Steady Steps

Who this is for

POTS and dysautonomia, with or without the frequent companions: hypermobility, ME/CFS, long COVID, mast cell reactivity. If every exercise program you have tried assumed a body that could already stand and push, this one starts lower, on purpose. The post-exertional-malaise question is screened for at the start, so the movement track fits the body you actually have, including the body that crashes.

The shape of the twelve weeks

• First, the foundations. What POTS actually is and why your body does what it does: the standing response, blood volume, hydration and salt logic (and the conversation about amounts that belongs with your doctor), compression, cooling, and the nervous-system layer. Plus gentle, demand-free movement that is safe for every starting place. Understanding comes before anything that feels like a test, by design.
• Then, find your honest start. The at-home orthostatic self-tests (taught with real safety rules, never done alone), a post-exertional-malaise screen, and finding your true starting position: supine, recumbent, seated, or walking. Not a test you pass or fail; it is finding where your own train boards.
• Then, the portable skills. Safe progression, flare versus feedback, setback management, and actual practice at your own level. These are the skills you keep for life, whatever path you continue on.
• Then, choose your path. The two validated continuation frameworks, one tolerance-gated and PEM-aware, one calendar-structured, or the self-directed plan you built here. You leave knowing which fits, and where you board it.

Twelve weeks is a beginning, on purpose

Real POTS reconditioning runs months longer than any course, and a program that implies otherwise is not being honest with you. Steady Steps gets you assessed, grounded, safely started, and pointed down a path you chose, with the data and the skills to keep walking it. Week twelve is a launch, not a finish line, and no cure is promised here, because promising one would be a lie.

What is inside

• Twelve live ninety-minute sessions with Julie.
• Every session recorded, so a flare never means falling behind.
• The fillable Dazzle toolkit: the exercise log, the at-home standing-test worksheet, the seated conditioning card, the flare-up action plan, and the pacing ledger.
• Weekly progress tracking you own, on paper. No app, no subscription, no device required.
• The screening that routes you to the right movement track for your body.

How it stays gentle

The order of the course is itself the accommodation: you get weeks of understanding, and time to trust the room, before anything that reads as assessment. Cameras optional, attend lying down, and the dosing rule the whole program runs on is sub-threshold: low enough not to flare you, consistent enough to matter. A flare is treated as information, never as failure.

Educate and empower, never prescribe

Julie Griffis, PT is a physical therapist, not a medical doctor. This program teaches mechanism, gives you data-gathering tools, and helps you advocate; it does not diagnose, prescribe medication or sodium doses, or replace your physician. Everything here is built to put you in the room with your own doctor holding real information.

Pairs with the wheelchair workshop

The Wheelchairs & Mobility Aids for POTS live workshop covers the tools that free up your energy budget. Steady Steps is where that freed-up budget gets spent on purpose. They were designed as a pair, and both replays live in your inbox either way.

What it costs

$597 for the full twelve weeks: every live session, every replay, and the complete toolkit. That is twelve weeks of live group coaching with a PT who works with these bodies every day, for less than the private-pay cost of three individual visits. Attend the wheelchair workshop and $50 of that fee applies here. Your credit arrives by email after the workshop.

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