Simon Pearce designed a glass bowl to help forge meaningful connections. Twenty percent of the bowl sales go to the Love Your Brain Foundation. According to Pia, the Pearce family is simply doing what they do best: making glass that people enjoy, and in the process, raising money to assist others in similar challenging situations.
We are humbled and awed by the overwhelming positive response to our LoveYourBrain movement. Given the phenomenal interest in and support of LoveYourBrain, we are offering an assortment of t-shirts!
The event pairs a pro rider with a Special Olympics athlete. It has special meaning to Pearce, whose brother, David, has Down syndrome. Certainly, they will. Pearce is still beloved here, although the event — and his riding — have come to mean something different in the years since his injury.
Facebook Twitter Email. Kevin Pearce finds acceptance, peace at X Games. Show Caption. Hide Caption. Since its inception, LoveYourBrain has trained nearly yoga instructors around the country, including several in Vermont. She attended one of LoveYourBrain's first training sessions in and has offered the series several times. Miller said she's noticed her brain-injured students enjoying the physical improvements one would expect in any committed yoga practitioner, such as improved balance and increased flexibility.
Beyond that, however, she has also observed a greater acceptance of their disabilities — and of their potential to overcome them. To see them move through that and become accepting of who they are is a really lovely thing. As part of the yoga program, LoveYourBrain teamed up with Zeno Mountain Farm , a Lincoln-based nonprofit that hosts 12 camps and retreats each year for people with various disabilities and chronic illnesses, and for veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder.
The weeklong retreat concludes with attendees running in the Vermont City Marathon in Burlington. As Adam pointed out, the nationwide prevalence of TBI among prison inmates is "staggering" — as high as 87 percent, according to data from the U.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Few of those inmates are likely to have received much medical care for their brain injuries, noted Kevin Pearce, who sees such untreated conditions as a possible explanation for their struggles with anger management, impulse control, substance abuse, mental illness and other issues.
Fortunately for Pearce, his parents had insisted he carry health insurance. Kevin and Adam Pearce continue to look for new outlets for their message. Kevin is now on the road more often than he's home in Vermont, speaking publicly and visiting schools to urge young people to respect their brains and wear helmets when they ski and ride. Last month, Pearce finally reached Vancouver, albeit not as an Olympian. A stop in the city ended his monthlong tour up the West Coast in the company of lululemon, the yoga-wear company that's now a leading LoveYourBrain sponsor.
Pearce and his crew drove a Airstream — which lululemon had converted into a mobile meditation studio — from Los Angeles to British Columbia. They visited hospitals, met with people with brain injuries, and shared Pearce's method of yoga and meditation.
Earlier this year, when Pearce returned to Vermont after a decade spent on the West Coast, he chose to settle in Burlington for both practical and personal reasons, he said.
Two longtime friends, pro snowboarding veterans Mitrani and Danny Davis, both have places in the Burlington area. After years of living in perpetually sunny San Diego, Calif. And, most importantly, the Queen City is close to family members in the Upper Valley.
In his new life, Pearce still finds time to ride a snowboard, something he said his parents are now OK with, as long as he takes it easy and makes smart decisions. But I think yoga fulfills me. Now I feel like I'm living a super-happy life, and I'm still able to find joy. Showing 1- 2 of 2. Comments are closed. Since , Seven Days has allowed readers to comment on all stories posted on our website.
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