Elizabeth Spahr is a breast cancer survivor. She knows all about the healing power of yoga.
Spahr was diagnosed with breast cancer nine years ago. She says she continued her yoga practice during treatment and it was a tremendous help.
"Because when you're going through something like cancer you're just like all over the place and the yoga just brings it back in. You have a million thoughts in your mind and you just breathe and come back to the self. Its very relaxing. And healing."
Spahr now teaches yoga at the new studio she and her business partner Michele McComb opened last month. Next month, they plan to offer a free class once a month to breast cancer patients, survivors and their closest support person.
The class will be held from 11:30 to one on the first Sunday of every month at Village Yoga on Route 35 in Kennebunk.
Spahr says there are other places that offer yoga to cancer patients, including the Cancer Community Center in South Portland and the Landing Center For Healing on Free Street in Portland.
For more information on the program at Village Yoga, check out villageyoga@roadrunner.com or call 967 6262.
By Susan Kimball
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