Healing is physical, emotional and spiritual.

Why this exists

The Healing Oasis sits on sixty acres in the Creighton Valley outside Lumby. It was a set of cozy cabins before it was this. Dave and Jennifer Vass built it into a place where people with cancer could come, be looked after properly, and stop having to organise everything themselves for three weeks.

There is nothing quite like it in Canada. People come from Alberta, Saskatchewan, Ontario, Quebec, Oregon and Ohio, and they come because there was nowhere closer that did this.

The five pillars of health

Everything we do here sits on five pillars. They are not a treatment protocol, they are the conditions a body needs in order to do its own repair work. Guests learn all five while they are here, because the point is that you can keep doing them once you are home.

Faith, and how we hold it

We are not religious in the same way Jesus was not religious. We have a living faith, and we believe Jesus is the exact image of God, who showed us who God is by healing people all day and showing love to everyone who was broken.

Our mission at The Healing Oasis is to love. We believe love is the most powerful force in the universe, and our prayer is that everyone who stays with us would feel God’s love.

Treating the symptom, or treating the cause

Conventional treatment is aimed at the tumour. We understand why. But we believe the tumour is the symptom, not the cause. The body made it, and the conditions that allowed it to form are still there once it has been cut out or shrunk.

So our focus is different. We are trying to change the environment the cancer grew in, what is often called the tumour microenvironment, and to give the body what it actually needs to do its own repair.

That is what the five pillars are. Not a nice extra alongside the therapies, but the foundation everything else is laid on. Detox, oxygen, nutrition, enzymes and balance are how you change the terrain. The therapies support that work. They do not replace it.

We are not trying to mask cancer by treating the tumour. We are trying to get to the root of it and help the body heal, because after all, the body is what created the cancer in the first place.

None of this means we ask you to choose. Many of our healing guests are having conventional treatment while they are here, and our approach is designed to sit alongside it. Nothing here is a cure and we will not tell you otherwise. There are a lot of false promises on the cancer journey. We would rather be the place that does not make any.

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