• The Alive Resort for Wellness and Longevity is located in the beautiful Canadian Monashee Mountains, a 40 minute drive from Vernon, British Columbia. It offers 2.5-day workshop and 5- and 12-day programs consisting of basic spa treatments, bodywork, physical activity, stress-management training and interactive educational programs to develop lifestyle skills to enhance clients’ health and wellness.
  
• A winding country road leads to 90 acres of natural sanctuary laced with pristine nature trails and overlooking the Monashee Mountain Range – one of the most beautiful regions in Canada. The resort can accommodate up to 19 guests and is equipped with a commercial kitchen, dining room, two lecture rooms, bodywork and spa area, hot and cold tubs, and massage and steam rooms.
  
• Self-care and skills development is the focus of the Alive Resort’s curriculums. Lifestyle education combined with a hands-on learning experience helps create a shift from external dependence to personal awareness and responsibility for one’s own health. The emphasis is on motivating clients to use practical skills to live life to the fullest and to achieve optimal health.
  
• Physical health seminars use body treatments such as:
  
  Body Mud Wrap
  Hotstones In Heaven
  Relaxation Massage
  Shed Your Old Coat - Full Body Exfoliation
  European Deep Cleansing Facial
  Natural Hand Rejuvenation Treatment
  Natural Foot Rejuvenation Treatment
  Wellness and Longevity Detoxifying Wrap
  
  
• Graduated nature walking and hiking demonstrates the potency of exercise and fresh, clean mountain air.
  
• Clients will be treated daily to gourmet health-conscious meals. Delicious menus and recipes take healthy eating to new levels of enjoyment and appreciation. Nutritional intake assessments are performed, mineral and vitamin deficiency analysis can be provided; meal-planning tips are shared. Professional health coaching is available to those suffering from emotional eating patterns and food addiction.
  
• The Alive Resort staff will offer participants daily classes in “The Eight Natural Doctors,” showcasing the importance of water, rest, exercise, deep breathing, sunlight and nutrition. These elements are presented as the fundamental building blocks of natural health. This framework also teaches participants about the integral role played by nature in rejuvenation.
  
• Evenings will be filled with interactive workshops on physical activity, proper nutrition and stress management.
  
• Participants will explore Emotional Intelligence (EI) in a workshop that uses the new awareness of EI in the workplace and business as its template. The five components of emotional health discussed are:
  
  -Being aware of your emotions
  -Being able to process your emotions
  -Being sensitive to other people and their emotions
  -Being self-empowered
  -Emotions in healthy relationships
  
  
• Mindful of the fact that 125 million North Americans live with chronic health conditions, resort staff will facilitate 2.5-, 5- and 12-day programs to teach this group of guests to reduce the impact of their illnesses and to improve their quality of life.
  
• Education modules will include:
  
  -Pain Reduction Management Principles
  -Implementation Initiatives
  -Increase Your Emotional Health to Reduce the Impact of Your Illness
  
  
• The Alive Health Store will complement guest instruction and experience with educational books, tapes and videos. These tools help to cement and enhance decisions made during and after the resort experience.
  
• To further develop their new lifestyle skills, guests have the option of using an innovative health coaching service. It involves a six-week telephone, Web-supported coaching program that continues to reinforce what visitors have learned during their resort stay. Coaches understand the challenges of adapting new health habits to old environments. The coaching program ensures adherence to the fundamentals of self-care in the “real world” – at home.
  
• The Health Resort will also offer its facilities to outside organizations that are looking for a customized event that integrates their specific needs and agenda with the resort’s programming.
  
• Surrounded by the awesome, healing beauty of nature, participants will learn about natural health, become motivated to care for their mind, body and spirit, feel rejuvenated and leave enriched and empowered in self-care.

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