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This class is full. Please contact us at programs@smithcenter.org or 202.483.8600 to be added to wait list. With Laura Pole, RN, MSN PCNS Come in from the cold and warm up in Chef Laura's healing kitchen. You'll learn how to prepare delicious nourishing soups and stews using warming winter vegetables, beans and grains. And how … Continue reading Savoring Seasonal Soups and Stews
With Yael Flusberg, C-IAYT, E-RYT500, RMT, MS Enjoy a greater sense of wellbeing and enhanced energy in our gentle yoga classes. Learn various yoga postures, techniques in progressive relaxation, breathing practices, and meditation to help reduce stress, as well as balance mind, body, and spirit. Our classes are specifically designed for adults facing stress, cancer, … Continue reading Gentle Yoga For Cancer Patients
With Susi Wyss Led by a therapeutic writing facilitator, this session is designed for people living with or affected by illness. Tap into the healing benefits of writing using prompts and other exercises in a playful and supportive environment. No writing experience necessary, just an open mind. All materials will be provided, but you are … Continue reading Writing For Healing
Presented in partnership with Cancer Support Community This workshop will raise awareness among patients and caregivers about diagnoses, treatment options, managing side effects, coping with the psychosocial impact of neuroendocrine and carcinoid tumors, and fostering constructive dialogue with their healthcare team. Presenters will include Dr. Giuseppe Esposito, Chief of Nuclear Medicine and PET/CT and Professor … Continue reading Frankly Speaking About Cancer: Neuroendocrine and Carcinoid Tumors (NETs)
This dinner is now full. Please call 202.483.8600 or email programs@smithcenter.org to be added to the waitlist. Names are added to the waitlist in the order received and any open seats will be confirmed by March 5, 2019. With Gerard Pangaud Gérard Pangaud is the youngest 2-star Michelin chef ever and the first in America. … Continue reading Discovery of Healthy and Delicious Foods
For over twenty years, our life-enhancing retreats for people with cancer have been at the heart of our work. Smith Center retreats offer a respite from everyday life with a cancer diagnosis and an opportunity to be fully immersed in healing. Our retreats are designed to empower participants to make life-affirming changes by offering tools, … Continue reading 3-Day Residential Retreat
with Jennifer Bires, LICSW Although we will all die, it's a difficult thing to talk about, especially when faced with a life-threatening illness. This group discussion will help you think of some of the necessary, practical considerations. We will also take time to discuss how death impacts us emotionally and relationally. About Jennifer Bires Jennifer … Continue reading Practically Dying
Registration for this program is full. If you would like to be added to the waitlist for this event, please send an email to: erin@smithcenter.org. In Partnership with Sephora and The GW Cancer Center Through this free, hands-on class for cancer patients and survivors, learn soothing skincare routines and makeup tricks to help restore glow, … Continue reading Brave Beauty in the Face of Cancer
With Varahi Kelsang, MD, MA, MS Grief is an essential thread in the fabric of our life. It is there both individually and in the context of our community. It has the power to change us. At best grief will awaken a person. However we need to heal in order to move forward. This workshop will … Continue reading Coping with the Grief and Loss of a Loved One
with Eva & Meera The purpose of this workshop is to promote communal growth. We will experience a fusion of mystical preserved practices and a modern twist of curated poses designed to enhance togetherness. Experienced meditators and beginners alike will come away with deeper insights into the reality of “no self.” Sufi whirling is an … Continue reading Sufi Meditation and Reiki Infused Workshop
With Chef Kara Garrett This two-part class is an introduction to food choices that are shown to reduce cancer risk and improve health. Session 1 from 11:00am - 1:30pm will consist of a lecture, cooking demonstration by Chef Kara and we will enjoy a healthy lunch together. We will review nutrition components that have been shown to delay/inhibit … Continue reading Cancer Prevention in the Kitchen: Two-Part Series
with Julia Rowland, Ph.D. Behavior change, why is it so hard to do? Come and learn the answer to this age-old question, along with techniques you can use to reach the goals you set for yourself. Even if you have long since given up those New Year's resolutions, it is never too late to honor … Continue reading Behavior Change: Deconstructing the Process
With Aminah Keats, ND, FABNO Learn how to safely integrate evidence-based natural medicine into an integrative oncology plan in order to reduce side effects associated with conventional treatment, support immune function and implement cancer-fighting effects. About Aminah Keats, ND, FABNO Dr. Aminah Keats is board certified in naturopathic oncology and has specialized in integrative oncology … Continue reading The Role of Natural Medicine in Integrative Cancer Care
With Rebecca Wilkinson, MA, ATR-BC, LCPAT In this workshop, we will explore the challenges we have encountered and honor the process that helped us survive and even thrive in the face of such adversities. We will create shrines using small boxes with an inspiring collection of found objects and art supplies to honor our resilience and … Continue reading Creating Altars to Honor Resilience and Perseverance
with Jonathan Gilbert, L.Ac. Regardless of how strong we are able to be, a cancer diagnosis creates a fundamental shift in our lives. Be it a patient, a caregiver or a colleague; the stress of this change can be difficult. Jonathan Gilbert will be looking at this stress through the lens of ancient Chinese medical … Continue reading Viewing Stress through the Lens of Ancient Chinese Medical Philosophy
Please join The Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery for the 7th Annual Alchemical Vessels Benefit Event Benefit Tickets Available at: www.joanhisaokagallery.org VIP & General Admission ticket purchases include original artwork. All proceeds from this event go directly to support our cancer support programs.
with Chef Cathryn Pethick Abundance, bounty, new growth: With the rise of Spring, our fresh food choices expand as the Spring markets fill with the season's best offerings. It is worth the time it takes to nourish our bodies well, and the simple pleasure of freshly-made food, vibrant, beautiful and a joy to see and … Continue reading Vibrant Spring Cooking to Nourish and Heal
With Aminah Sané Ghaffar This program will focus on the ideology of Indigenous medicine from a Native American perspective. You will have a chance to experience the healing power of the Jingle Dress Dance, which is a traditional healing dance that originated from the Ojibwa/Anishinabe tribe. Through storytelling, traditional dance, singing, and drumming, experience the … Continue reading Hawk Medicine: An Insight into Indigenous Medicine Using Dance and Storytelling
With Candida DeLuise, LICSW This workshop presents evidence-based meditation techniques to help us focus and be more fully present. We will learn several mindfulness and meditation practices to deepen our relationship with ourselves and our world.
With David "Lucky" Goff & Wendy Miller Smith Center will be offering an online Healing Circle via Zoom in the spring of 2019 with David “Lucky” Goff and Wendy Miller. Those who have been most gravely tested by life have the most loss, and potentially the most to gain. Yet it is in how we … Continue reading Online Healing Circle
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