Yoga For CancerCare Training:
How to Work With Patients & Survivors
YA Certified 20-Hour
Continuing Education Yoga Teacher Training & Advanced Yoga Studies
March 10 & 11, 2012
 
Licensed by the State of Minnesota
Download Application Form
According to The National Cancer Institute, more than 10 million Americans alive today have experienced and battled cancer. More than a million people are diagnosed each year. Several years ago, Green Lotus initiated a class specifically designed to address the special needs of people undergoing treatment for cancer and survivors - as well as for their caregivers. Created by Green Lotus and two of its teachers, Ziya Tarapore, a survivor herself, and Patricia Lowinske, yoga teacher and GL's spiritual guide, the class integrated special meditations, pranayama, and asanas that address the physical challenges resulting from the disease and its treatment, especially lymph distribution and the immune system, as well as offering relief for the mental and spiritual ones.
Now, Ziya and Green Lotus have created, with the contribution of Carrie Macoskey, OTR/L, of the Fairview Rehabilitation Center, a 20-hour continuing education training for yoga teachers, nurses and other medical workers, and fitness trainers, among others. These credits meet the requirements of both Yoga Alliance and NETA. Attendees will study anatomy, special meditation and breathing techniques, and visualization methods that address the physical, mental, and spiritual needs of cancer patients and survivors. They will learn and practice which poses address edema and lymph distribution, the impaired immune system, detoxify and improve blood circulation, stretch and relax surgical scars and radiated muscles, and joints that have stiffened as a result of treatment. The coursework also explores the psychological impact experienced by patients and survivors - despair, fear, mood swings, and isolation. The system of yoga has proved to provide relief and restoration in documented research.
Ziya, who also teaches at the Hope Lodge in Rochester, Minnesota, run by the American Cancer Society and part of the Mayo Clinic, will lead this remarkable training, and Carrie will deliver information about the lymph system and how it is affected by cancer. Marcia Appel, E-RYT, will assist Ziya and Carrie.
Recommended Books For This Training: all are available through online bookstores and by ordering through your neighborhood bookstore. Please bring a notebook or journal to capture notes, questions, and observations.
- Yogic Management of Cancer by Dr. Swami Nirmalanada
- Creative Visualization by Shakthi Gawain
- Lymphedema: A Breast Cancer Patient's Guide to Prevention and Healing
Schedule
Green Lotus' 20-hour Yoga For CancerCare Training will be held the weekend of March 9 - 11, 2012. Hours and topics are as follows:
- Saturday, March 10, 2012: 9:30 a.m. - 6:30 p.m. How is yoga for this population different? Introduction of pranayama for this population and its benefits. Anatomical overview of how the body is affected by treatment. Connecting to anatomical limitations with asanas. Special insight into the lymphatic system and how it is compromised during treatment. Creating a practice and delivering it. Developing YOUR approach to meditation and visualization.
- Sunday, March 11, 2012: 9:30 - 6:30 p.m. Delivering your own way. Practice teaching. Listening to your students and their special needs to alter your class and accommodate them. Listening with skill and offering comfort while keeping boundaries. Question-and-answer session and completion.
Our Faculty
- Ziya Tarapore: Ziya first went to a yoga class at the age of seven. Living in India, yoga was practicied by both parents and kids. As an adult, yoga and meditation helped
 her get through the nastiness of cancer treatment and the aftermath. Using her experiences with treatment, illness, and lymphedema she conceived of a class that thelps cancer survivors to breathe deep, stretch, relax, and begin to visualize what being healthy and whole is all about. Currently Ziya teaches at the Hope Lodge in Rochester, run by the American Cancer Society and part of the Mayo Clinic, as well as at Green Lotus in Lakeville.
- Marcia Appel: Marcia, one of the founders of Green Lotus, developed this training with Ziya after acknowledging the powerful impact that
 Green Lotus's Yoga For CancerCare classes has on students. Marcia took her first training from TeriLeigh Schmidt and completed her RYT 200 training in 2008; her E-RYT certification was completed in 2011. Marcia has studied with Baron Baptiste (Power Vinyasa), Judith Lasater (Restorative), Janice Gates, and Anne Cushman, among others, and has studied meditation and spirituality with a variety of teachers. She currently is participating in an 18-month training program at Spirit Rock in Northern California to explore the connection between meditation and yoga.
- Carrie Macoskey, OTR/L, CLT/LANA: Carrie is a certified lymphedema therapist and has a bachelor of science degree in occupational therapy from Eastern Kentucky University. She
 learned about lymphedema treatment while working at Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. She became certified and has treated lymphedema since 1999. She is certified by the Dr. Vodder School and Casley-Smith. She worked with Dr. Schmitz on the Physical Activity and Lymphedema study. She has a special interest in exercise and lymphedema.
- Patricia Lowinske: Patricia is a yoga teacher at Green Lotus. Inspired by her deep connection to yoga, healing, spirit, and transformation, Patricia also leads workshops on a variety of subjects
 and is a Spiritual Guidance counselor. With a degree in health and fitness, personal training certifications, and years of yoga teaching, along with a personal yoga practice, Patricia's aim is to create sacred space to share yoga and meditation with others so that they can discover and explore their own yoga journey, their innate interconnectedness, and their capacity for health, healing, wholeness, and growth.
Fee and Early-Bird Registration Option
Cost for this training is $425 if you enroll by February 15, and $450 thereafter.
No make-up sessions will be available. If students cannot attend for the entire weekend schedule, they will be able to complete the requirements the next time the training is held.
Fee and Early-Bird Registration Option
Call Marcia Appel or Ziya Tarapore at 952.373.0055 with any questions, or email them at info@greenlotusyogactr.com. Click to register. |
