Classes & Workshops

11/14

Special Place Guided Imagery

Special Place Guided Imagery helps reduce treatment-related anxiety, nausea, fatigue, and depression while increasing comfort, confidence, calm, and self-awareness. This guided practice uses all the senses to support healing and emotional steadiness. Benefits Guided Imagery Warm Up

11/14

Mindful Breathing Meditation

Mindful Breathing Meditation helps ease pain, reduce chemo-related symptoms, boost immunity, and increase calm, self-awareness, and resilience. Benefits Definitions – Descriptions Mindful breathing

09/27

Gentle Yoga Classes

Science tells us that psychological stress can affect the immune system – the body’s defense against infection and disease, including cancer. Reducing stress benefits us physically, mentally, and emotionally. Smith Center offers therapeutic yoga weekly, as well as regular yoga workshops, meditation and qigong classes, and more. Ongoing Therapeutic Yoga Classes Weekly gentle yoga classes…

09/24

Reiki & Energy Healing

09/24

Naturopathy

09/24

Acupuncture

09/24

Alternative and Complementary Therapies

09/24

Being with Dying: Cultivating Compassion and Fearlessness in the Presence of Death

09/24

On Death & Dying

09/24

No Death/No Fear

09/24

I Will Not Die an Unlived Life

09/24

Talking About Death

09/24

Writing as a Way of Healing: How Telling Our Stories Transforms Our Lives

09/24

Staying Well With Guided Imagery: How to Harness the Power of Your Imagination for Health and Healing

09/24

Healing Words: The Power of Prayer and the Practice of Medicine

09/24

Essentials of Complementary and Alternative Medicine

09/24

Manifesto for a New Medicine: Your Guide to Healing Partnerships And the Wise Use of Alternative Therapies

09/24

Comprehensive Cancer Care: Integrating Alternative, Complementary and Conventional Therapies

09/23

Greater Washington D.C. Area’s Cancer Community Healing Network

09/23

The Best Alternative Medicine

09/23

Alternative Medicine: The Definitive Guide

09/23

Alternative Medicine: What Works: A Comprehensive, Easy-to-read Review of the Scientific Evidence, Pro and Con

09/23

Alternative Medicine Handbook: The Complete Reference Guide to Alternative and Complementary Therapies

09/23

American Cancer Society Complete Guide to Complementary & Alternative Therapies: The Essential Guide for You and Your Doctor

09/23

The Anatomy of Hope

09/23

Life Over Cancer

09/23

Cancer as a Turning Point: A Handbook for People with Cancer, Their Families, and Health Professionals

09/23

The Definitive Guide to Cancer, Third Edition: An Integrative Approach to Prevention, Treatment, and Healing

09/23

Healing Outside the Margins: The Survivors Guide to Integrative Cancer Care

08/30

Breathing in Wellness – A 4-part Mindfulness & Meditation Series

developed by Matthew Grossman Developing mindfulness skills can help combat stress, anxiety, and uncertainty in everyday life. This series explores meditation & mindfulness skills and explores four core meditation practices. Session topics include:   Session 1: Sitting Meditation Sitting Meditation Handouts/Resources Session 2: Body Scan Body Scan Handouts/Resources Session 3: Visual Meditation/Guided Imagery Visual Meditation…

03/08

Advocacy Organizations

The best way for you to impact issues related to Adolescent and Young Adult Cancer is to be vocal with your representatives and senators and share your story. Here are organizations that support this important work: Critical Mass: The Young Adult Cancer Alliance is the full-time federal advocacy arm of the entire adolescent and young adult…

03/08

Why is She Acting So Weird?: A Guide to Cultivating Closeness When A Friend is in Crisis

Why is She Acting So Weird?: A Guide to Cultivating Closeness When A Friend is in Crisis by Jenn McRobbie This book sets out to address what happens to friendships when one friend faces a major life crisis like cancer, divorce or job loss. Are you at a loss for how to help your friend?…