yoga for cancer teacher training

overview

This 40-hour training will give you the tools to create a safe and healing environment to teach yoga and relaxation to people diagnosed with cancer or other long-term health conditions. It is open to qualified or accredited yoga teachers or therapists and healthcare professionals with a committed yoga practice. It is accredited by Yoga Alliance Professionals.

This course is at our Camden studio, and will be live-streamed if you prefer to attend online. You can sign up for either option. Attendance at all sessions is required in order to qualify. All participants will receive 14-day access to recordings of the training.

We acknowledge an under-representation of BIPOC in the yoga world and we are committed to doing our part to change this. Vicky Fox and triyoga are delighted to be able to offer one part-funded scholarship for a BIPOC student. To apply, download a scholarship application here  and submit it by 13th May 2022.

course content

course structure

additional hours

Vicky encourages all students on the training to observe a yoga for cancer class being taught.

learning outcomes

• Cultivating a safe space, how to hold that space, to listen and be compassionate in a yoga studio when working with fear, anxiety and possibly pain. To reassure people who may have found themselves in a world filled with tests and procedures. How you as a teacher can make the yoga studio a welcoming place that is accessible for a very wide range of experiences, abilities and quality of health.
• Understanding cancer terminology. Diagnosis and grading of cancer. Treatment for breast cancer and implications of reconstructive surgery. Lymphoedema and cording and how to adapt the class to allow people to increase range of motion and build strength slowly and in a safe way. How your class can minimise muscle atrophy and keep blood and lymph circulating to help promote wellbeing.
• A-Z of side effects and using your skills as a yoga teacher or therapist to adapt classes so that the class is accessible and inclusive to all.
• Exploring the concept that we are not just a physical body and are multidimensional beings of mind, body and spirit that are connected. Our bodies are made up of different layers or koshas that are constantly changing. We will explore how to fully let go and how we need to relax each layer from the outer to the inner layers for us to allow healing to take place.
• Chair classes: how to modify postures to include those who need to remain seated. Considering what your students may need most to feel empowered but also taking into account practices that support the changes occuring such as bone density, menopausal symptoms or secondary cancer.
• The role of yoga nidra, guided relaxation and meditation. Use of language that is validating and supportive.

eligibility + pre-requisites

This training is open to all qualified, accredited yoga teachers, and therapists and healthcare professionals with a committed yoga practice. Prior to the course all participants will be asked to read an account of cancer from a supplied reading list, then reflect on and answer five questions.

There will also be post-course work that must be completed, including teaching a class, reading the book Making Friends with Death – A Buddhist Guide to Encountering Mortality by Judith L Lief, and completing an assignment on it.

accreditation

40-hour specialist training accredited by Yoga Alliance Professionals