Is yoga beneficial to breast cancer patients?
The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine is sponsoring a series of clinical trials to the impact of yoga on disease. The University of Florida’s psycho-oncology department is weighing yoga’s benefits specifically for women with breast cancer.
Jennifer Schelter is a yoga instructor and the cocreator of Yoga Unites. “One of my students was diagnosed with breast cancer,” she says, “and she came to me for help in structuring her life around yoga. Afterward, she said yoga was the only thing she did during her treatment that restored her faith in her body and her hope in the future.”
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