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  • Description: Practice this powerful meditation from the philosophies of Chi Kung (Qigong) and Tai Chi 3 to 5 times a week, sitting or standing, to improve your health.

    Over time and with practice this meditation:
    Develops internal awareness 

    Reduces physical and mental stress 

    Boosts your energetic system 

    Deflects negative forces 

    Cleanses impurities Calms and focuses your mind 

    Centers and grounds you 

    Evokes your spirit


    When practicing the Lower Energy Center Meditation, visualize a healing energy ball 2 inches below your navel and 3 inches inwards. Start practicing with your eyes closed for 3 to 5 minutes. As your visualization skills grow stronger, increase your practice to 10 minutes or longer, and practice with your eyes open.

    Within a few weeks you will be able to integrate this internal mental skill into your Chi Kung and Tai Chi physical movements as well as into your daily acti...
  • Description:
    Join Nancy Campbell, MS, an exercise physiologist at Dana-Farber, for a 45-minute workout focusing on strengthening the whole body. The class includes a cardio warm-up followed by 35 minutes of strength training standing or on the floor, then 10 minutes of total body stretching.

    Tags: Beginner-intermediate, Bone, Full body workout, Outdoors, Muscle, Weight lifting, Weights

  • Description:
    Join Nancy Campbell, MS, an exercise physiologist at Dana-Farber, for a 45-minute workout focusing on strengthening the whole body using mini-bands, tubing or TheraBand’s. The class includes a cardio warm-up, followed by 35 minutes of strength training standing or on the floor, then 10 minutes of total body stretching.

    Tags: Bands, Bone, Full body workout, Intermediate-advanced, Outdoors, Muscle, Therabands, Tubing, Weight lifting, Weights

  • Description:
    This 45-minute workout focuses on strengthening the whole body. There is a short cardio warm-up, followed by 35 minutes of strength training standing or on the floor and then 10 minutes of total body stretching. A fun and supportive environment to find your inner strong survivor.

    Tags: Beginner-intermediate, Bone, Full body workout, Muscle, Weight lifting, Weights

  • Description:
    Join Nancy Campbell, MS, an exercise physiologist at Dana-Farber, for a 45-minute workout focusing on strengthening the whole body. The class includes a cardio warm-up followed by 35 minutes of strength training standing or on the floor, then 10 minutes of total body stretching.

    Tags: Beginner-intermediate, Bone, Full body workout, Muscle, Weight lifting, Weights

  • Description:
    Join Nancy Campbell, MS, an exercise physiologist at Dana-Farber, for a 45-minute workout focusing on strengthening the whole body. The class includes a cardio warm-up followed by 35 minutes of strength training standing or on the floor, then 10 minutes of total body stretching.

    Tags: Beginner-intermediate, Bone, Full body workout, Muscle, Weight lifting, Weights

  • 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 on 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).

    Tags: Beginner-intermediate, Blanket, Block, Flow - vinyasa, Full body workout, Massage ball, Massage feet, Peripheral neuropathy, 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 on 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).

    Tags: Beginner-intermediate, Blanket, Block, Flow - vinyasa, Full body workout, Massage ball, Massage feet, Peripheral neuropathy, Strap

  • Description:
    This gentle yoga flow class for teens builds strength and flexibility while helping to relieve daily life stress. This class allows teenagers to focus on themselves in an environment that encourages a balance between exploring their boundaries and accepting where they are today.

    Tags: Beginner-intermediate, Blanket, Full body workout, Flow - vinyasa, Strap, Teenagers
  • 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. This class has almost all poses seated on the chair, including warriors and lunges. It’s a more gentle version of the chair yoga classes, and is great for people that have a hard time standing up.

    Tags: Beginner-intermediate, Block, Chair flow, Full body workout, Massage ball, Massage feet, Pheripheral neuropahty, 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 seated poses and some kneeling poses (knee support and modifications are offered). Encourages transitions from kneeling to standing, and standing to stepping back using blocks (modifications are offered).

    Tags: Beginner-intermediate, Blanket, Blocks, Flow - vinyasa, Full body workout, Massage ball, Massage feet, Peripheral neruopathy

  • Description:
    Gentle stretching exercises that can be done outdoors on a bench after a walk or just enjoying the fresh air.

    Tags: All levels, Bench, Chair, Full body stretch, Outdoors