We've simplified the registration process by allowing to you sign-up once for the entire month-long series of our online Yoga classes. Don't worry if you can't attend every class—registering once secures your spot for any sessions you can join.
Yoga helps you enhance and exercise control over your physical and emotional well-being. It encompasses a wide variety of poses and postures that promote flexibility, strength,?and?balance, while bringing awareness to breath and mindful presence.
Wellspring Yoga is specifically for patients who are in the process of regaining their general health and wellness, as well as for caregivers of cancer patients. It is designed to provide a fulfilling yoga experience while also transferring skills and techniques to support self-managed yoga practice outside of Wellspring.
Wellspring uses yoga styles that are gentle and adaptable to your health and physical capabilities.
“Wellspring's Yoga helped me recover from my breast cancer surgery. It restored my range of motion and helped a lot with the pain. It was also blissfully relaxing during a difficult time for me. Thank you.” - Ruth What to expect
Sessions are 90 minutes each week and you can join on an as need basis.
You will be taught body awareness and breathing techniques, and through gentle stretching and movement exercises, you will be able to achieve enhanced physical strength, flexibility and range of motion.
Options for adapted exercises will be made available. Participants are to only perform exercises to the extent they can.
Potential benefits
- Reduce stress
- Reduce symptoms and side-effects
- Improve ability to cope
- Achieve a sense of calm and improve overall well-being
- Physical benefits of flexibility, balance and range of motion
- Spiritual awareness and insight
Related research
- Yoga for depression and anxiety symptoms in people with cancer: A systematic review and meta-analysis.?Maria Gonzalez, Michaela C. Pascoe, Guoyan Yang, Michael de Manincor, Suzanne Grant, Judith Lacey, Joseph Firth, Jerome Sarris; First published: 03 March 2021; https://doi.org/10.1002/pon.5671
- Yoga has been widely suggested to have a potential role in the health of people living with cancer; many studies report that yoga can improve health-related outcomes such as quality of life, fatigue, cognition, stress, and sleep quality in cancer survivors (Danhauer et al., 2019; O’Neill et al., 2020; Zetzl et al., 2021). One study on the effects of a breathwork-focused yoga program also observed improvements in fatigue, stress, and quality of life (Dhruva et al., 2012). Even yoga online can be beneficial: a recent publication observed reductions in stress in people living with cancer that participated in yoga programs delivered online (Trevino et al., 2020).