Teaching yoga to cancer patients and survivors comes with unique benefits and risks. Understanding the principles of Oncology Yoga is a first step to providing a safe and effective support.
The spine is our super highway for all the major body systems. Keeping it strong is important to cancer patients and survivors. Learn more.
Cancer treatments can reduce flexibility because surgeries and radiation create scar tissue around muscles and joints. Yoga can manage impact and long term use.
Chair Pose can increases leg, hip and core strength; promotes bone health; improves balance; increases cardiovascular and lymphatic circulation. Learn how to from yoga4cancer.
New research indicates that cancer survivors who were more physically active prior to treatments had the best cognitive performance across the treatment period and in the 6 months afterward.
The Yoga Hour Podcast Interview with Tari Prinster Host: Dr. Laurel Trujillo on July 15, 2021 How can yoga practice address the specific physical and emotional needs of cancer patients and survivors? Tari Prinster, founder of yoga4cancer, discusses the science and benefits of yoga for cancer patients and survivors and the tools to create a …
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A cornerstone of the yogacancer method and subsequent classes for cancer patients and survivors worldwide is this use of a metaphor. That metaphor is introduced by the yoga4cancer Teacher at the beginning of a class and often is referenced throughout and at the end. In a recent teacher training webinar, Tari shared how and why …
Review a few key yoga poses that can be done to reduce the side effects from breast cancer surgery.
Yoga with Breast Lymphedema including Metastatic Breast Cancer. Read more here.
Peripheral Neuropathy is a common side effect of chemotherapy. It a side effect to the nervous system. Yoga can help.
Explore why some doctors don’t recommend yoga without understanding the facts.
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