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PRISM YOGA & HEALING, Port Moody, BC (2026)

Sharing our wins increases hope and happiness.
🩵🌈💎 Patti Johnson is a Yoga and Meditation Teacher living with the symptoms of Young Onset Parkinson's Disease since 2006. Patti attended Yoga Training and Immersion in Rishikesh, India in 2016. She is a Certified Mindfulness Coach and is happy to share and help others learn to cope well and live happily despite a diagnosis of Parkinson's Disease or

other chronic health condition. As a person living with YOPD, Patti feels strongly that an at home yoga practice is the best way to enjoy the benefits of yoga. She preaches what she practices, which is prioritizing getting to the mat everyday for at least 5 minutes to listen to the body and mind. When that attainable goal is the plan, the profound benefits of listening to one's body and reveling in well-being will follow. Continuously furthering her education, Patti is now a Certified Trauma Informed Yoga Teacher and is currently in pursuit of her C-IAYT so that she may assist others as a Yoga Therapist.

04/10/2026

I think he means that he doesn’t feel totally crazy. 💙 The window of coherence—referring to the brain’s ability to integrate cognitive and emotional information (neural coherence) and an individual’s “sense of coherence” (psychological coping)—is frequently disrupted. PD involves both a narrowing of functional brain connectivity (neural) and a reduced capacity to manage emotional and cognitive demands, leading to deficits in emotional regulation and increased apathy or depression.
PubMed Central (PMC) (.gov)
PubMed Central (PMC) (.gov)
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Cognitive and Emotional Regulation Challenges in PD
Reduced Neural Coherence: Studies show that PD patients exhibit lower inter-hemispheric EEG coherence in theta, alpha, beta, and gamma frequency bands during emotional processing, particularly when dealing with negative emotions (fear, sadness, disgust).
“Sense of Coherence” (SOC) and Coping: A lower Sense of Coherence—meaning a reduced ability to manage stress or feel that life is manageable—is common in PD. A lower SOC directly correlates with higher depression and poorer quality of life, as patients may struggle to adapt to the disease’s constraints.
Emotional Processing Deficits: Patients often have trouble identifying facial emotions and recognizing emotional prosody (tone of voice), which hinders social communication.
Cognitive Load and Emotion: When emotional regulation is required alongside high cognitive demands (e.g., in complex tasks), PD patients often experience “overload,” which leads to greater difficulties in processing information compared to healthy adults.

04/01/2026

A slap in the face to people with Parkinson’s by Canadian politics as Parkinson’s Awareness Month starts. A question asked and answered. Apparently politicians can’t focus on the work at hand with the distraction of social media. Hm. I’m technically not Green Party but seems like everyone has an excuse to keep using pesticides except the people who I’m sorry, they don’t get enough votes to vote green. Work together EDIT: people. I’m sure you’re not as****es probably. ✌️

04/10/2025

Sadly, I know a lot of guys named John who have Parkinson’s disease. John D. Pepper had Parkinson’s. Diagnosed in 1992, John made it to 90 years old, 32 of which he had Parkinson’s Disease hanging over his head. He lived well with a brutal disease and he gave me hope. At a time when my YOPD Dx was so overwhelming, John gave me hope by saying ‘Hey look what I can do, this is how I do it, and maybe you can too’. It’s one reason I share the kooky ways I cope and some of the tough kms I clock, because maybe I can offer some hope or inspiration to keep moving to someone who needs it. I believe that sharing our wins and helping each other creates an ever expanding cumulative healing and happiness. John’s story is amazing and while we know that the doctors say that there’s no cure for Parkinson’s, John’s story proves that it can be reversed, for years even. He gave so many hope. Much gratitude to John for sharing his Parkinson’s journey. 🙏

04/01/2025

I’ve been living with a Young Onset Parkinson’s Diagnosis for 5195 days. It’s just over 14 years and I can’t say getting the diagnosis was quick and easy, that took some years too! I’ve watched this YOPD/PD community grow over the years. I have seen people and myself make lifestyle changes, fight back and I have witnessed how varied our outcomes can be. I’ve heard the horror stories and the inspirational feel good winner epics. There are so many of us it’s overwhelming. We cope with progression through acceptance, gratitude, optimism and hope. These are not come by easily. It’s hard! But together we are stronger, louder and we will not be ignored, forgotten, misunderstood or defunded. This month we unite to raise awareness of this dastardly disease for so many reasons! I’ll start a list in the comments. Please add your own opinion… what do we need to spread awareness about and why? I encourage everyone who has an inkling about the suffering this disease can cause, to advocate loudly and proudly. Here we go April.

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