MONDAYS YOGA & WELLNESS

Gentle movement and mindfulness for individuals navigating cancer

Mondays Cancer Care Yoga & Wellness offers gentle, adaptable practices that reduce stress, support mobility, and promote overall well-being during and after cancer treatment.

Designed for beginners and all levels, classes use breath and movement to help ease anxiety and treatment-related discomfort

Weekly Zoom/Every Wednesday at 4pm

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Breath Work & Meditation

Conscious breath & inner stillness for individuals navigating cancer

Belly Breath

Lie on your back in a comfortable position, bend your knees, place your feet flat on the floor or on a rolled blanket, add a pillow under your head for comfort. Place your hands on your belly, observe it rise as you inhale and relax as you exhale, mimicking a balloon filling and releasing air.

Benefits may include:

  • Increases supply of oxygen and nutrients to cells through out the body

  • Helps increase the supply of blood nutrients to muscle blood and bones

  • Relaxes muscle spasm and relives tension

  • Relaxes and reduces muscular tension that eventually may cause structural problems

Sit comfortably, observe your breath, and adjust its length by counting silently to make inhales and exhales equal. Match the counting speed to your natural breath for effortless breathing, aiming to reach a count of four for both inhales and exhales without strain.

Benefits may include:

  • Refining the breath and awareness of prana flow

  • Calming the body

  • Focusing the mind helping to remove distractions

Equal Breath

Sit comfortably, observe your breath, and adjust its length by counting silently to make inhales and exhales equal. Match the counting speed to your natural breath for effortless breathing, aiming to reach a count of four for both inhales and exhales without strain.

Benefits may include:

  • Refining the breath and awareness of prana flow

  • Calming the body

  • Focusing the mind helping to remove distractions

Alternate Nostril Breath

  1. Sit in a comfortable position with your legs crossed

  2. Place your left hand on your left knee

  3. Lift your right hand up towards your nose

  4. Exhale completely and then use your right thumb to close your right nostril

  5. Inhale through your left nostril and then close your left nostril with your fingers

Benefits of Alternate Nostril Breath

  • Lowers stress and improves cardiovascular function. One of the main benefits of alternative nostril breathing is that it may lower stress

  • Improves lung function and respiratory endurance

  • Lowers heart rate

  • Promotes well-being

  • Helps with insomnia

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Meditation for Medical Anxiety
Meditation for Medical Anxiety

This meditation is designed to offer feelings of peace and quiet your mind during moments of medical anxiety. It can lower stress hormones like cortisol, ease anxious thoughts, and create a greater sense of relaxation, safety, and emotional balance. While your body might feel tense and your mind might be racing - this meditation is designed to allow your body to relax, your mind to be at ease and worries to subside.

This meditation is designed to offer feelings of peace and quiet your mind during moments of medical anxiety. It can lower stress hormones like cortisol, ease anxious thoughts, and create a greater sense of relaxation, safety, and emotional balance. While your body might feel tense and your mind might be racing - this meditation is designed to allow your body to relax, your mind to be at ease and worries to subside.

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Chair Yoga
Chair Yoga

Gentle chair yoga offers an accessible way to begin moving your body. With the support of a chair and thoughtfully modified poses, you can improve flexibility, build strength, and enjoy movement at your own pace. Whether you are in infusion, at an airport, in a waiting room or just on your couch, this flow is designed to meet you where you are and offer supportive movement.  Thank you to Lauren Adamkiewicz, owner of Salt of the Earth Yoga for offering this healing flow.

Gentle chair yoga offers an accessible way to begin moving your body. With the support of a chair and thoughtfully modified poses, you can improve flexibility, build strength, and enjoy movement at your own pace. Whether you are in infusion, at an airport, in a waiting room or just on your couch, this flow is designed to meet you where you are and offer supportive movement.  Thank you to Lauren Adamkiewicz, owner of Salt of the Earth Yoga for offering this healing flow.

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Sound Healing
Sound Healing

Sound healing uses soothing frequencies and vibrations to promote relaxation and support the body's natural stress response. By helping slow the heart rate and encourage the brain to shift into calmer, meditative states, sound healing can create a sense of ease, balance, and overall well-being. The crystal bowls offer vibrational resonance, as sound waves move through body tissues, offering a soothing, physical sensation.

Sound healing uses soothing frequencies and vibrations to promote relaxation and support the body's natural stress response. By helping slow the heart rate and encourage the brain to shift into calmer, meditative states, sound healing can create a sense of ease, balance, and overall well-being. The crystal bowls offer vibrational resonance, as sound waves move through body tissues, offering a soothing, physical sensation. Thank you to Lucianne Berrios, practitioner at Unlimited Body NY, for offering this healing practice. 

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