Yoga is increasingly being used to increase quality of life for people suffering from a great many maladies, and one Canadian/US group is reaching out to get cancer patients stretching.

It’s called Yoga Thrive, and it uses gentle, therapeutic yoga to help cancer patients and survivors improve their physical and mental states.

“Our instructors know both cancer and yoga,” Culos-Reed explained. “They not only learn the seven- week yoga program, they also learn about cancer treatments and side-effects.”

Culos-Reed, herself a yogi for seven years, believes the 5,000-year-old practice, which strives to align breath with movement, is particularly suited to cancer patients.

“They learn to reconnect with their breath and their body again,” she said. “There’s that unique body-mind connection. When someone’s going through cancer, everything seems out of control.”

Other groups, such as the San Francisco-based Yoga Bear, are also helping cancer patients get their yoga on.

Source: Yahoo! News

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