Online Yoga Classes for Cancer Support
Healing the Whole Person: Online yoga classes for people living with cancer: a self-paced online yoga and mindfulness course with lifetime access
Aimed at people recovering from treatment and living with cancer, the Healing the Whole Person course is a gentle Yoga for Cancer recovery programme designed to support cancer patients with physical recovery, emotional wellbeing, and a gradual reconnection with the body after cancer. We teach holistically with a "whole-person" approach, nurturing mind, body, spirit and emotions.
Click here to read about the benefits of Yoga for Cancer in the FAQs.
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6 x 60 min classes in a progressive format to build strength and confidence
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3 x 10-15 min yoga sessions for low energy days or when you're short on time.
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Yoga Nidra (deep guided relaxation) video and audio
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Body scan meditation Preview here
" Having completed the Healing the Whole Person Yoga For Cancer Course, I would highly recommend it. The course is online, so you can take it at your own pace and in your own environment. It is very easy to access, and Morven's nature is welcoming and really supportive. Over the duration of the course Morven gently encourages you to be more present with yourself, reconnecting with your body, in a way that is loving, kind and nurturing. She breaks the content of each part down with clear suggestions, always giving you ways to tailor it to your individual needs. It's a course that you can revisit when you like, and hopefully one day feel empowered to take the bits you love, to create your own practice with confidence" - Clare T.
Free Yoga for Cancer Resources
Online Yoga for Cancer
Cancer affects more than the physical body. It can change how you move, how you feel, and how you relate to yourself.
This course offers people on the cancer journey a structured, accessible way to work with those changes.
Healing the Whole Person is a six-week, self-paced online yoga for cancer programme designed to support physical recovery, emotional wellbeing, and a gradual reconnection with the body.
This course is a resource for cancer patients in the days, weeks, months and years after diagnosis, whether you are in post-treatment recovery or living with cancer.
You can move through the course in your own time, at home, with practices that are specifically adapted for the effects of cancer and its treatment.
What's inside the Online
Yoga for Cancer Course?
Over six sessions, the course aims to support:
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Gradual rebuilding of strength and mobility
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Self-compassion
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Improved breathing patterns and energy regulation
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Reduction in muscular tension and physical discomfort
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Support for fatigue management
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Greater confidence in movement
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A more settled and regulated nervous system
You will get: 6 x 45 - 60 min classes, plus bonus practices including a bed-based yoga practice and a guided relaxation (Yoga Nidra).
Yoga for Cancer Course Modules:
Module 1: Coming Home to the Body
Body awareness, gentle movement and rest
Module 2: Breathing Being
Coordinate movement and breath, mind and body
Module 3: Relaxed Resilience
Balancing effort and ease to remain resourced
Module 4: Opening the Heart
Shoulder mobility and connecting to the heart
Module 5: Trust in Yourself
Tapping into the strength you have
Module Six: In the Flow
Intuiting healthy, feel-good movement. Deep relaxation.
Bonus practices: Bed-based Yoga | Yoga Nidra | Shorter gentle yoga classes 10 - 15 mins.
About Online Yoga for Cancer Classes
This is not a performance-based approach to oncology yoga
The practices are designed to be:
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Accessible
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Adaptable
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Grounded in an understanding of cancer and its effects
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Focused on supporting the whole person, rather than isolated symptoms
The intention is to provide a steady, reliable resource that you can return to over time.
This self-paced online course is designed for people living with cancer who are able-bodied and have returned to their usual day-to-day activities. You can begin at any time and move through the material in a way that suits your schedule, energy levels, and needs.
Before starting, please check with your medical care team to ensure it’s safe for you to take part in unsupervised physical activity at home, including yoga.
If you’re unsure whether this course is right for you, please have a read through the FAQs or contact Morven at info@yogabynature.org to discuss your individual circumstances.
Your teacher Morven and how this Yoga for Cancer course came to be
This six-week Yoga for Cancer course is the product of over 15 years' work and study in the field of yoga and mindfulness for cancer. The original 6-week course was called YogaThrive (there are still some YogaThrive class recordings on the Yoga by Nature Podcast) and it was taught live and in-person at Penny Brohn Cancer Care in Bristol. This was way before Covid when PBCC was the nation's top complementary cancer care centre and was in the process of the nationwide launch of its flagship course, Living Well with the Impact of Cancer.
Over many years, cancer patients using the services of the Penny Brohn charity, came and did this course. Some did it once then went back to work, some did it over and over again over a period of six years.
During that time - between around 2010 and 2016 - I was also working as a course facilitator for the Living Well 2-day residential course, working closely wth groups of cancer patients and their loved ones to explore and come to terms with the impact of cancer on the whole person.
Penny Brohn Cancer Care's "whole person" approach to cancer care provided the context and ideology for a truly holistic approach to yoga. The yoga taught in the YogaThrive course became more mindfulness-based and held in the container of an understanding of the psychological, emotional and spiritual impact of cancer on the individual and the community.
After my training as a Mindfulness teacher with Breathworks, the six-week yoga for cancer course evolved further into what is now the Healing the Whole Person approach to yoga and mindfulness for cancer. I have been refining the teachings alongside new research in the field of movement therapy, grief support, trauma healing, nervous system rebalance and cancer treatment.
The offering you see here is the fruit of many years' work, study and practice, carried out with love. I truly hope these yoga classes are a support to you in your journey through cancer, as they have been to many before you.
With love and gratitude,
About Morven
Morven Hamilton is a senior yoga trainer, breast cancer survivor, and passionate advocate for yoga as a tool for healing. She’s been teaching since 2008 and now leads yoga teacher trainings and mentoring programmes across the South West UK. She is the creator and founder of the Teach Yoga for Cancer teacher training course for yoga teachers and health professionals.
Since 2011, Morven has specialised in teaching holistic, evidence-based yoga to people affected by cancer, working within cancer care settings as both a teacher and course facilitator at Penny Brohn Cancer care in Bristol and in her private practice.
Her work is grounded in compassion, experience, and a belief in yoga’s power to support people through life’s most challenging moments.
Morven is committed to helping others live better, feel better, and reconnect with themselves through the powerful tools for transformation healing that yoga offers us.
"Just keep going, no feeling is final" - Rainer Maria Rilke
"Each class content to include both asanas and instruction by you is good and appropriate for post surgery. You propose adaptations and caution where needed. It all comes together perfectly in week 6. I loved the Yoga Nidra inclusion."
- Marelle, course participant
The Class
Here are some of the amazing participants of the early yoga for cancer classes. We gathered in Bristol at the Penny Brohn centre and at a village hall in Uphill, Weston-super-Mare.
This was an incredible group of people supporting each other through cancer.
