Alive Resort for Wellness & Longevity NEWSROOM



 Industry Trends & Statistics
  • The saying “a ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure” has never been more meaningful than it is in today’s health care industry. Policymakers and health professionals have come to realize that the allopathic health-care system has a fundamental flaw – it deals with health problems once they manifest themselves, instead of promoting healthy lifestyles. As a result, North Americans are now experiencing a surge in chronic illness. Increasingly, people agree that effective health care must incorporate educational and preventative initiatives. Natural health, which emphasizes conscientious stewardship of one’s own health, is helping shape a new philosophy of health care.
  • Demographic whiz David Foot, author of the best-selling Boom, Bust and Echo, predicts that the aging baby-boomer phenomenon will incite tremendous growth in all areas of health care. The burdens being placed on the traditional medical system have already overwhelmed provincial budgets; in fact, the Romanow Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada recommended health education as a means of controlling this runaway expenditure. Currently, Canadians are facing longer and longer waiting lists for both emergency and elective services.
  • But conventional medicine is being far outpaced by the rise in complementary caregivers. Natural health is now the fastest-growing industry in North America. Half the U.S. population spends $30 billion a year on herbal remedies, massages, megavitamins and other complementary therapies to prevent illness and to treat anxiety, arthritis, headaches, and back and neck pain. Two-thirds of North American medical schools now offer courses in the mind-body connection, acupuncture, spinal, manipulation, natural supplements, herbs and other complementary therapies. And last year, Americans paid 300 million visits to alternative-health practitioners, compared to 30 million visits to traditional medical doctors.



Alive Resort Highlights

  • 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, training/programs, 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, a body work and spa area, hot and cold tubs, massage and steam rooms.
  • Self-care and skill 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 to motivate clients to use practical skills to live life to the fullest and achieve optimal health.
  • Physical health seminars use body work such as:

    -Massage
    -Wet Sheet Packs
    -Cold Mit Friction
    -Mud Wraps
    -Inhalation Steam Bath
    -A comprehensive physical activity program

  • Graduated nature walking and hiking demonstrates the potency of exercise and fresh, clean mountain air.
  • Gourmet health-conscious meals will be served. 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”, emphasizing 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, who 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.



Alive Resort Advisory Board


Dr. Garrett Swetlikoff is an accomplished researcher and physician in the sciences of naturopathic medicine and holistic healing. He leads a team of support staff at his Kelowna-based clinic, where his expertise in progressive and interventional natural medicine has earned him national respect from the medical community and patients. In addition to his hands-on practice, he serves as Medical Director and a facilitator of the Alive Health Resort, where he leads the product-development team in creating course curriculum in the areas of lifestyle, wellness and health promotion. Garrett was the lead medical advisor in developing North America's first online interactive HQ (Health Quotient) assessment, which reflects his work on disease prevention and longevity. To take the HQ and view Garret's published work, see www.alive.com. Dr. Swetlikoff is currently the President of the British Columbia Naturopathic Association.

Dr. Mark Davies is a speaker, researcher and professor of psychology at Regent College in Vancouver. As a workshop facilitator, he has an innate ability to translate his research findings into powerful and practical methodologies, which enable participants to pinpoint the sources of their stress and to address them through increased emotional intelligence practices. His current focus as an innovative mental-health educator is helping people to understand the impact of stress and its links to physical illness. In his role at the Alive Health Resort, Mark delivers presentations and develops training programs.


Vic LeBouthillier is the President of the Alive Health Resort. His work as a business consultant in international corporate environments has provided him with a unique understanding of how over striving to achieve peak performance induces the stress and lifestyle imbalances faced by many of today's executives. His research and work at the Alive Health Resort focuses on achieving peak performance while maintaining a balanced and stress-free life through rejuvenation and emotional intelligence practices. Vic served as lead facilitator for the Emotional Health section in the award-winning Encyclopedia of Natural Healing and of the HQ (Health Quotient) assessment and contributes a regular column on emotional health for the alive journal.


Phil Brewer is co-founder and Resort Facilitator of the Alive Health Resort (formerly Silver Hill's Health Retreat) and has garnered a reputation as a leading health coach and lifestyle therapist. Through hands-on coaching and lifestyle health training, reinforced by ongoing research and education, he has helped evoke in thousands of people the desire to develop healthier lifestyle. Phil's humanitarian calling as a health practitioner, together with his relationship-building coaching style, empowers those he works with to shift paradigms and develop newfound strength to make permanent changes to improve their health.


Dr. Andreas Buchinger is medical director of the world-renowned Buchinger Institute, a private 90-bed hospital in Bad Pyrmont near Hanover, Germany. With credentials in internal medicine, naturopathy, emergency medicine, nutrition and spa treatments, he is an internationally recognized expert in healing and natural anti-aging and was a contributor to 'The Clinician's Complete Reference to Alternative and Complementary Medicine' and to 'Original Buchinger Heilfasten'. He is the third-generation leader of the Buchinger Institute, whose reputation for excellence in longevity and advanced healing therapies has attracted world leaders, executives and celebrities since 1920. Andreas' contribution to the Alive medical team enables it to stay attuned to advanced European healing and natural anti aging practices.

Media representatives can contact the marketing department for arranging interviews with board members and to obtain image files for publishing purposes contact: rod@aliveresort.com