Breast Cancer Yoga Project
Sangha Yoga / Becky Morrissey is happy to support your physical and cognitive recovery. Research studies of yoga in support of breast cancer recovery are providing evidenced-based data guiding the why of yoga's beneficial qualities of recovery, but also discovering the HOW; what movements, postures, cueing from the teacher, meditations, and breath practices are most conducive to supporting the practitioner.
Becky is dedicated to helping each practitioner discover their individual, self-directed, body-oriented practice for home, and provide guided informing to make great yoga community class choices supportive to your personal healing.
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Becky Morrissey, LPCC-S, LICDC-CS, eRYT500, C-IAYT provides low-cost individual sessions and small group recovery yoga classes, applying yoga approaches specific to breast cancer recovery in all aspects of wellbeing. Creating a home practice with a resourceful community for supportive growth and education (a sangha (song-gah) is the goal and vision of this offering for each breast cancer survivor/yoga practitioner.
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Your recovery is unique to you, and a yoga practice which supports your specific healing is one of the best practices and gifts for self-directed recovery enrichment. An individual session can help you co-create with your wise healing body and mind for your dimensional, individual recovery.
Becky can help you tap into this wisdom and design a yoga sequence of movements and breath practices to nourish your specific needs in a 30-45 minute session, even with no previous yoga experience.
To find out more, email her:
Becky Morrissey, LPCC-S, LICDC-CS, eRYT500, C-IAYT
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Fees:
Initial Breast Cancer Individual Session: $10-15 (30-45 min)
Subsequent Enrichment Individual Sessions (45 mins): $15
HSA payments are accepted! For questions, email Becky using the link above. Welcome!
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Coming home to ourselves is the best healing.
Welcome!
Yoga can lower fatigue, inflammation in
Breast Cancer Survivors
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Practicing yoga for as little as three months can reduce fatigue and lower inflammation in breast cancer survivors, according to new research from The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center – Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital & Richard J. Solove Research Institute (OSUCCC – James). The more the women in the study practiced yoga, the better their results.
Link to the Journal of Clinical Oncology's publication:
Janice K. Kiecolt-Glaser, Jeanette M. Bennett, Rebecca Andridge, Juan Peng, Charles L. Shapiro, William B. Malarkey, Charles F. Emery, Rachel Layman, Ewa E. Mrozek, and Ronald Glaser. Journal of Clinical Oncology 2014 32:10, 1040-1049
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Guiding Resources
As a mental health clinician, yoga therapist, and educational researcher, Becky is dedicated to providing reliable, patient-based, yoga resources for recovering women.
Website, an enriching source of information regarding yoga and recovery:
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YogaU Online:
Appropriate Yoga Practices (generalized)
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Here are current research articles guiding Becky's current work:
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A Self-Directed Home Yoga Program for Women with Breast Cancer during chemotherapy: A Feasibility Study
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Yoga & Cancer Interventions: A Review of Clinical Significance
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Great reading for recovery, healing, and growth:
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Hidden Blessings: Crisis as Spiritual Awakening by Jett Psaris, Ph.D.
*secular, open-hearted perspective
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Yoga & Breast Cancer: A Journey to Health
& Healing by Ingrid Kollack, Ph.D., RN and
Isabell Utz-Billing, MD
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