Sandra Susheela Gilbert, BA, C-IAYT, E-RYT 500

Sandra Susheela Gilbert, BA, C-IAYT, E-RYT 500, is the director and senior mentor of YCat: Yoga Therapy in Cancer and Chronic Illness. A longtime Integral Yoga teacher, she holds advanced training certificates in stress management, integrative and mind-body therapies, and patient navigation.

Sandra was a Yoga teacher, stress management educator, and group support facilitator for cardiac and pulmonary rehabilitation at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City, and taught the YCat curriculum at the Mount Sinai Breast Health Resource Center and the Ruttenberg Oncology infusion center. She has taught Yoga at retreats and trainings for the Omega Institute, the Center for Mind-Body Medicine, and Chai Lifeline, and was one of the first Urban Zen integrative therapists in practice in New York City for its 2008 initiative and research.

At Vanderbilt University School of Nursing in Nashville, Tennessee, Sandra creates and teaches Yoga protocols for people with breast cancer, children with cancer, and their caregivers, and assists with research projects. She recently collaborated and presented with Yoga y Cáncer and Yoga Sin Fronteras in Barcelona, Spain.

Sandra is appreciated for her patience, her presence, and her dedication to the whole person going through cancer and cancer treatment. She says, “Wherever you are, Yoga is there for you.”