By Cancer.net — 2021
When you discuss a complementary therapy with your health care team and they agree that it is safe to try as part of your overall cancer care, this is called “integrative medicine.”
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Researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania reported men with prostate cancer going through radiation therapy can benefit from yoga. They found that general quality of life and side effects were stable throughout radiation therapy while participating in yoga.
Calm is needed to maintain our health. With high levels of stress over a long period of time, the body breaks down. During these turbulent times, we need to get back to the calm, still center within.
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Lauren explains the energy system and how it works when there is a trauma. CJ shares her recent concussion and Lauren uses this as a model to explain how an injury is held within the body. Lauren explains the importance of moving energy forward and integrating it so that it doesn't get stuck.
It's no secret that yoga increases muscular flexibility and strength, but you may not know that yoga is a proven treatment for back pain, knee pain, carpal tunnel syndrome, and other chronic pain conditions.
What is it that makes yoga practitioners feel so good after a session―more so than after other kinds of exercise or stretching? "Yoga was created to directly stimulate and move us at the energetic level," teaches Lauren Walker.
In Yoga Cures, Tara Stiles—owner of Strala Yoga in Manhattan—offers an A-to-Z guide of the poses you can do to target specific problems in your body and get you feeling better right away.
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Reema Datta is an Indian-American teacher, speaker, author, musician, and founder of Yatri Yoga. She has dedicated her life to offering yoga as a holistic practice leading to healing and lasting peace.
Acclaimed yoga and meditation teacher Sarah Powers is known and loved for her unique approach—Insight Yoga—which combines traditional yoga with the meridians of Chinese medicine, as well as Buddhist meditation.
Joseph Campbell called Sanskrit “the great spiritual language of the world.