Healing Yoga for Cancer Series
Cancer Support Community of the Bay Area, Summer/Fall 2024
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Healing Yoga for Cancer 10-week series is a 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. Each week, we will focus on a different topic, including lymphedema, anxiety, pain, cognitive fog, digestive distress, depression, neuropathy, fatigue, and insomnia. Open to cancer patients, survivors, and caregivers looking to incorporate self-care into their healing journey and build community.
Pain (July 1)
In our first class, we will set an intention and enjoy chair sequence 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. Setting Your Intention with Mudras: Watch Class Replay:
Yoga Nidra Homework:
Listen to Short Yoga Nidra:
Immunity & Lyphedema (July 8)
Learn about the immune and lymphatic system and enjoy gentle repetitive movements and mudras that improve lymphatic flow and stimulate immune function. Immunity Mudras: Watch Class Replay:
Stress & Anxiety (July 15)
Learn about the six responses to stress (and what to do about them), then enjoy gentle shoulder Somatics and relaxing floor work to release tension patterns held in the body, soothing mudras, calming breath patterns, and simple sound practices to calm the mind and emotions.
Shoulder & Eye Somatics:
Vowel Spiral:
Yoga Nidra (July 22)
Enjoy a deeply healing guided meditation that releases bodily tension, promotes mindfulness, and reduces stress. Watch Class Replay: Listen to Yoga Nidra for Healing:
Depression (July 29)
Learn how posture is related to the breath and emotional state, then enjoy a restorative backbend sequence that brings breath into the upper chest as well as mudras and breathing techniques that lighten the emotions. Mudras for Depression: Watch Class Replay:
Insomnia (August 5)
Learn a short floor sequence and seated supported forward folds that bring awareness inward combined with grounding mudras and long exhalations that will prepare both body and mind for sleep. Enjoy a bonus Yoga Nidra for Insomnia mp3 that you can listen to in bed. Mudras for Insomnia: Watch Class Replay:
Listen to Yoga Nidra for Insomnia:
Cognitive Fog (August 12)
Balancing postures and mentally stimulating mudras, breathing, and sound practices to improve memory and build concentration. Mudras for Cognitive Fog: Kirtan Kriya Meditation:
Watch Class Replay:
Neuropathy (August 19)
A practice of standing poses, breathwork, mudras, body scanning and sound that activate the brain and improve communication throughout the nervous system to lessen neuropathy symptoms. Mudras for Neuropathy: Watch Class Replay:
Listen to Body Scan:
Digestive Distress (August 26)
Poses and mudras that stimulate elimination as well as an easy restorative practice to ease nausea. Mudras for Under Digestion: Watch Class Replay:
Cancer-Related Fatigue (September 9)
A restful restorative practice combined with mildly energizing mudras and breath to both provide needed rest and build energy reserves. Mudras for Fatigue: Watch Class Replay:
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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. |