Stillness and Strength Yoga offers several services for cancer survivors.
These services are considered to be adjunct, or alongside, current treatment plans you've chosen with your medical team and support network. After our initial brainstorming session, we will create a positive, free-floating, flexible plan that supports your current needs, and empowers you to reach personal goals.
Through Stillness and Strength Yoga, you will have access to many beautifully supportive forms of yoga. The individual services listed below can be used throughout your time with Stillness and Strength. Needs fluctuate during treatment, and Stillness and Strength can support you at every stage.
My oncology yoga training has provided me with specific knowledge, skills, and techniques to work with clients who have been diagnosed with cancer. As the wife of a cancer survivor, my personal life has given me a unique lens into what could be helpful to others as they navigate the world of oncology.
As a Certified Yoga for Survivors instructor, my oncology yoga training consisted of a year-long, 150-hour certification program under the supervision of the Yoga for Survivors program creator, Laura Kupperman, and my personal mentor, Barbara Gallani of The Life Centre in London, UK.
Clients may experience both physical and emotional symptoms that accompany their cancer survivorship, including lymphedema, fatigue, stress, emotional and physical pain, insomnia, gastrointestinal distress, and other side effects of treatment, both short and long-term. I aspire to contract with local and state-wide cancer centers and hospitals to provide their clients and caregivers with yoga services during and post-cancer treatment, and help hospitals heal the whole client.
Sessions may include any of the following Individual Offerings
(available seated on the floor, in a chair, standing, or lying down)
~Breathwork: Pranayama (breathwork) brings fresh, clean oxygen into the system and removes stale air from our bodies. According to the World-renowned Kripalu Yoga Center, Pranayama provides several benefits to its students: http://www.kripalu.org/article/819/
Based on stages of treatment and recovery, if it feels helpful, breathwork is available to increase calm, decrease anxiety, and create feelings of re-connection. Through breath, we can also create inner power, build energy, and release the things that no longer serve us! Through the breath, we are able to better cope and create feelings of strength and serenity within ourselves, which is so empowering!
~Yoga Nidra (Yogic Sleep): This technique allows our bodies to relax while in a deep state of relaxation. Bringing our awareness to each body part, we gently work through the body and create feelings of calm and ease. Working with clients to take a mental break from that which is stress-inducing or fearful is one of the most beautiful aspects of the SSY support system. Here is a beautiful example of a fluid Yoga Nidra session, provided by Yoga International: https://yogainternational.com/article/view/yoga-nidra-45-minute-practice
~Gentle Stretching/Flexibility Work: We will target areas of tension or stress felt in the body and work with surrounding and supporting muscle groups to relax and gently stretch tight, sore muscles. This will allow tension and stress to flow through the body, ultimately releasing these feelings through energetic and physical means.
~Physical poses/postures: Building a body-based practice that suits each client. While practicing ahimsa (non-violence to ourselves and others), we create movements geared towards your personal goals, whether they be to relax and stretch, or burn energy and strengthen. Our asana (the yoga postures) catalog is vast. It will meet you where you are and provide what you need-whatever that may be! Asana and Pranayama (poses and breathwork) can be combined to create a wonderful moving meditation that calms the nervous system and creates a gentle flow of energy through the body, targeting the lymphatic system.
According to MD Anderson Cancer Center, Yoga assists in regulating stress hormones and improving many aspects of a client's life: http://www.mdanderson.org/newsroom/news-releases/2014/yoga-regulates-stress.html
~Guided Relaxation/Visualization: We gently and mindfully travel through the body, relaxing each muscle group and releasing that which no longer serves us. Visualization allows us to "take a break" and mentally travel to the things that bring us pure bliss-whether it's sunbathing on a warm beach, lying in a beautiful field of flowers, or walking barefoot through a forest after a gentle rainfall. We will explore the body and sensory sensations and provide a calming sense of well-being.
~Meditation: Meditation helps us to turn inward and just be. It allows us to detach from our thoughts and gain a sense of peace and calm within ourselves, which can be accessed at anytime. Various forms of meditation are available, including walking meditation, eating meditation, movement, and general mindfulness. It helps us to bring our awareness to the "now", and may help to decrease any uneasy feelings associated with what we cannot control (past or future).
Botsford Hospital has promising information on Meditation and reduction in anxiety in cancer survivors: http://www.botsford.org/blog/index.php/2011/12/19/how-meditation-can-benefit-cancer-patients/
~Yogic Studies: Studying yogic philosophy and creating small discussions surrounding the yogic teachings and the impact on our lives.
~Referral Services: Helping clients to build their best and most supportive team of professionals! Referrals may include massage, acupuncture, Reiki energy healing, Trinity energy healing, nutrition, body therapies, counseling, support group information, and exercise groups.
Click below for additional information and personal offerings!
These services are considered to be adjunct, or alongside, current treatment plans you've chosen with your medical team and support network. After our initial brainstorming session, we will create a positive, free-floating, flexible plan that supports your current needs, and empowers you to reach personal goals.
Through Stillness and Strength Yoga, you will have access to many beautifully supportive forms of yoga. The individual services listed below can be used throughout your time with Stillness and Strength. Needs fluctuate during treatment, and Stillness and Strength can support you at every stage.
My oncology yoga training has provided me with specific knowledge, skills, and techniques to work with clients who have been diagnosed with cancer. As the wife of a cancer survivor, my personal life has given me a unique lens into what could be helpful to others as they navigate the world of oncology.
As a Certified Yoga for Survivors instructor, my oncology yoga training consisted of a year-long, 150-hour certification program under the supervision of the Yoga for Survivors program creator, Laura Kupperman, and my personal mentor, Barbara Gallani of The Life Centre in London, UK.
Clients may experience both physical and emotional symptoms that accompany their cancer survivorship, including lymphedema, fatigue, stress, emotional and physical pain, insomnia, gastrointestinal distress, and other side effects of treatment, both short and long-term. I aspire to contract with local and state-wide cancer centers and hospitals to provide their clients and caregivers with yoga services during and post-cancer treatment, and help hospitals heal the whole client.
Sessions may include any of the following Individual Offerings
(available seated on the floor, in a chair, standing, or lying down)
~Breathwork: Pranayama (breathwork) brings fresh, clean oxygen into the system and removes stale air from our bodies. According to the World-renowned Kripalu Yoga Center, Pranayama provides several benefits to its students: http://www.kripalu.org/article/819/
Based on stages of treatment and recovery, if it feels helpful, breathwork is available to increase calm, decrease anxiety, and create feelings of re-connection. Through breath, we can also create inner power, build energy, and release the things that no longer serve us! Through the breath, we are able to better cope and create feelings of strength and serenity within ourselves, which is so empowering!
~Yoga Nidra (Yogic Sleep): This technique allows our bodies to relax while in a deep state of relaxation. Bringing our awareness to each body part, we gently work through the body and create feelings of calm and ease. Working with clients to take a mental break from that which is stress-inducing or fearful is one of the most beautiful aspects of the SSY support system. Here is a beautiful example of a fluid Yoga Nidra session, provided by Yoga International: https://yogainternational.com/article/view/yoga-nidra-45-minute-practice
~Gentle Stretching/Flexibility Work: We will target areas of tension or stress felt in the body and work with surrounding and supporting muscle groups to relax and gently stretch tight, sore muscles. This will allow tension and stress to flow through the body, ultimately releasing these feelings through energetic and physical means.
~Physical poses/postures: Building a body-based practice that suits each client. While practicing ahimsa (non-violence to ourselves and others), we create movements geared towards your personal goals, whether they be to relax and stretch, or burn energy and strengthen. Our asana (the yoga postures) catalog is vast. It will meet you where you are and provide what you need-whatever that may be! Asana and Pranayama (poses and breathwork) can be combined to create a wonderful moving meditation that calms the nervous system and creates a gentle flow of energy through the body, targeting the lymphatic system.
According to MD Anderson Cancer Center, Yoga assists in regulating stress hormones and improving many aspects of a client's life: http://www.mdanderson.org/newsroom/news-releases/2014/yoga-regulates-stress.html
~Guided Relaxation/Visualization: We gently and mindfully travel through the body, relaxing each muscle group and releasing that which no longer serves us. Visualization allows us to "take a break" and mentally travel to the things that bring us pure bliss-whether it's sunbathing on a warm beach, lying in a beautiful field of flowers, or walking barefoot through a forest after a gentle rainfall. We will explore the body and sensory sensations and provide a calming sense of well-being.
~Meditation: Meditation helps us to turn inward and just be. It allows us to detach from our thoughts and gain a sense of peace and calm within ourselves, which can be accessed at anytime. Various forms of meditation are available, including walking meditation, eating meditation, movement, and general mindfulness. It helps us to bring our awareness to the "now", and may help to decrease any uneasy feelings associated with what we cannot control (past or future).
Botsford Hospital has promising information on Meditation and reduction in anxiety in cancer survivors: http://www.botsford.org/blog/index.php/2011/12/19/how-meditation-can-benefit-cancer-patients/
~Yogic Studies: Studying yogic philosophy and creating small discussions surrounding the yogic teachings and the impact on our lives.
~Referral Services: Helping clients to build their best and most supportive team of professionals! Referrals may include massage, acupuncture, Reiki energy healing, Trinity energy healing, nutrition, body therapies, counseling, support group information, and exercise groups.
Click below for additional information and personal offerings!
How to connect with mental health supports:
- MI Warm Line: Peer mental health support specialists: 7 days a week 10am-2am: 1-888-733-7753
- LGBTQ-specific helpline: https://www.thetrevorproject.org/get-help/
- In a mental health crisis (you or someone else): dial or text 988
- In need of crisis support: text "HOME" to 741741 (www.crisistextline.org/texting-in)
- Traverse City regional crisis support via NLCMH FAST Team: 1-833-295-0616
- Munson Intensive Outpatient/Partial Hospitalization Program: Call 231-935-6880 or Click HERE
- PineRest Psychiatric Urgent Care Grand Rapids: Click Here or dial 616-455-9200
- If you or someone you know is in immediate danger of hurting themselves or others, call 911 or go to the nearest emergency room
- Find a therapist: www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapists
- Michigan Black Therapy Fund: https://www.miblacktherapyfund.org
- OK2SAY (click here for live link): Anyone can report tips confidentially on criminal activities or potential harm directed at students, school employees, or schools. Tips can be submitted 24/7
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