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    In this 7-minute video, Heather Woods, MA, MT-BC, leads you through an upbeat and interactive Body Percussion exercise to help fight cancer-related fatigue and boost your mood! Active music-making and drumming have been shown to have a positive impact on wellbeing and are a fun way to relax and connect with your body.
    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. This video is part of a comprehensive Fatigue Toolkit. For more of these types of videos and resources, visit myzakim.dana-farber.org/fatigue-toolkit
  • Description: In this 4-minute video, Dongyan Yu, MS, MS, LicAc, demonstrates simple and self-guided acupressure techniques that may help improve cancer-related fatigue. Although more research is needed, acupressure has demonstrated a short-term effectiveness in alleviating cancer-related fatigue, particularly for patients undergoing chemotherapy. 
    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. This video is part of a comprehensive Fatigue Toolkit. For more of these types of videos and resources, visit myzakim.dana-farber.org/fatigue-toolkit

  • Description: In this 6-minute video, Nancy Campbell, MS, explains the traffic light system – a way to gauge your energy levels and move your body when you might be experiencing cancer-related 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. This video is part of a comprehensive Fatigue Toolkit. For more of these types of videos and resources, visit myzakim.dana-farber.org/fatigue-toolkit

  • Description: Join Nancy Campbell, MS, an exercise physiologist at Dana-Farber, for a 45-minute workout focusing on strengthening the whole body.
    Tags: Beginner-intermediate, Bone, Full body workout, Muscle, Weight lifting, Weights

  • Description: In this class we will learn and practice sitting with correct alignment while focusing on deep breathing. We will practice deep breathing and dissolving. Deep breathing stimulates different parts of our lungs with oxygen: the front, back and sides (left and right) or what I call North, South, East and West. We will focus on visualizing the Lower Energy Center as a trick to quiet the mind and to awaken the energetic system. Physical and mental relaxation are especially important for the health of the joints and for removing stagnant energy which improves our energetic system, as well as oxygen and blood circulation. 
    Using what I like to refer to as the Power of the Mind, we will massage the joints and relax the muscles around them. We will practice isolating joints and through movement and meditation we will dissolve them and the soft tissues around them. The ligaments are the boosters of our energetic system. By first isolating them and then creating gentle movements in them we ...
  • Description: The upper body includes the fingers, palms, wrists, forearms, elbows, arms, shoulders, neck, head, face chest, lungs, upper back, spine, and the soft tissues. 
    In this class we will stretch and relax our entire upper body. We will use different postures, deep breathing and a focused mind, or meditation, to help improve upper body health. We will tap into the power of the mind to dissolve, relax, and melt both the physical and energetic bodies. We will scan for impurities and dissolve them using the metaphor, Ice to Water and Water to Gas or Solid to Liquid and Liquid to Gas. 
    Some of what we will learn and practice: Emperor/Empress Position, Soft Tissue Dissolving, 1, 2, 3, 4 Finger movements, Silk Weaving – Wrists, Shoulder Rotation, 4 Points Touch the Wall, The Pretzel, Rhinoceros Looks to The Moon, Back Bends, Eagle Drinks the Water 
    Most exercises in this class can be practiced Sitting, Standing, or Lying down.

  • Description: Join Nancy Campbell, MS, an exercise physiologist at Dana-Farber, for a 45-minute workout focusing on strengthening the whole body.
    Tags: Beginner-intermediate, Bone, Full body workout, Muscle, Weight lifting, Weights

  • Description: To improve physical balance we will practice flexibility, strength, and balance exercises sitting and standing (on both legs and on one leg). Balancing the body helps balance the mind and emotions since the body and mind are one. Deep breathing and meditation, either while moving or when being still in various postures reduce both physical and mental stress which leads to better balance physically, mentally, and emotionally. 
    Some of what we will learn and practice: Meditative Shaking ,The Hula Hoop, Knee Massage Upper Back - Back Breathing, Lower Energy Visualization, Cleansing and Nourishing, One Leg Balancing, Cooling the Upper Energy Center, Leg Swings, The Heron, Chair Twist 
    Most exercises in this class can be practiced Sitting, Standing, or Lying down.

  • Description: We are so excited to announce that, beginning Monday, April 24, we’ll resume some in-person exercise classes at our Mind Body Studio in the Zakim Center on Dana-Farber’s Longwood campus! Please read below for studio policies and the new class schedule!
    Mind Body Studio Policies
    1.  On the day of class and before arriving to Dana-Farber, you must complete the COVID-19 prescreening on your smartphone using this link > https://prescreen.massgeneralbrigham.org/  You will receive a digital pass which you’ll be asked to show at the screening area during check-in on the first floor of Dana-Farber’s Yawkey Center for Cancer Care. If you do not have a smartphone or can’t access the app, security will help you complete the screening process when you arrive.

    Use these directions to find us from the screening area on the first floor of Dana-Farber’s Yawkey Center for Cancer Care. Please allow enough time to complete the screening process and make your way to the studio....
  • Description: In this class we will focus on deep breathing to stimulate and activate your lung lobes and lung cells. We will do this sitting, standing, and moving. We will try to reach deep levels of relaxation and meditation while holding various postures and while moving using Qigong (Chi Kung) and Tai Chi movements. 
    Deep breathing is important for bringing oxygen into our body and for quieting the Monkey Mind. Wisdom is the Horse mind, and the Emotions are the Monkey Mind. Quieting the Monkey Mind is important for reducing both physical and mental stress. The Breath is like a Banana that can capture the Monkey Mind or quiet it, when needed. Seize the Monkey and Train the Horse (from Tai Chi Poetry). 
    Some of what we will learn and practice: The Windmill, The I, Y, T and W, Wing Breath, Cat and the Cow, Stretch the Bows and Release the Bows, Climb the Ladder, Linger at the End of Inhalation, Linger at the End of Exhalation, Xena stretches the Spring, Outer Hip Meditation/Stretch <...
  • Description: In this video, Stephanie Meyers, MS, RD, LDN, shares helpful tips for managing nausea as a side effect of cancer treatment. 
    Please be advised that the information contained in this video is general in nature. It is important to speak with your oncology team to report any concerns and create a treatment plan that works for you.
  • Description: In this video, Stephanie Meyers, MS, RD, LDN, shares helpful tips for managing diarrhea as a side effect of cancer treatment. 
    Please be advised that the information contained in this video is general in nature. It is important to speak with your oncology team to report any concerns and create a treatment plan that works for you.