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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 20 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.



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Tari Prinster

'Cancer Steals Your Breath. Yoga Gives It Back.' - Tari Prinster

Tari Prinster is a cancer survivor and yoga teacher since 2003. She is the Founder of Yoga4Cancer, LLC (y4c) and the Retreat Project (nonprofit) - businesses that are bringing specialized yoga cancer survivors through classes & retreats. Also she leads one of the largest teacher training program to help enable yoga teachers to best adapt all styles to fit the unique needs of cancer patients & survivors.

In Tari's own words, she recounts her background with yoga and cancer: 'When I was fifty, I started a yoga practice on a hunch it would ease menopausal symptoms. It did! That was sixteen years ago. Today, I am an example that it is never too late to start, never too late to change. Yoga made me feel younger and stand straighter. I sleep better, my weight is good, and my bones are strong.

I found yoga a powerful tool to manage the daily challenges of cancer treatments as well as the side effects and life-long vulnerabilities they create. I discovered yoga was more than a way to stay healthy. It gave me emotional support and spiritual comfort so needed during recovery.

I was curious why yoga was doing so much for me. My research made it clear why yoga strengthens the immune system, thus providing, among other things, protection against a cancer reoccurrence.

All that was ten years ago when not much was heard about yoga's healing power. Since then, I've developed a carefully constructed system of yoga poses and sequences, each one based on needs of cancer survivors. Supported by the growing volume of research studies to support the benefits of yoga for wellbeing and explicitly for cancer survivors. I am please to be able to bring this fact based approach to survivors everywhere.



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