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      • 5 Days to Intention & Personal Mantra
      • 21 Days to Spring Self-Care
      • 21 Days to Summer Self-Care
      • 21 Days to Autumn Self-Care
      • 21 Days to Holiday Bliss
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    • Yoga Nidra Training (10 hrs)
    • Healing Yoga for Cancer Teacher Training
    • Yoga Therapy Mentorship (100 hrs)
    • Subtle Practices Intensive (10 hrs)
  • YOGA for CANCER
    • Healing Yoga for Cancer Training >
      • Cancer Certificaiton Training (50 hours)
      • Cancer Weekend Intensives (12 hrs)
    • FREE Zoom Cancer Classes >
      • Private Cancer Facebook Group
    • Cancer Home Practice Course
    • Yoga Nidra for Cancer
    • Cancer Articles & Sequences
    • Cancer Yoga Research
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      • Cancer Resource Request Form
  • YOGA ENCYCLOPEDIA
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      • chair: breathing
      • chair: head & neck
      • chair: hands & wrists
      • chair: arms & shoulders
      • chair: spine & torso
      • chair: hips & low back
      • chair: legs & feet
      • chair: sun salutation
      • chair: inversions
      • chair: relaxation
    • Adaptive Asana >
      • asana a to z
      • asana: 100+ sequences >
        • stick figures
      • asana: pose mythology
      • asana: warm-ups >
        • asana: reclining warm-ups
        • asana: kneeling warm-ups
        • asana: upper body warm-ups
      • asana: somatics
      • asana: core strength
      • asana: seated poses
      • asana: standing poses
      • asana: forward bends
      • asana: backbends
      • asana: twists
      • asana: inversions & arm balances
      • asana: sun salutations
      • asana: restoratives
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      • mudras A to Z
      • therapeutic mudra index
      • mudra: hasta
      • mudra: meditation
      • mudra: grounding
      • mudra: energizing
      • mudra: physical healing
      • mudra: emotional healing
      • mudra: body & bandha
      • mudra practices
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      • pranayama A to Z
      • pranayama: nadis
      • pranayama: vayus
      • pranayama: calming
      • pranayama: balancing
      • pranayama: energizing
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      • nidra: free body scan
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        • nidra: buy yoga nidra MP3s
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    • Mantra & Chanting >
      • chant: sanskrit pronunciation
      • chant: vowel spiral
      • chant: meaning of om
      • chant: using a mala
      • chant: bija mantra
      • chant: chakra mantra
      • chant: creating a personal mantra
      • chant: brahmārpañam mantra
      • chant: gāyatrī mantra
      • chant: ganesh maha mantra
      • chant: mangala mantra
      • chant: mukti mudra
      • chant: pavamāna mantra
      • chant: sarasvatī sloka
      • chant: shanti mantra
      • chant: shiva panchakshara
    • Chakras >
      • chakra: quality table
      • chakra: muladhara
      • chakra: svadhisthana
      • chakra: manipura
      • chakra: anahata
      • chakra: vishuddha
      • chakra: ajna
      • chakra: sahasrara
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        • philosophy: brahman & maya
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Cheryl Fenner Brown

C-IAYT, E-RYT 500, YACEP
Holy Fire® Karuna® Reiki Master

On this path, no effort is ever wasted, no gain is ever reversed,
even a little of this practice, will shelter you from great sorrow.  - Bhagavad Gita

Biography

Cheryl found yoga in 2001 as a way to ease chronic back pain and became instantly enchanted by the subtle connections between the breath, body, mind, and emotions. Students appreciate her deeply educational approach to yoga and her classes weave anatomy, philosophy, asana, mudra, chanting, pranayama and yoga nidra together for a well-rounded experience delivered with compassion and humor. Cheryl encourages each student to honor where they are in their bodies every time they step onto the mat so deep healing and transformation takes place. She specializes in working with people over 50, cancer patients, and those with structural injuries and ailments.

Her training with master Hatha teachers from Piedmont Yoga Studio in Oakland, California, and the Integrative Yoga Therapy school at Kripalu helps her to blend both traditional Hatha teachings and alignment principles with subtle energy work and intuitive healing. She is certified as an E-RYT 500 through Yoga Alliance and maintains their certification as a continuing education provider. In 2016, she was among the first group of teachers to be certified through the International Association of Yoga Therapists as a C-IAYT. She has been a Reiki practitioner since 1997 and was certified as a Holy Fire® III Karuna® Reiki Master in 2019.

As a yoga therapist with over 1,800 hours of individual client experience, Cheryl co-creates home practices that meet the lifestyle needs of her wide variety of clients. As a teacher, she has taught over 8,290 hours of public classes, workshops and retreats in studios and cancer centers nationwide, and serves on the faculty of several teacher training and yoga therapy schools across the country. As a mentor, she helps to develop both aspiring and seasoned yoga teachers. As a researcher, her Healing Yoga for Cancer Survivorship study on the benefits of yoga for reducing side-effects of cancer treatment has been presented at IAYT's Symposium on Yoga Research and the Society of Integrative Oncology's annual conferences in 2015 and highlighted in Yoga Journal. Cheryl and is a published author with three Yoga Nidra CDs and a companion DVD to the cancer research available from her discography.
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The Real Story

By the turn of the millennium, I was a travelling software trainer living an unhealthy harried lifestyle and a self-proclaimed workout junkie. I would go to the gym and hit the treadmill with book in hand, earbuds in ears, a TV on nearby, anything to distract myself from the very thing that was supposed to keep me healthy. The first time I tried yoga, I absolutely hated it! The teacher did not 'teach' anything, just led us through a pre-prescribed sequence - calling out pose names and demonstrating. I felt like I was playing a grown-up version of Simon Says! 

I have suffered from back pain since a high school gymnastics injury and sitting at a desk for 10 hours a day was making matters worse. I found a welcoming yoga community in Oakland, CA with real teachers who truly taught the practice of yoga and I began to realize the peace that came from only focusing on one thing at a time. This is what I had been missing and trying to find through less productive channels for so many years.  Then after being laid off from my tech job in the Bay Area, I knew I loved to teach adults but was looking for another vocation to fulfill my hearts desire to help others. Under the guidance of my first yoga teacher, Vickie Russell Bell, I enrolled in teacher training and fell in love with the practice all over again. ​

​The yoga therapy components of my teaching are based on my 800 hours of training with the Integrative Yoga Therapy
school and certified as a C-IAYT, through the International Association of Yoga Therapists, not derived from my status as an
​E-RYT 500 with Yoga Alliance Registry.
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