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Wrapping up the Christmas Movie Hero’s Journey

For six Fridays, from mid-November through Dec. 20, we met online to look at clips of classic Christmas movies through the lens of the Hero’s Journey. Joseph Campbell is credited with creating the form that helps us understand how our stories all fit together into what he called the monomyth. Regardless of culture, language, time […]

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Give hope by helping us redefine Parkinson’s

This Giving Tuesday, December 3, 2024, we ask that you support our 501(c)3 nonprofit Yes, And…eXercise! and help us redefine Parkinson’s disease (PD). Beyond the physical symptoms, PD affects emotional, cognitive, and psychosocial well-being. Recent evidence is finally giving voice to the people with and affected by PD so we can rethink the way treatment and […]

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The Christmas Movie Hero’s Journey

This holiday season, immerse yourself in the magic of storytelling with our free Christmas Movie Hero’s Journey online celebration! Led by award-winning filmmaker Robert Cochrane, PhD, this fun and interactive one-hour online presentation delves into 12 of the most beloved Christmas movies, revealing how they follow the timeless 12 stages of Joseph Campbell’s Hero’s Journey […]

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The Christmas Movie Hero’s Journey

This holiday season, immerse yourself in the magic of storytelling with our free Christmas Movie Hero’s Journey online celebration! Led by award-winning filmmaker Robert Cochrane, PhD, this fun and interactive one-hour online presentation delves into 12 of the most beloved Christmas movies, revealing how they follow the timeless 12 stages of Joseph Campbell’s Hero’s Journey […]

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Giving Thanks

THE INTERSECTION OF YAX AND YOU The following quotes were pulled together by YAX Board Member, Susan Scarlett. They demonstrate the impact of storytelling and improv with Yes, And … eXercise as told by People with Parkinson’s in their own words. “A year ago, I became concerned that some worsening of Parkinson's was getting in […]

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From YOU to WE

One of my favorite, very silly, barely game-games that we play in the Jam for Joy improvisation classes is YOU! One person starts by pointing at another person in the game and saying “YOU!” The person receiving that point and callout immediately finds someone else to point at and say “YOU!” to. There are great […]

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What we can’t see in PD – and why it matters

James Parkinson wrote “An Essay on The Shaking Palsy” in 1817, identifying the disease for the first time in medical and academic circles. For as many things as he got right, he excluded the mental health impact of Parkinson’s disease (PD) on those who live with it. Incredibly over 200 years later, we’re still dealing […]

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Have fun. You belong.

We just completed a wonderfully (and appropriately emotional) Cinema Therapy session featuring the Pixar classic, Inside Out. Participants who have been through other Cinema Therapy classes several times had beautiful things to say about their hero's journey: I learned through the power of failure – and now I'm using it to keep moving. I thought […]

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Oakland and Las Vegas: Come Together

This is rough. There is more bad blood between Oakland and Las Vegas than a mob of Swifties and a MAGA rally. Just this week, Green Day’s lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong said in a People interview: “We don't take no shit from people like John fucking Fisher who sold out the Oakland A's to Las […]

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I wouldn’t be here without you

One of my Cinema Therapy students, Terri Van Bibber, said those beautiful words to me after doing her fantastic presentation at the Parkinson's Association of Northern California (PANC) conference on Saturday, Sept. 28, 2024. Terri presented as Joy – literally. She took our Turning Parkinson’s disease Inside Out class and, from that work, came up with […]

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