At Welltech, we build products that help people live healthier, better lives. Here’s the inspiring story of Tanya, Yoga-Go user — and how our app helped change her life for the better.

Tanya Cohen is 68, a registered nurse, and a five-time cancer survivor. She's been on oxygen twenty-four hours a day, lives with COPD, and works from home with very little daily movement. Her health journey began in 2003, and by 2019 she faced what she calls the perfect storm: two surgeries, thirty-three rounds of radiation, a serious reaction to a chemo, and then Covid, all on top of COPD and the need to continue working every day.

The result is a body with very diminished lung capacity and a life that leaves little room for activity. Most fitness content feels out of reach for someone like Tanya, since it assumes a level of mobility and lung function she doesn't have. What she needed was something gentle enough to be achievable and simple enough to do every day, which is how a gentle Tai Chi practice in Yoga-Go app became the small, consistent commitment that changed everything.

Tai Chi is a slow, low-impact movement that's built around breath and controlled motion. For the first time in a long while, movement looked like something she could try and stick to, not something she had to be fit for first.

She gave herself one commitment: half an hour a day, for herself, to work on her motion, balance, and lung function. And while confidence with Tai Chi movements comes with practice, experience mattered less than she expected. What made the practice stick was permission to be imperfect. In her words, she had to give herself grace and just keep going, until she realized the practice did not have to be perfect. It just had to be consistent.

For Tanya, the change showed up in how she felt day to day. Her breathing improved, she became more flexible and everyday movement felt easier. A doctor once told her "movement is life," and daily Tai Chi practice gave that phrase a meaning.

The outcome here is not a clinical number. It is consistency, resilience, and a real appetite for life. For someone managing five cancers, COPD, and full-time oxygen, choosing to show up for herself every day takes a kind of optimism that most people are eager to find. Tanya kept going not because it was easy, but because she decided that movement, and her own wellbeing, were worth half an hour a day. That mindset, gentle with herself but unwilling to give up, is the real result. The half-hour habit is just how it shows.

In Tanya's own words:

"Tai Chi made me feel like I was doing something positive for myself."

"It doesn't have to be perfect. It just has to be consistent."

"Thank you, Yoga-Go. I appreciate you."

We're grateful Tanya trusted us with such a personal part of her journey and proud to have played even a small role in supporting her. Her resilience, optimism, and determination continue to inspire the way we build our products.

Individual experience shared with permission. Not a medical claim.