The spine is our super highway for all the major body systems. Keeping it strong is important to cancer patients and survivors. Learn …
Cancer treatments can reduce flexibility because surgeries and radiation create scar tissue around muscles and joints. Yoga can manage impact and long term use.
We love featuring Tari around the world demonstrating yoga poses. Check out some of our favorites over the years!
Cancer treatments like chemotherapy and radiation weaken the body in the act of eliminating cancer as a life-threatening disease. Yoga builds strength.
Yoga borrows from the science of physics using the principles of movement, gravity and resistance to detoxify. Learn more.
A letter for a yoga4cancer student about the side effects of cancer and how to manage.
Special Benefits:
Increase chest muscles range of motionImprove breath fluidity and awareness through chest openingDeep relaxation due to gentle support
Practice Level: All Levels
Props needed: Two blocks, two blankets, …
Oncology Trained teachers Ani describes a vinyasa and why its important to cancer patients and survivors practice.
Cancer patients and survivor need to increase range of motion, strength and flexbility of the spine and movement. This yoga pose is designed to …
Advice on how to manage back pain during yoga classes due to cancer treatments and impacts.
Gravity has a tremendous benefit to the body, and y4c yoga consciously uses gravity’s gifts to our students’ benefit in the following ways:
Tari reviews how simple breathing tools in a CT scan is yoga and will be helpful.
Question: Do your students talk about their cancers?
Tari Answered: “Absolutely! Again, that sense of community is hugely important to what we do. When I started looking …
By Ani Weinstein (y4c teacher)
One way that yoga supports the immune system is by reducing stress and creating a nervous system response toward relaxation. It …