Tari Prinster is a cancer survivor, yoga teacher and best-selling author. She is the Founder of Yoga4Cancer, LLC (y4c) and the Retreat Project (nonprofit / 501c3) – organizations that bring specialized yoga to cancer survivors and patients worldwide. Her unique method - the yoga4cancer methodology - is not yoga for one-size-fits-all. Nor is it just a gentle yoga class. It is a specialized training for experienced teachers seeking to learn how to design a class for survivors at all stages of their cancer journey. This evidence informed method is based on the scientific facts and tools so that yoga and healthcare professionals can addresses specific physical and emotional side effects left by cancer diagonsis.

Since 2006, she has trained over 2,300 yoga teachers and other health practitioners through her extensive teacher training program across the US, Europe and Asia. These certified trained teachers are now working in hospitals, cancer centers, integrative medicine centers and yoga studios across the globe. Tari and her team provide ongoing resources and support to better support the cancer survivors that their community serves. 

Tari's best selling book - Yoga for Cancer: A Guide to Managing Side Effects, Boosting Immunity, and Improving Recovery for Cancer Survivors is now available in English, Spanish and Japanese through all major retailers. Learn more here.

In her own words, Tari recounts her background with yoga and cancer: ‘When I was fifty, I started a yoga practice on a hunch it would ease my experience with menopause. It did! That was sixteen years ago. Today, I am an example that it is never too late to start, never too late to change. Yoga made me feel younger and stand straighter. I sleep better, my weight is good, and my bones are strong.

I found yoga a powerful tool to manage the daily challenges of cancer, side effects and life-long vulnerabilities it creates. I discovered yoga was more than a way to stay healthy. It gave me emotional support and spiritual comfort so needed during recovery.

I was curious why yoga was doing so much for me. My research made it clear why yoga strengthens the immune system, thus providing, among other things, protection against a cancer reoccurrence.

All that was 15 years ago when not much was heard about yoga’s beneficial power. Since then, I’ve developed a carefully constructed system of yoga poses and sequences, each one based on needs of cancer survivors. This is the y4c methodology."