Yoga can help people facing cancer in a number of ways. For people needing surgery, yoga practice can help to prepare the body and mind beforehand and some gentle exercises that can be done at home could be learned in advance. Breathing techniques can help calm the body and mind, which are especially helpful when fear or upset is present.

After a recent yoga class I’d led someone told me that he felt like he was on a cloud when he left his first yoga class and less so after a few more classes. When we’re introduced to yoga sometimes it feels so good at the beginning! And after a while it doesn’t necessarily feel so good anymore and our enthusiasm for practising may diminish.

When you become more self-aware you will naturally want to take better care of yourself. Yoga helps to increase your self-awareness. Here are just some of the possible areas in your life and how yoga can address the things you can change.

How to Begin a Yoga Practice...You could pick a class or you could get a book or a video or go to the Y...Where to begin?

Here’s something you may not know—anyone can do yoga. This is because yoga is not a goal-oriented activity, but a movement toward union and balance.