Healing Yoga for People Living With Cancer

More than just an exercise program, Healing Yoga for People Living with Cancer is a deeply soothing form of moving meditation and a physical expression of the heart's fierce desires for courage, strength, and love. Designed specifically for people with all types of cancer and at any stage of the disease, Healing Yoga is an effective and safe way to rebuild strength, stamina, and flexibility both during and following cancer treatments. Appropriate for both beginners and experienced yoga practitioners, this book features: Clear explanations of the emotional and physical benefits of practicing yoga during and after cancer treatments Safety guidelines for people in active treatment for cancer Four complete yoga sequences taught with easy-to-follow instructions and illustrated with eighty photographs Doctor's Okay icons on each of the forty yoga poses Adaptations to meet readers' changing needs

This book will be the first friendly, playful, and easy-to-use guide of yoga routines designed specifically for people with cancer who are in the active treatment and early recover. Whereas most cancer treatments are invasive and done to patients by caregivers, yoga is an active way that people with cancer can participate in their own healing process. Gentle Yoga presents the unique and important combination of gentle stretching, conscious breathing, and safe, strength-building poses to recover from the effects of surgery, bed rest, and chemotherapy-induced fatigue.

A friendly, playful, and easy-to-use guide of yoga routines, this book is designed specifically for people who are in the active cancer treatment and early recovery stages.