For People Affected by Cancer
When I began my career in social work nearly twenty years ago, I never thought I’d be teaching mindfulness and yoga to people with cancer. Today, in addition to my career in academia, I volunteer to teach mindfulness workshops, meditation, and yoga to participants at Waterford Place Cancer Resource Center…
In this interview with the Integrative Cancer Review, Carol shares her wealth of knowledge on the critical importance of exercise for cancer patients and survivors– and what every person diagnosed with cancer should know about exercising…
As we have become a society which, for the most part, lives on stress, our gas pedals can get stuck “on,” with the “brake pedals” having little ability to engage when needed. As a result, we live in a state of overstimulation. The chemicals produced when we are in this state of sympathetic dominance can help our bodies to respond to an extreme emergency, but can be damaging if they are constantly being produced.
Yoga and meditation are two tools that science shows have the ability to create this shift in the nervous system…
As we have become a society which, for the most part, lives on stress, our gas pedals can get stuck “on,” with the “brake pedals” having little ability to engage when needed. As a result, we live in a state of overstimulation. The chemicals produced when we are in this state of sympathetic dominance can help our bodies to respond to an extreme emergency, but can be damaging if they are constantly being produced.
Yoga and meditation are two tools that science shows have the ability to create this shift in the nervous system…
Based on the sudden loss of her 19-year old daughter, this fact-based novel explores the ways that families grieve and reconnect after a death.
An Interview by Marianne Woods Cirone, MS, MFA, CYT-500 with Indu Arora, Ayurvedic clinician and yoga therapist, E-RYT 500, and author of Mudra: The Sacred Secret…
Various group define the terms alternative, complementary, traditional and integrative medicine differently and even the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH), both divisions of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), differ slightly in their definitions…