For this Training Thursday post, we bring you something a little (okay, a lot) different:  a report on one training that was completed some time ago and a preview of one that has yet to happen!

In June 2019, Angie Jones traveled to Durham, North Carolina, to the Duke Integrative Medicine Center to complete an intensive yoga training. During the 8-day Mindful Yoga for Cancer Professional Training, she learned yoga and meditation strategies from the program’s creators, Kimberly Carson and Jim Carson.  In addition, she enjoyed lectures from and discussions with several Duke specialists, including Dr. Frank Keefe (on pain), Dr. Kelly Westbrook (on breast cancer), Dr. Laura Porter (on the psychosocial aspects of cancer), and Dr. Arif Kamal (on palliative care)

Fast forward to 2023.  In late November, Angie will return to Duke to complete a second intensive training, the Integrative Yoga for Seniors Professional Training.  She is looking forward to learning from and practicing with Kimberly Carson again—and to meeting Carol Krucoff in person after streaming several of her senior yoga classes during the early days of the pandemic.

This specific training is one that Angie has had her eye on for a decade or more, and her schedule has finally allowed it to happen!  To make the most of her time with Kimberly, Carol, and the medical experts, Angie is compiling a list of questions she hopes to have answered and topics she looks forward to diving more deeply into.  If you have ideas to add to her list, please submit them here.

Many thanks to Trudy and Frances for covering Angie’s Gentle classes at the end of November and to all of the teachers for taking a more active role in the day-to-day studio tasks in her absence.  Angie looks forward to returning to the 4yoga schedule in December and sharing what she has learned with our community in the months ahead.