O2022-11-06 Breathing out again - Eurythmy Therapy for Cancer


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.

Universität Bern IKIM 2048x2048 transparentThe 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?

Kursthumbnails cancer 2We 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?

Theodor 18.7.2020 Pfad DE - Schnitt1Cancer 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.



Feedback from autumn 2022

  • Eurythmy4you

    “This course will help you discover the secret of this disease. You will discover how your body can change and how the exercises and conscious attentiveness help to stay in flow despite the problems.”

  • Eurythmy4you

    “Working with the warming sequence is helpful for all of us. Through it I learn to transform my whole being and to strengthening my capacity in life, soul and spirit.”

  • Eurythmy4you

    “This course has given me so much strength, it’s wonderful! I feel stronger, more confident, more fulfilled, more positive, more joyful, more calm, more serene and much more.”

  • Eurythmy4you

    “Theodor’s very well illustrated explanations are of high quality, and the slow and lively movements of the exercises certainly strengthen my “I” forces. I will continue my daily practice with pure joy.”

  • Eurythmy4you

    “It is a course that certainly strengthens the forces of the “I” and I recommend it to everyone. I talk about it a lot and I hope that this course will become accessible to more and more people.”

  • Eurythmy4you

    “Thank you for this course!”

  • Eurythmy4you

    “The course helps me to allow myself to slow down. And that then helps me to become aware of myself.”

  • Eurythmy4you

    “Theodor has an attainable, calm, breathing quality in every movement, which allows the whole organism of the participant to “come along with” the eurythmy. He is a careful, considerate teacher.”

  • Eurythmy4you

    “My level of self-awareness has increased, and I am noticing and releasing a lot of fear.”

  • Eurythmy4you

    “If you believe that the root of your cancer is on the mental rather than the physical level, then eurythmy is one of the rare treatments that targets the inner or spiritual level. ”

  • Eurythmy4you

    “This course helps create a better balance and harmony between the two realms of mind and body.”

  • Eurythmy4you

    “It was remarkable that one can receive such great benefit from doing eurythmy therapy online. And absolutely essential for those living in areas where there is no practicing therapeutic eurythmists.”

  • Eurythmy4you

    “I think Theodor discovered something important about eurythmy therapy in cancer, which is that having some kind of support group atmosphere is very helpful.”

  • Eurythmy4you

    “The long classes were challenging, but important to really reveal the power and potential of this therapy, which is not just a physical exercise. As someone with stage IV metastatic cancer, I can honestly say that this course was very helpful.”

  • Eurythmy4you

    “The course is a blessing, that's pretty obvious. You just have to experience it firsthand yourself to know.”

  • Eurythmy4you

    “Anything that helps to give the feeling that you can do something about your illness yourself can only be good.”

  • Eurythmy4you

    “The mood created by Theodore is very therapeutic and helps one breath better and relax, whilst at the same time he is helping you to develop trust in the power and effectiveness of the Eurythmy sequence.”

  • Eurythmy4you

    “I am an ex-patient, with a long history of bladder cancer, and more recently breast cancer, aged 69, now in good health. I have benefitted hugely from the course on all levels: physically, emotionally and spiritually.”

  • Eurythmy4you

    “I am a firm believer in the power of self-regulation/taking responsibility for my own wellbeing, and the nurturing and heart-centered way Theodor delivers the sessions has been like feasting on a rich banquet.”

  • Eurythmy4you

    “This course I can fully recommend.”

  • Eurythmy4you

    “The exercises make you aware of what you are doing. After the exercises you feel very good.”

  • Eurythmy4you

    “The course helps to recognize how we live between hardening and softening forces, and that health can come when we work safely and gently to bridge the two.”

  • Eurythmy4you

    “The exercises work with the whole body, breathing with the outer world and guided by trust in our inner compass and the core of our being.”

  • Eurythmy4you

    “This is a very warm and accessible approach to helping people with cancer. With gentle movements that work on inner awareness, a sense of deep re-connection with oneself develops.”

  • Eurythmy4you

    “Going through the exercises of the warming sequence of Rudolf Steiner for a longer period of time, makes you develop a strengthening and wholesome feeling.”

  • Eurythmy4you

    “Being in contact with other participants is a supportive base for everyday life.”

  • Eurythmy4you

    “Even just remembering and imagining the exercises when I was physically unable to practice, I felt more grounded, better, and connected to the healthy part of myself beyond my current situation.”

  • Eurythmy4you

    “In the course "Eurythmy Therapy for Cancer" you can learn that in every situation you can do something for yourself and also for other people. ”

  • Eurythmy4you

    “The eurythmy sequence has a calming effect on the mind and helps to overcome tensions in the body. It has helped me a lot to be more present in my life.”

  • Eurythmy4you

    “The course and the meetings give hope, strength and calm to continue the chemotherapy, which is really hard.”

  • Eurythmy4you

    “The effects of these exercises are immediate and lead in a gentle way to certainty and a sense of connection with the core of your being.”

  • Eurythmy4you

    “You can begin to have a conversation with that intimate part of yourself which only you yourself can feel.”

  • Eurythmy4you

    “You get to know yourself better. A voyage of discovery! And a perfect complement to the mistletoe therapy.”

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