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Through an evidence-based innovative program that merges modern integrative medicine with traditional martial arts, Kids Kicking Cancer’s Heroes Circle program addresses the overwhelming needs of children with illness. Specially trained black belt martial artists teach breathing, visualization, and relaxation techniques, in addition to traditional martial arts moves, to help empower the children and provide them with a sense of power, peace, and purpose.

The Heroes Circle program is open to all children facing the pain and discomfort of any illness. We offer one-on-one training and group classes for both paediatric inpatients and outpatients in over fifty hospitals and institutions around the globe. In areas where we do not yet have programs, video conferencing lessons are available. If you know of a child, teen, or young adult dealing with illness or in pain, please contact us.

All services provided by Kids Kicking Cancer Canada are at no cost to the children and their families. Children 3 years & older, and their siblings, are eligible for the program.

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Ollie Acosta-Pickering has a special hockey puck.

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Congratulations to our students from our London Digital Heroes Circle Program on grading for their new belts. Well done! We are proud of you! #PowerPeacePurpose #HeroesCircleCanada #PowerfulMartialArtist ... See MoreSee Less

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Our Merrywood Heroes Circle class is attended by a group of very special students we met through a partnership with Easter Seals Camps. Here is a photo of one of our Powerful Martial Artists receiving her new belt and Certificate. Well done! #HeroesCircleCanada#PowerPeacePurpose ... See MoreSee Less

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Ollie Acosta-Pickering has a special hockey puck. It’s oversized and makes a rattling noise when you shake it. He has a brand new one still in the bubble wrap, but he’s good with his beat-up one. “It’s a little beaten up because we’ve used it,” he says. Ollie’s hockey puck could be a metaphor for himself. On the cusp of turning 10, Ollie has already faced a slew of challenges. A good-humored boy who enjoys wrestling his dog Hope and playing with friends, Ollie’s health history has taken more hits than his hockey puck. Thankfully, Ollie has had a lot of “teammates” along the way, including the Martial Arts Therapists with the Heroes Circle. “He had a lot of anger in the beginning,” says Dawn. “Senseis with the Heroes Circle spent a lot of time explaining …how you need to harness that anger, and you need to be able to control it.” Ollie definitely had his down moments, sad and angry that he was both sick and blind, afraid he couldn’t be like other kids. “It was one of the first physical things he could do blind,” says Dawn. “Mentally, it was a huge shift for him to feel normal, and it made him feel like he could do things.” Physically, it also helped him get out of his wheelchair within a couple of months. 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐩𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐤𝐢𝐜𝐤𝐬 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐎𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐞’𝐬 𝐟𝐚𝐯𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧 𝐏𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫 𝐁𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐠𝐚𝐦𝐞-𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐟𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰-𝐮𝐩 𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬. Post-transplant, his medical team offered him a deal: He could have his central line surgically removed, but he would still need to receive needle pokes for blood draws and possible blood transfusions. Now armed with training from the Heroes Circle, Ollie made his decision: He’d get the central line removed and remain calm for his “pokes.” It worked. How did he do this? “Power Breathing,” Ollie says matter-of-factly. “And it went well.” “Every time since, he has been cool as a cucumber,” says Dawn. Ollie never had to get the central line back in. Dawn is impressed by both the Heroes Circle and Ollie. “It treats the whole kid,” she says of the Heroes Circle. “They empower each other.” Like that favorite hockey puck, Ollie’s been through a lot, but he’s still going. He believes that he can do everything a regular kid can do, it just takes some modifications. “My son is certainly my greatest hero,” says Dawn. “He keeps shocking me on a daily basis.” “You gotta just keep punching,” Ollie says. #PowerPeacePurpose #HeroesCircleCanada #ChildhoodCancer Follow this link to support our Powerful Martial Artists:buff.ly/34u2txA ... See MoreSee Less

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