Breast Cancer Yoga Pose For Range Of Motion

Breast Cancer Yoga

Pose of the Month - October 2012

Arm Under Chest 

A really great way to relieve your shoulder tension and increase Range of Motion for shoulder joints (frozen shoulder) associated with breast cancer recovery is with a chest extension inflection or better known in the yoga world as a heart opening flowing restorative yoga pose. With this wonderful yoga pose you will open up the heart,  fill the lungs from the bottom up, and relieve shoulder tension.

Arm Under Chest Yoga Pose

Benefits

Promote lymph circulation around axilla

Helps heal scarring muscles and added tightness

Increases internal rotation and shoulder mobility

Strengthens scapula stabilizing muscle

Opens and lift chest

Increases ROM of shoulder joints - frozen shoulder

Increases internal rotation and shoulder mobility.

Releases shoulder tension that rounds your shoulders and binds your upper arm

Begin In A Partial Recline

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Instructions

1. Begin on your back with knees bent in PARTIAL RECLINE. A neck roll or pillow can be used for added comfort.
2. Lift hips up, slide right arm, palm down underneath lower back so you can see finger tips on left side. STOP IF YOU FEEL PAIN. Lower hips down and extend legs.
3. Relax - breathe into the right side of upper chest until you feel a release in shoulder muscles.  Once the shoulder relaxes experiment sliding hand up your back towards shoulder blades.
4. INHALE, left arm up and overhead for bigger additional stretch to breast region.
5. Flow arm back up and down. When ready hold pose for 3/5 breaths.
6. EXHALE lower arm back down, lift hips up and release arm from underneath.
7. Repeat on other arm.

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By: Diana Ross, E-RYT 500

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Yoga Restores Physical Movement For Breast Cancer Recovery

Breast Cancer Yoga offers a Restorative Yoga therapy that can effectively help restore physical movement and aide in post surgical recovery. One of the essential tools for recovery is effectively dealing with stress and depression. Pain and worry affects the body, creating stress hormone release. When the body becomes stressed, the breath becomes shallow, which in turn tenses the muscles. Some may even find themselves unconsciously holding the breath. Breast Cancer Yoga's Restorative Yoga therapy addresses the emotional and physical causes of stress, fear, anxiety and depression. This marks the beginning of recovery and allows a state of clarity and relaxation to be experienced. These states of calmness produce their own associated neurohormones which promote the healing process to begin. 

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Founder: Breast Cancer Yoga

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Yoga for Breast Cancer - Seated Poses

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 Yoga for Breast Cancer - Seated Poses

Seated Yoga Pose

By: Diana Ross E-RYT 500 - Founder Breast Cancer Yoga

Breast Cancer Yoga Seated Yoga Poses can effectively help restore physical movement, range of motion for the arms and shoulders.  It will aide in post-surgical recovery repairing of adhesion's, scar tissue and keloid scars. Breast Cancer Yoga Seated Yoga Poses assist in supporting this part of the healing cycle while in recovery. One of the essential tools for recovery is the ability to effectively deal with stress, fatigue and depression.

Benefits of Seated Poses 

The purpose of seated poses is the emphasis is on the arm movements and chest openers while in a seated pose.  At the same time, we begin to learn that yoga is intended to heal the whole body - the whole person. 

Purpose of a Seated Pose 

Seated Yoga Poses are important to practice and maintain. In yoga, being comfortably seated is necessary so one can meditate and not be distracted by any stress or strain.  When we sit with legs crossed there is the added benefit of an opening of the hips.  Remember that learning to sit in a yoga pose strengthens the spine. 

When to do Seated Poses

All the poses in this E-book are seated poses so begin when YOU are ready or take one pose at a time and see how it feels. 

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