Yoga For Cancer Support Class

Free Class – Every Monday | 10:30am–11:30am

At NOVA Wellness Clinic, we are honoured to support a free Yoga for Cancer Support class, delivered in collaboration with a dedicated practitioner Jo to provide a calm, nurturing space for those affected by cancer. Held every Monday at 10:30am.

These classes are designed to support those living with cancer through treatment, recovery and beyond. They are safe, supportive classes that address the side effects of treatment and aim to help you find moments of calm, release tension and start to rebuild strength. Classes are tailored with modifications so you can adapt the class to suit your range of movement, energy levels and needs on the day.

Classes are suitable for those who are reasonably mobile and can move independently. Classes can be taken after any surgical incisions have healed.

Booking is essential.

Our lovely practitioner Jo and her story she wanted to share with you:

'Yoga has been my constant companion and support throughout my life. It has helped me to find calm in the everyday juggle of motherhood and work, and also to navigate through significant life events such as losing my father to cancer and then receiving a diagnosis myself.

My journey in yoga teacher training started in 2016 when I became interested in using yoga as a tool to help with mental health problems in my work as a child psychiatrist. I trained in Teen Yoga (with Charlotta Martinus), so I could teach young people at CAMHS. I went on to complete my 200-hour yoga teacher training in 2019 with Universal Yoga and then taught adult groups regularly for MIND.

I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2024, and my life changed dramatically. I could no longer practise yoga as I used to; my practise had to adapt to all the changes in my body and mind to support me differently. I was fortunate to find help with online yoga for breast cancer classes, as well as yoga classes at our wonderful Maggies centre in Southampton. I knew that I wanted to bring these wonderfully supportive yoga classes to others going through cancer, so I completed further training in 2025 with Vicky Fox (author of the A-Z of Yoga for Cancer) to specialise in teaching Yoga for Cancer. I am so looking forward to sharing all the benefits of this practise with you and hope you can find some solace in these classes at our beautiful oasis of calm at NOVA.'

If you have any questions or concerns before booking your class, please click here to ask Jo anything you need an answer for.