TWENTY cancer patients and survivors, many of them underprivileged, recently completed the first Coachella for Healing—a two-day holistic wellness camp that provided mindful sessions and, more importantly, an opportunity to step away from the rigors of treatments and to relax in the company of people who understand what each other is going through.
Made possible by a collaboration between the Cancer Resource and Wellness Community , functional medicine provider and advocate LifeScience Center, and renowned photographer Jun de Leon who spearheaded the program, the first Coachella for Healing was set amid the lush, open spaces of Casa San Pablo in Laguna.
LifeScience expert Adrian Tan took the cancer warriors through a workshop of Pain Reprocessing Therapy , an approach to treating chronic pain through mindfulness exercises that “rewire” neural pathways in the brain so that pain becomes less threatening. “Through RPT, we learn to experience pain just as it is,” explains Adrian. “We learn to free ourselves from the emotional state behind the pain.
LIFE-CHANGING. Gina Ledesma, a breast cancer survivor and former caterer, didn’t hold back her tears during her walks in the gardens. “I can feel a special kind of healing happening here. The free flow of tears is the signal that healing is happening,” she said. “This is like coming full circle. We’re all survivors in a way, right? Coming together this way puts a period or an exclamation point to what we have been through. I needed this.
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