Cancer Can Yoga!
This 50HRS Teacher Training is an invitation to deepen your practice and expand your capacity to support others at one of the most vulnerable times in their lives
Join Moira for Cancer Yoga Teacher Training this year!
Held over two weekends, this is a Yoga Alliance-accredited professional course designed for yoga teachers who feel called to support students living with or moving through a cancer diagnosis. With compassion in its heart, the training offers practical tools, thoughtful education and a safe, supportive learning space, to help you teach with sensitivity and care.
If you feel called to support others through yoga during cancer, this training may be for you.
Get in touch to enquire and request more details!
50HR YOGA FOR CANCER TEACHER TRAINING
Upcoming Dates:
11th-13th September
3rd-4th October 2026
Duration: 5 Days | 8 Hours per day + 10 Hours case study
General Objectives:
Understand cancer, its treatments, and side effects;
Learn yoga techniques appropriate for cancer patients;
Gain trauma-informed and compassionate teaching tools;
Practice adaptive asanas, breathing, meditation, and relaxation techniques;
Develop sequences for different stages of cancer and recovery;
Learn scope of practice, contraindications, and ethics.
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My name is Moira McFarlane.
I first trained in Yoga for Cancer with Vicky Fox Yoga in 2020. Since then, I have been teaching at least two Yoga for Cancer classes a week — both online and in person at Lila.
My own breast cancer diagnosis came in 2018. Since then, I have experienced two mastectomies, chemotherapy, and radiotherapy. During this time, I also completed my first 200HRS Yoga Teacher Training.
Throughout treatment and recovery, I felt called to explore different approaches to physical yoga practice, especially during periods when many traditional asanas were simply not accessible. This led me into a deeper exploration of how props and supportive practices could help me navigate cancer treatment, surgery, and recovery through yoga.
With each new side effect and challenge came a new enquiry:
How can I best support my body through surgery, treatment, healing, and recovery?This became the beginning of my own sadhana — a continuing study that has evolved through every person I have met in my classes. Over the years of teaching Yoga for Cancer, I have come to understand that every individual carries their own unique story, experience, and relationship with their body.
I am continually learning from
each of them.Now, it feels like the right time to gather this experience, honour each person’s individual journey, and create this Yoga Teacher Training.
“Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot . . . Others transform a yellow spot into the sun”
Pablo Picasso