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Every path starts with the same free section.

Nine qualifications and programs, from a no-cost introduction to the complete practice-building package. Go as far as your work requires.

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Two questions.

Where are you now?

What do you want from it?

Pick one from each row and we’ll point you at the right starting place.

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Free colorectal preview — Free

Read one complete cancer type at full depth. It costs nothing, there is no expiry, and it is the actual curriculum rather than a preview of it.

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CES Advanced Qualification, 15th Edition — $999

The flagship, and the credential most CETI specialists hold. Approved by all nine CEU bodies. Read the free colorectal section first — it is one of the 26 cancer types in this exact course.

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CETI Everything Package — $2,499

Every qualification plus the personalized business launch plan — your local market analysis, referral contact list, pricing structures and outreach scripts. The only package that answers "will I actually get clients."

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Zoom Guided Training — $1,749

The full qualification taught live, with weekly webinars, business support and a cohort alongside you. New cohorts start monthly.

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Free colorectal preview — Free

Read the free section, then move to the Yoga or Pilates route once you know the subject suits you.

Two routes, same qualification

CES — Yoga — $749

The complete curriculum taught through yoga, carrying 30 Yoga Alliance non-contact hours.

CES — Pilates — $749

The same curriculum taught through Pilates, carrying 40 NPCP CEUs.

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CETI Everything Package — $2,499

Includes both the Yoga and Pilates routes alongside the flagship, plus the business launch plan and three 1-on-1 business coaching sessions with Greg Hendrickson, CETI’s CMO and Business Advisor.

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Zoom Guided Training — $1,749

Live weekly webinars and business support. Pair it with the Yoga or Pilates qualification for your modality.

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Free colorectal preview — Free

See the clinical depth before committing — surgical procedures, staging, contraindications and the immune system are all covered in the first module.

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CES Advanced Qualification, 15th Edition — $999

Built for clinical settings: assessment protocol, goniometric measurement, lymphedema management, neurological complications and programming across the full treatment continuum.

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CETI Everything Package — $2,499

The full clinical curriculum plus the practice-building work, including a tiered referral contact list naming nurse navigators and survivorship coordinators.

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Zoom Guided Training — $1,749

Live cohorts that work around clinical schedules, with the same qualification and weekly access to Andrea.

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Taking Control Mind-Body-Soul — $149

Sessions from specialists worldwide. A low-commitment way to keep learning between renewals.

Two routes, same qualification

CES — Yoga — $749

Add a yoga specialization to the qualification you already hold, and pick up 30 Yoga Alliance non-contact hours doing it.

CES — Pilates — $749

Add a Pilates specialization instead, and pick up 40 NPCP CEUs doing it.

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CETI Everything Package — $2,499

If you are certified but not yet busy, this is the one with the business launch plan, coaching sessions and directory listing.

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Zoom Guided Training — $1,749

Renew alongside a live cohort rather than alone, with business support included.

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What’s in each

All qualifications are valid for two years and include lifetime access to your materials.

Program

Price

Exam & qualification

CEUs

Directory listing

Business plan

Live coaching

Free colorectal section

Free

Learning only

—

Taking Control
Mind-Body-Soul

$149

Learning only

—

Pilates Mat
Certificate

$199

Certificate

Petition, up to $25 paid

—

Cancer Exercise Trainer
Level 1

$299

Certificate

—

CES Pilates Mat
Certificate

$199

Certificate

—

Coaching the
Cancer Client

$349

Learning only

—

Breast Cancer Recovery
BOSU® Specialist

$549

Advanced Qualification

—

Yes

—

CES — Yoga

$749

Advanced Qualification

7 bodies + YA 30

Yes

—

CES — Pilates

$749

Advanced Qualification

7 bodies + NPCP 40

Yes

—

CES Advanced Qualification
15th Edition

$999

Advanced Qualification

7 bodies

Yes

—

Group

Zoom Guided Training
+ Business Support

$1,749

Advanced Qualification

7 bodies

Yes

—

Weekly

Everything Package

$2,499

All of them

All nine bodies

2 years

Personalized

3 × 1-on-1

CEU values shown are for the CES Advanced Qualification unless noted. See the full accreditation table →

In detail

The programs

Free

Start here · free

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.

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.

$149

Learning · no credential

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.

$199

Certificate · no exam

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.

$299

Certificate

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.

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.

$349

Self-study · no exam

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.

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.

$549

Advanced Qualification

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 Weck

Inventor and Founder, BOSU® Fitness, LLC · Creator of The WeckMethod™

$749

Advanced Qualification

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.

Download the Yoga handbook sampler (PDF, 766 KB)

$749

Advanced Qualification

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 Novytarger

Pilates professional

$999

or 6 × $168/month

Advanced Qualification · most popular

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

$1,749

Advanced Qualification · live cohorts

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.

$2,499

over $4,500 of value

Complete package · 12 courses

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

Everything Package

What $2,499 actually covers

Bought separately, the same contents come to more than $4,500.

15th Ed. CES Advanced Qualification

$999

Yoga-based CES instruction

$549

16 hours of Pilates-based CES video

$549

Breast Cancer Recovery BOSU® Specialist

$549

CES-only Zoom guided monthly classes

$599

Three 1-on-1 business coaching sessions

$399

Coaching the Cancer Client

$349

2-year CETI directory listing

$269

Pilates Mat Certificate

$199

Case Study Library

$149

Taking Control exercise & health videos

$149

Yoga and Pilates handbooks

$158

CETI Resource Library

Included

Lifetime renewal

Included

Total value

Over $4,500

Package price

$2,499

Practicalities

How enrollment works

Buy once and the materials are yours. You have 180 days to work through the curriculum and sit the exam, then lifetime access to everything on any device. The Everything Package allows a full year.

Payment plans are available on the CES Advanced Qualification at six monthly payments of $168. On a plan, the final exam unlocks when your last payment clears.

If it isn’t right for you, there’s a 14-day refund window, provided you haven’t moved past Module 1.

180 days

to complete from purchase

Lifetime

access to materials afterward

2 years

qualification validity, renewable with the current edition

14 days

refund window, before you pass Module 1

Already certified

Renewing your qualification

Qualifications run two years. Renewal is not a fee and a form — it is the current edition and a 50-question examination on it.

Across much of the fitness industry, recertification means accumulating credits and paying a fee. Nobody re-tests you, so “currently certified” means you kept paying — and someone who qualified in 2018 holds the same credential as someone who qualified last month, on material that has since changed.

Oncology moves too fast for that. Immunotherapy, GLP-1 medications, surgical technique, lymphedema evidence: the 15th Edition is a different book from the 13th, and the difference is what your client’s treatment actually looks like now.

So you receive the 15th Edition in full and sit a 50-question renewal examination on it, at the same 80% pass mark. That is harder — and it is the reason a cancer center will refer to you, because your credential proves what you know today rather than what you knew when you first sat down.

Renewal keeps your directory listing live. Let it lapse and the listing is hidden automatically.

2 years

how long a qualification stays current

80%

pass mark on the 50-question renewal examination

Full

current edition included, not a supplement

Listed

directory listing stays live while you are current

While you study

Your questions go to the person who wrote the curriculum.

Not a teaching assistant. Not a help desk. Andrea.

Most certifications this size route you to a support portal staffed by people who have never worked with a cancer patient. If you get stuck on lymphatic drainage sequencing, or you have a real client in front of you with a bilateral mastectomy and a shoulder that will not move, that system has nothing for you.

Here you email Andrea and Andrea replies. She wrote all four modules, she has taught them in person on four continents, and she still trains individual clients — so the answer you get is the answer of someone who did it last week, not someone reading from the manual you already have.

That access does not end when you pass. Graduates come back years later with a case they have not seen before, and it is the same email address.

Direct

andrea@thecancerspecialist.com — the author of the curriculum, not a support queue

1-503-502-6776

A phone number that reaches a person

Lifetime

Access to your materials, and to the person who wrote them

Before you buy

Ask which course fits. There is no charge and no obligation

FAQ

Choosing between them

Which one should most people take?

The CES Advanced Qualification at $999 is the flagship and the one most specialists hold. Read the free colorectal section first — it is one of the 26 cancer types in that exact course, so you’re sampling the real thing rather than a trailer.

What’s the difference between Level 1 and the Advanced Qualification?

Level 1 is a certificate, not a certification. It covers foundational programming across 25+ cancer types with an exam, at $299, and carries no CEUs. The Advanced Qualification is the full credential — 600+ pages, four modules, 19 core videos, pediatric oncology, assessment protocol, lymphedema management and nutrition — approved for CEUs by all nine bodies.

Can I upgrade later and have what I’ve paid count?

Yes. The full $299 you spend on Level 1 is credited against the price of the CES Advanced Qualification. Starting small costs you nothing if you decide to go further.

If I take Yoga or Pilates, do I still need the flagship?

No. Each is the complete OncoVie® Cancer Exercise Specialist curriculum taught through that modality — a full alternative, not an add-on. Pick the one matching how you already teach. If you already hold the flagship, either can be added as a supplement.

Is the Everything Package worth it over the flagship alone?

It’s the only place the personalized business launch plan appears — your local market analysis, tiered referral contact list, service and pricing structures and outreach scripts — plus three 1-on-1 business coaching sessions with Greg Hendrickson, CETI’s CMO and Business Advisor and a 2-year directory listing. If your question is “will I actually get clients,” that’s the package that answers it.

Self-study or the live Zoom cohort?

Same qualification either way. Self-study suits people who prefer their own pace; the Zoom cohort adds weekly live webinars with Andrea, business support and a peer group. Cohorts start monthly.

Do I need an existing certification to enroll?

No. A degree in a health or fitness field, relevant work experience, and an accredited fitness certification are all recommended, but none of them are required. The curriculum assumes a working knowledge of anatomy, exercise programming and client assessment, which is where that background helps.

If you want to go down this path without that experience, say so when you enroll — we provide additional educational support to get you to the point where the material lands. Nobody is turned away for not having started somewhere else first.

Try the first module before you decide.

It’s one complete cancer type from the full qualification — the real curriculum, at no cost.