We acknowledge the funding received from the Faculty and Staff Professional Development Committee of the College of Nursing at the University of Saskatchewan. We also express our heartfelt thanks the participants who took the time out of their busy schedule to answer this survey. Nous remercions le Comité de développement professionnel du corps professoral et du personnel du Collège des sciences infirmiers à l'University of Saskatchewan pour son appui financier. Nous exprimons également nos remerciements les plus sincères aux participants qui ont pris le temps, malgré leur horaire chargé, de répondre au sondage.

Lymphedema, pain, and range of motion restrictions after breast cancer remain underexplored, and few interventions have been developed for these women. Together with a yoga instructor, our interdisciplinary research team developed a yoga program for women with lymphedema after breast cancer (n = 13). Qualitative interviews and participants' journals show that there were a number of benefits to the yoga program. Themes outlining these are (1) understanding arm morbidity; (2) becoming aware of posture; and (3) countering fatigue. More surprisingly, perhaps, the participants also described the ways in which yoga furthered their understandings of loss associated with disability, the fourth theme, and showed that yoga enhanced their experiences of embodiment, the final theme. Finally, we assert that our research demonstrates the potential for qualitative research connected to the evaluation of interventions and that it demonstrates the blurring of traditional boundaries between interventions and data collection.

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