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Cancer patients and survivors who attended the community chair yoga at the Shannon Estuary Way retreat in Ballynacally benefiting from six weeks of gentle yoga shared their experiences of the practice and their individual battles with the disease with The Clare Champion. Lorraine White who was diagnosed with cancer in 2019 and went though her treatment during the early months of the Covid pandemic, felt that the speakers who attended every week to advise the group really helped them. She explained that after cancer, many woman are in the menopause and must also deal with all that comes with that. With encouragement from Rosie McMahon whom she knew previously from hiking, she decided to come out to the safe and calm environment in Ballynacally which she thinks really takes that clinical environment which they are used to out of it. Sharing her story, Lorraine said, “I was diagnosed in 2019 and it was just at the start of lockdown. I …
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