Cancer & how yoga can help alleviate stress & symptoms
Yoga for cancer
Tuesdays/ St Johns Rm / Wanaka/ $12 casual/ $10 block
These sessions are for anyone affected, one form or another by cancer, including caregivers/support people & family. My Grand Mother, died last year, she had cancer. My dad was diagnosed with late stage 4, non- hodgkins lymphoma he died On May the 8th 2017. I have experienced and witnessed first hand the immense trauma and energy that caring and supporting a loved one with cancer takes.
Post therapy, Yoga for cancer supports, simple techniques that connect with refining our senses, our body, our breath, and our mind so we understand them as gateways for our ongoing health and wellness.
Pre or during cancer therapy, yoga will help to alleviate nausea & pain, fatigue & anxiety all common symptoms during chemical or radiation therapy.
From a Yogic perspective, it is only when we truly experience undoing ( letting go of stress and habits that create stress) in the body that it begins to reset. It is from this place that the body can function optimally in elimination, digesting, detoxing, building immunity.
If you have not attended a yoga class before, and hesitate to come because of ideas around not being “good” or “fit”, “flexible” or yoga is too “slow”. You are not alone, these are some commonly held, limiting belief’s that are simply not true. I invite you to come along and experience for yourself.
It is likely a yoga class for cancer is a little different to your perceived expectation. Yoga for cancer applies yoga as therapy and medicine. For more information read the role of yoga in cancer. There are chairs for those that cannot come to the floor and the session accommodates for all levels, with many variations offered.
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A Little acknowledgement……….
