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Yoga for Cancer
CJ Liu interview Tari Prinster on her book “Yoga for Cancer: A Guide to Managing Side Effects, Boosting Immunity, and Improving Recovery for Cancer Survivors.”
Part 1: Yoga for Cancer Symptoms
Tari shares her personal and professional experience in using yoga to manage the challenges of cancer and its treatment. During chemotherapy patients often have common side effects. These include anxiety, fatigue, limited range of motion (breast cancer), and constipation. Tari shares her book and how she’s built a network of 3,000 yoga teachers that offer yoga classes for cancer patients.
Part 2: Getting Started: Online Yoga for Cancer
In Part 2, Tari shares how cancer patients can get started with her online yoga classes and get relief from common symptoms of chemotherapy. Tari explains that her book is organized around yoga exercises that address common symptoms. She offers yoga programs that are designed both for beginners and advanced students. You can check out a sample class in Part 3, or go to her website and find a class taught by 3000 yoga teachers.
Part 3: Yoga: Boost Immunity and Decrease Fatigue
Tari shares a short yoga class that will help anyone boost your immunity and fatigue.
More on Tari Prinster
Tari Prinster is a cancer survivor, master yoga teacher, celebrated author and founder of yoga4cancer (y4c) and the Retreat Project, which bring specialized yoga to cancer survivors worldwide. When Tari was fifty, she started a yoga practice to ease symptoms of menopause. After a diagnosis of breast cancer, yoga became a powerful tool for her to manage the daily challenges of treatment side effects. More than a way to stay healthy, yoga gave her a community and the emotional support and spiritual comfort so necessary for recovery and beyond.
Tari’s best-selling book, Yoga for Cancer: A Guide to Managing Side Effects, Boosting Immunity, and Improving Recovery for Cancer Survivors, is an illustrated guide for cancer survivors (and friends and family) to manage recovery and promote long-term health. y4c methodology integrates Eastern traditions like yoga with contemporary Western science, deeply informed by Tari’s personal experience as a survivor and master teacher. 53 poses and 20 sequences use movement and breathing to reduce and manage cancer treatment side effects. Now available in English, Spanish and Japanese. Go to y4c.com/books.
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