Beyond Cancer:
Moving Forward with Healing and Hope
Your cancer treatment is done. Now go and live your life…
This phase when treatment is done, can feel like being dropped out of a vehicle in the middle of the desert with no map, no food and no water – and from here you need to find your way back to life with hardly any support.
Over 80% of cancer survivors suffer from significant emotional, mental or physical side effects after ending their treatments, often without even realizing it.
Cancer treatment typically spans months or years, and often results in lasting side effects: trauma, anxiety, pain, neuropathy, physical fatigue, brain fog, depression, and loss of short-term memory. On top of this, many survivors feel misunderstood by their close ones.
There are tools and ways to help you recover
Beyond Cancer is a program designed specifically for people navigating life after medical cancer treatment. Developed by Lee Majewski, and offered internationally since 2013, the program draws on yoga therapy to help you revitalise your body and restore your sense of self. The original 21-day residential program has been evaluated through peer-reviewed research showing significant improvements in mood, quality of life, and physical and psychological health.
The Beyond Cancer Program:
Revive · Transform · Flourish
We use a carefully sequenced daily rhythm of gentle postures (asana), breath regulation (pranayama), meditation, chanting, mudras, and Yoga Nidra (deep guided relaxation). As you practice, you begin to revive what treatment often fragments: body awareness, emotional resilience, mental clarity, and a sense of meaning and purpose. All practices are adapted to your individual capacity; no prior yoga experience is needed. Alongside the experiential work, educational sessions explore the science of health promoting factors in our diet, lifestyle, environment and the role of spirituality in healing.
Through this program, you reclaim your agency, transform your health and you begin to flourish.
We accept people with all cancers in all stages of disease.
Program Goals
- Practical yogic tools to promote health, adapted to your personal needs.
- Knowledge and guidelines for supporting health.
- Specific, documented practices for recovery from brain fog and restore energy.
- A personal “Fridge List” – a concrete, manageable plan of health-promoting changes to implement after the program.
- The foundation for a personal yoga practice you can do at home.
- Experiential understanding that your healing depends on your own daily choices and practices.
- Connection and support from people who share your journey.
Online Program
Date: February 8 – March 12, 2027.
Schedule:
- 7 am -8:30 am: Practice of asana (yoga postures) and pranayama (breathing exercises)
- 10 am -11 am: Lecture
- 11:15 am -12:15 pm: Pranayama and meditation
- 3 pm – 4 pm: Mudra and meditation
- 4:15 pm – 5:15 pm: Yoga Nidra
- 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm: Chanting and meditation
Week 1:
Introduction and practices of yogic techniques: pranayama, meditation, restorative asana, mudras, Yoga Nidra and chanting. In the lecture sections we introduce health benefits and research of yoga practices.
Week 2:
Personal practice – based on recordings of first week classes
Morning practice: asana and pranayama
Evening practice: guided meditation
Week 3:
Adapting the practice to the individual needs and level of capabilities. In the lectures, we cover health promoting factors in diet, lifestyle, mindset, and environment. At the end of the week patients prepare the “Fridge List”, a list of healthy changes they will implement after the program.
Week 4:
Personal practice – based on recordings of previous week classes
Morning practice: asana and pranayama
Evening practice: guided meditation
Week 5:
During this week the lecture time will be dedicated to work with the Life Mandala – a process of re-examining the core belief system. At the end you create a road map for the next 12 months of where you want to go and how you will get there.
What is required for online participation:
- A quiet, private space that is free of any distractions (phone calls, pets, family, etc.)
- Fast internet connection.
- We recommend using a computer screen rather than the phone, so you can see everything clearly
- Web camera
- Yoga mat
- Chair
- Two pillows and a blanket
- Notebook or Diary – you will be encouraged to document your experiences.
For more information we encourage you to set a free discovery call
Price: US$ 1590
Early bird: US$ 1490 (up to one month prior to the beginning of the program)
Hybrid Program
The program begins with 5 days of retreat in person. To receive the benefit of full program, as originally designed, we offer an option of continuing for 2 more weeks online.
Program dates:
- In person retreat: at Kripalu April 4 – April 9, 2027.
- Continuing online: April 19 – April 23, and May 3 – May 7, 2027
The schedule of the residential week is decided according to the venue’s schedule.
Schedule of online program:
- 7 am – 8:30 am: Practice of asana (yoga postures) and pranayama (breathing exercises)
- 10 am – 11am: Lecture
- 11:15 am -12:15 pm: Pranayama and meditation
- 3 pm – 4 pm: Mudra and meditation
- 4:15 pm – 5:15 pm: Yoga Nidra
- 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm: Chanting and meditation
Week 1:
Introduction and practices of yogic techniques: pranayama, meditation, restorative asana, mudras, Yoga Nidra and chanting. Adapting the practice to the individual needs and level of capabilities. In the lectures, we cover health promoting factors in diet, lifestyle, mindset, and environment. At the end of the week patients prepare the “Fridge List”, a list of healthy changes they will implement.
Week 2:
Personal practice – based on recordings of first week classes
Morning practice: asana and pranayama
Evening practice: guided meditation
Week 3:
We deepen yogic practices and adapting them into individual progress.
In the lectures we introduce evidence-based benefits of different yogic practices. We also learn about anatomy and the physiology of yoga.
Week 4:
Personal practice – based on recordings of previous week classes
Morning practice: asana and pranayama
Evening practice: guided meditation
Week 5:
During this week the lecture time will be dedicated to work with the Life Mandala – a process of re-examining the core belief system. At the end you create a road map for the next 12 months of where you want to go and how you will get there.
What is required for online participation:
- A quiet, private space that is free of any distractions (phone calls, pets, family, etc.)
- Fast internet connection.
- We recommend using a computer screen rather than the phone, so you can see everything clearly
- Web camera
- Yoga mat
- Chair
- Two pillows and a blanket
- Notebook or Diary – you will be encouraged to document your experiences.
For more information we encourage you to set a free discovery call.
Price:
- In person retreat – US$ 510 + accommodation
- Continuing online – US$ 1090
The cancellations can be made only in writing (email). We will make every effort to fill in the space and, in such case, there will be full refund minus small admin charges.
Cancellations made up to 30 days before admission will be refunded fully minus small admin charges.
Cancellations made up to 10 days before retreat start will refunded 50%
Cancellations made less then 7 days before retreat start will not be refunded.
No verbal cancellations will be entertained.
For additional information please feel free to e-mail program Lee Majewski – info@yogaforhealth.institute or Whatsapp +1 647 6863806.
About Harry
Harry came to us two days before the opening of the program, referred by my friend, a medical doctor. A quiet man from Canada with stage four lymphoma, he had just finished chemotherapy…
Jyotsna's story
Jyotsna came to us for the Rejuvenation for Cancer Patients Program in March 2015. A 35-year-old Indian homemaker from Delhi, she was diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 33.
“I attended the three week Rejuvenation Retreat for Cancer Patients conducted by Lee Majewski in October 2016 in India. This program is based on the practices and philosophy of Yoga. The retreat is very intense and had a very positive impact on all participants. It helped me to get over my emotional stresses and I came back physically recharged and with a lot of positive energy. Being healthy requires not only physical fitness but also a healthy mind and emotional well-being. Lee has a very good knowledge of yoga practices. She uses techniques like meditation and Yoga Nidra to delve into the psyche of the participants. Using specific interventions, she is able to bring out the suppressed negative emotions, which accumulate during the cancer treatments. She then helped participants to unburden these negative feelings and effectively get over them. Her capacity to understand the human mind and handling the emotions is excellent. She is truly a committed professional who understands the needs and emotions of people who have been through the trauma of cancer.”
– Kanwar Seth
India