Sign up now for Harvard’s BETTER BALANCE Online Course — and discover 44 exercise videos plus expert advice to help you stay steadier on your feet and prevent incapacitating falls.

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Have you ever felt like you were about to topple over? Maybe you were reaching for something on an upper shelf or making your way down a flight of stairs or simply getting up out of a chair. If you’re lucky, it was a fleeting moment and you maintained your balance.

But you likely realized that your balance wasn’t what it used to be and that you should do something about it.

That’s where the Harvard BETTER BALANCE Online Course can help you. It’s the simple, positive way to better understand your balance concerns and address them with specific research-backed recommendations.

Step-by-step, this practical course brings you the valuable tools you need to help solve some of the issues that may be affecting your balance — from balance-boosting activities to remedies for little-known causes of balance problems.

44 exercise videos help improve your balance and prevent harmful falls

At the heart of the Online Course are exercise videos that can help you build strength and flexibility and improve shaky balance.

Narrated by renowned fitness instructor and best-selling author Michele Stanten, these videos clearly demonstrate proper form to help maximize their effectiveness. Ranging from easy to more difficult, most of these exercises require nothing more than a chair or a mat.

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  • Beginner balance workout. This is the first step toward improving shaky balance. It’s ideal for people of many ages and abilities, including those who are older, frail, or recovering from illness or surgery.
  • Standing balance workout. Easy-to-do exercises help improve static balance — your ability to stand in one spot without swaying.
  • Yoga balance workout. Simple movements that help improve your balance, build strength, and increase flexibility. (Includes modifications for all levels of ability).
  • Balance in motion workout. See how to improve your dynamic balance — the ability to anticipate and react to changes as you move — to help prevent falls. These exercises are ideal for improving your ability to stroll down the street, walk up or down stairs, and turn to look behind you.
  • Balance on a beam workout. These more challenging exercises use a soft, high-density foam balance beam to help improve your stability in three different ways.
  • Advanced yoga balance workout. These more challenging yoga poses challenge both static balance (the ability to stand in one spot without swaying) and dynamic balance (the ability to anticipate and react to changes as you move) in a single workout!

It won't take long to improve your balance once you build your own workout routine from the six exercise sections demonstrated in this course!

Watch and listen anywhere and at any time from any device!

The Harvard BETTER BALANCE Online Course puts in one single, accessible place everything you need to help improve your balance and open the door to a more active life! Course benefits include:

  • 44 at-home exercise videos to help you be steadier and more confident and secure on your feet
  • Valuable explanations about the causes and treatments of vestibular disorders, vertigo, Meniere’s disease, infected labyrinths
  • 9 doctor-recommended activities to help you build better balance and prevent potentially debilitating falls
  • Helpful checklists to help you decrease your risk of falling and spot hidden tripping hazards in your home
  • And much more.
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Are you worried about your balance?

If you answer “yes” to any of these questions, we recommend that you enroll in the Harvard BETTER BALANCE Online Course to discover the answers you’re looking for. In addition, the National Institutes of Health advises you to discuss the symptom with your doctor.

  • Do I feel unsteady?
  • Do I feel as if the room is spinning around me, even only for brief periods of time?
  • Do I feel as if I'm moving when I know I'm standing or sitting still?
  • Do I lose my balance and fall?
  • Do I feel as if I'm falling?
  • Do I feel lightheaded, or as if I might faint?
  • Does my vision become blurred?
  • Do I ever feel disoriented, losing my sense of time, place, or identity?
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