Join us for additional activities
All programs listed below are open to both members and non-members.
Virtual Yoga Series
Have you wanted to try yoga, but didn’t know where to begin? Did you previously practice yoga, but felt like you couldn’t continue? Our upcoming Chair Yoga series, led by Gena Foreman, is an adapted form of yoga that makes it accessible to everyone. Gena has over 25 years experience as a student, teacher and mentor. Her classes are a balanced fusion of informed, conscious yoga postures with attention to breath (pranayama) and healthy energetic alignment. Her instructions are clear and concise, offering modifications to address injuries or the special needs of her students. Throughout her classes students learn yoga is not a “one size fits all practice” and that there is more than one way to be in a pose.
Mondays - Virtually
1:00pm – 2:00pm
- June 5th
- June 12th
- June 19th
- June 26th
Registration fee for all four sessions is $25. Checks can be made payable to MS Achievement Center, and the registration fee can be mailed to:
MS Achievement Center
7777 Greenback Lane
Suite 108
Citrus Heights, CA 95610
Registration is required and a ZOOM link will be emailed to registrants. Space is limited.
Please register by May 22nd.
To register, contact: (916) 453-7966 or [email protected].
Book Club
Join us in 2023 for bi-monthly book club meetings with the MS Achievement Center. Read/listen to all or a portion of the book and connect with others in the MS community to discuss or just to listen in! The meetings will be held virtually via Zoom.
Book Club is free and open to members and non-members of the MS Achievement Center.
- February 6th (Lessons in Chemistry, Bonnie Garmus)
- April 3rd (A Place for Us: A Novel , Fatima Farheen Mirza)
- June 5th (Moon Over Manifest, Claire Vanderpool)
- August 7th (The Art of Racing in the Rain, Garth Stein)
- October 2nd (The Last Mrs. Parrish, Liv Constantine)
- December 11th (On the Rooftop, Margaret Wilkerson Sexton)
Contact us to be added to the invite list and for details of our next Book Club meeting: [email protected] or (916) 453-7966.
How to Talk to Your Doc
Drs. John Schafer and Randy Schapiro will be joining us to answer questions about how to talk with your doctor to make the most out of your neurology appointment. Dr. Schafer is the Founder of the Mercy MS Center and the MS Achievement Center and is a well-known Neurologist who recently retired after five decades of service to the people of Sacramento. Dr. Schapiro founded the first private-practice comprehensive MS Center in 1977, renamed “The Schapiro Center for Multiple Sclerosis” at the Minneapolis Clinic of Neurology in 2004.
Dr. Schapiro also founded the Fairview Multiple Sclerosis Center, the first MS Achievement Center in the country, which opened in Minneapolis in 1985. Both Doctors have participated in numerous research studies, helped to develop MS organizations, served on numerous boards and advisory committees, and lectured on many topics associated with MS.
Monday, June 5th
11:00 AM PST
Register by May 26.
To register, contact: (916) 453-7966 or [email protected].
Making sense of MS research: A focus on wellness research - Robert Motl
Robert Motl is an internationally known researcher on the effects of exercise and physical activity for people with multiple sclerosis (MS). He has systematically developed a research agenda that focuses on physical activity and its measurement, predictors, consequences, and interventions in persons with neurological diseases, particularly MS. Motl has generated a body of research on the validity of common physical activity measures in persons with MS. This has resulted in foundational research on quantifying differences in physical activity, particularly rates of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity, in persons with MS.
These two lines of research have provided the basis for examining the outcomes of physical activity in MS, particularly beneficial adaptations in brain structure, cognition, depression, fatigue, walking disability, and quality of life.
Monday, May 15, 2023
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM PST
Registration is required and a ZOOM link will be emailed to registrants. Space is limited.
Please register by May 8.
To register, contact: (916) 453-7966 or [email protected].
Supporting Our Loved Ones
The MS Achievement Center is pleased to host Supporting Our Loved Ones, a program for support partners of loved ones living with multiple sclerosis. The 2023 programs will be held in person at the MS Achievement Center and include several guest speakers who specialize in MS and/or provide services specific for support partners. Following each session, Dr. Linda Trettin, neuropsychologist for Dignity Health, will be available for a follow-up discussion.
A $50 registration fee is required to secure your participation for all sessions.
We do ask if you have any symptoms (fever, headaches, sore/scratchy throat, runny nose) that you do not attend. Masks are required..
Wednesdays
5:00pm – 6:30pm
Via Zoom
Dates
- January 25th
- March 29th
- May 24th
- July 26th
- October 4th
- November 29th
To register: [email protected] or (916) 453-7966.
Writing as Healing
Have you ever considered expressive writing as a form of healing? Writing has been proven to have a positive, healing effect, and we are pleased to welcome John Crandall, author, educator, and artist, to facilitate this free writing workshop. Join us virtually to experience a creative, artistic, and confidential form of sharing the written voice.
Second Monday of every month, from 1 – 3 pm
Registration is required. Both virtual and in person options are available. Space is limited. Contact Tiffany Malone at [email protected] or (916) 453-7966.