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The Lifestyle-integrated Functional Exercise (LiFE) program is a way of reducing the risk of falls by integrating balance and strength activities into regular daily tasks. Unloading the dishwasher becomes an opportunity to improve strength. Brushing your teeth becomes an opportunity to improve balance. In the LiFE program, every daily task becomes an opportunity to improve balance and strength. This is a different approach to a traditional program where you would be required to complete a series of exercises a certain number of times a day for a set number of days each week.The trainer's manual outlines the principles of the LiFE program and provides a step-by-step guide for therapists and trainers to implement the program with their clients. It should be used in conjunction with the participant's manual so that the program is fully understood from both the trainer's and participant's perspectives.Blank copies of the worksheets are available online.Activity CounterActivity PlannerDaily Routine Chart (DRC)LiFE Assessment ToolA Participant's Manual is also available.

The Lifestyle-integrated Functional Exercise (LiFE) program is a way of reducing the risk of falls by integrating balance and strength activities into regular daily tasks.

When one of the Dietl sisters ends up in hospital after what appears to be a brutal attack, leaving her with a mutilated face and unable to move, Masek leads the reader on a detective story exploring change of identity, doppelgangers, deformation, hallucination and altered states of mind in contrast with idyllic family life. This graphic novel takes place in a fictional world woven from dreams, hazy and distorted memories of childhood fears, fear of the unknown and the desire for a safe hiding place. Reality constantly disrupted by doubts, changing points of view, the neurotic need to find objective truth.

The story of the Masin brothers and their band waging guerilla war against the Communist regime in the early 1950s could be the most dramatic Czech tale of the 20th century. After their activities in Czechoslovakia, these young men headed west - facing off against 20,000 East German Volkspolizei and shooting their way to freedom. In the novel So Far, So Good, Novak wrote the story like a thrilling Czech Western and won the Magnesia Litera prize for Best Book of the Year. After the success of Novak's previous book with Jaromir 99, Zatopek, the authors return with an even more explosive comic book.

Frenk Meeuwsen is a Dutch painter and draughtsman who has long been interested in Far Eastern philosophy and martial arts, he owns the black belt in karate. In the mid-1990s, he lived in the temple district of Kyoto, where many of the Japanese sketches he included in his first graphic novel 'Zen Without a Master' are located. The book is a collage of various materials: Meeuwsen's childhood in the Netherlands, Japanese everyday life, the history of Buddhism, instructions for meditation, reflections on drawing. How and whether a European can delve into the doctrine of Zen is the guiding principle. Overcoming internal violence can be a drive for this, Frenk Meeuwsen tells of how he wanted to take revenge on a classmate as a boy and this student actually dies without Frenk being to blame. Nevertheless, this haunts him for a long time through his dreams. Banishing the randomness and cruelty of life through reduction and ritualisation is one of the temptations of Zen Buddhism. Search for a subjective way into meditation. Frenk Meeuwsen shows them when he understands the ritual of traditional Japanese archery in a long sequence of pictures. In all attempts at approximation, he comes to the conclusion for himself and the many other European enlightenment seekers in Japan: they remain exotic there and can only approach Japanese thinking in their own way. The book title 'Zen Without a Master' alludes to this, Frenk Meeuwsen shows that you have to and can look for your subjective way into meditation. Despite all the fascination, Frenk Meeuwsen also looks at the dark sides of the Zen tradition in Japan. Zen monks blessed the planes of the Kamikaze pilots in World War II, 'enlightened' Zen masters have expressly supported Japanese authoritarianism of that time. In modern Japan, he hardly finds any remains of an authentic Zen culture. Frenk Meeuwsen draws all this in simple black and white, in reduced realistic pictures, in which he very skilfully incorporates the possibilities of the comic: different panel sizes and perspectives on the events, surreal dream worlds, massive font blocks that harass characters. Meeuwsen has arranged his material in very short chapters, his book meanders through time. This creates an attractive directionless storytelling, similar to the form of teaching of Zen Buddhism, the reproduction of short, incoherent 'Koans' with statements of the Zen masters.

Livet, det verkliga, är sammanhanget vi kallar hälsa. Allting har sin funktion, de små detaljerna, de stora systemen, panoramat, allting som snurrar omkring har sin förklaring. Dina iakttagelser ger innehåll. När Du använder alla dina sinnen skapar det liv och Du själv får mening. Från kaos till ordning, från mörker till ljus, finns de, känslorna, på riktigt, överallt, och, Du!