Teaching Yoga for Cancer: Workshop

Course Outline:

• You know someone with cancer and want to be able to help them
• You have existing students who have been diagnosed and you want to feel better equipped to continue to teach them safely
• This is an area you would like to train in depth as a specialist yoga teacher
• You are a cancer specialist looking to offer yoga practices to your patients
• You would like to learn more about what other ways we can support people with cancer
• You are looking for a new challenge

This workshop is designed for teachers who wish to work with those affected by cancer and for therapists and cancer professionals who wish to offer some yoga practices to their clients. This 4 hour CPD workshop will give you practical skills so you can work confidently and safely with people affected by cancer.

There will be a good mix of theory, discussion, Q&A and practical teaching experience so that at the end of the workshop you will be able to:

• Assess whether you are able to teach someone safely within a general class setting
• Communicate effectively and sensitively with cancer patients
• Create a lesson plan for one-to-one sessions and/or home practise
• Build a network and resources to support yourself and people living with cancer

So why join this workshop?

• You can find out if cancer is the right area for you to be working in - It is very rewarding but also challenging and is not necessarily for everyone
• You will have a better understanding of what cancer is and how treatments affect people
• You will come away with practices that you can safely share
• You will learn through a combination of theory and practice yoga tools you can use with students experiencing cancer

“Thank you Jenny, the yoga for cancer workshop was a really helpful introduction on being able to provide a safe and nurturing space for people with cancer.  A good combination of theory and practice. Your follow up notes and course details were also of high quality and very useful.” - Karen Noon