About the Series
“Wherever you are…curled up in bed, resting on your mat, or moving slowly through the rhythm of recovery…know this… you are not alone.” ~ Leora
A soft place to land for anyone navigating cancer, healing, or deep personal transition.
In this series you’ll find:
- ✍🏽 Honest insights from the lived experience of breast cancer
- 🧘🏽♀️ Gentle, accessible yoga-inspired practices
- 🫁 Breathwork and body awareness tools
- 📖 Journal prompts and quiet invitations
- 🎨 Visual companions to help soothe and support the healing journey
Healing Rhythms: Companion Reflections
This ongoing series offers reflections, practices, and encouragement, shared not on a strict schedule, but gently, in alignment with my energy as I move through cancer treatment and recovery. Some posts and reflections may arrive weekly, others in between the quiet space of rest.
My hope is to create a living writing place of truth, tenderness, breath and healing inspiration.
- Reflection 1: The Disruption & Decision
- Reflection 2: The dharma of survival
- Reflection 3: Tears as Medicine
- Reflection 4: Ahimsa in Transition ~ A Kind Beginning
- Reflection 5: BBs in a Box Car: Notes from the Quiet Aftermath
- Reflection 6: When Healing Comes with Loss
Start Here
- → Read the Introduction: Yoga Through Cancer: A Sacred Return to Self
- → Practice: Soft Practice: Sitting With What Is
→ Practice: The Beauty of Naps: Tapas, Ahimsa & the Discipline of Rest
- Soft Recovery Day Checklist ~ Companion for Chemotherapy Recovery Weeks ~ The In-Between Days ~
- Little Rituals, Small Miracles: A Tender List of Support
- Leora’s Soft Healing Playlist ~ Gentle music you can drift in and out of ~ comforting but light
- Leora’s Gentle Movie Suggestions ~ Comforting, beautiful films to rest and heal by
A Final Word
This is not a course. It’s not a program. It’s a soft return to breath, awareness, and truth. You are invited to come and go as you need. To pause. To revisit. To be.
Today’s Closing Whispers ~
“Be kind in your discovery as you cultivate a loving friendship with yourself through observation and awareness.”
“Healing doesn’t ask you to hurry.
It asks you to trust the small, invisible ways
your soul and body are weaving themselves whole again.”
~ Leora
~ Ahimsa in Transition ~ A Kind BeginningYoga Through Cancer: A Sacred Return to Self- A Soft Place to Begin ~
Yoga Off the Mat a Gently Guidepost: A Journey of Walking Barefoot on the Path of Yoga
~The Healing Art of Yoga off the Mat ~ Rediscovering my Breath in the Solitude of Spain
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Thru soulful eyes 