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 this June! 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 and Mark Thurston, with the professional staff of the Cayce Health Center and Spa and other facilitators providing healing modalities in body, mind and spirit, all according to the Cayce precepts.
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.
Mornings
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 and Mark will guide you through conceptual principles and experiential exercises for this exploration.
Lunchtime
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.
Early Afternoons
From 1:30 to 3:45 will be all about Cayce-oriented treatments at the Health Center and Spa. Your tuition for the program includes the following Health Center treatments:
- A 55-minute consultation and treatment with one of the two staff chiropractic physicians – Dr. J.P. Amonte or Dr. Cathy Good. Both are longtime members of the staff and are deeply familiar with the Cayce approach to health, attunement, and healing.
- A 55-minute Cayce-Reilly massage.
- A steam bath followed by castor oil pack – another Cayce-based treatment. (For anyone unable to do a steam bath, we can work with you on an alternative health treatment from the Center.)
Late Afternoons–Creative Lab
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.
Evenings
Your evenings can be free time, or you can choose to become part of Mark Thurston’s optional dream study group on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. We will be exploring ways that our dreams give us insights about personal transformation and healing; and you can drop-in for any or all of the evening sessions.
Come join us for this revival of an intensive visit to the Cayce Hospital for Research and Enlightenment – the 2024 version.
