Yoga Therapy Across the Cancer Care Continuum

Anne Pitman (Author) Anne Pitman, Yoga Therapist and Integration Manager at the Ottawa Integrative Cancer Centre and Director of the School of Embodied Yoga Therapy. Anne is a practicing certified yoga therapist, and integration specialist working within the realm of cancer treatment and care across the continuum at the Ottawa Integrative Cancer Centre, where she works with staff and clients in one-on-one or small group practice. She is a Director of the School of Embodied Yoga Therapy (an IAYT certified program), where she educates certifying yoga therapists with a full understanding of the width, breadth and scope of yoga therapy for those facing cancer, working compassionately with accompanying mental health, trauma, and the many side effects of cancer treatment. She participates in research (currently heart rate variability after cancer treatment) and speaks internationally with regard to anxiety, diagnosis shock and the surprising health benefits of befriending death and the ending of days. Leigh Leibel (Author) Leigh Leibel, Yoga Therapist and Cancer Exercise Specialist, Director of Adult Mind-Body Therapy, Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, New York -Presbyterian/ Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York, USA. Leigh is a journalist and mind-body specialist with an interest in cancer and non-communicable disease prevention and supportive care. She has a clinical practice in integrative oncology at NY-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center in New York City and is a 2018 alumna of the NIH/NCI Cancer Prevention and Control Fellowship Program in Bethesda, MD. Her research focuses on yoga and aromatase inhibitor-induced arthralgia in post-menopausal breast cancer survivors.