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  • Description: Meditation is a practice that can help us learn to be present in the moment and navigate life's challenges. Produced by Patty Arcari, PhD, RN, program manager of mindfulness and meditation at Dana-Farber's Leonard P. Zakim Center for Integrative Therapies, these audio meditation guides may be able to help you discover your inner peace.
    Tags: Awareness, Calm, Insight, Mindfulness, Peace, Relaxation
  • Description: Meditation is a practice that can help us learn to be present in the moment and navigate life's challenges. Produced by Patty Arcari, PhD, RN, program manager of mindfulness and meditation at Dana-Farber's Leonard P. Zakim Center for Integrative Therapies, these audio meditation guides may be able to help you discover your inner peace.
    Tags: Body Awareness, Calm, Insight, Mindfulness, Peace, Relaxation
  • Description: Meditation is a practice that can help us learn to be present in the moment and navigate life's challenges. Produced by Patty Arcari, PhD, RN, program manager of mindfulness and meditation at Dana-Farber's Leonard P. Zakim Center for Integrative Therapies, these audio meditation guides may be able to help you discover your inner peace.
    Tags: Awareness, Calm, Mindfulness, Peace, Relaxation, Wisdom
  • Description: Daily Log Sheet with Hunger Scale

  • Veggies and Dip

    12 Aug, 2021
    Description: Stephanie Meyers, MS, RDN, the nutrition coordinator at Dana-Farber’s Zakim Center for Integrative Therapies and Healthy Living discusses vegetable snack ideas.
    Resources: Veggies & Dips PDF

    Tags: Recipes, cooking, vegetables, dip, healthy snacks, herbs, fresh, green, beets, kohlrabi
  • Description: The Zakim Center for Integrative Therapies and Healthy Living is currently enrolling participants for 13 Weeks to Wellness ─ an online nutrition program. This course is designed to help you rekindle healthy habits in challenging times. Each supportive small group meets one hour per week and gives you the tools and guidance needed to establish new routines that meet your health and wellbeing goals.

    Stephanie Meyers, MS, RDN, Nutrition Coordinator in the Zakim Center will guide you to implement a behavior-based Mediterranean approach to eating. This is not a diet, but a lifestyle intervention program facilitating shifts in both food habits and mindset as they relate to behavior change. Each week you’ll receive practical nutrition suggestions, new recipes and asynchronous links to enhance learning. The curriculum emphasizes your personalized learning and goal setting week-to-week.

    In addition to creating flexible and sustainable nutrition plans we’ll discuss how habits fo...
  • 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: Description: This 45-minute 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.

    Tags: Blocks, Flow-vinyasa, Full body workout, Intermediate, Outdoors



  • Description: Description: This 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.

    Tags: Blanket, Blocks, Flow-vinyasa, Full body workout, Indoors, Intermediate



  • Description: This 45-minute class uses an exercise method combining the flexibility of yoga and strength of Pilates, a series of controlled movements that work to stabilize and strengthen your core. This workout integrates these techniques using a mind-body connection for improved physical and emotional levels. Yogalates combines full-range-of-motion exercises with stationary positions. Controlled, deep breathing is utilized throughout the workout. Yogalates benefits may include increased muscular strength and muscle tone with increased flexibility throughout your body.

    Tags: Beginner-intermediate, Blanket, Block, Full body workout, Mat, Strap


  • Description: Join Stephanie Meyers, RD, LDN, CNSD, a nutritionist with Dana-Farber’s Zakim Center for Integrative Therapies and Healthy Living, for a discussion about nutrition. This video is uniquely tailored to meet the general nutrition needs of people in every phase of cancer treatment and recovery.

    Resources: How to Swap Recipe Ingredients (PDF)

    Tags: Modify, Substitute, Swap

  • Description: Join Stephanie Meyers, RD, LDN, CNSD, a nutritionist with Dana-Farber’s Zakim Center for Integrative Therapies and Healthy Living, for a discussion about nutrition. This video is uniquely tailored to meet the general nutrition needs of people in every phase of cancer treatment and recovery.

    Resources: Does Sugar Feed Cancer? (PDF)

    Tags: Feed, Cancer, Sugar