Where thinking and moving are trained as one
Being diagnosed young means carrying Parkinson's alongside work, family, and everything else; often for decades. The focus here is staying ahead of the disease, protecting your career, independence, and confidence by training your brain and body to adapt as Parkinson's changes. Build the strategies, resilience, and self-awareness needed to keep moving forward.
Later-onset Parkinson's more often brings postural instability, freezing of gait, shuffling, and a higher risk of falls. Think and Move Well was built exactly for these challenges. Learn to improve pelvic control, transfer weight more effectively, counteract momentum, and restore symmetry. Reducing fall risk and often pain along the way.
For those who need guidance during movement, care partners learn alongside you through guided observation and modeling. They develop practical cueing skills that reinforce progress between sessions, helping you stay active, independent, and engaged in the moments that matter. The result is greater confidence for you and less burden for them.
Your quality of life is determined by what you can access when you're not moving well.
Anyone can perform on a good day.
The real question is what remains available when you're tired, stressed, distracted, rushed, or symptomatic.
Think & Move Well was designed to expand what you can access when it matters most.
Think and Move Well is a personalized cognitive-motor curriculum delivered one-on-one through live virtual coaching to help people with Parkinson's regain reliable access to movement, attention, and confidence.
Each session develops the systems Parkinson's most commonly disrupts. Timing, coordination, attention, adaptability, and cognitive-motor integration.
The curriculum unfolds through three progressive phases.
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Restore the foundation of attention, timing, and movement.
Orienting.
Combine previously separate skills into coordinated, simultaneous action.
Combining.
Adapt those skills to changing environments, increased complexity, and real-world demands.
Transforming.
Exercise is only one part of the process. Think and Move Well is an educational platform that uses coaching, feedback, videos, and personalized tools to build understanding, metacognition and the ability to solve movement challenges independently.
Recognize how Parkinson's changes throughout the day.
Learn why symptoms change and how to respond.
Generate personalized training based on your symptoms and situation.
Build the confidence to recognize changes, make informed decisions, and know when to seek guidance.
Strengthen working memory
Improve cognitive flexibility
Increase processing speed
Build internal timing that does not depend on external cues
Provides virtually unlimited progression through the infinite sequence of π
Improves the brain's ability to predict and regulate effort.
Customize Cues
Integrate Tasks
Modulate Effort
Optimize Arousal
"Darbe Rocks"... Paul C.
“I have found Darbe’s approach to be complementary to traditional physical therapy. It has been particularly effective at getting my affected side for PD to be able to respond better during
exercise as well as day-to-day activities. I was able to measure the improvement in speed and impact of punches over time utilizing VR boxing."
"Diagnosed at 42 and living in an isolated community, meeting Darbe was life changing for me. Parkinson's is an extremely challenging disease. Watching myself in videos, the bradykinesia was the only thing I saw. Darbe and her training methods are making a significant improvement on one of my most challenging symptoms and that feels pretty awesome!"
“The minute you're diagnosed the smartest thing you can do is contact Darbe Schlosser. She will keep your body in shape, sharpen your mind, connect the two, and put a smile on your face. She's almost worth getting Parkinson's for...almost..."
“Darbe's unique experience working with those living with PD has helped her develop a truly amazing program. I've used some of her vocal cues to help myself and boxers I train in my Rock Steady classes. Darbe lit a passion in me for juggling. Darbe has been a life changer for me, and I know she has been for many others as well..”
“Darbe has helped me feel more confident in my cognitive and motor abilities. The multi-tasking exercises can be challenging and I love that because easy doesn’t help you grow. The community that Darbe is building is another drawing point for me, I am very appreciative of the support and friendships I’ve developed by working with the Motorvation community.”
"I met Darbe at the Lafayette reservoir. When I learned about her expertise with Parkinson patients I immediately signed up for her zoom class. No disappointment as she is a terrific instructor. Each week I take a class and am much better for it. Darbe is a godsend for Parkinson people."
"I am 41 years old and I was diagnosed with YOPD at the age of 38 and ever since the diagnosis I have worried about the cognitive side of the disease. Being at the height of my career as an Executive Assistant, my cognitive health feels just as important as keeping my motor symptoms under control.
I am so happy I met Darbe - Brain Blast has given me confidence and hope for my future. Darbe is an amazing coach and the classes are a lot of fun. In less than 6 months I have memorized 350 digits of Pi, I am learning to juggle and I feel like I am keeping both my brain and my body active by combining memory exercises with movement. I am convinced that these exercises will help me be able to work longer and do better overall. I am so grateful for Darbe and the amazing job she is doing for the PD community. "
"Running a company while having Parkinson’s is not easy. There are so many things to think about in addition to thinking about my mental state and the image I project to my employees and the outside world. Darbe's cueing helps me focus and recenter. In the past, I would’ve focused on the embarrassment of dyskinesia, which would’ve made it worse. Now I'm learning how to minimize my dyskinetic tendencies, helping me retain focus and feel better about myself. The group learning environment is particularly enjoyable and helpful. It not only builds a sense of community but seeing others struggle and succeed is both reassuring and inspiring."
