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yoga & cancer

Yoga Bear: Non profit provides free yoga to cancer survivors

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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

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“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

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 with [...]

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