Cancer Thrivers Navigating Survivorship

Helping women move from survival mode into regulation, resilience, and trust in their bodies.

Life After Treatment: Integration & Healing

Rebuilding safety, strength, and clarity after treatment

The post-treatment phase brings its own challenges — physically, mentally, energetically, emotionally, and spiritually. The world expects you to be “back to normal” long before your body or mind are ready. Survivorship often requires rebuilding safety, identity, clarity, resilience, and nervous system capacity.

I guide people through this next chapter because I have walked it myself. After 14 months of treatment – chemo, radiation, mastectomy, and targeted therapy – I know what it feels like to emerge from treatment exhausted, hormonally imbalanced, immune-compromised, and still navigating a nervous system that can feel braced and hyper-alert. My lived experience now aligns with my professional training as a nervous system–informed, trauma-informed yoga instructor and health coach. I understand the importance of rebuilding the body, nervous system, and emotional resilience at a pace that feels safe and sustainable.

Survivorship is its own chapter, and many people enter it feeling unprepared, disconnected, or stuck in survival mode. This offering supports you in the deeply personal process of healing after cancer so you can move from surviving to thriving, stepping into life after treatment with grounded strength and clarity.

What’s Included

Yoga for Survivorship + Coaching - (In person
or via Zoom)

Survivorship is a threshold. Every session meets you exactly where you are. On good days, low-energy days, and everything in between.

Together, we explore:
  • Who you are now
  • What has shifted
  • What no longer fits
  • What you want to reclaim or create
  • How to live in alignment with a new, wiser version of yourself
Yoga becomes a tool to:

This process is grounding, clarifying, and supportive. Not rushed, not forced, and never minimized.

Yoga becomes a therapeutic anchor in survivorship, helping restore strength, reconnect you with your body, and rebuild trust. A cornerstone of my work is relearning how to work with your stress response in a way that supports your health and well being. Cancer often conditions the nervous system to stay in a state of chronic alert, waiting for scan results, fearing recurrence, and bracing for the next unknown. These sessions blend:

  • Supportive strength and mobility work
  • Somatic yoga therapy
  • Applied neuroscience
  • Evidence-based breathwork
  • Myofascial release
  • Trauma-informed nervous system practices

All structured to enhance neuroplasticity and gently rewire stress patterns in the body.

Yoga is also a powerful antidote to the post treatment symptoms many survivors face:
  • Reduces lingering fatigue
  • Improves energy and circulation
  • Supports lymphatic and immune function
  • Helps regulate inflammatory stress responses
  • Creates safety in the body to move out of chronic fight or flight
  • Builds bone density
  • Restores confidence in movement


I help your system gradually shift from hypervigilance to safety, from tension to ease, from survival mode to resilience.

This work supports:

  • Better sleep
  • Clearer thinking
  • More emotional stability
  • Improved digestion
  • Reduced background anxiety
  • A grounded sense of inner safety

 

Reawakening your intuition and embodied wisdom is essential, and this work supports that process. After treatment, many thrivers feel separated from their bodies and unsure how to trust symptoms, signals, or sensations. You may feel as if your body betrayed you or surprised you, and rebuilding that relationship takes time and gentle support.

This program helps you:

  • Reconnect with your inner signals
  • Rebuild self-trust
  • Strengthen interoceptive awareness
  • Get out of your head and into your body
  • Live from a place of attunement instead of fear

Offerings

Private Nervous System Focused Yoga

Therapeutic, oncology-informed yoga designed for bodies recovering from treatment. Focus areas include:

• Nervous system regulation and stress resiliency techniques
• Hormonal support, especially if you are on an endocrine blocker
• Lymphatic, immune, and energy support
• Restorative movement and somatic embodiment
• Breathwork and emotional support
• Guidance to integrate practices into daily life

1:1 Coaching

Focused on helping you make micro-shifts in stress patterns, habits, and behaviors that may no longer serve you post-treatment. Coaching helps you:

• Shift out of chronic stress and fight-or-flight
• Build stress tolerance, emotional clarity, and confidence
• Strengthen body awareness and interoception
• Integrate new patterns to support lasting healing and presence

Shift Your Mindset: 4-Week Course

A structured 1:1 monthly membership that meets once per week, integrating coaching and movement-based practices to create meaningful, lasting change in how the nervous system responds to stress. This is an integrative process that supports the body and mind in unwinding survival patterns and reinforcing new pathways of safety, regulation, and resilience. Through consistent weekly support, we focus on micro-habits, somatic awareness, and targeted practices that leverage neuroplasticity to help rewire stress responses over time. This work bridges movement, breath, and coaching to support deep integration during treatment and throughout survivorship. Membership is available in four-week or ongoing formats. Contact for pricing and details.

Program Structure & Pricing

Yoga Session — $200

Therapeutic, oncology-informed yoga designed for bodies recovering from treatment. Focus areas include:
• Nervous system regulation and stress resiliency techniques
• Hormonal support, especially if you are on an endocrine blocker
• Lymphatic, immune, and energy support
• Restorative movement and somatic embodiment
• Breathwork and emotional support
• Guidance to integrate practices into daily life

Coaching Session — $200

Focused on helping you make micro-shifts in stress patterns, habits, and behaviors that may no longer serve you post-treatment. Coaching helps you:
• Shift out of chronic stress and fight-or-flight
• Build stress tolerance, emotional clarity, and confidence
• Strengthen body awareness and interoception
• Integrate new patterns to support lasting healing and presence

Ongoing Support
Shift Your Mindset Course

A structured 1:1 monthly membership that meets once per week, integrating coaching and movement-based practices to create meaningful, lasting change in how the nervous system responds to stress. This is an integrative process that supports the body and mind in unwinding survival patterns and reinforcing new pathways of safety, regulation, and resilience. Through consistent weekly support, we focus on micro-habits, somatic awareness, and targeted practices that leverage neuroplasticity to help rewire stress responses over time. This work bridges movement, breath, and coaching to support deep integration during treatment and throughout survivorship. Membership is available in four-week or ongoing formats. Contact for pricing and details.

Enhanced Support

8 private sessions per month (2 sessions per week — 1 Yoga + 1 Coaching) for deeper, immersive integration. Consistent support helps your nervous system, body, and mind fully integrate new patterns, rebuild strength, and restore balance.

Who This Is For

This offering is designed for patients in active cancer treatment who want gentle, evidence-informed, and embodied support beyond the medical system. It is for you if you:

  • More nervous system capacity and emotional balance
  • Tools to lower recurrence risk by regulating stress physiology
  • Support for long-term lymphatic and immune health\
  • Somatic practices for clarity, presence, and self-trust
  • A body that feels safer, stronger, and more familiar again
  • Movement and yoga that nourish, not exhaust, you.
This is especially for you if:
  • You feel stuck in survival mode long after treatment ends.
  • Even before cancer, you sensed that something in your life needed to shift. You just did not know what it was or how to begin. You have carried stress for a long time, and joy has felt distant or hard to access.
  • You might look “healthy” on the outside, but internally you’re bracing, worrying, or waiting for the next appointment to define how safe you feel. This work helps your body shift out of fight-or-flight, release chronic tension, and rebuild the capacity to rest, digest, heal, and live again. Not just get through.

Who This Is For

This offering is designed for individuals in active cancer treatment who are seeking gentle, evidence-informed, embodied support alongside their medical care.
Want more ease and nervous system support

Your system may still feel braced or exhausted. You want a space where your body and mind can settle, restore balance, and focus on ongoing healing.

Need lymphatic, immune, and energy support

You want simple, supportive practices that restore vitality, support your body’s natural healing, and rebuild strength post-treatment.

Are looking for somatic tools for emotional clarity

You want to reconnect with your body, process the emotional shifts of treatment, and cultivate steadiness as you move forward.

Want your body to feel safer again

You want to restore trust in yourself, rebuild a sense of internal safety, and feel grounded in your body.

Want support that blends science with embodied wisdom
You value research-backed strategies alongside practices that honor the whole self — body, mind, nervous system, and spirit — as you navigate this next chapter.
Want support that blends science with embodied wisdom

You value research-backed strategies alongside practices that honor the whole self — body, mind, nervous system, and spirit — as you navigate this next chapter.

This work helps you:
• Release lingering tension and stress patterns
• Rebuild confidence, presence, and emotional resilience
• Reconnect to your body’s cues and intuitive wisdom
• Focus on supporting ongoing healing and integration
• Move forward with clarity, calm, and empowerment
This is for the person who wants support not just for the physical body, but for the nervous system, emotional body, energetic body, and spirit as they rebuild and thrive after treatment.

This work helps you:

• Release lingering tension and stress patterns
• Rebuild confidence, presence, and emotional resilience
• Reconnect to your body’s cues and intuitive wisdom
• Focus on supporting ongoing healing and integration
• Move forward with clarity, calm, and empowerment

This is for the person who wants support not just for the physical body, but for the nervous system, emotional body, energetic body, and spirit as they rebuild and thrive after treatment.

Testimonials

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Kristen

Ashley is more than a yoga instructor. She’s a healer who creates a safe, welcoming space for mamas to reconnect with our bodies—right alongside our babies. Her Mom & Baby Postnatal Yoga is a beautiful, powerful experience.

Ashley takes time to listen to each mama’s physical concerns, then offers real solutions by weaving targeted healing elements into the class flow. I almost cried the first time because I felt so nurtured. She’ll even hold a fussy baby!

Camilla

Ashley is such a wonderful yoga instructor. She teaches so much more than just yoga poses. She teaches about self knowledge, wellbeing, body and mental health. She inspires you to slow down in the middle of the chaos of life and reconnect with yourself, not just in class but also in life. I leave her classes feeling relaxed, focused, and empowered. She supports you to listen to your body and respect your limitations but also encourages you to challenge yourself and push your boundaries.   

Ashley has been a big part of my motherhood journey. I took her prenatal, postpartum and now toddler and me classes. Her teachings guided me through a healthier and happier pregnancy, and a labor that went just the way I wanted. She now continues to teach, support and inspire me in living a healthy lifestyle, being a better person and a better mother. 

Anca

I love Ashley’s class because she creates a safe, welcoming space where you can slow down and reconnect with your body, even in the middle of a busy stage of life with young children. The pace of the class is intentional and calming, allowing you to move with awareness rather than rushing through poses. What stands out most is her deep understanding of the body and how everything is connected. She doesn’t just guide movements, she explains them in a way that helps you understand what’s happening and why. She offers thoughtful, practical suggestions to address individual concerns, and I always leave having learned something new. 

Tory

Ashley’s yoga for healing class has been a transformative tool for me in healing an overtaxed nervous system. Her class is masterfully guided with gentleness and compassion. I am left feeling restored and calm after every class. 

Kristina

I first connected with Ashley Stachon when I was just three weeks pregnant, and from that very first conversation, she was incredibly supportive, warm, and reassuring. Starting around my 16th week, I began attending her prenatal yoga classes religiously twice a week and I continued all the way until I gave birth.

Ashley is an amazing and deeply knowledgeable teacher. She is incredibly supportive and attentive she is to every woman in the room, regardless of physical level or where each of us is in our pregnancy journey. We always go around and share what we’re feeling in our bodies as pregnant women, and she thoughtfully sequences each class based on our individual needs.

Throughout my pregnancy, her classes kept me active, and I truly believe that continuing to move – especially during moments when it felt hardest to get off the couch – was one of the best things I could have done for myself. Her classes supported me exactly when I needed it most, both physically and emotionally, and prepared for natural birth.

After I gave birth, I began bringing my son to her mommy-and-me classes, and he absolutely loves it. He gets to explore, play, and interact with other kids in a warm, supportive, and inclusive environment that honors both moms and babies. During class, I can truly relax – even with a baby – because it feels like a beautiful village. If I close my eyes during Savasana, I know Ashley is watching my child, and I also know that other women will naturally step in if needed. There’s so much trust, care, and mutual support.

Ashley is deeply empathetic, intuitive, and exceptionally talented at supporting women through all stages of life. She regularly brings in a variety of workshops to the space, and because she knows so many trusted practitioners, she’s also an amazing resource – whether that means referring you to a physical therapist, a masseuse, or another specialist when something is beyond yoga alone.

She has built an incredible community within the Metta Mama space she leads. Through Ashley and her classes, I’ve met some truly wonderful women, and that sense of connection has been just as meaningful as the movement itself.

I’m so grateful for Ashley, her teaching, and the community she has created. She is truly incredible at what she does.

Chelsea

Ashley hosted a wonderful workshop where we learned all about preparing for childbirth, and addressing our fears surrounding labor and childbirth. The setting was an intimate group where each of us could openly share our story, and I left feeling both empowered and validated. Ashley shared a wealth of knowledge on tools to use during labor that covered breathwork, positioning, movement and mindset. We learned about what to expect for each stage of labor, and which tools are most useful for each stage. She shared tips for a variety of types of birth, so that we can be prepared for whatever is to come. I went into the workshop not realizing some of the fears that I was carrying around birth. Having a dedicated time to write them out and then discuss with the group really eased a lot of my anxieties. Knowledge truly is power. I highly recommend anyone preparing for any type of birth to attend this workshop..”

Teresa

Shift Your Mindset on Labor and Delivery workshop was incredibly transformative! Ashley created such a safe and supportive space, allowing us mamas to openly share our very real fears about labor and delivery. Through her guidance, I was able to reframe many of those anxieties, replacing them with a profound sense of appreciation and wonder for my own body’s amazing capabilities. The practical stretches and movements she taught were invaluable, giving me a clear understanding of how I can naturally support my body through the birthing process. I now feel so much more confident and prepared for this part of my pregnancy journey.

Heather

Ashley was a great guide making the group feel comfortable to share their stories. The workshop (Shift Your Mindset on Labor and Delivery) was a great environment where I learned so much about labor and delivery and tips on how to make the experience better. I myself was able to release my own fears I was struggling with and came out feeling more prepared for my baby’s birth. Ashley is a wealth of knowledge regarding pregnancy, the body, labor, and delivery. I highly recommend her classes!

Lara, Oncology Yoga Student

Ashley is a fantastic instructor. She is knowledgeable, insightful, and motivating, and able to create a welcoming experience for people at all levels. Her description and cues are incredibly helpful as you practice- I found myself understanding poses I’ve been doing for years much better after one class with her. I left class feeling strong and open.

Marlee, prenatal student

Ashley’s classes and guidance are truly the whole enchilada! She is deeply in touch with the holistic nature of our bodies and minds and strikes a perfect balance between strengthening and softening. Movement, mindset work, emotional & spiritual connection , nervous system regulation, fascia work… I leave each class learning something new and feeling more grounded and connected to myself. It has been such a gift to have a space like this throughout my pregnancy

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