Yoga Awareness Month

September is Yoga Awareness Month!

Yoga is a beautiful practice that combines physical movement with mindfulness and spirituality to create a discipline that has many benefits for our physical and mental health. It is a key component of wellness and a practice that many of us draw on to reconnect with our bodies and our minds in our day-to-day lives.

Yoga has so many benefits for our health including:

Building strength and flexibility
Improving sleep
Reducing anxiety
Increasing bone density (a great way to combat cancer-related osteoporosis!)
Helping reduce and manage chronic pain
Reducing inflammation in the body (a huge contributor to developing cancer)
Helping with stress management

And so much more!

Movement, especially Yoga, has always played a huge part in Living Beauty’s program offerings. One of our most popular overnight retreats is our Serenity Yoga Retreat, a 3 day retreat that helps women with cancer experience and learn about the benefits of yoga to help heal your body after a cancer diagnosis. The retreat immerses women in a practice called Yoga4Cancer, designed specifically for those who have had cancer, to be gentle, restorative and beginner-friendly.

Yoga has always been a way for our Living Beauties to practice self-care and connect at our programs. Some of our Living Beauties who practiced yoga for the first time at a retreat have even gone on to become certified yoga instructors and lead classes for us! Yoga is a practice that has connected so many people across the world and this month we are honoring the light it has brought to our Living Beauties on their healing journey with cancer.

Do you practice yoga? Let us know in the comments below!

If you liked this post, check out September’s monthly Sadhana to start your own yoga practice!

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