Saturday, November 14, 2015

Yoga For The Holidays


Restorative Yoga for Breast Cancer Recovery
This class will be offered in 6-week modules
Beginning Saturday November 14, 2015 - January, 2016
Saturdays 12:00-1:15pm

Angela will lead a gentle, nurturing Restorative Yoga practice focusing on poses and flows designed specifically for breast cancer prevention, recovery, and lymphedema management.

The stress that treatment and recovery bring about isn't beneficial to healing. Research and personal experience show that the gentle practice of Yoga decreases recovery time while assisting to heal the body, mind, and heart. Research has shown that those taking Yoga experienced significantly improved sleep, as well as that the more Yoga the women practiced, the greater the improvement was shown in level of fatigue, vitality, depressive symptoms, and level of inflammation-related proteins in the body.

Our desire is to fill these classes and share this amazing healing system of yoga with as many people as possible, so please share this information with anyone whom you think could benefit from these classes!

To Register:
Email Us at angela@ajewelinthelotus.com or Call (631) 316-9871

Location:
A Jewel In The Lotus Yoga Studio
560 Main Street • Suite 3
Islip, New York 11751

Donation:
If you would like to make a donation to help ensure that we are able to continue holding these classes.

Dawn Breast CancerAbout Dawn Bradford Lange:  Co-founder of Breast Cancer Yoga. Dawn is making a difference with Breast Cancer Yoga therapeutic products designed to support you emotionally and physically during breast cancer . We want to give you the attention and personal service you need so please email us at info@breastcanceryoga.com if you have questions.

Sunday, May 24, 2015

Yoga for Sleep During Cancer Recovery

Yoga For Sleep

 

Gentle Yoga DVD
Practicing restorative yoga has shown to improve sleep and overall quality of life in cancer survivors. Along with improved sleep it appears to also improve fatigue, which along with impaired sleep quality are the most prevalent and troublesome adverse effects experienced by cancer survivors. Both can significantly affect quality of life.  All this creates greater consistent energy in the body and a mental balance in the mind. 
Breathe With Purpose CD
The breath will maintain balance in every activity you perform or need to perform. The breath dictates performance, and the performance dictates the breath. When you are tiring you will notice your breath becoming shallow and even labored. This shallow breathing boost the sympathetic nervous system, which in turns makes you nervous, thus zapping you of the much required energy. This energy is needed to perform the most simplest tasks when we are not feeling up for doing anything; yet we do need to move forward.  
Deep full breathing, like a COMPLETE BREATH will stimulate the parasympathetic nervous system and form inner calm for the brain. Maintaining the awareness of the breath when we need this energy will support us.  

Learn more about breathing for Breast Cancer Recovery at Breast Cancer Yoga

 

Friday, February 13, 2015

Laughter As Medicine For Breast Cancer Recovery

By Diana Ross, E-RYT 500

I want to share my feelings on laughter and joy  as part of the healing cycle of cancer recovery, and for that matter, many conditions. Undoubtedly, laughter has  a real beneficial effect on our physical and emotional health. A robust, gut explosive laugh simply feels good. It literally melts stress away.

So why aren’t we laughing more to relieve our stress and improve our health?
It may be a challenge to get out of our own way. So often we take life and our circumstances too seriously, and it doesn’t serve us to do so. Truth be told, some days you might have to fake it when you just don’t feel like laughing, and here’s a good reason to go through the motions: studies show that even when manipulated to smile people actually feel happier. Laughter stops depression in its tracks.

I know for myself when I stop and watch a good sitcom or read a funny email from a friend, I focus only  on this lighter side, and it lifts me. Even studies show the more you laugh the more positive you become; you just feel better about practically everything. Medical research on laughter Studies at the University  of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore (2005)   are among many that show groundbreaking results in terms of laughter’s role in  the health of the mind and body.  There is a strong connection between blood  vessel expansion (vasodilation) through laughter, at least during those seconds and moments when we are laughing and for a little while beyond. Improvements in blood flow have actually  found to be equal to those from a 15-30 minute  workout. Researchers believe laughing causes the body  to release endorphins, or “natural pain killers.” These endorphins contribute to a sense of well being; they counteract the effects of stress hormones, and cause dilation of the blood vessels. Even anticipating laughter can increase endorphin levels.

Laughter and our immune system
Studies show that when we laugh, lymph fluid moves more efficiently through our bodies; an immune system booster and way to eliminate what we do not need. That’s because with better lymph flow we clear out old, dead waste and toxins from our organs and muscle tissue. It’s important to understand that our lymph system doesn’t have it’s own pump; we need to move around (and breath deeply) to properly circulate lymph. Laughter supports this function.

Laughter’s greatest power
We know that now is the time to pull out all the stops and help ourselves get better. Laughter’s ability to help in this arena is perhaps its greatest power. It puts us in a positive state of mind, and that’s just what we need to bring us through the physical and emotional roller coaster ride of cancer. We need to reduce our levels of chronic stress (our journey with cancer may  have just begun). 

We need to boost our immune system function; protect our nervous system; and 
my God, our sanity. Well, “Laughter is the Best Medicine.”

I cannot say  enough about laughing, right down to the fact that the people around us will enjoy  our company, which will support our well being.  Go check out funny videos; YouTube is full of funny. Rent funny  movies. I guarantee you a good laugh or two.
Diana RossAbout Diana Ross:  E-RYT 500 restorative yoga teacher, survivor that cares and founder of Breast Cancer Yoga. Diana is making a difference with Breast Cancer Yoga therapeutic products designed to support you emotionally and physically during breast cancer . We want to give you the attention and personal service you need so please email us at info@breastcanceryoga.com if you have questions.

Top 5 Reasons To Do Yoga For Breast Cancer Recovery

5 Reasons To Do Yoga


Top 5 Reasons To Do Yoga For Breast Cancer Recovery by Breast Cancer Yoga
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Yoga Practice for Breast Cancer will provide a way to de-stress and detoxify with movement. Yoga is a most healing practice and whether you choose to join a local or online class, be sure your instructor is well trained and privy to the fact that you are dealing with a serious illness. Visit www.breastcanceryoga.com

Yoga DVD
 Healthy Exercise For Breast Cancer
Healthy Exercise For Breast Cancer


Diana RossAbout Diana Ross:  E-RYT 500 restorative yoga teacher, survivor that cares and founder of Breast Cancer Yoga. Diana is making a difference with Breast Cancer Yoga therapeutic products designed to support you emotionally and physically during breast cancer . We want to give you the attention and personal service you need so please email us at info@breastcanceryoga.com if you have questions.

Thursday, February 5, 2015

Calendula And Its Therapeutic Benefits For Breast Cancer

Calendula is a renowned, herbalist remedy for keeping breast tissue healthy. Using a Calendula hydrosol spray or using Calendula as a massage oil is known to excel at preventing, and with patience, possibly removing adhesions and scar tissue, even keloid scars. Keloid scars are the raised, hard scars with irregular edges which can be painful.  Calendula also helps with post surgical adhesions, which differ from scar tissue and keloids.  are bands of scar tissue that bind together. Calendula essential oil hydrosol spray is used to treat and lessen radiation-induced pain. It can vastly improve skin damaged by radiation.

Calendula Herbal Oil

This medicinal oil is simple to prepare and has so many uses. The gentle, soothing, and healing oil is perfect for cradle cap, diaper rash, chapped or chafed skin, bruises, and sore or inflamed muscles. The oil can be used alone, or incorporated into salves, massage oils, lip balms, ointments, creams, and

Calendula Salve

A soothing and healing salve. Rub into sore or inflamed muscles, apply to minor cuts, scrapes, insect bites, rashes, diaper rashes, stretch marks, chapped lips, chafed skin, bruises, and other skin irritations.

Calendula & Shea Butter Lip Balm

This nourishing lip balm is made from healing ingredients which soothe dry and chapped lips.

Calendula Therapeutic Actions:
  • Circulatory specific for cleansing lymph by boosting immune resistance
  • Softens hard tumors and prevents tumors from metastasizing
  • Naturally promotes fibrin production over the surface of wounds
  • Offers emotional support
  • Lessens external bleeding, bruise or strain.
  • Aids repair from minor burns such as radiation burns
  • Helpful for insomnia
  • Dispels depression with its uplifting aromatic properties
  • Used in muscular spasms, tightness, and tension
  • Heals tissue loss from acute damage from wounds
  • Reduces irritability

Where to Find Calendula Products
If you cannot grow your own for the above uses or you prefer to purchase rather than make, consider purchasing Calendula products from Mountain Rose Herbs. Their quality and prices are unsurpassed.

About Dawn Bradford Lange: Co-founder of Breast Cancer Yoga. Dawn is making a difference with Breast Cancer Yoga therapeutic products designed to support you emotionally and physically during breast cancer . We want to give you the attention and personal service you need so please email us at info@breastcanceryoga.com if you have questions.

Thursday, January 8, 2015

Holistic Healing & Herbal Teas For Breast Cancer

The earth is a living entity with the equivalent of senses, intelligence, memory, and the capacity to act. Healing is a Gaian quality as it is a very personal expression of balance and wholeness.

A herb is a plant in relationship with humanity and herbalism becomes the exploration of humanities relationship with the plant kingdom.

From a holistic stand point, a person isn’t a patient with a disease syndrome but a whole being.
  1. This wholeness necessitates the appreciation of the mental, emotional, spiritual, social and environmental aspects of their life as well as the physical.  
  2. An herbalist has deep respect and an understanding that healing oneself is inherent in all of us.  
  3. We have a dual relationship in our self healing process and in our relationship with the earth’s powerful herbal bounties.
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A holistic approach is important and unique in that illness is an opportunity for self discovery. Herbal medicine is uniquely suited for the treatment of illness of the digestive system. Throughout out time food and the use of plants has been our medicine, ensuring that the special healing properties of the herbs had a direct effect due to metabolism and absorption of the entire range of plant chemicals, but also an action directly on contact to issue. Digestion and subsequent elimination are pivotal as is the nervous system.

Dawn Breast CancerAbout Dawn Bradford Lange:  Co-founder of Breast Cancer Yoga. Dawn is making a difference with Breast Cancer Yoga therapeutic products designed to support you emotionally and physically during breast cancer . We want to give you the attention and personal service you need so please email us at info@breastcanceryoga.com if you have questions.


Wednesday, January 7, 2015

Air Purifiers For Breast Cancer

Air Purifier For Cancer Prevention And Treatment
By: Diana Ross, Co-Founder of Breast Cancer Yoga.
“Indoor Air Pollution is America’s number one environmental health concern. Fifty percent of all illness is caused by indoor air pollution”. – Environmental Protection Agency. You inhale roughly; 1 liter of air with each breath along with 70,000 particles. Less than one half of one percent of those particles are visible. All of the bad stuff in the air – bacteria, mold, viruses, and pollen -are less than one micron. A smoke particle released in the air at 8 feet will come crashing to the ground 408 days later. That means it’s in your breathing space, along with all of the other pathogens, for months.
If you don’t have an efficient air purification system, you and your family are the air purification system.

Imagine a frying pan of fish cooking on the stove with your ceiling fans running and your air conditioning system circulating the air. Within just a few minutes it is in every nook and cranny of the house. You can’t filter smoke out because the particles are too small. The only way to remove it is to open every door and window in the house and try to vent it. Even after four hours you can still smell the fish smoke.
Vollara Air Purification System From Breast Cancer YogaVollara’s ActivePure technology is recognized as a Certified Space Technology for having effectively applied space-based technology to address the real and growing concern of indoor air pollution for all people on earth. ActivePure’s technology using (RCI) Radiant Catalytic Ionization) that ionization will cause the smoke particles to stick together, get bigger, and fall out of the indoor air 250 times faster. Much like snowflakes float and snowballs crash.
Let’s talk about another technology that’s called oxidation, they are systems sending out invisible plasma of friendly oxidizers. They spread through the house much like the smoke that is coming off that burning frying pan. We take oxygen and water vapor and through the use of a UVX light that activates the honeycomb catalyst we breakdown the oxygen(O2) and water vapor (H2O) that occur naturally in our air to vaporous hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) and other friendly oxidizers. These oxidizers have a few things in common. They all occur naturally. They are all combinations of oxygen and hydrogen. And they are all very unstable. As these invisible oxidizers go out, they bump into mold, viruses, bacteria and other pollutants. They oxidize those things and they revert back to water vapor and oxygen which is a very natural process. This process actively cleans the air; it cleans the flush handles, the door knobs, the countertops and then literally every surface in the house, 24 hours a day, and 7 days a week.

If I had influenza and I touch the doorknob that virus will stay viable for 48 hours. Using ActivePure technology with RCI, the virus on the doorknob is up against a 99.9% kill rate in the very first hour.
Bad viruses and other pathogens can evolve against certain antibiotic and antiviral medicines, but they cannot evolve against oxidation.

How often can you wash your Mattress? The reality is you really can’t.
In a book by Dr. Alan Somersall a statistic is presented. He writes that three out of four asthmatics die between 2:00 o’clock and 4:00 o’clock in the morning and it’s because of breathing dust mite feces and bacteria that are imbedded in the pillows and bedding. The worst part of most people’s day is first thing in the morning after getting up. Sinuses are stuffy or clogged and eyes have that nasty crust that forms magically in the middle of the night. Not only is this greatly reduced or eliminated after a bed sanitization, but snoring usually stops and a better and longer night’s sleep is the result.

Snowflakes float and snowballs crash. A smoke particle, at .01 microns, takes 408 days to fall a distance of eight feet and is in your breathing space for four to five months! Remember that every time you inhale a breath of indoor air (about one liter) it contains 70,000 particles composed of dead skin, dust, dust mites, dust mite feces, viruses, bacteria, mold spores, pollen, carcinogenic volatile organic compounds (VOCs), smoke and particulate. If you don’t have an efficient, active advanced air purification system, you and your family become the air purification system.

A huge point about Vollara technology; and this has to do with Nosocomial Infections (occurring in hospitals), MRSA and so called Super Bugs. One thing I love about this technology is that bad viruses and other pathogens can and do evolve against antibiotics and antiviral medicines (and are doing so at an alarming rate), but they cannot evolve against oxidation any more than they can evolve against fire.
Diana RossAbout Diana Ross:  E-RYT 500 restorative yoga teacher, survivor that cares and founder of Breast Cancer Yoga. Diana is making a difference with Breast Cancer Yoga therapeutic products designed to support you emotionally and physically during breast cancer . We want to give you the attention and personal