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  • Description: Looking to amp up your fitness routine? Join Nancy Campbell, MS, in this advanced strength training circuit including a short warm-up, four standing exercises for both upper and lower body, and two floor exercises. You will need a chair and dumbbells. If you don’t have dumbbells available, try soup cans or water bottles.
  • Description:
    Friday, September 20 | 10 a.m. – 2:30 p.m.
    Dana-Farber Cancer Institute | 3rd Floor Conference Center
    450 Brookline Ave., Boston, MA 02215

    Join the EMBRACE Program (in person) this fall for a day of wellness, education, and community building. In collaboration with Dana-Farber's Leonard P. Zakim Center for Integrative Therapies and Healthy Living, we will offer a variety of activities such as movement classes, massage, ear acupuncture, expressive arts, small group discussions, a resource expo, and more.

    Please note: Each patient living with metastatic breast cancer (MBC) is welcome to invite a loved one (friend, sibling, partner, parent, etc.) to join them at the event.

    Registration is required for all attendees, including plus ones. Please RSVP by Friday, August 30 at the following link - https://redcap.partners.org/redcap/surveys/?s=ANJ4T8YYKN8NNTDR 
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  • Description: Tight hips? These hip mobility exercises will help you loosen up and increase your functional range of motion. Our movement and yoga instructor, Juliana Berfield, PhD, E-RYT 500, CPT leads this 3-part short videos series to help improve your hip mobility. Part 1 – Seated on Chair – Beginner Part 2 – On Mat – Intermediate (release 8/19/24) Part 3 – on Mat – Advanced (release 8/26/24)
  • Description: Tight hips? These hip mobility exercises will help you loosen up and increase your functional range of motion. Our movement and yoga instructor, Juliana Berfield, PhD, E-RYT 500, CPT leads this 3-part short videos series to help improve your hip mobility. 
    Part 1 – Seated on Chair – Beginner 

    Part 2 – On Mat – Intermediate

    Part 3 – on Mat – Advanced (release 8/26/24)
  • Description: Tight hips? These hip mobility exercises will help you loosen up and increase your functional range of motion. Our movement and yoga instructor, Juliana Berfield, PhD, E-RYT 500, CPT leads this 3-part short videos series to help improve your hip mobility. 

    Part 1 – Seated on Chair – Beginner 

    Part 2 – On Mat – Intermediate (release 8/19/24) 

    Part 3 – on Mat – Advanced (release 8/26/24)
  • Description: Resistance bands can be a fun, affordable way to boost your strength without needing fancy gym equipment. This quick workout will target all your major muscle groups, including a short warm-up, three standing exercises, and two floor exercises.
  • Description: You can perform these standing core exercises anywhere – no equipment needed – to stabilize and strengthen your core. Follow our yoga instructor, Juliana Berfield, PhD, E-RYT 500, CPT, in this short video for better core strength.
  • Description: fLoW is an educational and interactive drop-in virtual class designed to help patients manage lymphedema, lymphedema risk (lymph node removal and/or radiation) or generally support the lymphatic system by engaging in self-massage techniques and yoga. The instructors for this class are Maria “Bambi” Mathay, LMT, BCTMB, RMT and Barbara “Babz” Jackson Tobin, OTR/L, CLT-LANA, CYT. 
    Is this class for me? This class is suitable for all patients who have lymphedema, lymphedema risk (lymph node removal and/or radiation), or a history of lymphedema. Modifications will be provided. What’s the structure of fLoW? Virtual 50-minute drop-in classes include instruction in general lymphatic massage and drainage, and a 30-minute yoga practice. Livestream classes can only be accessed by Dana-Farber patients. However, they will be recorded for future viewing and available to the general public on YouTube and MyZakim. Classes meet on the third Friday of each month from 3:00—4:00 PM ET. How do I regi...
  • Description: If you work at a desk or computer for long stretches of time, you might place excessive strain on certain muscles like your neck and shoulders. Muscle tightness in your neck, shoulders and chest muscles can also cause neck pain and poor posture. In this short video our yoga instructor, Juliana Berfield, PhD, E-RYT 500, CPT will guide you through some neck & shoulder stretches to help loosen your muscles and bring relief. Feel free to explore small movements and to hold the stretch for 15 to 30 seconds.  This video is part of a 2-part series for all levels. 
     Part 1 – Seated or standing. 

     Part 2 – On a mat using massage balls