A Yogi's Perspective on Supporting Someone with Cancer

A Yogi's Perspective on Supporting Someone with Cancer

With Matinder Kaur and Fateh Singh

Sun 18th Jan, 2026 Camden, London

Tickets: £20 cover price or £40 cover price + donation (this will help us continue to run similar projects). For concessions contact info@grdp.co.uk

Cancer is a word, like death, that nobody wants to hear. And with cancer, just like with death, breathing the light of consciousness into the subject can transform it radically.

The subject is important for all of us, whether we realise it or not. Cancer Research UK estimates that 43% of women and 45% of men will at some point be diagnosed with cancer. For a potentially fatal disease, that is pretty ubiquitous. And the lessons cancer can teach on living with limitations and adversity and facing the inevitability of death are universal.

This is a workshop born out the life experience of a yogi with cancer. It was created for Kundalini yoga teachers and practitioners, but is relevant for and open to everyone. We will lightly cover all the following topics, going more deeply into whichever ones participants are most interested in.

· an overview of cancer

· the impact of diagnosis

· the challenges of living with cancer

· being ready to die (which is not the same as giving up on life)

· where the Kundalini Yoga toolbox is particularly useful*

· where it isn’t and what else might help

(*Whilst our tradition is Kundalini Yoga, anyone with reasonable knowledge of a different spiritual discipline will probably be able to find equivalents when they understand the reasons behind our choices)

This GRDP workshop is part of the Wahe Guru Cancer Project which is a platform for Yogis with cancer to share their hard-won wisdom to help others.

The Guru Ram Das Project (GRDP) is a charity sharing Kundalini Yoga and Meditation with people who would have difficulties accessing public classes for any reason. Typically, this is because of mental or physical health challenges, but it can also be because of cultural barriers, poverty or incarceration.

For more information www.grdp.co.uk or contact Fateh info@grdp.co.uk

Matinder Kaur is a Kundalini Yoga and Shakti Dance teacher living with metastatic cancer. She is has also trained in Yoga Therapy, Gong and Move, Dance Feel (which was created as an expressive release for people living with cancer). Matinder is the inspiration behind the Wahe Guru Cancer Project.

Fateh Singh (aka Zhi Ran) is a Vajracharya (ordained Tantric Buddhist teacher), a Mindfulness and Kundalini Yoga teacher, and a counsellor with almost 20 years clinical experience. His wife and brother survived cancer. His friend this year did not. He manages the Guru Ram Das Project yoga charity.

We hope to see you there. If you would like to attend but cannot make it, please let us know info@grdp.co.uk.

Wishing you every happiness and blessing,

Fateh & Matinder