Rachel did yoga occasionally but wanted to try hot yoga to help ‘cleanse’ her lymphatic system. Since her first class (March 2017) she has become addicted. The yoga has improved her flexibility and fitness, helped her control stress and taught her how to breathe more effectively. “Each class feels like a gentle reminder that you’re alive,” she tells OM. “You sweat, you stretch, you relax and you breathe.”
Rachel has been diagnosed four times with cancer. At the tender age of 10, she was told she had Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. She received the ‘all clear’, but relapsed again at 12, and then again at 16. Then, a decade later, at 26, her cancer returned once more.