Oncology Training Schedule

This introductory session covers cancer biology and how traditional, complementary, and alternative treatments affect patients’ health. Learn how stress impacts the immune system and how yoga can help. How to adapt common practices for patients in active treatment, what is safe, and what should be avoided. Explore the basic yoga protocol used in the Healing Yoga for Cancer Research Survivorship research study, including asana, mudra, pranayama, guided relaxation, and sound. 
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Module 1 (10 hrs)
All livestreamed sessions meet on Mondays from 10:00 am-12:00 pm EST; recordings will be available.

• January 25, 2027 - Introductions, Q&A 
• February 1 - Watch M1 Content (6 hrs)
• February 8 - Group Mentoring

Learn how to adapt common asanas for both cancer patients and survivors. Take a deep dive into restorative and chair yoga, plus somatic movement therapies that boost immunity. Learn specific protocols that reduce cancer treatment side effects such as lymphedema, pain, insomnia, anxiety, depression, digestive distress, neuropathy, and cancer-related fatigue. Apply your knowledge by creating customized asana protocols for case studies.​

Recorded Lecture/Practice (7 hrs)
To be completed on your own time.

• ​Asana Protocols for Pain​ 

• ​Asana Protocols for Lymphedema & Immunity

• ​Asana Protocols for Anxiety

• ​Asana Protocols for Cancer-Related Fatigue: Chair Practice

​Livestreamed Practice (14 hrs)
All livestreamed sessions meet on Mondays from 10:00 am-12:00 pm EST; recordings will be available.​

• February 15 - ​Asana Protocols for Fatigue: Restoratives

• February 22 - ​Asana Protocols for Depression: Backbends

• March 1 - ​Asana Protocols for Insomnia: Inversions & Forward Folds

• March 8 - ​Asana Protocols for Over Digestion: Twists, and Under Digestion: Restoratives

• March 15 - ​Asana Protocols for Cognitive Fog: Sun Salute & Balance

• March 22 - ​Asana Protocols for Neuropathy: Standing Poses and ​Osteoporosis: Variations

• March 29 - Group Mentoring

• April 5 - No Classes

​​​A review of yoga philosophy and the difference between Samkhya and Vedanta views. Learn how to view cancer through the lens of the subtle body, including the koshas, doshas, and vayus. Learn the powerful art of mudra and how these hand positions elicit positive changes in the physical, emotional, mental, and wisdom bodies. We will work with specific mudra protocols that promote immune health and manage anxiety, depression, pain, insomnia, lymphedema, neuropathy, fatigue, and digestive distress. Learn how to combine mudra with asana, pranayama, chanting, and meditation to deepen awareness and support healing. Apply what you've learned by creating customized mudra protocols for case studies.​

​Livestreamed Sessions (6 hrs)
All livestreamed sessions meet on Mondays from 10:00 am-12:00 pm EST; recordings will be available.​

• April 12 - Group Mentoring
• April 19 - ​Mudras for Insomnia & Depression 
• April 25 - No Classes
• May 3 - ​Mudras for Digestion & Group Mentoring

Recorded Lecture/Practice (9 hrs)
To be completed on your own time.

• Introduction to Mudra
• The Subtle Body
• Mudras for Anxiety
• Mudras for Cancer-Related Fatigue
• Mudras for Pain
• Mudras for Osteoporosis
• ​Mudras for Immunity
• ​Mudras for Neuropathy
• ​Mudras for Lymphedema
• ​Mudras for Cognitive Fog

The science behind pranayama and a brief overview of the chakra system. Learn pranayama protocols to manage anxiety, depression, pain, insomnia, lymphedema, neuropathy, cancer-related fatigue, cognitive fog, and digestive distress. The power of using intention, chanting, and bija mantra to enhance meditative states. Create your own Sanskrit mantra and learn how to use it with japa mala. Apply your knowledge by creating customized breath, sound, and intention protocols for case studies.

Recorded Lecture/Practice (8 hrs)
To be completed on your own time.

CHANTING

• ​Samkhya & Vedanta Yoga Philosophy

• Christianity & Yoga

• The Power of Vibration

• Vowel Spiral & Body Warmups

• Introduction to Sanskrit

• Kirtan Kriya

• Bija Mantras

• Creating Personal Mantra

• Japa Mala

PRANAYAMA 

• Mechanics of Breath​

• Side-Effect Protocol Lecture

• Pranya Vidya & Index

• Langhana Pranayama

• Balancing Pranayama

• Refreshing Pranayama

• Stimulating Pranayama

CHAKRAS

• Chakras 101

Livestreamed Sessions (4 hrs)
All livestreamed group mentoring sessions meet on Mondays from 10:00 am-12:00 pm EST; recordings will be available.

• ​May 10 - Group Mentoring

• ​May 17 - No Classes

• May 24 - Group Mentoring

Yoga Nidra is a guided meditation style that leads practitioners through a first-person experience of their body, breath, emotions, and imagination in a completely nonjudgmental, compassionate way. Anyone can learn to write and teach from their own Yoga Nidra meditations with this 10-hour online Yoga Nidra Training chock-full of video lectures, audio practices, written homework exercises, and 7 hours of bonus content that will stoke your creative writing fires. By the end of the course, you will have written your very own Yoga Nidra meditation and have the tools and understanding to write more scripts.

Recorded Lessons (10 hrs)
To be completed on your own time.

• History of Yoga Nidra
• Prana, Nadis, Vayus & Koshas
• The  Hypnagogic State
• The Eight Limbs
• The Importance of Relaxation
• Setting Your Sankalpa
• Building a Yoga Nidra
• The Body Scan
• Breath Awareness
• Duality and the Brain
• Rapid Image Visualization
• The Guided Journey
• Returning to Wakefulness
• Practices to Prepare the Body & Mind
• Teaching Yoga Nidra

Livestreamed Sessions (4 hrs)
All livestreamed group mentoring sessions meet on Mondays from 10:00 am-12:00 pm EST; recordings will be available.

• May 31 - Memorial Day/No Classes
• June 7 - Group Mentoring
• June 14 - No Classes
• June 21 - Group Mentoring

In this module, you will access on-demand classes that show how to combine all the practices covered in the training for each side effect we explored. Teachers will then teach a mini-practice combining asana, mudra, pranayama, sound/mantra, and intention for real-world case studies. Q&A sessions and group feedback round out these sessions. This invaluable part of the training lets you experience how these therapeutic yoga practices combine to create safe, effective experiences for your students and clients. 

Recorded Practices (8 hrs)
To be completed on your own time.

• ​Pain Protocol
• Osteoporosis Protocol
• Anxiety Protocol
• Depression Protocol
• Grief Protocol
• Lymphedema Protocol
• Neuropathy Protocol
• Cancer-Related Fatigue Protocol
• Cognitive Fog Protocol
• Digestion Protocol
• Insomnia Protocol 

Group Mentoring (4 hrs)
All livestreamed group mentoring sessions meet on Mondays from 10:00 am-12:00 pm EST; recordings will be available.

• June 28 - Group Mentoring
• July 5 - No Classes
• July 12 - Group Mentoring

Apply your yoga for cancer knowledge to real-world teaching scenarios in this practicum. It is an opportunity to work one-on-one with cancer patients and survivors under supervision. Learn how to protect your boundaries while working with this population and how to support emotional processing when it arises. Tips on effectively teaching and assisting cancer patients, observing and practicing the client assessment process. Customize yoga protocols that meet your client's needs by incorporating asana, mudra, pranayama, sound, intention, and yoga nidra. 

Livestreamed Sessions (4 hrs)
​All livestreamed sessions meet on Mondays from 10:00 am-12:00 pm EST; recordings will be available.

• July 19 - Practicum Introduction
• July 26 - No Classes
• August 2 - Group Mentoring 

Recorded Lessons (4 hrs)
To be completed on your own time.

• Intake Interview with Test Client
• Yoga Therapy Session with Test Client

Schedule Private Mentoring (1 hr)​

• August 2 - August 15

Final Project Due

• August 30