Yoga – Articles

Bone Health, Exercise and Yoga after a Cancer Diagnosis: How to Minimize Risk of Injury

Individuals with bone loss can minimize their risk of injury by taking some important precautions. Wellness professionals should know about the potential for osteopenia and osteoporosis to exist in their client populations and adapt their programs accordingly…

Cancer-Modified Yoga: Resources for Yoga Teachers

We at the Integrative Cancer Review are dedicated to promoting safe, effective and accessible complementary and integrative therapies for cancer care, and yoga plays a key role in those therapies.

Recent research validates the role of yoga in cancer treatment and after care.

Researchers are reporting findings that are—perhaps–beyond what even many in the yoga community expected as to the many ways that yoga supports health and well-being in people affected by cancer…

Healing Yoga Retreats after a Cancer Diagnosis: Part II with Lee Majewski, Yoga Therapist and Cancer Survivor

Part 2 of Lee Majewski’s 2 Part Article on how Yoga Therapy Retreats Empower Patients after a Cancer Diagnosis…

Healing Yoga Retreats after Cancer Treatment with Certified Yoga Therapist, Lee Majewski

Yoga for Health Institute (YHI) strives to fill the gaps in conventional medical care, which can leave individuals with varying degrees of isolation, fear, and depression, as well as physical side-effects resulting from treatments…

Integrative Cancer Therapies: The Burgeoning Research on Yoga and Cancer

Can yoga cure cancer? Can it provide a greater quality of life–or even extend life?

Questions like these are at the heart of the proliferation of studies on yoga for people diagnosed with cancer. Yoga is only one of many integrative cancer care therapies at the forefront of research, but studies on yoga in the recent past have provided positive results that may influence the future of cancer treatment protocols…

Q&A with Rita Meier on Yoga for the Pelvic Floor

An Interview by Marianne Woods Cirone, MS, MFA, CYT-500 with Rita Meier, CYT-500, Yoga for the Pelvic Floor Instructor…

The Elements of Yoga Nidra

Yoga nidra is a meditative practice that has been shown through research to provide relief from stress, depression, worry, pain and at the same time improving mindfulness….

Yoga for Cancer Care

In recent years, medical science has validated many benefits of therapeutic yoga for improving and supporting health…

Yoga Nidra: The Practice of ‘Yogic Sleep’

Yoga nidra is a practice which can greatly benefit those on the cancer journey — but what really is it?

Yoga Philosophy and the Eight-Limbed Path

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 Poses & Practices: What’s Best for People with Cancer?

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…

Yoga Therapy Retreats Empower Patients after a Cancer Diagnosis, with Yoga Therapist and Cancer Survivor, Lee Majewski

Part 1 of Lee Majewski’s 2 Part Article on how Yoga Therapy Retreats Empower Patients after a Cancer Diagnosis…