For Caregivers
Your complete guide to navigating all the changes you’ll experience between the doctor’s office and everyday living…
Cancer is a complex group of illnesses with costly and difficult treatments.
Increasingly, research supports the use of integrative and complementary care for people diagnosed with cancer…
Poetry Series by Ted Kooser, a poet from Nebraska. He was recovering from his cancer treatment and started to take morning walks and the walks are his reflections…
Cancer is a complex group of illnesses with costly and difficult treatments. Increasingly, research supports the use of integrative and complementary care for people diagnosed with cancer.
Yoga, and its sister science, Ayurveda, are both ancient systems developed in India at least 5,000 years ago, but are increasing in popularity and use as complementary or integrative care modalities throughout the world today.
Understanding their benefits and uses can add to the potential pool of healing modalities that can be of use for people diagnosed with cancer.,,
In recent years, medical science has validated many benefits of therapeutic yoga for improving and supporting health…
Can Yoga Benefit Bones?
Loren Fishman, MD, a rehabilitation physician and Iyengar yoga teacher, and co-author with Ellen Saltonstall of the book, Yoga for Osteoporosis, states that yoga — practiced appropriately — can safely stress bones and causes new bone formation, while also exerting a positive effect on joints, unlike forms of higher impact movement that may stress joints…
Kelly McGonigal, PhD is a leading expert on mind/body relationships. In this book, she explains the proven ways that yoga can ease pain, stress and anxiety with gentle postures and deep relaxation practices.
In Easy Yoga for Easing Pain, Peggy Cappy demonstrates yoga movements that can increase flexibility, reduce joint pain, combat fatigue and enhance overall well-being.
Yoga nidra is a practice which can greatly benefit those on the cancer journey — but what really is it?
The word “yoga” typically evokes an image of the postures and movements associated with hatha yoga, a branch of yoga study. Although we may know yoga today in the West mainly by the physical postures called asanas, yoga is actually an umbrella term for a vast set of practices and philosophies. Yoga includes paths of devotion, study and service, as well as hatha yoga, which consists primarily of the physical postures and practices that we are most familiar with in the West…