Restorative Yoga for Breast Cancer Recovery: Gentle Flowing Yoga for Breast Health, Breast Cancer Related Fatigue & Lymphedema Management
with Angela Strynkowski, E-RYT 500, YACEP
Part 1 of our Oncology Yoga Teacher Training certifies you to teach, while Part 2 offers a deeper dive into postures, sequencing, and specialized techniques for the lymphatic system and anatomy. Completing both parts enhances your expertise, enables you to offer more to your students, and takes your practice and teaching to the next level!
Restorative Yoga for Breast Cancer Recovery is a restorative yoga therapy practice for breast health, lymphedema management and breast cancer recovery. This system of Yoga utilizes wide variety of restorative yoga poses supported by a variety of yoga props.
Awareness of the breath is integralto assist the mind as well as the muscles to “let go” and relax, allowing the healing process to begin. Restorative Yoga Flow poses are done in a relaxed, reclining, seated, twisting and standing positions.
Restorative Yoga for Breast Cancer Recovery is a great beginning for building a practice to regain strength and flexibility, as well as aiding in lymphedema management. This Yoga Teacher Training and practice outlines a variety of easy to learn restorative yoga poses which can emotionally and physically improve the recovery process from breast cancer surgeries, radiation and chemotherapy treatments. This practice is also invaluable in maintaining breast health and reducing cancer related fatigue (CRF).
If you or a loved one has been recently diagnosed with breast cancer, is in treatment or in recovery, this program is the perfect place to start your recovery. Discover how a consistent practice of Restorative Yoga with an emphasis on breast health can provide inner peace and healing for your mind, body and spirit.
The goal of this teacher training program is grounded in method and technique. In a fun and supportive wayyou can discover the power of joy available to everyone who faces a cancer diagnosis.
This Teacher Training is appropriate for Certified Yoga teachers, massage therapists, physical therapists, and breast cancer warriors. It is open to anyone who has the desire to learn a safe and effective practice to share with those dealing with breast cancer and the variety of treatments that go along with recovery.
With over thirty years of study and personal practice, Angela has shared yoga with tens of thousands of people and has certified over one hundred people to teach yoga.
Angela’s life journey of self-discovery and self-study began in her childhood and became a central focus in her late teens. Yoga gave her the tools for that journey. She is an interdisciplinary yoga teacher with extensive experience in several systems of yoga and the science behind them.
Angela was introduced to Oncology Yoga, specifically Yoga for Breast Cancer Recovery through her friend and mentor Diana Ross, the creator of Breast Cancer Yoga and the original owner of Inner Spirit Yoga Center in East Northport, NY. Diana was a breast cancer survivor and Master Yoga Teacher who trained and mentored Angela to teach Yoga for Breast Cancer Recovery.
Angela has been sharing Restorative Yoga for Breast Cancer Recovery for many years, privately and in group settings. She has also trained yoga teachers in her adaptation of this program, combining her years of experience in other yogic methods with Oncology Yoga to produce a well-rounded practice that addresses the various needs of breast cancer survivors.
To enhance her knowledge on this subject, Angela completed Yoga4Cancer in 2020, a 100-hour teacher training with Teri Prinstet.
Her natural love for people is the drive behind her desire to share her understanding of the science and practice of yoga. To Angela, this is her goal and life’s purpose: to encourage and challenge her students physically, mentally, and spiritually by allowing them to find their own way to yoga. You will find an element of focus and concentration, well-balanced with lightness, joy, and a sense of humor in all her classes. Practitioners are guided to experience and live their personal understanding of YOGA... of UNION.
“Lokah Samastah Sukhino Bhavantu”
May all beings everywhere be happy and free, and may the thoughts, words, and actions of my own life contribute in some way to that happiness and to that freedom for all.
