meditation, and even yoga for the lymphatic system thrown in, you really have all the bases covered in this course. 

 

Delivered by Aideen Schweppe, who is passionate about empowering people to take charge of their health and well being. Aideen has vast experience and knowledge of the body and lymphatic system, with a strong emphasis on fitness and holistic health, and wants to get this information out to as many people as possible. She has the perfect combination of skills to help you.

 

More details on the course here.

After about 21/2 years of being about a stone (14lbs/6kgs) over my favoured healthy weight, and having upped my walking – but not really changed much else – I decided that I needed a) something different activity wise and b) support and accountability to get going.  Having known Aideen for a couple of years as an amazing yoga teacher, I knew she had trained as a PT and felt that her style would be able to accommodate my reluctance while still giving me the nudge that I needed to ‘get on it’ with regards to changing my body fitness. 

Yes, there are a lot of free things out there for this, but I knew I needed the 1-2-1 support and training for a few key reasons:
1) So that I knew I was doing the exercises correctly, I don’t want to damage my body with bad form

2) So that I had a variety of exercises that were right for me (and so that I wouldn’t get bored!) 

3) I needed to feel accountable to someone else to make me do it.

SO – I decided to do an 8 week online ‘Kickstarter’ course with Aideen to get me going, and see how I went.  It was great.  We met once a week online for our 1-2-1 session and then I reported in when I had done my other sessions through the week.

Not only did Aideen have seemingly infinite patience with my reluctance and sarcasm around doing some of the exercises – but guided me in to stretching myself (in more ways than one) and within 4 weeks the difference in strength and ability was already obvious.  After the 8 weeks I felt confident that I would continue and had enough variety and awareness to keep myself going.  4 weeks later and I’m still doing a weight resistance session three times a week, I’ve upped my personal challenges – and even bought a pair of dumbbell weights!  I feel stronger, am increasing tone and losing a few pounds and have kept momentum. 

If you’re thinking about getting yourself a PT I highly recommend Aideen.  If you’re unsure as to whether it works over the internet – well – I’m still going!  I’d also say that doing the strength/PT work alongside her yoga class would be a perfect combination.