Healthy Breast Program Streams
The Healthy Breast Program is comprised of three learning streams, each consisting of 12 modules:
- the Healthy Breast Foundations Program
- the Healthy Breast Yoga Program
- the Healthy Breast Practitioner Program
Sometimes the first two streams are combined into one Healthy Breast Foundations and Yoga Program.
The Healthy Breast Foundations Program
The Healthy Breast Foundations Program is accessible to everyone and is recommended as the pre-requisite for the Healthy Breast Practitioner Program and the Healthy Breast Yoga Program.
The Healthy Breast Foundations Program is available in three formats:
- A weekend or retreat course with Sat Dharam Kaur ND or other certified trainer, which includes the Healthy Breast Foundations manual.
- The online Healthy Breast Foundations Webinar 12 week series, which includes notes for each of the modules, a recorded webinar with Sat Dharam Kaur ND, a recorded video of a meditation and/or yoga set for each of the modules, and an hour long facilitated group discussion via Zoom.
- A self-study program utilizing the online Healthy Breast Foundations Webinar series, without group facilitation.
Course Outline:
- Understand the pattern of breast cancer globally
- Discover the top twelve tips for breast health and other protective intervention strategies
- Evaluate your personal risk factors and protective factors in relationship to breast health
- Integrate an exercise regimen into your life
- Learn breathing practices to promote healing
- Make a conscious choice about improving your health
- Become comfortable with your breasts
- Learn breast self-examination
- Explore emotional states linked with breast health
- Become familiar with common breast screening techniques and diagnostic metabolic tests
- Learn Kundalini Yoga exercises for breast health and emotional balance
- Discover how to improve lymphatic circulation
- Understand lymphedema and how to prevent it
- Learn how movement supports the lymphatic drainage of our breasts
- Learn and practice breast self-massage
- Develop a self-care routine to improve lymphatic drainage
- Develop a basic understanding of hormones and their relationship to breast health
- Recognize personal causes of hormonal imbalance and how to address them
- Create and implement your personal Hormone Balancing Plan
- Learn a meditation to help induce sleep and raise melatonin levels
- Become familiar with the environmental risks to breast cancer and reduce your exposure
- Understand the effects of electromagnetic fields and radiation on health
- Recognize environmental contaminants and how to protect yourself from them
- Develop your own environmental protection action plan
- Learn and practice yoga and meditation to strengthen your magnetic field
- Transition to a Healthy Breast Diet, focussing on consuming the top 20 breast-friendly foods
- Learn which foods contain cancer fighting phytochemicals
- Learn about the fabulous five phytoestrogens
- Learn which foods help to maintain ideal blood sugar levels
- Learn which spices help to inactivate cancer promoting genes
- Learn which foods and spices have the most antioxidants
- Keep track of your diet success with the Dietary Checklist
- Know which foods contain the most pesticides and which are safer to eat
- Learn and practice Kundalini Yoga exercises to regulate appetite
- Learn to optimize blood sugar levels
- Learn to optimize pH levels
- Learn how to decrease inflammation
- Restore a healthy gut microbiome
- Discover the Top 16 Supplements for Breast Health
- Increase tissue oxygenation with breathing exercises
- Create your personal supplement regimen
- Understand the natural process of detoxification
- Learn the six phases of toxicity
- Discover how to detox heavy metals and chemicals
- Develop a simple detox regimen that works for you
- Explore and discard limiting beliefs, replacing them with healthy beliefs
- Learn to acknowledge and release anger.
- Identify other unhealthy emotional and thought patterns and transform them.
- Discover the components of your immune system and how to empower them
- Reconnect with the wisdom of your body
- Explore the mind/body interface in health and healing
- Develop your capacity to listen to your body and recognize the signs of doing too much
- Develop the capacity to be assertive
- Create healing imagery and use it to replace self-destructive thoughts
- Use visualization to support your immune system
- Redefine what calls you
- Uncover your interests, passions and gifts
- Create a destiny statement
- Imagine seeds of possibility for your future
- Create a wellness mala
- Create a Meaning Mandala
- Conquer any perceived limitations
- Develop an attitude of gratitude
- Create your personal altar
- Invoke a healing dream
- Use a gratitude journal
- Rediscover prayer as a means for connection and healing
- Discover a gateway to the spirit through illness
- Gain a new perspective on health and illness
- Become familiar with the Environmental Creed
- Design and commit to a daily spiritual practice
- Piece together your personal toolkit for self-healing
- Become an active participant in your health-care
- Assemble your support team of healthcare allies
The Healthy Breast Yoga Program
The Healthy Breast Yoga Program, is accessible to all but is also designed as a training program for KRI certified Kundalini Yoga teachers to teach and educate women about breast health using a 12 module yoga series.
This program has more of an emphasis on yoga than the other Healthy Breast Program types.
Course Outline:
- Understand the breath cycle
- Learn and Practice Long Deep Breathing and alternate nostril breathing
- Develop greater flexibility of the spine, and hence, improved nervous system transmission
- Learn and practise the Basic Breath Series, the Basic Spinal Series and the Seven Wave Sat Nam
- Practice Kundalini Yoga exercises for breast health and emotional balance
- Clear unhealthy thought patterns, emotions and memories
- Activate the lymphatic system for breast health
- Notice what gets in the way of you loving yourself
- Align with spirit to stimulate healing
- Improve health using breathing exercises
- Practice yoga and meditation techniques to improve lymphatic drainage
- Develop a yogic self-care routine to move the lymph
- Connect and call on the universal magnetic field for support
- Practice a breathing exercise to regulate sleep and body rhythms
- Gain a basic understanding of glands and hormones
- Use Kundalini Yoga and meditation to balance your hormones
- Practice yoga and meditation to offset electromagnetic pollution and strengthen your magnetic field
- Become mindful of the thoughts and emotions you are projecting through your magnetic field and consciously “try on” new thoughts and emotions that will help you create the reality you want
- Practice Kundalini Yoga exercises to regulate appetite and assist in body cleansing
- Become more mindful in your cooking and eating practices.
- Use meditation to shift your thoughts to promote health and wellbeing
- Increase tissue oxygenation with breathing exercises
- Use Kundalini Yoga to help balance the menstrual cycle
- Attune to the Primal Feminine Power, recognizing her strength in you
- Unload mental-emotional toxicity and your karmic debt through meditation
- Assist whole body detoxification with Kundalini yoga and breathing
- Discover the components of your immune system and how to empower them using Kundalini Yoga
- Use a breathing exercise to help balance the autonomic nervous system
- Use a meditation to become integrated and aligned with your higher self
- Use a breathing exercise to conquer your imagined disabilities and clear your path
- Open to your intuition and release any blocks
- Use Kundalini Yoga and meditation to conquer one’s limitations, balance the pituitary gland and stimulate healing
- Develop an attitude of gratitude
- Incorporate prayer into your life
- Develop your intuition through meditation
- Use Kundalini Yoga and meditation to invite a fulfilling future
- Use pranayams to dispel inner anger, cleanse the subconscious and bring neutrality and balance
- Use Kundalini Yoga to build the immune system and protect the breasts
- Use a mantra meditation to expand your radiance
- Continue to practice Kundalini Yoga and/or meditation daily – decide on a 40 day practice
The Healthy Breast Practitioner Program
The Healthy Breast Practitioner Program, provides more detailed information on treatment strategies and is designed for health care practitioners such as MDs, NDs, DCs, nutritionists, nurses, massage therapists, acupuncturists, osteopaths and herbalists.
Sat Dharam Kaur ND teaches the Healthy Breast Practitioner Program annually at the Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine in Toronto to licensed health care practitioners to help standardize an effective naturopathic program in breast cancer prevention. We share current research and best practices.
Course Outline:
- global statistics
- risk factor assessment
- breast health balance sheet
- breast diseases and their relationship to breast cancer
- comparison of screening techniques
- guidelines for screening
- breast cancer tumour markers
- metabolic tests to assess risk
- darkfield microscopy
- types of breast cancer
- stages of breast cancer
- prognostic factors
- Canadian Medical Association Protocol for diagnosing breast cancer
- infection, chronic inflammation and cancer
- the cancer process
- what to ask during your interview
- how to listen
- how to maintain rapport
- conscious communication with patients
- breast exam
- patients’ needs, depending upon treatment stage
- best timing for surgery; naturopathic support for surgery
- priorities of naturopathic treatment during chemo
- priorities of naturopathic treatment during radiation
- considerations in designing your treatment plan
- after-care support and monitoring
- how to encourage long-term compliance
- ways to improve lymphatic circulation
- single botanicals for lymphatic support
- comparison of classic formulas
- botanicals that kill breast cancer cells
- immune function and cancer
- mind-body medicine and immune system health
- botanicals that support the immune system
- immune support formulas
- medicinal mushrooms and immune support
- homeopathic remedies for women with breast cancer
- essential and herbal oils used to treat breast cancer
- acupuncture treatment for immune support
- yoga for immune support and lymphatic circulation
- hormonal links to breast cancer
- estrogen
- progesterone
- testosterone
- thyroid function
- insulin-like growth factor
- insulin
- prolactin
- cortisol
- melatonin
- hormones that increase risk
- hormones that decrease risk
- hormonal interactions related to breast cancer
- hormone balancing strategies in breast cancer prevention
- hormone tests to assess breast cancer risk
- bio-identical hormones and breast cancer
- categories of environmental causes breast cancer
- how to avoid them
- strategies to mimimize harm
- radiation
- electromagnetic fields
- plastics – bisphenol A, phthalates, PVC
- fire retardants
- detergents
- pesticides
- heavy metals
- dental fillings
- environmental risk reduction plan for patients
- global action plan
- 8 Dietary Strategies for Breast Health
- foods to avoid
- phytoestrogens
- protein sources
- cancer fighting phytochemicals found in fruits and vegetables
- fresh vegetable juices
- brassicas
- garlic, onions and leeks
- turmeric, ginger
- sea vegetables
- sources of lycopene
- benefits of citrus
- benefits of pomegranate
- seeds, sprouts and cereal grasses
- facts on fiber
- fats to use and avoid
- foods to aid glycemic control
- benefits of mushrooms
- parsley, sage, rosemary, thyme
- spices which inhibit NFkB
- anntioxidant rich foods and spices
- goji berries
- green tea, chai and herbal teas
- food rotation
- intermittent fasting
- how to balance pH and body terrain
- how to decrease inflammation
- how to regulate blood sugar
- how to test for and eliminate Candida and parasites
- oncoviruses and treatment
- targeting stem cells
- assessing free radicals
- antioxidants
- foods versus supplements
- mineral testing and balance
- vitamin assessment and supplementation
- antioxidants, chemotherapy and radiation
- intravenous treatment overview
- treatment protocol during surgery
- treatment protocol during chemotherapy
- treatment protocol during radiation
- maintenance supplement schedule
- what does it mean to be toxic
- exotoxins
- endotoxins
- six phases of toxicity
- how do we detoxify
- naturopathic detoxification strategies
- cleansing through the seasons
- dental toxicity, heavy metal detoxification
- castor oil packs
- enemas
- sauna detoxification protocol
- drainage remedies
- infectious organisms and breast cancer
- the mind-body connection
- psychological states and breast cancer
- the link between stress and cancer
- conflict and cancer
- the biology of belief
- attitudinal healing
- flourishing attitudes
- replacing fear with acceptance
- the power of intention
- imagery and the mind-body connection
- affirmations for healing
- how to generate a healing response
- how to induce relaxation
- post-traumatic growth
- common denominators of remission
- the healing dream
- components of a daily mind-body practice
- mindfulness and healing
- meditations for healing
- yoga for healing
- cancer as a spiritual journey
- psycho-spiritual factors and breast cancer
- opportunities for prayer
- how do we pray
- the physician who prays
- healing prayers
- the importance of gratitude
- cultivating present moment awareness
- replacing fear with acceptance
- knowing through intuition
- the purpose-filled life
- stacking meaning
- non-doing and healing
- death teachings from a variety of traditions
- the transition from healer to death coach
- the language of transition
- the life inventory
- making peace with the past
- embracing love
- embracing forgiveness
- mantras and music for the dying process
- prayers to assist the soul’s journey
- the physician/patient relationship after cancer
- preventing physician burn-out
- components of the annual visit
- what’s the maintenance program?
- how to reframe cancer and empower the patient
- keeping your patient on track for life
- secrets to longevity
- the integrated care team
- the value of ongoing support
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