Breast Cancer Yoga DVD

Breast Cancer Yoga DVD
For Breast Cancer Recovery & Lymphedema Management
If you have recently been diagnosed with breast cancer or those undergoing treatment often suffer from fatigue, depression and anxiety. Learn how gentle restorative yoga can improve your sense of wellness through stretching, body awareness and relaxation can aide in healing and recovery.
Take an Active Role in Your Recovery
Breast Cancer Yoga’s certified and registered yoga therapist Diana Ross, created Gentle Restorative Yoga for Breast Cancer Recovery & Lymphedema Management DVD that can help improve your symptoms and well-being. Through various relaxation exercises, participants are able to benefit from greater healing. This DVD begins with a focus on simple breathing and flowing yoga movements. Learn how to assume relaxing positions that help loosen, stretch, and strengthen the body. You will learn to become comfortable holding new body postures, that can be used during  diagnosis, treatment and recovery. Set aside a special time in the day to relax, breathe slowly, and enjoy this wonderful yoga DVD. 

Concerns

Don’t worry about whether you have enough flexibility or strength. Your level of physical conditioning or previous yoga experience is not important. This class is for all levels of students, including those who have never tried yoga before. Since each person is affected by breast cancer differently, we explore many options so all students benefit.
 
Physical Benefits

• Stretching and strengthening shoulder and chest muscles

• Helping regain range of motion
 
• Reducing the tightness of scar tissue

• Utilizing breathing techniques to promote mind and body healing 

Emotional Benefits

• Reducing sleep problems

• Lessening fatigue
 
• Decreasing stress levels

• Energizing your mind, body, and spirit
 
• Encouraging deep relaxation, promoting deep healing

• Increasing your sense of well being and overall quality of life 


Remember
Consult your health care provider before you begin practicing yoga. Perform yoga poses carefully and slowly, paying attention to the sensations in your body. Should you experience pain or discomfort, do not perform the pose until you have further guidance from a professional.


Diana Ross, E-RYT 500
Diana Ross an expert yoga therapist that created produced and narrates Gentle Restorative Yoga DVD. To learn more about Breast Cancer Yoga visit Breast Cancer Yoga

Breast Cancer Healing With Pink Salt

Instinctively we are drawn to water, especially the big oceans. We like returning to this specific vibration of the ocean.  The primordial ocean from whence we came and have a connection to.  Vacationing or even walking on the beach has renewal, reenergizing capabilities. We feel recharged after spending time at the beach.

More and more people are seeking out holistic methods, natural foods and medicines and utilizing natural salts seem to be part of this healing method.  There are so many positive healing qualities of natural crystal salt. We find it in skin care, inhalers, cleansing treatments for illnesses, bath salts for detoxification and respiratory ailments.

Allopathic medicine has endorsed using salts for a very long time. One of the oldest and largest salt works in Europe occupies the royal salt mines of Wieliczka, Poland. It is here where a hospital was dug out of a salt mountain some 740 feet below the ground surface. This hospital has a success rate of 90%for those suffering from asthma, lung disease and allergies. Now there are many underground therapeutic spas located in Germany.

Natural salt has a neutralizing force.  It can neutralize radioactive radiation just to give you an idea of it’s power.  It isn’t just this power in purity of air but also it’s healing effects or resonant vibrations that can activate our self healing and self regulating power. When our body is sick and lacking it’s natural frequency, for example from the depletion from chemo or radiation therapy, salt can bring us back into more of a balanced and recharged state.  Thereby replenishing the body with it’s energy deficit.  In principle, all symptoms of illness can be therapeutically neutralizing with salt.

You can drink salt and water (Sole’) which will stimulate your metabolism and digestion.  Electrolytes are created which improves the body’s conductivity and stimulates circulation.  In fact, Sole’ lowers blood pressure if it is high, and raises it if blood pressure is low.  The primary attribute of Sole’ is to restore balance. I know that doctors tell us to stay away from salt but which salt are they referring to?  For common over processed table salt this is a true statement but not for slat having in tact holistic properties.  I speak about real, whole, pure crystal salt.

Sole’ is an exceptional harmonizer in balancing acid/alkaline pH in the body. It will flush out heavy metals such as mercury, lead, arsenic and amalgam, even calcifications.  Crystal salt breaks down molecule compounds.  This is when salt and water is taken internally. 

Now let’s look at crystal salt and it’s cleansing ability externally, as in a therapeutic Sole’ bath.  One would think salt bath as a bath that takes moisture out of the body but instead a Sole’ bath maintains a natural, protective layer of the skin and the skin does not dry out.  Sole’ baths are great to restore the skin. A Sole’ bath is so effective that it will allow toxins to be extracted through the skin (the largest organ of the body) by way of osmosis.  Meanwhile when toxins are removed, minerals are absorbed through the skin.  Taking a Sole’ bath is like taking an energy bath. Bioenergetic deficits are rebalanced.  Our body’s electric current is charged up leaving us feeling light and strong.  A Sole’ bath activates the natural regulatory mechanism of the body and it’s self healing powers.

All this great therapeutic qualities come when taking a Sole’ bath but one big item not mentioned until now is it’s relaxing effects on the mind, body and spirit.  Bathing quietly allows for a deep state of relaxation which helps to regulate our breath and our blood circulation.  This helps with having an extra ordinary healing effects through the absence of gravity. Mind, body and spirit experience their fullest integration.
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American Cancer Society, Diana Ross and Breathing For Cancer

Diana Ross & American Cancer Society, a photo by Breast Cancer Yoga on Flickr.

Breast Cancer Yoga Event With American Cancer Society

“Breath With Purpose” is a step by step instructional workshop that will teach you how easy it can be to learn how to breathe properly. You will also learn that the quality of the mind is linked directly to the quality of the breath.

Diana Ross, E-RYT500 and Founder of Breast Cancer Yoga introduced the Art of Natural Breathing to create inner calm, release tension and increase mental clarity.

Breathing For Cancer Prevention, Treatment & Recovery

• Great for centering and feeling grounded.
• Breathing fully calms anxiety.
• Strengthen the nervous system.
• Creates a respiratory balance through rhythmic inspiratory/expiratory cycles.
• Stimulates the parasympathetic nervous system.
• Breathing deeply brings forth awareness of an inner witness.
• The mind begins to quiet so we can hear what is truly being thought.
• With breathing excess chatter is dissolved.

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American Cancer Society Choose More Birthday event with featured speaker Diana Ross, founder of Breast Cancer Yoga.

Anchored Boat Breast Cancer Yoga Pose

Diana Ross of Breast Cancer Yoga has shared a new pose for everyone to explore and especially recommended for breast cancer patients and survivors. Try it out and let us know how you like it!

Anchored Boat not only rebuilds but strengthens the muscles in your CORE region but it also tones your legs, shoulders and back muscles. You need to remain focused and relaxed in this intense balancing, and strengthening pose. Find your center and be present but most of all, have fun with this posture. If you find yourself becoming distracted with other thoughts or by the sheer intensity of the posture, bring your focus back to your breath and remember what it is like to be on a boat that flows without effort in the middle of the night amid turbulent seas.


Advantages:

• Strengthens and tones CORE and spinal muscles.
• Increases lymph flow to breast region.
• Teaches balancing of weight.
• Warms and invigorates the body.
• Cultivates determination and fortitude.
• Builds arm strength.
• Builds strong quadriceps and lower back muscles.
• Encourages proper spinal alignments.
• Stretches forearms and wrist.

Instructions

1. Begin seated on large round bolster with knees bent - lean back on hands with palms down on ground or on another prop (if needed) fingers pointed forward.
2. Root forearms so lower back lifts and spine lengthens.
3. EXHALE, with knees bent lift feet a few inches off the ground - legs together.
4. INHALE, and lower feet down.
5. Continue 3 more times. Then rest.
6. EXHALE, next bring knees and raise feet parallel to ground.
7. INHALE, and lower down. 
8. Continue 3 more times. Then rest.
9. EXHALE, bring knees up.
10.   INHALE and straighten legs (do not collapse back on arms).
11.   Continue 3 more times. Then rest.
12.   When finished rest forward.

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Breast Cancer Yoga DVD