Breast Cancer Wellness Support Yoga Class

Wednesday, 7:00-8:15 pm

With Lily Sibley, CYT, RYT, CLM, Reiki Master

Ocean Spirit Yoga is offering a class for women who have breast cancer. The class is designed for all stages: diagnosis, treatment, surgery and recovery. NO PRIOR YOGA EXPERIENCE IS NECESSARY. The intention for this class is simply put: come to focus on feeling better and to enhance the rehabilitation of a weakened body. The class will be appropriate for all levels of fitness. The class fee is $64 for 8 weeks.

Through gentle yoga stretches, life enhancing breathing techniques, and guided meditation using imagery, students will learn:

• how to retain or regain movement and muscle tone
• how to restore physical and emotional balance
• methods for reducing stress, anxiety and depression
• how to boost their energy level through safe and gentle yoga
• ways to restore physical functioning and well being
• to engage in the physical self, focusing on the now, leaving worries and future thinking behind

Yoga means “union”; research supports the benefits of yoga as part of a system of personal care that may have the ability to combine physical exercise, meditation, and breathing techniques to create union of the mind, body and spirit. The American Cancer Society acknowledges that yoga “contributes to overall physical fitness and (it) can help reduce the pain of some chronic illnesses.” According to the National Cancer Institute, “nearly one fourth of major treatment centers offer yoga in addition to standard medical treatment.” Research studies published in the New England Journal of Medicine and Cancer Journal support “yoga’s capacity to relieve the pain and insomnia that often effect people with life-threatening illnesses.”

In brief, this class will be part of a self-care program that may...

               Decrease: Heart Rate                Improve: Lymph Circulation

                                 Breath Rate                              Joint Mobility

                                 Blood Pressure                         Flexibility

                                 Hormone Imbalances               Pain Control

                                 Muscle Tension                        Spinal Alignment

                Reduce:    Stress                      Enhance: Positive Mindset

                                  Anxiety                                     Emotional Equilibrium

                                  Depression                              Self-Confidence

                                  Negative Thinking                    Memory

                                  Insomnia                                   Concentration

 This is a complementary program and is not intended to substitute medical treatment and is not presented as a cure for cancer or any other illness. Approval and guidance from the student’s physician and/or physical therapist is requested. For additional information about this class contact Lily Sibley at 766-0979 or lily@oceanspirityoga.com.