CALENDAR OF EVENTS
Living Beauty Cancer Foundation provides both in-person and online programming! Our workshops, movement classes and one-on-one sessions are currently being held online and our overnight retreats and day retreats are held in person! Please check your emails for information on our programs and to stay updated on any upcoming retreats. If you are new to the organization, please feel free to sign up to become a Living Beauty in order to stay up to date with upcoming events, resources and other news and information. If you have any questions, please contact our program director at [email protected].
Upcoming Program Events
Breathe, Move, Meditate Series
With Sharon Holly of Healing Breath Yoga Therapy
4 Tuesdays in October
8th, 15th, 22nd & 29th
5:00pm – 6:30pm (PST)
Via Zoom
Please join us for this 4-week Therapeutic Yoga class series, created especially for Living Beauties, providing tools to help with side effects of treatments such as: supporting better sleep, ease of pain, range of motion, stronger bones, increased immunity as well as overall peace and well-being. Each week will offer simple breathing techniques combined with gentle movement and end with a guided yoga nidra meditation, sending you off into a blissful evening.
No prior yoga experience is necessary. All levels and abilities are welcome.
Sharon Holly is a Living Beauty, Certified Yoga Therapist (C-IAYT), y4c (yoga for cancer) Teacher, Certified TRE® (Tension/Trauma Release Exercises) and The Resilience Toolkit Provider. On her healing journey with breast cancer, Sharon was introduced to various modalities through retreats offered by Living Beauty that were not only a tremendous part of her healing process but also inspired and set her on the path of her life’s purpose… empowering and guiding fellow survivors/thrivers towards their inner wisdom and healing, which ultimately result from understanding and navigating their nervous systems. She feels blessed to be able to share the gifts that were so readily given to her and continue to provide support on her healing journey.
For more information on how to register for this series, please reach out to [email protected].
Being with Our Grief Series
With Ann D’Angelo of Be Mindful Breathe
4 Wednesdays in October
9th, 16th, 23rd & 30th
6:00pm – 7:15pm (PST)
Via Zoom
BEING WITH OUR GRIEF WITH OPENHEARTEDNESS AND IN LOVING COMMUNITY
Please join us for 4 Wednesdays in October to Be With Our Grief. As we all know, no human being escapes loss, we experience all types of loss during a lifetime. What we often forget is that grief is a reaction to the loss we experience. Some people try to distract themselves from their grief, try to control it, or simply push it away. In Ann’s personal and professional experience with grief, she has found that when we dedicate time to be with our grief, to experience the feelings, sensations, and thoughts that accompany our grief, to share our stories and connect with others… our grief changes. We become stronger, live life with greater awareness, and experience the ways grief connects us to each other.
Each hour-long session will begin with a brief mindfulness meditation to invite us to be present to what is here now, followed by time to share our stories and what we notice we carry in our hearts, minds & bodies around grief. We will end with another brief meditation to keep us grounded and centered before we end for the evening.
We look forward to meeting you in this compassionate space and sharing our hearts.
Ann D’Angelo, M.A. has been practicing meditation for 20 years now, her students range in age from 3 years old to 100 years old. Ann’s professional training as a Mindfulness Educator includes Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) with Jon Kabat Zinn, Exploration Series with Dan Siegel, Inner Kids Program with Susan Kaiser Greenland, MBSR-Teens with Gina Biegel, Mindfulness Self-Compassion Training with Kristin Neff & Christopher Germer and Trauma Sensitive Mindfulness with David Treleaven. Ann is also a 200hr. Registered Yoga Teacher receiving her training from Yoga House. In 2020 Ann became a certified Grief Educator to help others deal with grief and loss. Ann’s professional work in the grief world includes being a weekly moderator for David Kessler’s Tender Hearts Group, offering workshops about Loss & Grief, and supporting clients one-on-one. Ann has a private practice and currently teaches at Insight Collective, Monte Cedro, Yoga House, and Thads. Her belief that we all belong to each other, that love, kindness & compassion are what is needed in the world, inspires her to share this practice with others.
For more information on how to register for this series, please reach out to [email protected].
Monthly Plant-Powered Cooking Class
with Elaine Bryan of Body and Soul Nourishment
Monday, October 28th
4:00pm – 5:30pm (PST)
Via Zoom
If you’ve been wanting to start incorporating delicious, healthy, and plant-powered meals into your routine, join us for our monthly cooking class with Elaine! All recipes are dairy- and gluten-free! Recipes will be emailed to all registrants on Friday.
Dishes:
Vegan Stuffed Mushrooms
Spiced Tofu and Avocado Green Salad
Raw Carrot Cake with Cashew Cream Frosting
Elaine Bryan, a nutrition counselor and herbalist, began her studies in nutrition and herbs in 1998. Elaine is a certified health coach with Dr. William Sears and a certified holistic cancer educator with CACE, the Center of Advanced Cancer Education. She is passionate about sharing the benefits of incorporating an abundance of plant foods into our daily lives. She assists others in growing their own plants, either in the ground or using state-of-the-art vertical tower garden growing systems. Elaine teaches educational plant-based meal prep classes in Carlsbad, CA several times per month and includes demos, recipes, and yummy food tastings! Elaine Bryan has also been a registered yoga teacher with Yoga Alliance since 2008, teaching primarily gentle hatha yoga in various locations around North County San Diego.
Register once for the whole year.
You will receive a reminder email with the link to join the morning of and 10 minutes before the class.
For more information on how to register for this workshop, please reach out to [email protected].