Foundations Yoga and Mindfulness for Cancer

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Yoga teacher training course Weston-super-Mare

Foundations Yoga and Mindfulness for Cancer

TRAINING DATES:

Self-paced

LOCATION:

Online

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PRICE:

£120

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Foundations Yoga and Mindfulness for Cancer

Would you like to...

be able to share yoga safely and compassionately with people affected by cancer?
tailor your own yoga practice to the impact of cancer
learn the basics of mindfulness for health?
welcome cancer patients confidently into your classes?
skill-up - improve your yoga teaching and your CV?
get to grips with the deepest teachings of yoga?

This is a course for yoga teachers, students and cancer care professionals who want to share yoga safely and compassionately with people affected by cancer. Lead teacher Morven Hamilton guides you through this comprehensive, experiential course which provides you with everything you need to know to start working with cancer patients and survivors.

THE AIM

The on-demand online course will give you a foundation in sharing yoga and mindfulness with people affected by cancer.

Become knowledgable about the basic anatomy and physiology of cancer
Get an introduction to the Healing the Whole Person teaching methodology
Learn how treatment can affect yoga participants
Learn how to adapt some common Hatha yoga poses for people affected by cancer
Get sequences that will help people suffering from common side-effects of treatment
Learn mindfulness meditations specifically for people living with pain and illness.

LEARNING MEDIA

Taking care to nurture all learning styles, the course is presented using a blend of video, audio recordings, presentation with slides, text and useful audio transcripts of meditations which you can use as templates for your own teaching

COURSE FORMAT

The Foundations Yoga and Mindfulness for Cancer course is on the Teachable platform. The course material is divided up into short segments, to make self-paced learning at home more manageable. The course follows a natural progression from an overview of cancer and its place in a yoga setting, to modifying for typical symptoms and side-effects in your yoga class to mindfulness for health. We also look at the bigger picture of how this approach is informed by the deepest teachings of yoga.

Buy the course by clicking the Get the Course button, and you will then receive an email with the code to access the course on Teachable. You will then have lifetime access to the Teachable online course.

Overview

The course comprises:

Module 1

Meet Morven

Course overview

How to use Teachable

Module 2

Your barriers to teaching yoga for cancer

Why is yoga for cancer different from normal yoga?

Yoga as a healing modality

The Big C?

The cancer journey

4 ways you can support cancer patients

Cancer treatment and side-effects

3 sequences to use in your yoga class

Quiz

Module 3

Mindfulness for Health - what is it?

Becoming a mindful teacher

Four mindfulness practices for cancer recovery

Module 4

Connection and the deepest teachings of yoga

Teaching yoga for cancer safely and compassionately

Creating a safe space

Developing empathic listening skills in a cancer care setting

Looking after yourself

Module 6

Enhancing your yoga teaching skills

Conclusion and what's next?

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Postural Hatha yoga, relaxation and meditation.

A group check-in to set the intention for the day ahead.

Asana, pranayama, kriya, bhanda, mantra, mudra, meditation.

Anatomy in action & applied philosophy, lifestyle and ethics.

A chance to nourish, relax and refresh together.

Yoga on and off the mat, sequencing, postural applications.

Teaching & practice with peers in small groups.

Space to share and meditate

Weston-super-Mare 200 hr Yoga Training August Offer Ends TODAY! 🧘‍♀️

I did it! You're looking at a new Singing Mama. The call to music and song has been so strong for me lately, I had to answer it. What an incredible weekend of women supporting, encouraging and holding space for each other. Oh, and singing, and singing and singing. I had so much fun, I get a warm glow whenever I think about it.

Singing Mamas is a movement of women coming together in circle to use our voices and enjoy doing what humans have done since the beginning of time - sharing songs. There didn't use to be singers and non-singers, there were just people. Singing is in our DNA and it makes you feel so good. Did you know that a 10 week course of community singing is more effective for improving mental health than 10 weeks of CBT?

I'm planning some pop up women's singing groups on the beach for August. The qualification for coming? you just have to be a woman who can breathe. The songs are joyful and easy to learn. I'll be posting a poll shortly to find out who's in!

Yoga is still very much here for me and I'm running the full weekly timetable online during summer, plus...

6th August 4 week Pranayama Course

16th August Open air Sound Bath

18th August Yoga Sangha

25th August Retreat day (with some singing!)

Dm for details if you'd like to join me. Sending love to all 🧡🧡

Yoga seems to have followed me here 🤔

#singingmamas

Some highlights from our retreat last weekend

The 200 hour training is really something special. You can’t imagine until you’ve done it. It really is life changing. I am so blessed to do this work and be facilitator for those going through the process of deepening their yoga practice and integrating these very special and sacred teachings.

We had so much fun, did a lot of soul-searching and supported each other all the way.

It’s a course that asks a lot of you but that gives much more back.

We are booking now for November. Get in touch if you’re thinking about diving in!

#200ytt #yogateachertraining #yogatraining #yogawestonsupermare

Does anyone else out there find that a disciplined yoga practice can sometimes make you a little bit, you know, uptight?

As a very good and obedient yogi (for the first 20 years or so of practice), I eagerly followed all the wisdom on the “right” way to practice.

I’ve been censured by fellow yoga teachers for taking a cup of herbal tea into the studio with me in between my classes and caused outrage once by taking a sip of water during an Ashtanga Mysore class (shocking!). I always did my best to practice every single day as my Indian teacher told me I should. I’ve heard of Yoga teachers’ serious fallings out over the way that blankets should be folded 🙃

It never crossed my mind to bring food onto the mat, as that would obviously cause the sky to fall in.

Have you ever eaten toast and done yoga? I had the best time, after comically struggling with an impossible choice …

A) Eat the toast and risk losing the moment of really wanting to practice
B) Leave the toast and practice, and come back to cold unappetising toast
C) The unthinkable

Maybe not everyone is as susceptible to blind obedience as I am. Have you ever followed dogma and not questioned the validity of the rules?

If we don’t ask questions and push boundaries, we may as well be in a cult.

And, in case you are tempted to educate me on the perils of simultaneous dining and doing asana I am already aware, but thank you ☺️

I did it anyway, and I liked it.

#yogateacherproblems

Our 200 hour Yoga Teacher Training in Weston-super-Mare wrapped up last weekend with a wonderful weekend retreat in Somerset. I don't mind saying that this is a top quality yoga training course - it's the course I would want to go on if I were to do it all again!

We couldn't have done it without our wonderful, passionate, inspiring course tutors - all of whom lead in their field. Between us all, we have over a hundred years' teaching experience, which is somewhat scary but undeniably impressive 🙌

For over two decades, I have been building a network of yogis who teach from their heart and pour so much of themselves into their work - I have huge admiration for all of them. Each of our tutors is accomplished and special in their own right and I am delighted at the extraordinary synergy we have created between us.

In order of appearance on the course curriculum, I would like to offer humble gratitude to:

Ranju Roy (philosophy and author of our core text Embodying the Yoga Sutra)
Sarena Mason @birch_moon (healing chant, vedic chant, a wee bit of sanskrit)
Haze Tillman @accesstoyoga (chair yoga, gentle yoga)
Tim Chalice @timchalice (kirtan, bhakti yoga)
Jenny Adams @chronicillnesscoach (somatics, trauma)
Ali Gunning @resonantbeing (yoga of sound/ using sound in the yoga space)

all of whom have contributed to the very special yoga training offering we have.

...and everything else - @ yours truly. Notice I snuck myself in there with Sarena on our walk up Crook Peak the other week 🗻

Our next course starts in November and we have just a few places left. If it's something you are considering, get in touch - the experience really is life-changing and you won't regret it!

#westonevents #yogawestonsupermare #whatsonweston #yogateachertraining #200houryogatraining

Q. Can the world ever have enough yoga teachers?
A. Nope

200 hr Yoga Training class of ‘24 have gone and done it and I’m blown away by the quality of their teaching. They’ve even mastered levitation 😉

Seriously though, this lovely lot are REALLY GREAT TEACHERS!!!!

And all so different in their brilliance. I can’t wait to see how they each bring their own unique jewels of wisdom into their yoga classes 💎

Congratulations all 🙌

@n.1yoga @nthompson813 @becca.birtwhistle @ciarapalmer80 @suzanne_kerslake @roccodile72

Yoga teachers are delegates of peace in a world full of confusion. We can’t ever have too many people committed to kindness, peace, compassion and understanding.

More on our transformational graduation weekend later in the week. I’m lying low for a while 🙏🏻🧘‍♀️

Do you ever need a reminder that the work on your mat is just training for the rest of your life?

#yogapractice #yoga #yogaindailylife

Well this book came into my life at just the right moment. I have just given up my in-person weekly classes in order to focus on training yoga teachers, supporting women’s health and wellbeing and working one to one with people affected by cancer. Oh, and singing!

I have given up the security of something I do well, have been successful at for 16 years and was paying the bills. Why? Well, Elizabeth Gilbert would say that the idea moved onto someone else, and now I am working with a different idea.

And trust me…

The fear is real!

Stepping away from what you know to follow your inspiration is terrifying and exciting at the same time.

I am shedding a skin, and only time will tell who will emerge. For those who have worked with me before, you know that sound and music are a big part of my life and have been coming into my teaching more and more. Well, in a couple of weeks I am training to be a song sharer with Singing Mamas Org!

Truth is, I need to sing and I believe everyone has a singing voice that needs to be heard. Join me for a singing circle at our day retreat on 25th August - it’s open to anyone who can breathe.

And if you need a cheerleader as you step into the unknown, I highly recommend Gilbert as a guide.

Thank you to @thehonestyogateacher for the book recommendation in your post the other day

So hum - I am. The sole purpose of retreating is to remember who you are 💚

The remembering happens little by little. It comes through the sound of the babbling brook, the whisper of your own breath, the warmth of a genuine smile.

Remembering can be written on the page, drawn as a face, a flower, a tree. It can be painted in colours 🎨

A retreat is a return to the self - the wondrously messy, silly, tangled and playful self. It is also a return to the land, and if you get really quiet you can always hear it calling you back.

We are returning to France for a second time after hearing from our guests last year that it was the best thing they have ever done. We offer you a space to return and most importantly to remember.

Comment CREATE for details if you are hearing the call 🌱

#yogaretreat #yogaretreatnormandy #yogaretreatfrance

I had been doing yoga for about 15 years before I discovered what would help me to take my yoga practice off the mat and into the world. I was then able to share it with my clients affected by cancer.

When working in a cancer care centre running yoga programmes, I started recording yoga classes and meditations that people could do if they weren’t well enough to come to class, or if they wanted to take their yoga and meditation into hospital with them while they were having treatment.

People always fed back that it was the Mindfulness meditations that helped them the most while they were waiting for results or treatment. It became a powerful tool for so many of my clients who were dealing with difficult emotional terrain and torturous waiting periods.

The key Mindfulness practices are really very simple to do and simple to teach (I’m not saying “easy” here”). Their simplicity does not detract from their power. Here are the three fundamental and most powerful Mindfulness techniques for coping with difficulty:

👉 The body scan : trains you to distinguish between the felt sense and the story
👉 Awareness of the thoughts meditation : allows you to choose which thoughts to buy into
👉 Feeling your feet : a powerful grounding practice you can do anywhere any time

We have just two spaces left on our Teach Yoga for Cancer 40 hour Course coming up on 15th July. This is the only Yoga for Cancer training that includes Mindfulness for Health training with a trained Mindfulness teacher. DM for details.

If you would like a free E-book on how to share yoga safely and compassionately with people affected by cancer, comment HEAL and I’ll link you in 🧘‍♀️

@yogateachersforum

#yogaforcancerrecovery #yogateachers #mindfulnessforcancer

There was nothing like this on my 200 hour course in 2008! Somatics are so important for us as yoga teachers because:

1) Inquiry into the body helps us to get out of our busy headspace - you can't be in two places at once.

2) Embodiment practices become increasingly important for the human race as we march stoically into digital existence, risking a divorce from our natural, primal, instinctive selves

3) Learning to map the interior space is a major step to releasing trauma, restoring homeostasis and returning to what yoga is all about - balance

When you inquire into the body to listen to, and track, the sensations you are coming closer to your truth. When you watch the machinations of the inner world, you are developing your perception of soma - your bodymind. This is yoga - a bottom-up approach as with all Hatha Yoga - to unity, integration, wholeness, oneness, healing. Whatever you want to call it - somatic work is a huge part of the puzzle of us.

Having props and images can work really well to shine a light on the inner space - you can see in the picture that Jenny, our somatics tutor, has life sized bones, a stretchy band, squishy ball, bendy rod. Out of shot - a water pistol!

Jenny Adams @chronicillnesscoach came to teach our current training group last weekend, sharing her wisdom in intelligent cueing, somatics and trauma awareness. An invaluable and enriching afternoon for all.

#200YTT #yogateachertraining #yogawestonsupermare #yogateachers

I am so incredibly proud of this year’s budding yoga teachers on our 200 hour Yoga Training course, who aced their practical teaching assessment on Saturday 💯

They co-taught two classes, each teaching for 15 mins. The class was attended by some of next year’s 200 hour trainees, who made these comments...

“I am so excited to start in November, I want to be one of you!”
“I would definitely come back to this class if it were every week, it was wonderful”
“I loved the way the asana was broken down, I learned a lot”
“I was really great to see that each teacher was different and taught in their own way”

This is what happens when people come together and create 🧘‍♀️

Huge congratulations to all our new teachers 👏🏻
You are already excellent teachers and I would go to your classes myself!

The new teachers will be graduating on retreat next month in Winsford, Somerset, where the inimitable gong master and sound healer Ali Gunning @resonantbeing will lead a whole day on the yoga of sound.

Thank you to our amazing course tutors who sprinkled their magic over the course and who each contributed to the synergy:

@accesstoyoga
@timchalice
Ranju Roy
@birch_moon
@chronicillnesscoach

#200ytt #yogatraining #yogateachertraining #yogawestonsupermare #westonevents

Recovery from life-threatening illness has no timeline.

The emotional and psychological impact of illness can echo through the body and mind long after the disease has been ousted.

A diagnosis includes a ticket to limbo. You leave the consulting room a different person from the one who entered. It is a formative experience which rudely denudes you of your previous assumed identity.

Every day I am grateful for my yoga practice, which provided me with a doorway into the liminal, and the cocooning sanctuary of the present moment in the most earth shaking times. If we care to listen, yoga is always gently whispering to us, “You are alive”.

Does this always make me jump for joy?

No.

But there is no denying that it is an extraordinary and wondrous thing, this life.

It can take many years to come to terms with the full impact of life-threatening illness. If you know someone who has had a diagnosis, know that even when the scars have healed, the hair has grown back and the sparkle returned, there is deep work going on under the surface.

Perhaps ask them how they’re doing with it all. They might brush you off and tell you it’s all behind them but it means a lot that you care.

#yoga #healingjourney

Our 200 hour Yoga Teacher Training Course has a new tutor! Jenny Adams @chronicillnesscoach is joining us this weekend to share her compassionate, somatic approach to working with the body.

Our 200YTT has a flavour of somatics and mindfulness, directed by the perennial question of yoga - what is actually happening right now?

So often we behave according to beliefs, fears, expectations and instructions that have no bearing on the actual embodied reality - the "felt sense". Jenny will be teaching us to listen and respond to that reality and she will also give us some of her insights into trauma.

We look forward to her wisdom on:

🧡 cueing postures from a felt sense
🧡 embodying the joints
🧡 somatic experiencing
🧡 trauma awareness

Jenny has trained in the Franklin method of embodiment and also with none other than the eminent and ubiquitous Gabor Maté. Welcome Jenny 👏👏👏

#200ytt #yogateachertraining #yogawestonsupermare #traumaawareness #200houryogateachertraining

Author and yoga for menopause expert Niamh Daly, our newest guest speaker on the Teach Yoga for Cancer Course, talks to me about going through menopause as a result of cancer treatment.

You can see the full IG Live @yogabynatureuk.

In our live broadcast, Niamh talks about:

👉what we mean when we talk about surgical or induced menopause

👉what we need to be aware of when we have women going through cancer-related menopause in our classes

👉what we, as yoga teachers, need to avoid

👉Niamh’s new book, Yoga for Menopause and Beyond, a book for yoga teachers now available to pre-order

Comment “HEAL” for a your free Teach Yoga for Cancer ebook. The next teacher training courses take place 15 - 17 July and 21 - 23 October

@yinstinctyoga
@yogateachersforum

#yogaforcancer #yogaformenopause #yogatraining #yogacpd #yogateacher

Welcome! (Drops phone)…
in this live chat, I welcome the newest speaker on the Teach Yoga for Cancer training course - author and yoga for menopause expert Niamh Daly.
Niamh talks to me about going through menopause as a result of cancer treatment.

There is so little awareness about this subject, this is a privileged opportunity to find out what we need to bear in mind, and some key things to avoid if you have people in your classes who are going through surgical or induced menopause as a result of cancer treatment.

She also gives us the lowdown her new book Yoga for Menopause and Beyond which is now available for pre-order.

Comment “LEARN” for details on how to get your copy.

I am a huge fan of Niamh’s work, and have personally taken her Yoga for Menopause teacher training course which I highly recommend ALL yoga teachers do.

@yinstinctyoga

#yogaforcancer #yogaformenopause #yogaformenopauseandbeyond #yogateachers

Yoga teachers 🧘‍♀️🧘‍♀️

Join @yogabynatureuk and @yinstinct yoga at 12.30pm today, where Niamh Daly will be talking about how we can take care of our students who are going through surgical or induced menopause, and about her groundbreaking new book Yoga for Menopause and Beyond ✨

#yogaformenopause #yogaformenopauseandbeyond #yogaforcancer

It’s tomorrow! 🧘‍♂️

Yoga teachers, tomorrow you have the opportunity to gain expert advice from Niamh Daly on how to support your students navigating surgical or induced menopause due to cancer treatment – it’s more common than you think.

Cancer treatments often involve targeted therapies that suppress hormone production, inducing menopause. Surgery and radiotherapy can also lead to full-blown menopause. Women of any age can go through this.

Join us here live tomorrow as Niamh Daly shares the do’s and don’ts of practising yoga with women experiencing these changes. Plus, she’ll introduce her groundbreaking new book, Yoga for Menopause and Beyond, available for pre-order from Amazon 📖

@yinstinctyoga

#yogaforcancer #yogateacher #yogaformenopause

If you are teaching yoga you will be teaching people affected by cancer, and you may well have students who have gone through, or are going through menopause because of treatment.

What do we need to know to take care of our yoga students with cancer who are undergoing menopause? Is there anything we should be avoiding?

Niamh Daly, author, yoga teacher and menopause expert joins me

LIVE on Friday 12.30pm

to bring awareness to the reality of what our students are really going through when they are experiencing surgical or induced menopause because of cancer treatment.

Niamh will speak about what to look out for and what to avoid in our yoga classes. Join us live or catch the replay ✨

@yinstinctyoga

#YogaForCancer #yogateachers #yogaformenopause

In the Yoga for Cancer training course, part of what we do is bust a few myths and demystify a few mysteries regarding what actually happens to you when you have cancer.

Here, chemotherapy nurse Kelly Staddon talks to me about the most common misconception that people have about undergoing chemo.

Cancer treatment can be complex and obscure to those of us who are not familiar with what happens within a clinical setting. Kelly is one of our new guest speakers on the upcoming Yoga for Cancer training course starting next month.

We will also welcome the wonderful Niamh Daly of @yinstinctyoga who will be sharing her insights and considerable knowledge and experience in the field of menopause, specifically related to surgical and induced menopause after cancer treatment.

Join me a Niamh LIVE here on Friday lunchtime 12.30pm. She will be talking about menopause and the cancer journey, and also about her new book, #yogaformenopauseandbeyond

We have a few spots left on July’s Yoga for Cancer Teacher Training intake and the wait list is open for October’s course. Comment “TEACH” for details of the next courses.

#yogaforcancer #yogateacher #yogateachertraining #yogateachertrainingonline

Did you know that a very common side-effect of cancer treatment is menopause?

Many women who are going through cancer will be experiencing either surgical or induced menopause (or they are already going through menopause), which brings with it a whole host of symptoms, both physical and psychological.

This can happen to women of any menstruating age, and can be especially difficult for young women and those wanting to conceive.

Common menopause symptoms your student might have are:

➡️ Hot flushes
➡️ Sweats
➡️Insomnia
➡️Anxiety
➡️Joint pain

The list goes on…

💫Yoga teachers, you can help by:

1) finding out what symptoms she has and being a listening ear

2) making sure she is warm enough but near a window so she can cool off if she needs to

3) letting her know that she can rest whenever she needs to, especially if she’s had a sleepless night

Join us at 12.30pm this Friday @yogabynatureuk when I talk to yoga for menopause expert Niamh Daly @yinstinctyoga about going through menopause during cancer treatment. Find out exactly what we need to know as yoga teachers, in order to support our students of all ages who have cancer.

Save the date!

@yinstinctyoga
@yogateachersforum

#yogaforcancerrecovery #yogaformenopause #yogateacherproblems

I could work all the time, but…

@stationfarmglastonbury

What a weekend!

Our trainee group is getting ready to graduate. It’s always a bittersweet time (wipes tear from eye). All of their hard work is coming to fruition in the most wonderful way and they’ve achieved so much

200YTT is hard work, but it’s so much fun. We even managed the yoga summer fete complete with sports day, accomplished with yoga props and a little imagination

We’re taking bookings for the November course - just a few spots left. Budding yoga teachers we’d love to hear from you if you think this might be for you 🧘

I’m making sure they’re well fed while they study! Quinoa salad with citrus mint dressing.

This is where I start handing over to the trainee group as they’re becoming teachers in their own right 👩‍🎓

I’m so excited for them - they’re doing their teaching assessment in just three weeks’ time. We’ll open the doors and invite the public in to come and do a class with our newest teachers. Watch out world!- they’ll be graduating in July at the end of our retreat weekend in Somerset. I am so honoured to be able to witness this transformation .

Picnic lunch on the field together tomorrow as the sun is going to be shining ☀️

200YTT is such an incredible journey and such a special time. I love that I get to go through it with the group…

The November course is filling up fast - just a few spots left. DM me for details

#yogatraining #yogateachertrainee #yogateachertraining #200ytt

You CAN help your Yoga students 🙌

And you will have people affected by cancer in your classes.

Mini-training in yoga for pain management for yoga teachers and cancer care professionals.

In this video I talk about the surprising psycho-physiology of pain and how we can help our yoga students who are in pain or difficulty. This training is geared towards cancer pain but can be adapted for anyone in difficulty.

Want to know more? Simple and Safe Yoga and Mindfulness for Pain starts next Wednesday. A mini-course which equips you with the tools to banish the overwhelm associated with working with people in pain.

Are you ready to stop feeling helpless and make a real difference to your students or clients.

Early birds! £23 until next Monday

Comment SIMPLE for the link to join the mini-course ✨🙏

#yogatherapy #mindfulnessforpain #yogaforcancerrecovery #cancerwarrior

Comment “SIMPLE” for the link.

@yogateachersforum

I decided to go ALL IN.

I did yoga therapy training and specialised in teaching yoga for cancer, and fully committed to the path of yoga as medicine. That meant that I stepped into a world that at first I didn't truly understand.

That was scary because, if I am being honest, I felt like I couldn’t be of any real help with the skills I had.

When I started, I wasn’t feeling ready.

I kept second-guessing myself and worried about impostor syndrome.

Honestly, I didn’t have much faith in myself, only in my belief that yoga can transform suffering.

But once I committed, something happened. I tried pretending I knew it all, and when that didn't work I accepted the help of my students in educating me about how to be with people affected by cancer. I kept going because I didn’t want to give up without doing my 100% best.

🙌 One year later, the clients at the cancer care centre were so happy with their yoga classes, I was being asked to put on more classes and to collaborate in client retreats at Penny Brohn in Bristol.

🙌 2 years later I was employed as a course facilitator at the centre

🙌 8 years later, I launched the Yoga for Cancer Teacher Training course.

🙌 14 years later, the same clients in my very first yoga for cancer class are coming to my weekly classes.

And what is crazy is that I almost didn’t go for it. I thought I didn't know enough, I felt overwhelmed and underskilled.

And the secret is really in starting BEFORE you’re ready.

You have to start somewhere

I am not special. You, too, can really make a difference to people who are affected by cancer.

This is why I have created Simple and Safe Yoga and Mindfulness for Pain, so you, too, can feel confident and be a more inclusive yoga teacher.

In this course, you will:

➡️ Learn the physical, social and cultural elements affecting our perception of pain

➡️ Learn some easy-to-share pain management techniques to weave into your yoga classes

➡️ Learn the basic principles and practice of Mindfulness for Pain

Simple and Safe Yoga and Mindfulness for Pain is £23 for early birds. Comment SIMPLE for the link 🧘

#yogatherapy #yogaforbreastcancer #yogaforcancerrecovery

I am so inspired by the work of teacher trainees in having such a significant impact on the way their clients feel even in the space of a few short yoga sessions.

People often come to the Yoga for Cancer course feeling skeptical that the approach really can result in significant change and they are always amazed by the outcome of their teaching practices.

If you are ready to have your beliefs reframed around making a difference for people living with cancer, comment “SUPPORT” and please share with fellow teachers who will benefit.

PS Join me LIVE @yogabynatureuk on Wednesday 10am GMT where I am offering a free mini-training on pain management.

#yogatherapy #yogateachers #yogaforcancer

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