During treatment
Small, adaptable practices for days when energy, mobility, and certainty are changing. Chair and bed options are always welcome.
Yoga through cancer · Olympia, Washington + online
A soft place
to meet yourself.
Slow, inward yoga for treatment, life after cancer, and the people who love us through it.
Come as you are.
Move as you can.
Rest as you need.
From the quiet edge of Puget Sound
The practice
You do not have to push through.
Some seasons ask us to become very quiet so we can hear what is true.
This is yoga without performance. We use breath, gentle movement, stillness, sound, and deep attention to make a little more room inside the moment—whether that moment holds fear, fatigue, grief, tenderness, or relief.
After cancer
A patient return to sensation, strength, trust, and a body that may feel both familiar and entirely new.
Beside someone you love
Breath, rest, and room for the people carrying appointments, meals, questions, and love alongside someone with cancer.
A slower way
For anyone who wants less performance and more presence: unhurried movement, inward attention, and time to feel.
A practice for right now
Nothing to fix.
One breath to feel.
Let your exhale be a little longer than your inhale. No need to force it. You can stop at any time and return to your natural rhythm.
If breath-focused practice feels uncomfortable, simply notice a place where your body meets the chair or ground.
arrive·
Inhale 4 · Exhale 6
Ways to practice
Start small. Stay as long as it helps.
Support for the season you're in.
Begin here · free
One steady breath
$0
A short guided reset for the waiting room, the parking lot, or the moment your mind runs ahead of you.
Practice now ↗Founding membership
The Slow Circle
$19 / month
A growing on-demand library of gentle yoga, body scans, meditation, breath, and deep rest—organized by what you need today.
See the founding library ↗Live online · 4 weeks
Return to the body
$88
A small-group series for rebuilding an honest relationship with your body during or after breast cancer.
Choose live practice ↗Personal support
Private practice
$85 / session
One-to-one online yoga shaped around your energy, treatment season, movement range, and need for rest.
Ask about a session ↗Founding prices are an invitation into the beginning. Every paid offering will include a limited number of supported-rate places.
The online library · in its founding season
Choose by how you feel today—not by how much you think you should do.
The Slow Circle is being built as an easy-to-use refuge. Every practice will include a clear description, length, energy level, and options for chair, bed, or floor. Many will work with the screen turned away.
Arrive here
For the parking lot, waiting room, or first quiet moment after difficult news.
Founding collectionA low-energy day
Small movements and long pauses for fatigue, tenderness, and days when getting down to the floor is not right.
Founding collectionReturn gently
A choice-led practice for reconnecting with sensation and rebuilding trust after treatment.
Founding collectionSet down the carrying
A place for caregivers and loved ones to release the shoulders, soften the jaw, and receive support too.
Founding collectionWhen sleep will not come
A quiet, eyes-closed practice to follow from bed without needing to watch the screen.
Founding collectionHeld by sound
Meditation, humming, and simple song as a gentle way back to breath, vibration, and belonging.
Founding collectionNew practices will arrive slowly and intentionally—not an overwhelming catalog, but a thoughtful shelf you can return to.
Join the founding list
Jess · teacher, survivor, photographer
Meet your guide
I'm Jess.
I am a former lawyer, a breast cancer survivor, a photographer, and a 500-hour registered yoga teacher. Dogwood Beach Yoga grew from the place where those lives meet.
Cancer changed my relationship with my body, time, fear, and rest. Yoga did not make the hard parts disappear. It gave me a way to stay near myself while I moved through them—and showed me that listening can be a form of strength.
I completed my 200-hour teacher training at True Self Yoga in 2019, continued through a hot-yoga apprenticeship with Vajra, and completed a 300-hour training with Christina and Kristi in 2025. I am an RYT 500 and a Yoga Alliance Continuing Education Provider.
My teaching weaves anatomy, yoga philosophy, compassion, meditation, breath, sound, and somatic release with lived experience. I teach choice, not choreography. Your body is not a problem to solve, and you are always the final authority on what is right for you.
I live and work near Olympia, Washington, where forest, salt water, changing light, and the long view of Mount Rainier keep returning me to belonging. That landscape is part of every Dogwood Beach practice, even when we meet online.
RYT 500Yoga Alliance YACEPBreast cancer lived experienceFormer lawyerPhotographerOlympia, Washington
What you can expect
01
You never have to make your body look a certain way here.
02
Rest is a complete practice—not a lesser version of movement.
03
You are invited to listen inward and choose what is true today.
One day · forest or beach
A day held by the land.
Seasonal day-long meditation retreats in the Pacific Northwest—either under the forest canopy or overlooking the beach. No overnight stay. No packed schedule. Just one spacious day to arrive, listen, eat, walk, breathe, and rest.
Morning
Arrival, tea, grounding, and a slow opening practice.
Midday
Silent forest or shoreline walking, simple food, and generous unstructured rest.
Closing
Meditation, sound, reflection, and a gentle return home before evening.
The founding circle
Let's begin gently.
Tell me what kind of support would meet you where you are. I'll send the first free practice, founding-library news, and occasional letters from Dogwood Beach—never a flood of email.
A note of care
Your medical team is part of your practice.
Dogwood Beach Yoga offers educational movement and mindfulness practices, not medical advice or treatment. Please speak with your oncology or rehabilitation team before beginning a new movement practice, especially after surgery or during active treatment. You are always the final authority on what feels appropriate in your body.