yoga & cancer

Study: Yoga Improves Quality of Life After Cancer – TIME

by darla June 8, 2011

As any cancer survivor can attest, the side effects of many cancer treatments can often be overwhelming.  Now, what may seem obvious to many yogis – that yoga can improve sleep  and overall quality of life – has additional scientific back-up. Dr. Karen Mustian of the University of Rochester Medical Center designed a standardized program [...]

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Yoga Bear: Non profit provides free yoga to cancer survivors

Thumbnail image for Yoga Bear: Non profit provides free yoga to cancer survivors by halle April 6, 2009

ShareYoga recently interviewed Halle Tecco, who is the founder of YogaBear. YogaBear is a special service that matches cancer survivors with yoga studios. Halle came up with the idea when she realized that most classes aren’t filled to capacity and so it wouldn’t cost studios much to put that extra space to good use and [...]

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Donna Karan makes room for yoga at NYC hospital – USATODAY.com

Thumbnail image for Donna Karan makes room for yoga at NYC hospital – USATODAY.com by darla April 1, 2009

“A longtime practitioner of yoga and meditation, [Donna Karan] has contributed $850,000 to the Beth Israel Medical Center to bring yoga therapy and a new kind of caregiving to the cancer wing. Sitting in her Urban Zen studio on Greenwich Street and sipping a bottle of green vegetable and fruit juice, Karan launches into a [...]

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Yoga cuts depression by half in women with breast cancer – Telegraph

by darla February 27, 2009

More good news about the restorative and mood altering benefits of yoga today. Researchers have found that restorative yoga classes cut depression in breast cancer patients by over fifty percent. “Yoga is one mind-body therapy that is widely available and involves relatively reasonable costs. Given the high levels of stress and distress that many women [...]

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