​​​​​​​Cheryl Fenner Brown C-IAYT​, E-RYT 500, YACEP

Healing Yoga for Cancer Side-Effects

Sponsored by the NorCal CarciNET Support Group, January 2025
A 10-week series of gentle, evidence-informed yoga practice and education on how yoga promotes immunity and reduces treatment side effects. By using yoga therapy self-care techniques, you will experience a deeper, more compassionate relationship with yourself.​
  • Class meets Tuesdays from 3:30-4:45 pm EST (or 12:30 pm PST).
  • The Acuity system will send you a reminder emial with the Zoom link one hour before class.
  • Gather the following yoga props (or household items).
  • Read the Frequently Asked Questions on how yoga therapy helps cancer patients.
WEEK 1: Yoga for Pain
Tuesday, January 28, 2025
A chair sequence is perfect for those suffering from joint and muscle pain from treatment or aromatase inhibitors combined with mudras and breathing practices that help to ease pain and release endorphins.
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HOMEWORK: Practice some combination of the sessions below 2-3 times before we meet again.
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Chair Joint-Freeing Series
Practice each movemnet 3-5 times with your breath
Legs In Chair
Practice for 15 minutes
Body Scan
Practice for 12 minutes
WEEK 2: Yoga for Anxiety
Tuesday, February 4, 2025
Learn about the six responses to stress (and what to do about them), then enjoy relaxing floor work to release tension patterns held in the body, soothing mudras, calming breath patterns, and Yoga Nidra to calm the mind and emotions.​
Floor Warm-Ups
Practice each movemnet 3-5 times with your breath
Setting Your Sankalpa
Practice once, write down Sankalpa
Yoga Nidra
WEEK 3: Yoga for Digestion​
Tuesday, February 11, 2025
Poses and mudras that stimulate elimination and an easy restorative protocol that helps with nausea and other digestive troubles. 
WEEK 4: Yoga for Cancer-Related Fatigue
Tuesday, February 18, 2025
This restful, restorative practice combines mildly energizing mudras and breath to provide needed rest and build energy reserves.
WEEK 5: Yoga for Insomnia
Tuesday, February 25, 2025
Learn a short floor sequence and seated supported forward folds that bring inward awareness, grounding mudras, and long exhalations that prepare both body and mind for sleep. Enjoy a bonus ‘Yoga Nidra for Insomnia’ recording you can listen to in bed.
WEEK 6: Yoga for Neuropathy
Tuesday, March 4, 2025
 A practice of balancing poses, breathwork, mudras, and sound that activate the brain and improve communication throughout the nervous system to lessen neuropathy symptoms.
WEEK ​7: Yoga for Grief & Depression
Tuesday, March 11, 2025
Learn how posture relates to the breath and emotional state, then enjoy a restorative backbend sequence that brings breath into the upper chest, and mudras and breathing techniques that lighten the emotions.
WEEK 8: Yoga for Immunity & Lymphedema
Tuesday, March 18, 2025
Learn about the immune and lymphatic system and enjoy gentle repetitive movements and mudras that improve lymphatic flow and stimulate immune function.
WEEK 9: Yoga for Osteoporosis
Tuesday, March 25, 2025
Learn unique adaptations to standing poses that strengthen bones and limit fracture risk, along with mudra and breath that create the feeling of safety within the body.
​WEEK 10: Cognitive Fog
Tuesday, April 1, 2023
Balancing postures and mentally stimulating mudras, breathing practices, and sound to improve memory and build concentration.

Cheryl Fenner Brown, C-IAYT

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I began my yoga teaching journey in 2004 with a 740-hr training with Hatha teachers at Piedmont Yoga Studio in Oakland, California, followed by an 800-hr Integrative Yoga Therapy training at Kripalu in 2015. I am certified as an E-RYT 500 and continuing education provider through Yoga Alliance. In 2016, I was among the first teachers certified through the International Association of Yoga Therapists as a C-IAYT. I have taught over 9,300 hours of public classes and workshops and love teaching how posture, breath, and attention can completely transform how they feel in their bodies and about themselves. Students appreciate my deeply educational approach to yoga; I weave anatomy, philosophy, asana, mudra, chanting, pranayama, and yoga nidra together for a well-rounded experience delivered with compassion and humor. Encouraging each student to honor where they are in their bodies every time they step onto the mat enables profound self-awareness. I specialize in helping people in midlife (and beyond), those with structural injuries, and cancer patients thrive.

​I began my yoga teaching journey in 2004 with a 740-hr training with Hatha teachers at Piedmont Yoga Studio in Oakland, California, followed by an 800-hr Integrative Yoga Therapy training at Kripalu in 2015. I am certified as an E-RYT 500 and continuing education provider through Yoga Alliance. In 2016, I was among the first teachers certified through the International Association of Yoga Therapists as a C-IAYT. I have taught over 9,300 hours of public classes and workshops and love teaching how posture, breath, and attention can completely transform how they feel in their bodies and about themselves. Students appreciate my deeply educational approach to yoga; I weave anatomy, philosophy, asana, mudra, chanting, pranayama, and yoga nidra together for a well-rounded experience delivered with compassion and humor. Encouraging each student to honor where they are in their bodies every time they step onto the mat enables profound self-awareness. I specialize in helping people in midlife (and beyond), those with structural injuries, and cancer patients thrive.

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