A Canadian yoga teacher, writer and researcher known for her therapeutic work with cancer patients is headed to Bermuda.

Lee Majewski, founding director of the Yoga For Health Institute, a Canadian charity, will kick off two weeks worth of workshops on Friday with the Yoga Centre at 7 Victoria Street, Hamilton, aimed at helping people find wellness in mind, body and soul.

Her first workshop is for people with basic health issues and their loved ones.

It will focus on bringing balance to the body, mind and emotions to help overall health using various yoga tools such as postures, breathing, visualisation and energetic reorganisation.

“It is not just for people with cancer,” said Joanne Wohlmuth, veteran Yoga Centre teacher. “It is for people with chronic diseases, stress, migraines and all things that people suffer from that often leads them to come to yoga centres in the first place.”

Ms Wohlmuth and Ms Majewski will teach the second workshop exploring yoga and spirituality.

“It will look at how spiritual connection opens pathways to healing,” Ms Wohlmuth said.

She first encountered Ms Majewski through her writing.

In 2022, Yoga Therapy Today, the magazine of the Association for Yoga Therapy, asked Ms Wohlmuth to write a review of a book Ms Majewski co-wrote with Ananda Balayogi Bhavanani, called Yoga Therapy as a Whole-Person Approach to Health.

“It was a positive review. I really loved the book,” said Ms Wohlmuth who has been teaching yoga for more than 40 years.

“She was working with cancer patients,” Ms Wohlmuth said. “She had been helping them with their illness using the teachings of yoga. She had done a lot of research with these clients in India and Trinidad.”

After writing the book review, Ms Wohlmuth was asked to write an article about yoga and spirituality for the same magazine, a topic she is deeply interested in.

“Not knowing that I had also written a review of her book, Ms Majewski contacted me because of that article,” Ms Wohlmuth said. “She asked me to be a part of a yoga and spirituality committee that they were working on with the association.”

They worked together online for two years looking at spirituality in yoga and its importance.

“Beyond the committee, she was writing this book,” Ms Majewski explained.

Spirituality in Yoga was released last November.

The first workshops run from Friday until Sunday, and the second from February 20 to 22.

The workshops are $215 individually or $400 together.

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