Donna Karan donates $850,000 to cancer treatment experiment
Fashion designer Donna Karan has donated $850,000 to Beth Israel Medical Center for a year-long experiment of combining Eastern healing methods with traditional cancer treatments. "The Karan-Beth Israel project will have a celebrated donor turn a hospital into a testing ground for a trendy, medically controversial notion: that yoga, meditation and aromatherapy can enhance regimens of chemotherapy and radiation," reported The New York Times. Yoga teachers Rodney Yee and Colleen Saidman Yee will oversee the project, which begins in January. Anyone have success combining yoga with cancer treatments?
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I had a private student who was diagnosed with thyroid cancer after I urged her to see a physician because I felt she needed more than I had to offer at the time. We continued to work together for over a year and she was grateful and amazed at the power of her yoga nidra practice during her treatment. She incorporated pranayama into her daily routine as well. I've since moved away, but still receive emails from her letting me know how much her yoga practice became a part of her life, and how it helped her through an extremely difficult period.
Posted by: Evelyn Zak | November 6, 2008 04:15 PM
I used yoga as an alternative method to support me during my second bout with breast cancer 10 years ago. It was a wonderful tool to support me during my 12 months of chemo (high dose). Since then I have become a yoga teacher.
Posted by: Jackie Wiggins | December 10, 2008 07:17 PM