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Flow into your Fitness


The Original SANDDUNE™, a unique aerobic/anaerobic compliant device invented for interval training to keep performance level from  losing momentum during off weather or injury downtime.

Being able to excel on off days or rehab muscles and joints when the impact of the ground is over exhausting, SANDDUNE™ Cross Training excels in keeping your current level of fitness.

 Increase Cardio, while Reduce or Build 

  • Strengthen Muscular-skeletal, Body’s Core Muscles
  • Build Stamina, Endurance and Agility
  • Develops greater Dynamic Balance
  • Aids in Rehabilitation practices

 The device allows the body to train:

  • up-hill, down-hill,
  • sitting, standing, leaning,
  • stretching, walking or running;

 Similar to aqua-jogging, or plyometrics in the water, it offers therapeutic options easy on the joints.  

Flow- K Wassell 50 rez“Flow” ~Artwork Courtesy of Kirk Wassell

Working on the SANDDUNE will allow one to learn how to:

  • Stand at the Center of Gravity with the core engaged, knees soft, back erect, belly button back and gaze straightforward.
  • Learn Feet and Foundation sense in the feet through learning to work the whole foot as weight shifts “around the clock.”
  • Develop and understand proprioception (the ability to sense the position, location, orientation and movement of the body and its parts) on an uneven, moving surface as all of the parts of the body are taught to work together. IE…learning to “marry” the trunk and the lower body for greater flexibility in movement and walking.

Jenn Hoage 11-2013 Riverside Diabetes Walk

Test jog @ Riverside Diabetes Walk, Nov 16, 2013. 

Thank you Jenn!

Cross Training on The Original SANDDUNE


CROSS TRAINING ON THE SANDDUNE™ by Miriam Tait – Balance Instructor

The Original SANDDUNE™, a unique aerobic/anaerobic compliant device invented for interval training to keep performance level from  losing momentum during off weather or injury downtime.

Being able to excel on off days or rehab muscles and joints when the impact of the ground is over exhausting, SANDDUNE™ Cross Training excels in keeping your current level of fitness.

Increase Cardio, while Reduce or Build

  • Strengthen Muscular-skeletal, Body’s Core MusclesJack & Weights & Dune
  • Build Stamina, Endurance and Agility
  • Develops greater Dynamic Balance
  • Aids in Rehabilitation practices

The device allows the body to train:

  • up-hill, down-hill,
  • sitting, standing, leaning,
  • stretching, walking or running;

    Bounding Segment of Running Workout

    Bounding Segment of Running Workout

Similar to aqua-jogging, or plyometrics in the water, it offers therapeutic options easy on the joints.

Perfect for:

  • Senior Fitness in Fall Prevention,
  • general athletic conditioning among women, men and children and
  •  professionals who fitness and reflexes are key components for successful execution of duties .

Used by for all levels of warm-up, interval training and cool down by:

  • therapists in clinical or personal settings,
  • golf pros, athletes from a variety of sports, professional dancers, and
  • seniors across the country at home or in group balance classes

Miriam in class

In response to Fall Prevention “Call to Action” Post


What an appropriate document to receive at this time, when the CALIFORNIA COLLEGE SYSTEM, UNIVERSITIES and COMMUNITY COLLEGE, are addressing this very issue, NOT IN A POSITIVE WAY, BUT IN A NEGATIVE WAY, with issue SB 173, which is undermining their own fiscal state budget in the overall scheme of things.

THIS “CALL TO ACTION”  is one which not only has a “clear sense of vision,” but allows “the senior adult” to live wisely and confidently regarding ones own wellness choices.  Retirement is not about “stopping” in order to get on with die -ing.  It is a way of refocusing ones energy and rediscovering why you are on this planet, and what you next mission is – how you can expand others with your gifts, passions and talents.  Most retirees do this amazing work as volunteers.  They raise funds, volunteer at VA’s, run the “Meals on Wheels” programs which feeds millions of seniors.  They run the voting booths, volunteer at hospitals, and these areas named are but a speck of countless hours spent addressing and helping others.  They also pay taxes.

The “Call to Action” would save the STATE MEDICARE SYSTEM thousands, no millions of dollars in medical, rehabilitation, and therapeutic costs. It is as if “the blind are leading the blind.”  Senate Bill 173, puts education at risk, without considering how many of our SAFETY,  WELLNESS, and ADULT EDUCATION PROGRAMS ARE actually addressing FALL PREVENTION  through such classes as “BALANCE and MOBILITY” which uses the guidelines of STATE RESEARCH PROJECTS such as performed by Dr. Rose and Dr. Jones through the Gerontology Department at Ca. State University,Fullerton. entitled “FALL PROOF.” The Fall Prevention Project was documented with results that clearly address not only a Positive Approach to Balance Awareness and how to strengthen the body to keep “self-awareness” as a priority, but also documents the medical costs spent on hip replacements, which may or may not save ones life in the end.  People, wake up.  Your power and rights are being usurped.

I use the Sanddune in my four Balance Courses, because of the amazing and positive results.  And guess what?  At this time, Saddleback Emeritus classes are free.  Wake up, the enemy is at our gates, and it is coming to steal your “rights to live.” Miriam Tait