Preparing for the Final Asana: End of Life Law, Medicine, Policy and What Yoga Offers

Join Kathryn Tucker, in October 2019, at Rancho La Puerta for "Preparing for the Final Asana:  End of Life Law, Medicine, Policy and What Yoga Offers." The right of patients approaching end of life to make choices to ensure a dying process consistent with their preferences has been rapidly evolving in the U.S. A veteran of nearly every effort to protect and expand end of life choice in the U.S. for more than two decades, Professor Tucker will share insight on advocacy strategies, progress, challenges and predictions.  Advocacy in the courthouse, the statehouse, and in various policy forums will be discussed, as well as what this means for patients and families dealing with a terminal illness.  Also a respected yoga teacher, Kathryn will lead participants in some yoga, breathing and meditation, to create a contemplative frame of mind from which we will explore our hopes for the final bit of our own journey and understand how to plan to make that hope a reality. Workshop sessionsEach workshop session will encourage entry into a contemplative, mindful space with yoga and meditation.  Participants will then explore what each hopes for their own final leg of the journey through this lifetime and how that can be planned for so it will manifest. Each participant will be encouraged to write their thoughts about this in a journal during the workshop. Understanding the Range of Options AvailableThe following will be discussed: pain and symptom management, hospice, p...
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