The Heart of Health and Healing
Imagine that the Edgar Cayce Hospital for Research and Enlightenment is back in operation – just as it was nearly 100 years ago. Once again, there is a place and a program for you to experience an intense and in-depth four days of renewal, transformation, and health enhancement.
You’re invited on this adventure at A.R.E. headquarters! Under the banner of the Tarsia Center for Inner Transformation and Healing, this life-changing retreat is limited to 18 participants to provide the individual attention needed for a personalized and comprehensive experience.
The leaders of the program are longtime A.R.E. members and conference presenters Mary Elizabeth Lynch, Mark Thurston, and Wendy Rains. They have a combined one hundred years working directly with the Cayce material in their personal and professional lives. Alongside of the three of them in guiding you through this five-day intensive are professional staff of the Cayce Health Center and Spa, plus other skilled facilitators.
In our re-creation of the experience of coming to the Cayce Hospital for Research and Enlightenment, the mornings will start out with Cayce-based gentle stretching exercises to get your blood and breath flowing and to help you feel more “tucked-in” to your body for all that is ahead for the day.
The morning program will be devoted to giving you the insights and tools for self-discovery that might have come from a Cayce “mental-spiritual reading” — that is, a deeper understanding and experience of your Ideals, attitudes, and emotions – especially around the way that they directly influence your physical health and well-being. Mary Elizabeth, Mark, and Wendy will guide you through conceptual principles and experiential exercises for this exploration.
Lunchtime will be at the Graze Café which is housed in the historic Cayce hospital building. Lunch is included in your tuition for Thursday through Saturday; and we will run this lunch period just like the “project groups” of decades gone by. It will provide a chance for informal conversation over lunch with the speakers and presenters. For those who would like to talk about personal dreams, transformation and healing, there will be designated tables each day, led by Mark and Wendy.
Afternoons from 1:30 to 4:00 will be all about Cayce-based treatments at the Health Center and Spa. Your tuition for the program includes:
- A 55-minute Cayce-Reilly massage.
- A castor oil pack.
- A steam bath or a session in the Alphasphere.
For one of the afternoon periods–when you are not scheduled for a Health Center treatment–you will be offered a private, confidential, 45-minute spiritual mentoring session with one of the course leaders in which to talk about the themes of your personal transformation process.
The latter part of the afternoon Thursday through Saturday will be our “Creativity Lab.” It’s a chance to give expression to insights that arise from your creative imagination with mandala-drawing and other mindfulness-based activities. It’s a chance to simply have some fun in the period before the dinner hour.
Dinner is on your own, time for rest and integration of all that you experienced during our day together.
Come join us for this revival of an intensive visit to the Cayce Hospital for Research and Enlightenment–the 2024 version.
