Yoga as a Haven Through Breast Cancer with Susanna Harwood Rubin
Yogaland Podcast
Andrea Ferretti
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 8 October 2019
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
It's October. Which means it's Breast Awareness Month. It's not an easy month for breast cancer patients, survivors, caregivers, or for those who have lost loved ones to the disease. So, for this episode I spoke to Susanna Harwood Rubin, a yoga teacher who has been raw and real about her own struggle with breast cancer this past year. Susanna shares specific ways that her practice supported her through her cancer experience, what you can do to support a loved one with cancer and more. I both hope this episode helps anyone who has been touched by breast cancer -- and even those who haven't. (That said, this episode could be triggering, so please take care of yourself and only listen if it is helpful to you.)
Show notes: http://www.jasonyoga.com/podcast/episode165
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, I'm Andrea Ferretti and this is episode 165 of Yoga Land. |
| 0:08.5 | Today my guest is Susanna Harwood Rubin. |
| 0:11.2 | Susanna is a New York City-based yoga teacher. |
| 0:14.3 | She's also a writer and an artist. |
| 0:16.7 | And her work is rooted in South Indian philosophy. |
| 0:20.4 | She teaches Devi's soul yoga, which combines yoga combines Yoga Asana with mantra, myth, and |
| 0:25.3 | mudra, and she's the creator of 30 things and writing your practice workshops and |
| 0:30.0 | online courses. You may know, I mean, unless you've been hiding under a rock for the |
| 0:36.3 | past 20 years, you probably do know that October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and |
| 0:42.2 | I'm a breast cancer survivor and so is Susanna. |
| 0:46.1 | Susanna has chronicled her journey with breast cancer for the past year and a half or so on Instagram and that's actually how I discovered |
| 0:55.0 | her and I was just really moved by her writing and her willingness to share the challenges and the joys and the grief that goes with this |
| 1:08.0 | process. So we just get into it. We share our stories with each other. This is really much more of a back and forth conversation than I usually have. It was to be quite honest, nice for me to be able to process certain things with her. |
| 1:24.8 | I know so many women have gone through breast cancer, |
| 1:27.1 | but not so many women who have deep yoga practices. |
| 1:30.9 | And we talked a lot about how her practice supported her through the process and her |
| 1:37.2 | writing obviously supported her as well. We also share our thoughts and feelings about breast cancer awareness month and like most people who have been through cancer treatment, |
| 1:50.0 | they're mixed, they're mixed feelings. I wrote a blog post about it a few |
| 1:55.3 | years ago that I'm going to post on the show notes page. I went back and read it and I |
| 2:00.1 | feel that it's still worth sharing. I did a lot of research for that little blog post and the last thing I want to say is if you're |
| 2:08.9 | going through it right now we are with you holding your hand I wish I could wrap my arms around you in a big |
| 2:15.7 | embrace from the mother. And the last thing I want to say is that if you are |
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