About Us
Kids Kicking Cancer is a nonprofit organization that provides weekly classes for children—both inpatient and outpatient—to teach them the mind-body techniques found in the martial arts. Specially certified martial arts therapists employed by Kids Kicking Cancer are very successful in quickly lowering the pain of sick children.
When our little patients learn martial arts techniques of meditation, breath work, and empowerment movements, their heroic responses are amazing!
Our Mission and Mantra
Our Mission
Kids Kicking Cancer aims to ease the pain of very sick children by teaching them to constructively cope with the agony of their disease and treatment, whether it’s constant needle pricks, spinal taps, chemotherapy, or the emotional pain of being away from friends and family.
We emphasize relaxation and mental imagery, teaching students to engage in breathing, meditation, and active karate exercises. We also instruct the parents, siblings, and medical personnel in these methods.
Our instructors are invited to accompany and assist their students in the hospital rooms and clinics as they undergo painful procedures such as spinal taps and bone marrow aspirations. 
Our MantraThe Kids Kicking Cancer mantra is: Power, Peace, Purpose.
Through their breath, sick kids are able to breathe in light and blow out darkness, and then share their techniques with others.
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