Welcome to Patient Care Movement!
Movement Education and Fitness Classes to support overall wellness, reduce chronic pain, and inspire resilience.
1:1 consultations to help newly diagnosed patients navigate the next steps.
FOR STUDENTS
Fitness classes for people living with chronic pain
Accessible Pilates, yoga, therapeutic rolling and breathwork classes, including options specific to those recovering from an injury, managing chronic pain, and living with autoimmune conditions. Classes are offered locally in Park City + Salt Lake City, UT and through the Virtual Patient Care Movement Studio
To help support those who are seeking guidance living with chronic illness, Rachel offers free 1:1 15-minute consultations to discuss living with scleroderma, self-advocacy, and sustainable fitness options.
Workshops to help teachers design more accessible classes.
PCM offers courses on practical anatomy & physiology, building kinaesthetic awareness with rolling techniques, and on yoga history and philosophy. Two hour intensives are appropriate for all, longer workshops are intended for movement professionals and enthusiasts interested in creatively sequence inclusive classes.
**If you live with a chronic condition, please shoot me an email before joining class, so I can make considerations for your specific condition. FYI, it’s not a bother, it’s an opportunity to learn.
FOR PATIENTS
FOR TEACHERS
“Obstacles shape our lives; We are defined by how we move and adapt alongside them.”
—Rachel Lando
WHAT IT MEANS TO
Move with Patient Care
Relax, open, and learn to move forward with RestorACTIVE.
RestorACTIVE is an accessible fitness class that blends therapeutic rolling practices with Pilates and yoga. fitness class. We currently offer two options: RestorACTIVE Bed / Mat and RestorACTIVE Chair. These classes are supported through private donation.
We aim to make classes accessible to all and ask that you choose the right class for yourself. If you aren’t sure what’s best for you, shoot over an email or schedule a 1:1.
MEET THE FOUNDER, RACHEL LANDO
In 2012, she woke up petrified.
Rachel felt frozen and hurt everywhere. Her fingers were black, puffy, and completely immovable. After visiting the ER, the hospital reassured her that It was probably nothing.
In that moment, Rachel’s life unknowingly changed forever.
As a 29th birthday present, Rachel received a diagnosis of systemic scleroderma, a rare and incurable autoimmune condition. As the collagen thickened throughout her body, she struggled with extreme fatigue, pain, severe weight and hair loss, facial deformity, joint contractures, loss of lung function, heart irregularities, and GI issues. Life went on.
In 2017, Rachel’s large intestine perforated. Missed in her local ER, Rachel suffered from sepsis and was life-flighted for emergency surgery, a total colectomy, at a major hospital. Waking up several days later in the ICU, Rachel’s sister broke the news that she had survived through major abdominal surgery and now lived with an ileostomy. Intubated, Rachel said nothing, and made a silent promise to get back up.
Once permitted by her physician, Rachel began Physical Therapy Pilates. She had been practicing various styles of yoga and strength training. She also began studying the science behind movement and breath. It all cost a fortune and created real stress.
Suddenly, Rachel found her passion to find a way to offer truly educational and empowering, high quality fitness classes accessible to those living with chronic illness To her, this means absolutely free to those who care to join in movement.
Over the years, Rachel pursued and received advanced certifications in yoga and Comprehensive Pilates, and from Jill Miller’s Tune Up Fitness Certified program. She has studied anatomy through in-person cadaver labs with Yoga Biomechanics author Jules Mitchell and Master Anatomist Gil Hedley. She also enjoys practicing Gyrotonic and whatever movement feels fucking good.
In 2021, Rachel moved forward with her dream and founded Patient Care Movement. PCM offers no-cost classes to those living with limiting conditions, and to help grow a patient care network recently began sponsoring the fitness education of disabled teachers.
Rachel currently works in Park City at Basin Recreation, Enlighten Wellness, and Club Pilates. She can be found in Salt Lake City at Momentum Climbing and TOSH Pilates.
You can also join her online.
“After my diagnosis of a chronic illness my body changed drastically. Between pain and stiffness, I was extremely frustrated and overwhelmed by the changes I was seeing. She has helped relieve and manage pain as well as create a fun atmosphere while doing so. She is so dedicated to her students and really cares about all of us.”
—LINDSAY H.