Our emotional needs intensify during cancer treatment and yoga for cancer survivors can alleviate some of the stress. We also need other survivors to help us along our path, especially those that have a similar diagnosis. Studies are being done on the effectiveness of yoga, on line support groups, and other supportive therapies.

If you've found this site, you are wondering about yoga. Because yoga seeks to balance and unite mind, body and spirit, the benefits are immediately translatable to emotional
health. When we focus on our breathing, we find that our attention is brought into the present moment, and we learn to keep breathing; no matter what the present moment brings.

When we learn about ourselves, as yoga practice will encourage, we better come to know our emotional needs.