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Yoga for Cancer and Chronic Illness

Yoga Therapy for Cancer and Chronic Illness adapts traditional yoga poses and movements to meet individual needs for those living with cancer including anyone in active treatment. Recent research suggests Yoga may decrease symptoms and side effects and increase energy level and general sense of well-being.

Saturdays, 12:30-2:00, Feb 8 – March 15

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Springboard Studio 

530 Carpenter Lane

Suggested donation: $25 per class or $120 for all 6 classes

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Caregivers welcome! Space limited. Registration recommended.


To register, email M@michellestortz.com or call 215-242-1366.

Michelle Stortz, CYT, MFA, specializes in yoga for cancer patients and began working with survivors in the Philadelphia area after her losing her husband to cancer in 2009. Prior to her certification in Yoga for Cancer and Chronic Illness, Michelle trained in the Vinyasa style and has taught yoga since 2003. Her teaching is augmented by her studies in meditation and Buddhism and her involvement with the Springboard Meditation Sangha. Michelle’s early career was in contemporary dance and performance studies and she still teaches dance as adjunct faculty at Bryn Mawr College. She received a Master of Fine Arts degree in Dance/Choreography from Ohio State University and a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Dance from the University of Texas at Austin. Michelle currently works with cancer patients at Fox Chase Cancer Center, the Cancer Support Community of Philadelphia, the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, the Joan Karnell Cancer Center as well as working privately in patients’ homes.

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