Please see the details below for help and support with keeping active.
Coping with Cancer North East holds weekly gentle exercise and yoga classes at the John Willie Sams Centre in Dudley.
For more information, visit www.
Live Well with Cancer, North Tyneside, hold weekly yoga and movement classes.
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Pilates is a low-impact exercise comprising of controlled movements that enhance your balance, core strength, mobility, flexibility and can even help improve your mood.
Below is a series of 6 videos of Pilates workouts with Sarah.
Please be mindful not to push yourself too hard. Patients should obtain consent from their medical or nursing team to undertake these sessions post-surgery/treatment.
Sarahs Star is based in North Tyneside. They offer a range of physical activity classes. This includes armchair warriors, a seated low impact exercise class, hula hooping or gentle Pilates.
For more information, visit Sarah's Star – Shining through the dark times (sarahs-star.org)
We Are Undefeatable has a variety of physical activities you can do whatever your ability - standing, needing some support or armchair activities. For more, visit www.
Five in Five
Start building small amounts of daily activity in your day with the Five in Five booklet. A five-minute mini-workout designed for people with long-term health conditions - Five in Five - We Are Undefeatable
Freedom to Move with Bill Bailey
3 easy to follow videos that show you the free ways you can stay active, at home, whatever your ability - Freedom To Move - We Are Undefeatable
Move to your Mood with Gok Wan
3 different physical activity routines to get you moving whatever mood you’re feeling - Move To Your Mood - We Are Undefeatable
Please be mindful not to push yourself too hard. Patients should obtain consent from their medical or nursing team to undertake these sessions post surgery/treatment.
Yoga can be physically and emotionally supportive after a cancer diagnosis. Some people with cancer say yoga helps calm their mind so they can cope better with their illness. Others say it helps to reduce symptoms and side effects such as pain, tiredness, sleep problems and depression.
As with many other types of complementary therapy, one of the main reasons that people with cancer practice yoga is because it makes them feel good.
Yoga is an ancient form of exercise for the body and the mind. It is a whole-body/mind philosophy that started more than 5,000 years ago in India. The main form of yoga known in the west today is Hatha yoga, which encompasses other forms of physical-based yoga.
Postures (asanas), breathing techniques, mantras, meditation and relaxation are all parts of modern-day Hatha yoga practice which aim to improve strength, mobility, flexibility and breathing. Hatha yoga also aims to create harmony between your mind, body and spirit to help you feel calmer and yoga teachers promote it as a natural way to help you relax and cope with stress, anxiety and depression.
Yoga can sometimes help you to move around more quickly and easily after surgery for cancer (although it is recommended you wait at least 4 weeks and get permission from your team to participate).
The physical and psychological benefits of yoga:
- An increase in mobility, flexibility and balance
- Can improve sleep
- Reduces inflammation (which can help with pain)
- Increases digestion
- Relieves fatigue
- Calms the mind which can help with stress management, low mood, depression and anxiety
- Lifts mood and enhances general wellbeing
- Natural way to relax
There are local yoga classes designed for those with a cancer diagnosis in mind, including ones taking place (free of charge) at
You can access sessions recorded by the Royal Marsden hospital to try at home here - https://