October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month...and yoga can help!
as seen discussed by Meta on The Daily Buzz, Thursday, 10/15, 7:10 and 7:15 am (the CW channel 6 in Albuquerque, NM)
as seen discussed by Meta on The Daily Buzz, Thursday, 10/15, 7:10 and 7:15 am (the CW channel 6 in Albuquerque, NM)
with yoga researchers have seen:
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50% reduction in depression and a 12% increase in feelings of peace and meaning in women with breast cancer with yoga from .the journal Psycho-Oncology
- students helped with recovering strength and flexibility with yoga
- students helped with feeling whole not just "being" the disease
Gentle poses for those in treatment and recovery can help, try these poses, always following your breath and not going to pain:
All seated poses, easy to do at home:
- Shoulder Wheel Pose
- following the breath, elbows bent, fingers on shoulders make circles with elbows, two directions
- Upward Facing Arms Pose
- First without a prop, belt: Arms forward, suck armpits back, then slowly begin to raise arms up, can go to “I Give Up” (arms to side bent like a cactus arm
- Second with a yoga belt, or scarf at home: Put the arms inside the belt and press against the belt to recreate resistance and build muscular strength in the arms and shoulders
- Eagle Arms Pose
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Arms out to the side in “I Give Up”, but one elbow inside the other and gently lift up…side to side, then hug yourself, true healing comes from loving yourself from the inside out…then do the other side.
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Many blessings for health from the inside out,
namaste,
Meta.
