Patients & Survivors – Articles
The impact of cancer is massive, both on individuals and on our society as a whole.
In order to understand the current and future impact, it’s important to be aware of seven important facts or trends…
Breath work, or pranayama, is an important part of yoga and an essential practice for calming the mind and body, especially as a part of integrative cancer care…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Yoga as a “therapy” is becoming more widely promoted and even mainstream medical publications are featuring randomized, controlled trials on the benefits of yoga for patient populations…
Part 1 of Lee Majewski’s 2 Part Article on how Yoga Therapy Retreats Empower Patients after a Cancer Diagnosis…