Podcast: Yoga: Benefits and Precautions for People With BC

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Yoga: Benefits and Precautions for People With Breast Cancer

January 17, 2020

Vicki Flannery wears a number of hats: She's a nurse in the Kansas City area; she's a yoga instructor at weBuild4Life, a nonprofit that focuses on functional fitness and nutritional programs for cancer survivors and people with chronic illnesses; and she is a breast cancer survivor.

Vicki's yoga classes center around recovery, flexibility, and strengthening.

Listen to the podcast to hear Vicki talk about:

• what yoga is and examples of different types of yoga
• the benefits yoga can offer to people who've been diagnosed with breast cancer
• precautions people who've been diagnosed with breast cancer may want to consider
• how she modified her own yoga practice after being diagnosed with breast cancer

Running time: 29:58

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LilacBlue

This is an excellent podcast, well worth the time to listen.

I'm a cancer exercise specialist and certified yoga teacher. I teach a weekly class for those living with cancer - stage IV. Once a month we have a class of standing postures - a simple vinyasa flow, adapted to those present. What we practice mainly is, yin yoga, restorative yoga and yoga Nidra. There is a depth of calm and clarity for the mind, soul and body that can come about on this slow, restorative side of the yoga practice scale. I mention these three as they were not discussed in the podcast.