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  • Description: This 45-minute chair yoga invites you to find movement in a way that is gentle and supportive. The practice invites awareness into the body and activates muscles in the spine that help you find length up through the spine for better posture and energy flow. If you are new to yoga, have difficulty getting down to the floor, experience pain in your muscles or joints, loss of energy, or balance issues due to peripheral neuropathy, this class is for you. All levels welcome. Focus: twist

    Tags: Beginner-intermediate, Blocks, Chair flow, Massage ball, Massage feet/hands, Peripheral Neuropathy, Strap

  • Description: In this 15-minute video music therapist Heather Woods, MA, MT-BC guides viewers in a progressive muscle relaxation experience with relaxing live music. Progressive muscle relaxation is a simple technique of tensing and relaxing muscle groups and is shown to reduce stress and tension. 

    For Dana-Farber patients interested in scheduling a 1:1 music therapy consult, please call 617-632-3322 or email zakim_center@dfci.harvard.edu
  • Description: This class is great for building up strength and stretching the entire body while being supported by a chair (seated and/or standing behind a chair). This class starts with a seated warm up, moving to an engaging sequence of strengthening with light weights, followed by stretching and cool down.
  • Description: This Yoga Flow class is designed for participants that have had practiced yoga and have less range of motion limitations. The class is moderately paced to cultivate strength, flexibility, and balance within a gentle, continuous sequence of postures. Focus: twist

    Tags: Beginner/Intermediate, Blanket, Blocks, Full body workout, Mat, Rfm, Strap, Vinyasa
  • Description: In this 9-minute video music therapist Heather Woods, MA, MT-BC guides viewers in a 2-2-4 breathing exercise with relaxing live music. 2-2-4 breathing is a simple exercise using a long exhale which is shown to trigger a relaxation response. 

    For Dana-Farber patients interested in scheduling a 1:1 music therapy consult, please call 617-632-3322 or email zakim_center@dfci.harvard.edu
  • Description: In this 8-minute video music therapist Heather Woods, MA, MT-BC guides viewers through an even breathing exercise with relaxing live music. Even breathing is a simple exercise and shown to increase relaxation. 


    For Dana-Farber patients interested in scheduling a 1:1 music therapy consult, please call 617-632-3322 or email zakim_center@dfci.harvard.edu 
  • Description: This Yoga Flow class is designed for participants that have had practiced yoga and have less range of motion limitations. The class is moderately paced to cultivate strength, flexibility, and balance within a gentle, continuous sequence of postures. Focus: twist.

    Tags: Beginner/Intermediate, Blanket, Blocks, Strap
  • Description: Meditation is a practice that can help us learn to be present in the moment and navigate life's challenges. The class is led by Patty Arcari, PhD, RN, program manager of mindfulness and meditation at Dana-Farber's Leonard P. Zakim Center for Integrative Therapies.

    Tags: Calm, Peace, Presence, Meditation, Relaxation
  • Description: In this 30-minute class you will experience an alternative mindfulness meditation experience with the presence of live music. Research shows that listening to live music during meditation may help focus an active mind, decrease heart rate, anxiety and pain, and guide you to a deeper relaxation. 

    Songs: Lovely Day - Can We Pretend - Just The Two of Us - Let Me In Your Life - Aint No Sunshine - Lean On Me 
    Tags: Expressive Arts, Music Therapy, Video
  • Description: This Yoga Flow class is designed for participants that have had practiced yoga and have less range of motion limitations. The class is moderately paced to cultivate strength, flexibility, and balance within a gentle, continuous sequence of postures. Focus: hip opening/ grounding.

    Tags: Beginner/Intermediate, Blanket, Blocks, rfm, Strap
  • Description: This 45-minute joyful flow (vinyasa) is a practice that connects movement to breath in a sequence of yoga poses. The class is designed to promote a mind-body connection as it develops strength, stamina, flexibility, balance, relaxation, and focus. The warm-up portion of this class has more supine (on your back) poses and a few kneeling poses (knee support and modifications are offered). Encourages transitions from kneeling to standing and standing to stepping back using blocks (modifications are offered).


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

    Instructor: Juliana G. Berfield, PhD, E-RYT 500, CPT
  • Description: This 45-minute chair yoga invites you to find movement in a way that is gentle and supportive. The practice invites awareness into the body and activates muscles that help you find length up through the spine for better posture and energy flow. If you are new to yoga, have difficulty getting down to the floor, experience pain in your muscles or joints, loss of energy, or balance issues due to peripheral neuropathy, this class is for you. Also included a gentle self-manual lymph drainage massage to help stimulate the lymphatic system (an important component of the immune system). Self-manual massage of hands and using a massage ball for feet to help with symptoms of peripheral neuropathy are shown. 

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


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