Parkinson’s Exercise

High Life Highland remains committed to providing support for participants of the Parkinson’s Exercise programme across the Highlands.

Since the start of the pandemic support from High Life Highland has included a personal contact by phone and email from HLH specialist exercise instructors to help participants to keep well, at this time, by providing specifically tailored information such as how to exercise safely at home, as well as how to access resources on topics like how to eat well.

More recently exercise interventions have been planned in consultation with Parkinson’s UK Scotland and NHS Highland, resulting in people affected by Parkinson’s having a choice of ways to keep active and connected to High Life Highland and to others with Parkinson’s.

It is now well understood that if people can keep active it can significantly improve functional capacity, fitness and quality of life as well as reducing the risk of ill health, disease recurrence, deterioration of condition, risk of falling and even acute hospital admissions whilst also helping to manage symptoms.

Details about how to book into Parkinson’s Exercise classes run by High Life Highland are below.

A warm welcome awaits you! 🙂

Face to Face Classes

Please see class descriptions below:

Parkinson’s Circuit:	Parkinson’s Circuit includes a vast range of exercises, which can be done at your own level.
Parkinson’s Beats:	Parkinson’s Beats is a form of cardio-drumming which can help improve muscle tone, strength, balance, and coordination as well as giving participants practice in matching rhythm to movement, and learning and repeating patterns.
Parkinson’s Plus:	Parkinson’s Plus is a higher intensity class and consists of functional exercises using a range of equipment. Some of the exercises will be chair based as well as standing.
Parkinson’s Exercise	Parkinson’s Exercise consists of functional exercises, some of which are chair-based, using a range of simple equipment.

Averon Leisure Centre (01349 781751)

Parkinson’s Exercise: Tuesday (1415 – 1515)

Aviemore Community Centre (01479 813140)

Parkinson’s Exercise: Monday (1200 – 1245)

Dingwall Leisure Centre (01349 781552)

Parkinson’s Exercise: Monday (1500 – 1600)

Inverness Leisure (01463 667500)

Parkinson’s Circuit: Monday (1310 – 1400)

Parkinson’s Beats: Monday (1415 – 1515)

Parkinson’s Plus: Wednesday (1245 – 1340)

Parkinson’s Exercise: Wednesday (1350 – 1450)

Thurso Leisure Centre (01847 893260)

Parkinson’s Exercise: Tuesday (1400 – 1500)

Wick Assembly Rooms (01955 609709)

Parkinson’s Exercise: Monday (1015 – 1115)

To book please contact the leisure centre or to book online click here

Table Tennis Classes

To book please contact the leisure centre listed below

Dingwall Leisure Centre – Tuesday 15:00-16:00
Inverness Leisure – Tuesdays 11:15-12:15

Online Classes

Parkinson’s Exercise: Wednesday (1215 – 1315)
Parkinson’s Exercise: Thursday (1000 – 1130)
Parkinson’s Exercise: Friday (1015 – 1130)

Classes are 60 minutes with social time included at the end of the session

Participants of the online classes will require a tablet, smart phone or computer with a camera to take part.

To book please click here

Additional Support and Resources

Parkinson’s UK have created a YouTube channel which hosts a number of videos that can help with keeping active along with a range of other topics which you may find helpful. Click here to go the Parkinson’s UK YouTube channel.

Parkinson’s UK Scotland also have an excellent website full of resources you may find helpful. Click here to go to the Parkinson’s UK website.