Cancer Research Project Autumn 2023

Living with cancer is a physical, mental and spiritual challenge

Cancer affects you in your entire existence. It is a drastic and painful biographical event. Cancer can affect each and every one of us.

Conventional therapy for living with cancer initially focuses on the physical side of the disease. But the mental side, which can show itself in fears, worries, tiredness, lack of strength, anger and depression, and the spiritual level with its questions about meaning, about where from and where to, also want to be included.

Degradation and death forces can find their balance through imagination, creativity and enthusiasm. And eurythmy therapy can show us how our body holds the keys to health and healing. It helps us to experience inner lightness and luminosity, to feel embedded in a great whole and to regain confidence and security in life.

The video course with the eurythmy therapy exercises, the joint exchange in the meetings and in the forum, and our accompanying therapeutic programme accompany and support you on this path.

Participate in the eurythmy therapy research project and benefit from it on all levels!

Participate in the eurythmy therapy research project and benefit from it on all levels!

In autumn 2023, the Institute for Complementary and Integrative Medicine, IKIM, of the University of Bern will accompany us on this path. By taking part, you will help to gather valuable knowledge about the effectiveness of eurythmy therapy, to research it scientifically and to make it more widely known. At the bottom of this page you will find out how you can participate.

• In the eurythmy therapy for cancer video course, you will learn the eurythmy therapy exercise series for cancer and embark on a shared journey with the other participants.
• Every week there is a meeting where we share our progress, ask questions and deepen the eurythmy exercises together with Theodor.
• In the second half of the meeting you get suggestions and help for your life with cancer and related life questions in therapeutic working groups. Depending on your needs, you can choose from biography work, singing, sculpting, painting and other activities.
• In the group forum we tell each other how and with what we are on our way, support each other and discuss our contributions and questions.
• We collect scientific data at the beginning, in the middle, at the end and eight weeks after the course. You will be asked four times to fill in a questionnaire about how you feel, which will take about 20 minutes.
• Each person only completes as much as is right for him/her. If you decide to stop altogether, that is perfectly fine. However, we will ask you to share your reasons, as this is important for the scientific evaluation of the course.
• Within this course, there is no separate individual support from our therapists during the course. This is because it is important for the scientific evaluation that the offer is comparable for all participants. From January 2024 you can ask our therapists to work with you individually.

Your personal passage through the
Eurythmy Therapy Course for Cancer

Self guided online course for individual use

Breathe, create space, take yourself and your needs seriously, perceive yourself with love, arrive at yourself, let go, gain strength. The eurythmy therapy videos go through the exercises mindfully step by step, and you have the opportunity to repeat them.

Eurythmy therapy for cancer
Video course with exercises for every day

The movements shown are simple and effective, perfection is not necessary, relaxed participation is enough. If your mobility is limited or you get tired quickly, you can do the exercises while sitting or even just imagining.

In autumn 2022, we developed the video material for this course in a pilot project together with the Institute for Complementary and Integrative Medicine at the University of Bern. The feedback you can read here comes from more than 100 participants:

Structure of the course

Weekly meetings every Sunday

• Start 10 September 2023
  End 10 December 2023
• 1 introductory meeting, 12 eurythmy meetings, 1 final meeting
• from 10 to 12 CET in English
• from 7 to 9 p.m. CET in German with simultaneous English translation

Course of the meetings

• 10 minutes reflection on living with cancer by Theodor
• 40 minutes answering questions about eurythmy therapy for participation
• 10 minutes break
• 60 minutes Working groups of choice with different therapists and topics
• 5 minutes farewell with the warming series for cancer

How to work during the course

• During the Sunday meetings you will be introduced to the eurythmy therapy exercises. In the working groups you will do therapeutic, artistic or biographical work under the guidance of our coaches.
• You will be given suggestions and homework for the week, and we ask you to spend about 20 minutes each day on eurythmy therapy and on the suggestions from the working groups.
• We encourage you to work on the homework individually according to how you feel.
• We will discuss your questions and personal concerns in the forum or in the chat rooms of your working groups, which you may set up among yourselves.
• There is no regular individual therapy work with the coaches during this time. Emergencies may make individual meetings necessary. These are free of charge.