Yoga for Cancer - A Guide to Managing Side Effects, Boosting Immunity, and Improving Recovery for Cancer Survivors

Using yoga to manage the challenges of cancer and its treatment

- Explains how to create a safe home yoga practice that addresses the specific physical needs, risks, and emotions of cancer patients and survivors

- Includes 53 yoga poses and 9 practice sequences that use movement and breathing to reduce and manage treatment side effects

- Reveals how current research supports the physical and psychological benefits of yoga to aid recovery and reduce risk of recurrence

- Written by a cancer survivor and certified yoga teacher

For those faced with a cancer diagnosis and the journey of doctor-led surgery and treatments, yoga offers a way to regain control of your body and take an active part in your recovery and long-term health. In this easy-to-follow illustrated guide, yoga teacher and cancer survivor Tari Prinster presents 53 traditional yoga poses that are adapted for all levels of ability and cancer challenges. She then applies the movements and breathwork of these poses to address 10 common side effects and offers 9 practice sequences for varying stages of treatment and recovery.

Sharing her own story as well as those of cancer survivors and yoga teachers with whom she has worked, Prinster explores how yoga can be used to strengthen the immune system, rebuild bone density, avoid and manage lymphedema, decrease anxiety, detoxify the body, reduce pain, and help the body repair damage caused by the cancer and conventional treatments. She reveals the research that supports the physical and psychological benefits of yoga as an aid to recovery and in reducing the risk of recurrence. Explaining how yoga must be tailored to each survivor, Prinster gives you the tools to create a safe home yoga practice, one that addresses your abilities, energy level, and overall health goals.

Through personal stories, well-illustrated poses, and sample practices for beginners as well as experienced yoga practitioners, Prinster empowers survivors to create their own wellness plan in order to regain their independence and their physical and emotional well-being.

Sommario

Foreword by Cyndi Lee

Foreword by Robyn Frankel-Tiger, M.D.

Preface

Introduction A Wellness Plan for Survival

Part 1
Understanding Cancer and the Benefits of Yoga

1 My Story

2 The Science of Cancer and Yoga

3 Applying the Science for Recovery and Prevention

Part 2
How to Build Your Own Yoga Practice

4 The y4c (yoga4cancer) Methodology

5 Preparing for Your Practice

6 Creating Your Yoga Practice and
Learning the Poses
Starting Your Practice
Taking Your Seat
Finding Dynamic Stillness
Taking Time to Breathe
A Moment of Meditation
Getting Warmed Up
Starting to Move with Your Breath
Arm Vinyasas
Seated Hip and Spine Warm-Ups
Warm-Ups on Your Back--Supine Vinyasas
Warm-Ups on Hands and Knees
Belly-Down Poses--Prone Vinyasas
Getting Up and Down
Building Strength, Bones, and Balance
Standing Poses
Sun Salutations
Warrior Poses
Balancing Acts
Rest and Restore
Restorative Poses
Savasana/Sunset Pose

7 Sample Practices for Varying Stages of Your Treatment and Recovery
In Treatment--30 Minutes
In Recovery--30 Minutes
Maintaining the New Normal--30 Minutes
Gaining Strength--30 Minutes
In Treatment--60 Minutes
In Recovery--60 Minutes
Maintaining the New Normal--60 Minutes
Gaining Strength--60 Minutes
Gaining Strength--90 Minutes

8 Poses to Target Common Side Effects
Lymphedema
Bone Loss
Weight Gain
Range of Motion/Scar Tissue--Upper Body
Range of Motion/Scar Tissue--Lower Body
Anxiety/Insomnia
Constipation/Bloating/Abdominal Obstruction
Detoxification
Neuropathy
Incontinence

Conclusion Cancer Steals Your Breath, Yoga Gives It Back

Resources for Survivors, Teachers, and Caretakers

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Info autore

Tari Prinster is a certified yoga teacher, founder of yoga4cancer, former director of Women’s Cancer Survivor Program at Om Yoga, New York City, yoga ambassador for the Living Beauty Foundation, and a breast cancer survivor. Her work has been featured in the documentary YogaWoman and in Yoga Journal. She has presented at conferences held by Yoga Journal, Yoga Service Council, and International Alliance of Yoga Therapists and has published articles in many yoga publications. She lives in New York City and Vermont.

Riassunto

Using yoga to manage the challenges of cancer and its treatment.

Testo aggiuntivo

“Prinster’s text hits the mark. A deep knowledge of cancer’s effects (and side effects) allows her to present the roles of both patient and practitioner with confidence. Prinster’s own words and the testimonials of survivors/students weave together personal narratives and proven principles of medicine. Yoga for Cancer is a fully integrative book that works on every level to both motivate and soothe. It deserves to be in the hands of cancer patients everywhere. What are you waiting for? Go and tell a friend!”

Relazione

"Prinster, a breast cancer survivor and certified yoga teacher, presents an innovative plan to help readers diagnosed with cancer reap the benefits of yoga practice, from diagnosis through recovery. Admitting she was initially skeptical of yoga's "healing powers," Prinster takes readers through the scientific research, concluding that yoga can function as the "organ muscle" of the lymphatic system: helping with lymphatic drainage, venous return, bone building, relaxation, and immune function. Prinster also persuasively demonstrates how yoga can cleanse and strengthen the body, increase range of motion and flexibility, strengthen the spine, alleviate weight gain, and help patients deal with pain, fear, and anxiety. To meet the particular needs of cancer patients, the book presents 53 different poses, appropriate for different diagnoses or stages of treatment. Although Prinster notes the advantages of taking a group yoga class, this text will help readers build their own home practice (particularly useful for those who can't locate a survivor class or would like to supplement one). In clear, compassionate language, Prinster explains her methodology and eloquently argues for yoga as a "prescription for reclaiming life and as a wellness plan for moving on to long-term health." Publishers Weekly, November 2014

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Cyndi Lee, Tari Prinster
• Con la collaborazione di: Cyndi Lee (Prefazione)
• Editore: KNV Besorgung
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 11.03.2020
• EAN: 9781620552728
• ISBN: 978-1-62055-272-8
• Pagine: 324
• Dimensioni: 203 mm x 254 mm x 27 mm
• Peso: 784 g
• Illustrazioni: 67 b&w illustrations
• Categorie: Guide e manuali > Libri sul benessere, vita quotidiana > Condotta di vita, auto-realizzazione; Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Medicina > Tematiche generali; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Arte