Beth Israel Hospital, Some Patients Are Saying ‘Om,’ Not ‘Ah’

There is a foundation run by Donna Karan and they use methods combining Eastern and Western healing methods at Beth Israel Medical Center. They say that yoga, meditation and aromatherapy can enhance regimens of chemotherapy and radiation, and also they remark alternative treatments.
Fifteen yoga teachers are teaching at Beth Israel’s ninth-floor cancer to work with nonterminal patients, and nurses train in relaxation techniques with those people.
Their salaries, are being paid by Ms. Karan’s Urban Zen Foundation, and that fundation was created after her husband Stephan Weiss, 62, died of lung cancer in 2001.
the Urban Zen regime can reduce classic symptoms of cancer and its treatment, like pain, nausea and anxiety.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/30/nyregion/30yoga.html