Kate Rose Yoga Pose Challenge!

Welcome to the "Kate Rose Yoga Pose Challenge"! 
Help me raise funds for my cancer treatment, bring awareness to the importance of yoga as a healing modality for cancer and spread the joy of yoga while we are at it! Here is how to play: 



1.)   Have a friend take a picture of you in your favorite yoga pose


2.) Post your sweet pic of your silky moves to Facebook, Instagram and any social networking site you'd please, with the hash tag #kateroseyogaposechallenge


3.) Tag 10 friends to participate


4.) After you have posted your pic, please donate the suggested amount of $10 (or more) here on GoFundMe


5.) For every $250 raised, I will volunteer to teach a 75 minute yoga class at a local school, charity or non-profit! 

I have to pay it foward and what better way right?

 Have fun with it! Get creative! Babies, Kids, Grandparents, Pets, Sports Teams, strike your pose in your work uniform, or in a funny place, with your underwear over your pants, do it while you shotgun a beer, do your pose in a silly outfit, everyone is encouraged to join in. Don't be shy now! And remember your hashtag #kateroseyogaposechallenge

 So who am I and why do I need your help? I am Kate Rose, I am 26 years old preschool teacher/dance teacher/yoga teacher and I am trying to put Metastatic Breast Cancer into remission with a collapsed right lung and a starving artist's resume. How in tarnation did I end up like this? Here is the narrative; November 2011 I had run the New York City Marathon, raising $4000 for the American Cancer Society. The universe has a real satirical sense of humor because three weeks later, I myself, was diagnosed with cancer. Stage 2, triple negative, BRCA 1 breast cancer. I was 23. I reluctantly dropped out of City University of New York where I was working towards a bachelor’s degree and had to let go of my spot as a fulltime student at the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance. I had a bilateral mastectomy followed by chemotherapy. Through treatment I continued to teach dance at Dream Studio in Rhinebeck, NY, I performed with a small dance company, Veritas directed by Lara Ganz and practiced yoga with goddesses like Alisson Sinatra, Barbara Boris and Jessica Becker. Treatment ended, I brushed off and moved on. 



Then that funny sun of gun, the universe, played another trick on me, right after I completed my 200 hour Yoga Teacher Training with the Boston Yoga School in March of 2014, BAM! Confirmed by lung biopsy the cancer is now metastatic, making itself right at home in my lungs and my right fifth rib bone. 



Today I am being released from the hospital for treatment for the very painful bum lung and I have to hit the ground running to get an aggressive treatment plan in place if I am going to make remission happen. The catch is that because my case is in the advanced stages, I absolutely must look at integrative and alternative medicines in conjunction with working with my oncologist. It is my best chance at winning, and frankly, I will try almost anything at this point, because the only way to know if it works, is to try. My oncologist agrees and backs me in my choices to seek out integrative/alternative treatments, she even told me stories of patients of hers going into remission due to alternative treatments! How lucky am I to have such a forward thinking, open minded oncologist to back me on this! Very exciting, encouraging and full of hope! However the treatments that are looking most promising according to research, my individual case and beliefs, are not covered by insurance... Meaning I will need lots of financial backing to pull this off. As my plan materializes, I will post links on here and on my facebook, to medical journal articles, pubmed articles, links to sites and anecdotal stories of individuals having success with these integrative/alternative treatments. This will not only better illustrate where the funds are being allotted, but also can help educate the masses on the many options we have in the face of this monster! Thank you all for your love, support and for your yoga poses! Let the #kateroseyogaposechallenge begin, Namaste comrades!

 

(little bit of hospital yoga!)