Cancer touches the lives of almost everyone. As a yoga teacher or yoga therapist, it is important to have the skills, knowledge, and confidence to support your students and clients going through cancer.
This 20 hour Yoga and Cancer Training explores how yoga can complement clinical cancer care. Drawing on both yogic wisdom and evidence-based research, you will learn how yoga may be used –
- to reduce known risk factors
- during treatment and
- promote wellness in the recovery phase.
Facilitated by three of Australia’s most experienced yoga therapy educators – Sal Flynn, Liz Williams, and Dr Natasha Zajc-Dalcourt – you’ll gain the knowledge, skills, and confidence to work with people navigating cancer using a yoga therapy approach.
Whether you want to work more effectively with existing clients, expand into clinical settings, or deepen your understanding of yoga therapy in the context of cancer care — this training offers a unique opportunity to expand your expertise and connect with a professional community.
Experience an enriching blend of experiential practices, small-group inquiry, clinical knowledge, and guided discussion.
You Will Learn:
Understanding Cancer
- The risk factors for developing cancer and how they inform a yoga therapy approach
- The impacts cancer can have on the body
- The role of the lymphatic system in cancer
- How yoga can support the lymphatic system
- Cutting edge information about senescence cells and how to reduce the damage they cause
- To use mindful practices to manage daily stressors
During Treatment
- Treatments for cancer including chemotherapy, radiotherapy and immunotherapy
- The latest research into cancer treatments
- The latest research into yoga therapy and mindfulness-based interventions during cancer treatment
- The role of the Mindfulness Based Cancer Recovery and MBSR programs alongside yoga therapy and how to integrate this knowledge into your work
- Understand the role of the Vayus, Mahabhutas, Koshas, Gunas and Chakras in Cancer Care and the therapeutic insight each one offers when working with people during treatment and recovery
- Learn how the Kleshas offer a profound framework that is particularly relevant to the psychological and existential dimensions of cancer
- Yoga practices that can be done during cancer treatments
In Recovery and Post Treatment
- Post cancer treatment side effects and their management, including fatigue, digestive issues, osteoporosis and mental and emotional challenges
- How disruptions in the Vayus manifest as common treatment side effects and how to identify appropriate yogic responses
- About the impact of ongoing follow up appointments and the ways cancer can affect people even after a “cure.”
- Practices to support self-compassion and self-reassurance and minimise the potential for victim mentality and anxiety
- Self-care for the yoga therapist and yoga teacher
WHO SHOULD ATTEND THE YOGA AND CANCER TRAINING?
- Yoga therapists, Yoga teachers and Yoga teacher trainees
BENEFITS OF ATTENDING THIS WORKSHOP:
- Learn from three highly experienced Yoga therapy educators – Sal Flynn, Liz Williams and Natasha Zajc-Dalcourt. They have over a hundred years of combined clinical experience, in both yoga therapy settings and medical settings.
- Expand your expertise – gain practical knowledge about cancer, including physiology, treatment protocols and the latest research
- Teach with confidence – learn proven principles to support students and clients with a cancer diagnosis safely and compassionately
- Bridge science and yoga – integrate the latest research with yogic wisdom
- Boost professional credibility – earn CPD points and certification to advance your yoga teaching and yoga therapy career
- Connect with your community – connect with like-minded yoga teachers and yoga therapists
- Yoga therapists/teachers are eligible for 20 Continuing Professional Development points
- Receive a Certificate of Attendance when you complete the workshop
CPD POINTS:
You will receive a certificate of completion for 20 CPD points.
Note: There is some additional reading and multiple choice questions required to complete the certification
YOGA AND CANCER TRAINING:
Dates: Friday 9 October 2026, Friday 23 October 2026 and Friday 6 November 2026
Time: 9am to 3pm AEDT time.
Delivery: Live online
(If you can’t attend live, we will record the training except for the break out small group sessions.)
Cost: $800
Early Enrolment Pricing is now available for the first 15 people to register
The full price is $1500.
FAQS
Will the certification be recorded?
Yes except for the small group discussions which will take place in break out rooms.
Can I join live for part of the training and watch part of it later?
Yes. You can join and leave the training as you wish and catch up with the recordings later.
