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Tuesday, April 19th, 2022
By Jackie Hayfield Cancer is complicated! There are many different types and treatments, and how we respond is individual. As a yoga therapist and cancer survivor, I know first hand the support yoga can be in helping us through all the different stages of treatment and beyond. These are some of the things I have learnt along the way….. 1. ... Read more »...



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Thursday, March 24th, 2022
Philip Booth takes a personal look at exercise in this blog…. There are many people that embrace and love a lifestyle rich with exercise, but there are many, who like me, have never liked the word or the idea of ‘exercise’. The US ‘Peanuts’ cartoonist Charles M. Schulz once said; “Exercise is a dirty word.... Read more »...



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Thursday, March 10th, 2022
Lifestyle medicine is the fastest growing medical speciality globally. It is an evidence-based discipline which addresses the root cause of chronic health conditions by focusing on the lifestyle choices that give rise to these diseases in the first place. The six pillars of lifestyle medicine are a whole-food, plant-predominant eating pattern, regular physical activity, restorative... Read more »...



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Sunday, March 6th, 2022
This blog is by supporter, Adline Warwick Thompson. Isn’t it about time we both challenged and moved away from the tyranny of speed when it comes to healing and recovery? I’ve long asked myself this question, both in relation to working psychologically with individuals going through cancer, and also during my own recovery from treatment... Read more »...



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Wednesday, February 9th, 2022
Hello! Let me introduce myself . . . my name is Anne and I live with my husband and our dog in Belfast, where I have been an English teacher for several decades. I love Shakespeare, Inspector Montalbano novels, and good coffee (particularly Kenyan and Ethiopian Blue Mountain). I also have cancer: Stage Four Neuroendocrine... Read more »...



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Wednesday, December 8th, 2021
Everybody has their own way of dealing with their cancer journey, but the thought of fighting it never made sense to me. I thought that this week’s Blog could be the sharing of these ideas: In my childhood I was surrounded by my parents arguing and fighting. My mother would take solace in alcohol and... Read more »...



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Tuesday, November 23rd, 2021
Dr Lorenzo Cohen and Alison Jefferies in their book ‘Anti-Cancer Living’ list ‘Rest and Recovery’ as one of the six basics to try and get right. Some of us living with cancer can sometimes forget this and spend more energy on other interventions and forget this crucial area of our life. At a recent Yes... Read more »...



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Monday, November 22nd, 2021
‘We’ve just had a Wigwam Cancer Support Group discussion that looked at environmental toxins. We looked at what some of the issues are and what we can do to help. At the end of this blog are some further notes about reducing the toxic load. We’ve also got a wonderful list on indoor air pollution... Read more »...



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Monday, October 18th, 2021
Introducing Ereni Mendrinos who shares more about how the new Wigwam Sound and Voice Sanctuary has come to be… I am sitting here with the shifting, rumbling earth beneath me, as my husband and I are currently based in Crete. We have felt earthquakes here before but in the last weeks there were big ones... Read more »...



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Monday, September 27th, 2021
A blog by Yoga Therapist Jackie Hayfield. On Thursday 21st June 2018, I was diagnosed with breast cancer. I was reassured that it was treatable, and I should stay positive, but I didn’t feel very positive about the prospect of negotiating my way through 6 rounds of chemotherapy and biological drugs, followed by surgery, and... Read more »...



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Sunday, September 5th, 2021
Robin Daly, Chair and Founder of Yes to Life originally wrote this blog in 2018 but has now updated it as this issue is alive today. If there’s one thing that’s clear from 16 years of developing Yes to Life, it’s that – in the main – men don’t do Complementary Medicine. At least not... Read more »...



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Monday, August 23rd, 2021
This blog is by Philip Booth, Wigwam Coordinator, and is adapted from a blog he wrote last year on his personal blog site (i). It’s all very well talking about stuff like increasing exercise, juicing, best times to eat, self massage, cold showers and more, but the biggest challenge is often how to make those... Read more »...





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