On 6/01/07, this site posted an article, Cancer Patients Aided By Yoga. I was fortunate to attend the Urban Zen Initiative sponored by Danna Karan of New York. This was a twelve day conference in which the early mornings and evenings were devoted to training Yoga instrutors to work with people that were in the hospital and/or suffering from illnesses.
The late mornings and afternoons were spent with a large panel. Discussions were centered around the health care profession and how the health system could be impacted with alternative methods of healing.
Anyone wanting to learn more about the initiative can find information on the UrbanZen.org website.
I stongly encourage everyone to try some form of Yoga even if it is just learning to breathe properly. There is a lot that the medical field can do and there is also a lot that we can do for ourselves.
Yvonne