Post-Treatment Life: A Retreat for Cancer Survivors and Thrivers

Post-Treatment Life is a four-day healing retreat for cancer survivors and thrivers at Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. It is led by integrative medicine practitioner, cancer survivor, and author Dr. Amy Rothenberg together with Kripalu faculty member Ilana Beigel. The program brings together education, reflection, movement, and contemplative practice for people who have finished treatment and are finding their way into what comes next.

Many survivors feel relief and gratitude when treatment ends. The physical, emotional, and cognitive effects that follow can linger for months or even years, quietly shaping quality of life and long-term health. This retreat offers a supportive, compassionate, trauma-informed space to look at those effects directly and to learn practical ways of caring for yourself.

What to Expect

The program combines evidence-informed teaching with yoga and mindfulness. You will explore integrative and natural medicine strategies that may help with common post-treatment challenges, including fatigue, brain fog, lymphedema, peripheral neuropathy, and changes in intimacy and sexual wellbeing. You will also look at how nutrition, stress reduction, movement, rest, and restorative practices can help build an internal environment that supports resilience.

Yoga and mindfulness practices are offered as a way to process the physical and emotional impact of cancer treatment, regulate the nervous system, restore a sense of safety in the body, and reconnect with vitality, meaning, and inner steadiness. The aim is greater confidence in the body's innate capacity for healing, along with tools you can take home.

The days follow a steady rhythm. The retreat opens with check-in from 2:00 pm, a Kripalu Yoga class, dinner, and an evening program session from 7:30 to 9:00. On the full days, Kripalu Yoga runs from 6:30 to 7:45 am, followed by a silent breakfast. Program sessions take place from 9:00 to 11:30 am and again from 1:30 to 4:00 pm, with lunch between them. A second yoga class runs from 4:45 to 6:00 pm, then dinner. On the final morning there is yoga, silent breakfast, and a closing session from 9:00 to 11:00, then lunch and departure. Actual times may vary, and the schedule given at check-in has the details and room locations.

About Dr. Amy Rothenberg

Dr. Amy Rothenberg is an integrative medicine practitioner, author, and cancer survivor. She brings both clinical perspective and lived experience to the retreat, offering evidence-based insights and practice-tested approaches to support healing beyond treatment.

About Ilana Beigel

Ilana Beigel is a member of the Kripalu faculty. She works alongside Amy Rothenberg to guide the yoga, mindfulness, and contemplative practices that run through the program.

The Setting

Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health sits in Stockbridge, in the Berkshires of western Massachusetts. Accommodations are intentionally simple, meant to help you unplug and feel grounded. Options include private rooms for those seeking solitude, shared rooms, and community-style dormitories for a more communal stay. Rooms are ready by 4:00 pm, and a luggage room is available if you arrive earlier.

Three nutritious meals are served each day, and breakfast is taken in silence. Your stay includes access to the Kripalu grounds.

Before You Go

The retreat is designed for all cancer survivors and thrivers, whatever their yoga or meditation experience. The pace and offerings accommodate varying physical abilities and emotional needs. The program is taught in English.

Your registration includes ten or more yoga classes over the stay, three meals a day, accommodation, all program sessions and educational content, and full use of Kripalu's facilities and grounds. Healing Arts sessions, as well as items from the Kripalu Shop and Cafe, are available for separate purchase.

On the day of departure, room check-out is at 10:00 am. You are welcome to stay on campus and take part in workshops until 2:00 pm.