THIS WORKSHOP WILL BE RE-SCHEDULED FOR A LATER DATE.

This weekend immersion for 200-hour yoga teachers and health care practitioners teaches the theory and practice of yoga therapy for cancer patients and survivors and how both active and contemplative practices can help ease treatment side-effects. Learn about the anatomy of cancer and how yoga helps strengthen the immune system. Learn how to adapt common asanas for patients in active treatment, what is safe and what should be avoided. And learn contemplative practices that bolster emotional and spiritual well-being including mudra (hand gestures), pranayama (breathing), mantra (chanting and sound), sankalpa (intention), and yoga nidra (guided relaxation). The weekend will include a public facing workshop on Saturday afternoon for people managing cancer, including cancer patients, survivors, and caregivers.

Cheryl Fenner Brown, C-IAYT, E-RYT 500, YACEP works with cancer patients and people over 50 in central North Carolina and her students appreciate her educational style and compassionate approach to practicing yoga as self-care. Her 700-hr Hatha training at Piedmont Yoga Studio and 1000-hr Integrative Yoga Therapy training inform her unique blend of alignment principles with subtle energy work. She teaches classes, privates, and offers self-care retreats and enjoys mentoring teachers in a 100-hr Adaptive Yoga Mentorship. Her Healing Yoga for Cancer Survivorship feasibility study was presented at IAYT's Symposium on Yoga Research and the Society of Integrative Oncology's annual conferences in 2015 and highlighted in Yoga Journal. From this work she developed a 50-hr Healing Yoga for Cancer teacher training and programs for survivors that are offered nationwide, find out more at www.yogacheryl.com.