You might be wondering what a ‘typical’ Dancing with Parkinson’s class looks like with dna? Well, look no further, I’ll tell you! As with all classes, we start with a warm-up. I like to start these classes seated so we can build to standing once we’re feeling focused, confident and warm. I also tend to repeat the same warm up each session, starting by looking at our posture, finding a tall spine and feet rooted down into the floor. Also, breath-work to centre us and go within

Many of you may not know this but dna’s programmes are built generally on personal experience. Something that comes from my own dna and driven by community need. Every programme tells its own story and has its own history and today here is why we choose to Dance with Parkinson’s. In 2016 we were together as a Wright family at my in-laws for Easter. My husband’s mum Jane, said that she had something to tell us. Poised, we listened as she told us that she had been diagnosed wit