Feb 28 - Mar 21 • Four 1-hour sessions
Online
Has living with cancer changed your outlook on life or created more fear or anger?
Has it affected your relationships?
Did you know that there are practices that can help you find more ease and happiness even while living with your illness and while in treatment?
How a mindfulness practice can help
Receiving a cancer diagnosis is often hard and can be shocking and confusing. Mindfulness practices can help us see past our initial fears and open us up to the many conditions for happiness still in our lives. Practicing with a community will help us create lasting positive changes and provide a safe place to share our challenges, insights, and joys.
How this workshop can help
Annie created this weekly series of meditation gatherings to provide a community for people living with cancer, or have lived with it in the past. We come together and practice in a safe and supportive environment like this one in order to be prepared for when things get more challenging. This series will provide a refuge where we can develop our own practice and support each other.
Mindfulness practice can help transform emotional pain, fear, and suffering that may come with living with cancer into a life with more ease, acceptance - and even joy.
What to expect every week
Each week I will offer a guided mindful deep relaxation; we’ll learn how mindfulness can support our journey, do some gentle movement, and share in small and large groups about our experiences. All sharing will be confidential and the only requirement to attend is that you have been in cancer treatment at some point in your life.
Schedule
ONLINE
COME TO ALL 4 SESSIONS — OR AS MANY AS YOU LIKE
Tuesdays 12pm - 1pm EST
Feb 28
Mar 7
Mar 14
Mar 21
This series will be taught in a hybrid format, so participants can join in person or online. Sessions will not be recorded.
Resources
5 Wonderful Mindfulness Practices that Carried me through Cancer Treatment, by Annie Mahon
Practices for Dark Days, by Annie Mahon
My Challenge with my Gratitude Practice, by Annie Mahon
Being Present with Cancer, mindful.org
About the instructor
In addition to being a dharma teacher in the zen tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh, Annie has been through and continues treatment for endometrial cancer and Chronic Myloid Leukemia (CML), and lives with the genetic marker for cancer known as Lynch Syndrome. She is offering this practice series because of the many ways that this practice has given meaning and ease to her own cancer journey.
Read more about Annie here.
Per session rate
Fees are on a sliding scale, and no one will be turned away for financial reasons. Maximum of 20 attendees.
$15.00 per session - standard rate
$5.00 per session - reduced rate
$25.00 per session - pay it forward rate
Proceeds are split between Opening Heart Mindfulness Community and Circle Yoga.
In an effort to reduce financial barriers, we are offering Sliding Scale Pricing on select Circle Yoga programs. The Reduced Rate is for those facing financial hardship, the Standard Rate is our usual fee that covers costs including teacher pay, and the Pay It Forward Rate helps cover fellow students who need to pay less. If you need to pay less than the Reduced Rate, partial scholarships are also available.