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| Cancer can be
caused by many factors and your exposure to them is not always within your control.
Nevertheless, you can help prevent many cancers by changing your lifestyle and habits.
Smoking, alcoholism, and chronic constipation are all cancer-inducing, for example, and
stress is also implicated. By practising yoga you can learn to ignore the mind's craving
for pleasure through harmful activities and this avoid such risk factors. In addition,
your stress levels will be reduced and your diet will become healthier. If cancer does develop, yoga can be a useful adjunct to surgery, chemotherapy, and radio-therapy. It can also aid rehabilitation after surgery, but you must first consult a yoga specialist or doctor. Although not a cure for cancer, yogic attitudes and yogic philosophy can help one face more positively the many emotional and physical trials along the way. Nausea and other potential chemotherapy symptoms can be reduced using the Yoga Nidra technique, and visualisation techniques can support the chemicals in their work. Julie Friedeberger runs the course and her book and tape, on sale at the YTC, have never failed to elicit superb feedback. |
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| Chronic Bronchitis (Emphysema, Hay Fever, Respiratory Conditions, Rhinitis, Sinusitis, Chronic Lung Ailments, Nasal Allergy, Sarcoidosis) | Classes | |
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| Yoga therapy can
improve breathing in people respiratory ailments and other chronic lung conditions.
Specially designed exercises open and relax the chest, stimulate and desensitise the
airways, and reduce mental anxiety. The treatment works on different levels: physical, mental, emotional, and through releasing the flow of energy. Each aspect of yoga practice brings its own benefits, the stamina of your respiratory system increases, you learn to use your lungs more efficiently. As well, energy blocks are released, your energy levels rise and our body and mind are calmed and harmonised. Some chronic lung diseases are immune-related disorders, such as sarcoidosis, allergic inflammation of the air sacs, and occupational lung diseases caused by exposure to harmful or poisonous substances. Some lung infections, such as tuberculosis and fungus infection cause damage such as lung abscesses and dilation of the bronchial tubes unless they are quickly cured or controlled. Yoga cannot repair lung damage once it has occurred, but it can help you manage such ailments and enhances the effectiveness of surgical, drug, and physiotherapy treatments. Yogic breathing techniques and teach you how to oxygenate all parts of your lungs, open out blocked air passages, and expand partially collapsed lungs. They also promote the drainage of secretions and improve general health and stamina. As the efficiency of your immune system increases, infections clear up more quickly and drugs become more effective, so smaller doses are required. In addition to physical improvement through yogic asanas and breathing, which increase functional lung capacity and acto to minimize the degree of damage, yoga makes another important contribution. As a technique for mastery over the mind, yoga can help you to give up smoking. This is vital in the case of severe lung damage, such as in chronic bronchitis and emphysema. Some people with respiratory conditions find the pranayama sessions of help. The therapist will suggest the most suitable course of action for you after the assessment. |
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| Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) - ME | Classes | |
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| ME, or Myalgic
Encephalomyelitis, is an illness affecting the muscles, brain and nervous system. Now more
widely recognised, the medical profession call it CFS, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. As well
as physical and mental fatigue being part of the illness, the inertia resulting from lack
of exercise results in added fatigue. Other chronic fatigue conditions can be induced and maintained by stress, and are a common feature of modern life. Chronic fatigue is generalised and ordinary forms of rest bring little respite. Mental tensions are often expressed as constant partial contraction of the muscles, which depletes your energy and disrupts your breathing pattern, making you continuously tired. Your muscles remain tense even when you are inactive and resting, so until you reduce your stress levels you cannot get relief. Practising yoga techniques, rather than exercise, is an obviously more preferable and successful approach for the body, mind and emotions. In people whose physical ability is limited, yoga can offer relaxation, visualisation, meditation, pranayama and emotional culturing. Excessive, sudden or unexplained fatigue may be caused by an illness and you should consult your doctor for a diagnosis before attending yoga classes. |
Deep Relaxation | Wednesday | 1 - 1.45 pm General | Monday | 6 - 7.30 pm General | Tuesday | 12.30 - 1.30 pm General | Tuesday | 6.30 - 8 pm General | Wednesday | 6.30 - 8 pm General | Thursday | 12.30 - 1.30 pm General | Thursday | 6.30 - 8 pm General | Friday | 12.30 - 1.30 pm General | Friday | 6.30 - 8 pm General | Saturday | 11.30 - 1 pm Gentle Therapy | Friday | 10.30 - Noon
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| Constipation | Classes | |
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| In yoga, bowel
disorders are thought to reflect disturbances in the flow of prana, or the yogic
"life energy". Prana has upward flow (Udana), downward flow (Apana),
and a balancing force around the navel (Samana) that maintains your normal
digestive mobility. Constipation is due to a lack of Apana, which can be restored
by emphasizing Standing Asanas. Disturbance around the Samana causes irregular
bowel functions and can be healed by deep relaxation in Pranayama. Medically, constipation is another form of IBS, or irritable bowel syndrome. In this case your normal bowel movements are slowed down, resulting in the familiar signs of constipation: Hard stools, which are difficult to pass, and infrequent bowel clearance. Eating a high-fibre diet, including raw vegetables and fruit, taking regular exercise, and allowing enough time to relax on the tiolet are particularly useful for dealing with constipation. A general yoga routing for constipation is as follows:- set aside 20 minutes at a fixed time each day and try to develop a daily habit of passing stools. First drink two glasses of luke-warm water and then practise Rapid Abdominal Breathing while holding the Half Shoulderstand. Work up to 40 breaths and repeat three times, resting in between. Then practise the Embryo and Jogging. Finally, sit on the toilet and relax. You should be comfortably familiar with these techniques, and have consulted one of our therapists or another professional health advisor before embarking on this routine. |
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| Crone's Disease | Classes | |
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