Challenging Conditions
Yoga for Cancer and other Challenging Conditions
Yoga for People Living with challenging conditions
Yoga for challenging conditions such as Cancer, MS and ME can nurture and sustain anyone dealing with life-changing illness.
What Yoga for Challenging Conditions Involves
Yoga will include:
- Breath awareness and breath with co-ordinated movement
- Simple breathing exercises
- Relaxation and Yoga Nidra
- Meditation
- Simple movements
- Appropriately modified asana
How yoga for people living with challenging conditions helps healing
Many authorities on yoga will say that yoga means 'union', 'yolk' or join and this is just what yoga for people living with any challenging condition aims to do. Feelings and sensations; physical, emotional or mental are especially heightened during periods of serious illness and there is a greater feeling of loss of control, a lack of wholeness and interconnectedness, a separation of the being that makes everything much worse. Yoga is one of the ways in which we can regain control make everything more manageable and create harmony. Yoga's very essence is to unite the mind body and thoughts. With full free and spontaneous breathing as practiced in yoga sessions, there is mental clarity and focused concentration. This is the one resource, which is always available to us, however incapacitated we are. Other yoga practices such as pawanmuktanasana one, gentle restorative asana, relaxation, meditation and observance of 'yama' and 'niyama' will support healing as inner strength and emotional and mental stability are achieved.
What next
If you are living with a challenging condition or know someone who is interested in finding out more, please contact me click here to discuss your needs.