The programs
Colorectal cancer — one full section of the curriculum
Not a summary, not a sample chapter. One complete cancer diagnosis, taught exactly as it appears in the 15th Edition: the surgical procedures and what each one leaves behind, treatment side effects, contraindications, and how to program around all of it.
- Read it in an evening. It costs nothing and asks nothing of you
- One of 26 cancer types plus childhood cancer in the full qualification, written to the same standard
- The clearest way to find out whether this is the level you want
Why colorectal. It is the third most commonly diagnosed cancer, one of the most likely to walk into your studio, and one almost no general certification prepares you for. A resection changes core function, abdominal loading and what the client can tolerate after eating. Most trainers do not know that, and it does not come up until it matters.
What happens when you finish it. You will know how to work safely with one of them. That is the point — you will also know, precisely, how much you did not know before you started. The other twenty-six are written the same way.
It sits in the CETI Learning Blog, which is free to join. No payment and no commitment — you create an account and the section is there, along with everything else we publish free.
Taking Control Mind-Body-Soul
Sessions from OncoVie® Cancer Exercise Specialists worldwide on fitness, longevity and breast cancer awareness. A way into the subject and the community without committing to a qualification.
- Video sessions from practicing specialists
- No exam — learning only
OncoVie® CES Pilates Mat Certificate
A Pilates-based rehabilitative program for cancer recovery, written by June Kahn with Andrea Leonard. Mat work you can teach anywhere — no reformer, no studio, no equipment beyond a mat.
- Individualized Pilates-based programming built on the CETI methodology
- Handbook and videos — a certificate course, not an Advanced Qualification
- CETI pays your continuing education petition fees up to $25, with the forms provided
- Supplements the CES Advanced Qualification; it does not replace it
June Kahn is the 2009 IDEA World Instructor of the Year, a former Reebok World Master Trainer, and a PhysicalMind Institute certified Pilates trainer with more than forty years in dance and fitness. She founded June Kahn’s Bodyworks in Boulder, Colorado, developed the AeroPilates® Basic Reformer and Pilates Bowflex® programs, and is a subject matter expert for the ACE certification exam. ACE, AFAA and ACSM certified.
She wrote this program after her own diagnosis with non-Hodgkin’s follicular lymphoma and two years of chemotherapy, through which she kept teaching. “Pilates was my savior.” She is a Cancer Exercise Specialist herself, and cancer free.
The Pilates Mat handbook, written by June, is included with the course and also available in hard copy.
OncoVie® Cancer Exercise Trainer — Level 1
Foundational exercise programming across 25+ cancer types, with an exam. This is a certificate, not a certification — a way into the subject at low cost and low risk.
- Downloadable programming resource for 25+ cancer types
- Exam and certificate of completion
- No CEUs at this level
Nothing is wasted if you go further. The full $299 is credited against the price of the CES Advanced Qualification — so starting here costs you nothing extra if you later certify.
Coaching the Cancer Client
Adding coaching to your CES expertise. A self-study course taught by Andrea Leonard — how to build coaching services alongside the training you already deliver, so clients stay longer and refer more often.
- Motivating and retaining clients beyond the session
- Structuring coaching as recurring revenue rather than one-off hours
- Generating referrals from the clients you already have
- Self-paced, no exam — this develops the practice, not the credential
Included in the Everything Package. Worth taking separately only if you already hold a qualification and want the business side without the rest of the bundle.
OncoVie® Breast Cancer Recovery BOSU® Specialist
A focused specialty in post-surgical breast cancer recovery using the BOSU® balance trainer, with a 90-question examination. Developed over two decades in collaboration with oncologists — and endorsed by the inventor of the BOSU® itself.
“Andrea’s work encompasses two decades of development with top oncologists to provide a cancer recovery program that embraces all of these aspects and more. This program is without a doubt the most comprehensive and individualized program on the market.”
David WeckInventor and Founder, BOSU® Fitness, LLC · Creator of The WeckMethod™
- Videos, PDF modules and quizzes
- 90-question online exam
- Advanced Qualification certificate and business forms
- 1.9 NASM CEUs
OncoVie® CES — Yoga
The entire 15th Edition core curriculum — the same four modules, 600+ pages and 26 cancer types plus childhood cancer as the flagship qualification — with the programming taught through yoga. A full alternative to the flagship, not a top-up. Specialists who already hold the flagship can add it as a supplement.
- Complete 15th Edition core content — surgical procedures, treatment side effects, lymphedema, assessment and programming across 26 cancer types plus childhood cancer
- The seven standard bodies plus 30 Yoga Alliance non-contact hours
- Asana alignment, the relaxation response, pranayama, restorative sequences and lymphatic drainage
- Corrective work for the postural changes that follow mastectomy and reconstruction
- Videos, PDF modules, quizzes, exam and resources
Written by Stephanie Adams Ruff, E-RYT 500, YACEP — Yoga Alliance’s highest registration, with authority to issue continuing education to registered teachers. ACE-Certified Personal Trainer and Orthopedic Exercise Specialist.
Founder of Flow Yoga Studio in Hood River, Oregon, where she has directed a Registered Yoga School since 2003, and creator of the Sustainable Asana Yoga Foundation. Thirty years teaching, and a cancer exercise specialist herself.
Read part of the handbook before you enroll. The sampler includes the full contents, considerations for teaching students in treatment or recovery, the relaxation-response and pranayama chapters, a foundational pose in full detail, and the corrective-exercise section on round shoulder syndrome after mastectomy.
OncoVie® CES — Pilates
Co-written and taught by Portia Page, NCPT, Principal Educator for Balanced Body. The entire 15th Edition core curriculum — the same four modules, 600+ pages and 26 cancer types plus childhood cancer as the flagship — with the programming taught through Pilates. A full alternative to the flagship, not a top-up.
- Complete 15th Edition core content — surgical procedures, treatment side effects, lymphedema, assessment and programming across 26 cancer types plus childhood cancer
- The two-day CES–Pilates workshop, recorded in full — Portia Page and Andrea Leonard teaching together
- Four hours of apparatus programming with Portia across mat, props, reformer, chair and P-Arc — including two sessions on correcting round shoulders and postural imbalance, the protraction that follows mastectomy and reconstruction
- Upper and lower body lymphatic drainage taught through Pilates, after the same material in the core curriculum
- The seven standard bodies plus 40 NPCP CEUs. NPCP requires 16 every two years to keep the NCPT credential current, so this covers five renewal years from one qualification Confirm the credits attach to self-study, not only live delivery
- Videos, PDF modules, quizzes, exam and resources
Instruction from Portia Page, NCPT — a Nationally Certified Pilates Teacher and continuing-education provider through the NPCP, the same body that awards this course its 40 credits. Education Curriculum Coordinator and Principal Educator for Balanced Body, a Master Instructor there since 2006, and author of Pilates Illustrated. Thirty years in the field, with STOTT Pilates comprehensive training and ACE, NASM and AFAA certification.
She co-wrote the Pilates curriculum with Andrea, teaches the recorded two-day workshop alongside her, and filmed every apparatus session. She also holds this qualification herself — so the Pilates material comes from someone who sat the same examination the course prepares you for.
“This incredible course looks at the cancer journey from every angle possible. As a Pilates fitness professional I am now qualified to prescribe personalised movement for a cancer survivor while also understanding the long term benefits.”
An ode to my late Mum.
Danielle NovytargerPilates professional
OncoVie® CES Advanced Qualification — 15th Edition
The flagship. Four modules covering 26 cancer types plus childhood cancer, taught by the person who built the field. Released August 2026 with updated treatment protocols, nutrition science, new sections on complementary and alternative medicine and culinary medicine, and new research on GLP-1 medications.
- 600+ pages across four full-color handbooks
- Guest faculty: Dr. Anna L. Schwartz, PhD, FNP-BC, FAAN, co-author of the ACSM Guidelines for Cancer Survivors; Dr. Jay Harness on emotional reconstruction; Dr. LaGary Carter on Exercise is Medicine; Denise Stewart, OT on scar awareness; and Dr. Mark Kelly on cancer and comorbidities
- Assessment videos — postural, goniometric and 30-second sit-to-stand
- Upper and lower extremity lymphatic drainage videos
- Eight client-ready forms: medical clearance, PAR-Q, health history, assessment, liability release, quality-of-life questionnaire, sample doctor introduction letter and press release
- Approved by all nine CEU bodies
- 180 days to complete, then lifetime access
- Directory listing, private specialist group and CES business coaching
Zoom Guided Training & Business Support
The same qualification, taught live. Weekly webinars with Andrea across a month-long cohort, plus business support — for people who would rather not study alone.
- Weekly live webinars, recorded for review
- Everything in the CES Advanced Qualification
- New cohort every month
- Peer group learning alongside your cohort
CETI Everything Package
Every qualification, every handbook, and the personalized business launch plan — the only place the practice-building work is included.
- CES Advanced Qualification, Yoga, Pilates and BOSU®
- Personalized business launch plan for your region
- Three 1-on-1 sessions with Greg Hendrickson, CETI’s CMO and Business Advisor
- Three 1-on-1 coaching sessions
- 2-year directory listing
- Case Study Library and Coaching the Cancer Client
- One year to complete, rather than the usual 180 days
- Lifetime renewal