Recovering from Breast Cancer Surgery with Yoga
With Morven Hamilton
Learn movement to improve mobility, strength and confidence following breast cancer surgery
Breast cancer is the most common cancer to occur in women. This video is for you if have a student or loved one who has undergone breast cancer surgery and you wish to learn how to safely help them through their recovery.
Breast cancer surgery can affect the movements of the chest, shoulders, arms, abdomen and back - in other words, the whole torso. In this video you will learn some useful movements, adaptations and general guidelines for gentle movement after breast cancer surgery.
Course curriculum
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Breast Cancer Recovery
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About this course
- Free
- 1 lesson
- 0 hours of video content
Instructor
Morven HAMILTON
Trainer Pro, Senior Yoga Teacher
Morven Hamilton is a teacher trainer and mentor based in Weston-super-Mare. She has been teaching yoga since 2008, specialising in yoga therapy and is also a trained Mindfulness teacher. Morven runs a 200-hour YTT programme and Yoga for Cancer training courses.
She is dedicated to helping people live better through yoga and mindfulness, having seen yoga transform countless lives over the years. After her cancer diagnosis in 2019, the first thing she did the next morning was get on her yoga mat, because that's where she can find herself.
She developed the Healing the Whole Person approach to Yoga for Cancer between 2010 and 2016 while working as yoga teacher and course facilitator at Penny Brohn Cancer Care near Bristol, where she learned the whole person approach to cancer support.