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Cancer-related Exhaustion
Practical exercises and eurythmy therapy
Theodor Hundhammer, eurythmy therapist and founder of Eurythmy4you
Saturday 30 September to 25 November 2023
11 am BST / 12 am CET / 6 pm CST / 8 pm AEST
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Cancer is a physical, mental and spiritual challenge.
Cancer has a profound impact on your entire being, causing pain and upheaval in your life. However, we can learn to overcome our hesitations and openly confront cancer. Forces of destruction and death can find their balance through imagination, creativity and enthusiasm.
The course is part of a research project. We will send an anonymous questionnaire at the beginning, in the middle, at the end and eight weeks after the course to ask about your level of stress and exhaustion. The questions are simple and do not take long to complete. With your participation, you contribute to researching the effect of these exercises and making them known to the public.
By registering, you confirm that you are currently undergoing cancer treatment or have been diagnosed with cancer within the last five years. You are ready to participate in 9 live sessions, do 15 minutes of exercises daily and complete four questionnaires during and after the course.
Free attendance: Since cancer and cancer-related exhaustion are a great burden in themselves, we do not want to charge a participation fee for this course. Those who would like to support the research project and donate are welcome to do so. Donate
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Please only register
if you have had a cancer diagnosis in the last five years,
and if you are willing to fill out a questionnaire four times.
Cancer Related Fatigue and Stress - Research Project with the University of Bern.
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How does the course against cancer-related exhaustion work?
We meet from 30 September to 25 November 2023 on Saturdays from 11 am to 12 am BST. You will receive the link to the meetings by email. Just click on it and you are in the meeting. The day before the course starts, we do a trial run, then you are sure that everything works. If you miss a meeting, you get the recording like everyone else. You can watch everything again afterwards and stay connected.
The eurythmy exercises are easy and don't take long. If you get tired, you can continue sitting. They get their special power to relieve cancer-related exhaustion through small additional exercises that we incorporate into everyday life. For example, we hide something from ourselves, change our handwriting, think things the other way round, humorously change a few habits, etc. Every week it's a different little something.
In the meetings we take time to talk to each other and share our experiences. During the week you practise maybe 10 to 15 minutes a day, but only as much as your strength allows. You will be amazed at the effect such small things can have on regaining your inner elasticity and strength.
It feels good to be on the road together.
What is this course about?
Cancer affects you in your whole existence. It is an incisive and painful biographical event. But we may learn to let go of the shyness to call cancer by its name and to be on the way with it. Degradation and death forces can find their balance through imagination, creativity and enthusiasm.
Seven simple everyday exercises let us get in touch with daily life, discover seeds that are ready to grow and develop joy and trust: Breathing, creating space, taking oneself and one's needs seriously, perceiving oneself with love, arriving at oneself, letting go, gaining strength.
Eurythmy can show us that our body is a key to health and healing. Experiencing inner lightness and vitality, discovering multi-layered relationships, feeling embedded in a greater whole - all this can awaken and strengthen confidence and security in life. If you are limited in your mobility or tire quickly, you can also do the exercises while sitting or imagining.
In eurythmy therapy, the exercises are simple but effective. As cancer is often associated with stress, we are sure that especially the combination of ABSR stress release exercises with eurythmy will have a positive effect on cancer-related fatigue and general well-being.
To explore this further, the Institute for Complementary and Integrative Medicine (IKIM) of the University of Bern will evaluate this seminar with a questionnaire before, in the middle and after the course. Since an online cancer course has already been evaluated by the IKIM in 2022, we have comparative data that we can use for the evaluation.