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  • Description: In this 5-minute video, Juliana Berfield, PhD, E-RYT 500, CPT, guides you through mastering the side plank, a great exercise to boost your core strength!

  • Description: In this 27-minute video, Juliana Berfield, PhD, E-RYT 500, CPT, guides you through a gentle yoga practice, designed specifically for patients with breast cancer. The movements in this video may help specifically with discomfort in the chest and arm areas after surgery and radiation. It is important to speak with your care team before beginning any physical activity and exercise regimen. 

    Designed for patients with breast cancer and suitable for all cancer diagnoses!

    Instructor: Juliana G. Berfield, PhD, E-RYT 500, CPT

  • Description: In this 5-minute video, Juliana Berfield, PhD, E-RYT 500, CPT, guides you through mastering the elbow plank, a great exercise to boost your core strength!

  • Description: Join Nancy Campbell, MS, an exercise physiologist at Dana-Farber for a quick lower body workout. This video features five exercises for your major muscle group in the lower body and core. Both standing and seated modifications are available. You will need a mat and chair, a small mini-band or TheraBand is optional.

  • Description: Join Nancy Campbell, MS, an exercise physiologist at Dana-Farber for a quick upper body workout. This video features five exercises for your major muscle group in the upper body and core. Both standing and seated modifications are available. You will need a mat, chair and some light to medium dumbbells (soup cans or water bottles can be substituted).

  • Description: Ramel Rones, Tai Chi Master, demonstrates Qigong and Tai Chi techniques with a focus on the lungs and heart, which can be practiced sitting, standing, or lying down.

  • Description: Ramel Rones, Tai Chi Master, demonstrates Qigong and Tai Chi techniques with a focus on the spine, which can be practiced sitting, standing, or lying down.

  • Description: In this 30-min class, you’ll incorporate core strength and stretch movements to improve your core stability and body wellness. Sessions involve a mix of yoga, barre, Pilates, and muscle conditioning with controlled breathing and alignment that builds strength and endurance. Props: core ball, block, strap, elastic band, blanket, yoga mat. Level : beginners welcome; all levels

  • Description: In this 30-min class, you’ll incorporate core strength and stretch movements to improve your core stability and body wellness. Sessions involve a mix of yoga, barre, Pilates, and muscle conditioning with controlled breathing and alignment that builds strength and endurance. Props: core ball, block, strap, elastic band, blanket, yoga mat. Level : beginners welcome; all levels

  • Description: In this 90-second video, Ramel Rones, Tai Chi Master and Mind/Body Consultant, demonstrates a short Tai Chi form performed at Masada in Israel. Use the rising sun and the power of the mind to cleanse and nourish every cell in the body to help with neuropathy symptoms, improve mood, and upgrade your energetic system. 
    You can follow along with the movements and visualizations by standing, sitting, or lying down. The movements of the form gently massage your feet which may help with numbness and tingling and the slow, meditative shifting of your weight from one leg to the other improves physical balance. If you perform the Tai Chi Form in a low stance (bent knees) you also increase the muscle mass and bone density in your legs. 
    You can practice this ancient visualization mentally, as well. Imagine the beams of the rising sun in your Lower Energy Center, first cleansing and then nourishing your entire body, especially the areas where you feel neuropathy. If you want to ...
  • Description:
    In this 6-minute video, Ramel Rones, Tai Chi Master, demonstrates Qigong and Tai Chi tapping techniques that may help ease discomforts related to neuropathy, such as pain, numbness, tingling, burning, or the “pins and needles” sensation. Tapping stimulates nerve endings and can be done with your hands or various household items to increase energy and blood circulation throughout the body. Focusing on the breath and emptying the mind from any thoughts is a part of tapping meditation which may also help reduce anxiety and negative thoughts. These tapping techniques are drawn from the ancient philosophies of Qigong and Tai Chi to lead energy and impurities out and away from the body, using the power of the mind for a complete mind-body approach for dealing with neuropathy and its side effects.

    Chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy is a common side effect of cancer treatment. The techniques employed and/or described in this video may help alleviate symp...
  • Description:
    In this 13-minute video, Ramel Rones, Tai Chi Master, demonstrates Mind-Body techniques from the Eastern health and martial arts philosophies, such as Qigong (Chi Kung), Tai Chi, and Meditation, that may help relieve cancer-related fatigue symptoms. 

    According to Qigong and Chinese medicine, fatigue may result from an excess of Yin (passive, negative) or Yang (active, positive) energy. 

    In this video, Rones guides you in strengthening your muscles and energetic system to relieve Yin fatigue and relaxing your mind and body with restorative postures and deep breathing to relieve Yang fatigue. 
    Remember, it’s important to speak with your cancer care team to report any side effects and concerns to create a treatment plan that works for you.