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Saturday 06/29/2024 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
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$25.00 Yoga for Cancer Support with Lucy
Complimentary and alternative practices are increasingly being shown to help with the pain and discomfort from cancer itself as well as from the medical treatments for cancer. Research has shown that gentle, therapeutic yoga poses, as well as calming breathing and meditation practices, can help relieve the stress, anxiety, and sickness associated with both the disease and treatments. In this workshop, we will do a series of adaptive yoga poses, calming breath practices, and conclude with an iRest® yoga nidra guided meditation for healing. Research has shown that iRest Yoga Nidra effectively reduces: traumatic stress, depression, anxiety, insomnia, chronic pain, and chemical dependency. This workshop is for cancer survivors in any stage of healing as well as their family, caregivers, and yoga teachers who want to understand more about cancer recovery. Teachers registered with Yoga Alliance receive 2 CE hours.
Lucy Lomax
Lucy Lomax, Certified Yoga Therapist C-IAYT, E-RYT 500, RPYT, YACEP, C-WAE, C-iREST®, and Accessible Yoga teacher, began meditating and practicing yoga in the 70's and teaching yoga in 1999. After 33 years as a financial policy analyst (BS Organizational Behavior, Masters in Public Financial Management) Lucy became a full-time yoga teacher. In 2017 she became a certified yoga therapist. Her yoga background includes 22 years study and practice in alignment-based yoga, and since 2011, specialized training in yoga for seniors, the military, and those dealing with back pain, cancer, amputation, stress, trauma, and PTS (post-traumatic stress).
Her teaching is based on anatomy, posture, movement, and integrative body/mind principles and she focuses on trauma-sensitive yoga and meditation, and accessible and adaptive yoga for injuries, illnesses, special conditions, and recovery. Her teaching style is light-hearted and practical — she believes that the yoga you do in class should support everyday life, and that yoga should be modified to meet you where are on life's journey.
Lucy is a yoga teacher trainer for both entry and advanced level yoga teachers (RYT 200 and RYT 500 levels), is co-director of the Yoga Center of Columbia's Yoga Teacher Training 200 level program, and is co-director and master teacher trainer for Y4A Yoga for Amputees. Lucy teaches public classes, workshops, retreats, and private yoga therapy sessions. Learn more about Lucy at www.lucylomax.com.
