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About The Comfort Zone
Comfort Zone Center for Whole Self Healing is a community created to raise consciousness by raising awareness through a holistic approach to whole-self health and well-being. Our ultimate goal is to bridge modern day health & medicine with holistic and ancient philosophy and techniques so we're better equipped to handle our personal lives and the complexity of our culture today.
We exist as an environment where folks feel safe exploring themselves more fully in an effort to live a more abundant and authentic life emotionally, physically, spiritually, professionally and personally. We believe in a mind, body, spirit connection. By creating balance and symmetry between these bodies, we're able to heal the body as a whole experiencing human excellence and joy in its' purest form.
Located in the Delaware beach resort of Lewes, our facility is comfortable and peaceful boasting an intimate setting. We're a "whole self" health & wellness center that's enjoyed by our local community with daily yoga and fitness classes with locker room facilities equipped with steam and sauna. As a retreat and training center, you can enjoy the work of leading professionals in the holistic health industry through week-end and week-long programs by viewing our Upcoming Events. In addition, we offer massage and Tuina bodywork services, Ayurveda and other healing services. Our retail boutique includes yoga clothing and accessories, meditation cushions and bolsters, DVD's and CD's, books, gift items and much more.
Through a strategic partnership with local hotels and the Cape Henlopen State Park, which overlooks the confluence of the Delaware Bay and Atlantic Ocean, we're able to offer affordable and modest housing for our all programs and retreats. We're 2 miles to the Lewes Beach and 3 miles to the park beaches and hiking and biking trails of Cape Henlopen State Park. Enjoy the serenity and beauty of this quaint beach town with all its' history, shopping and restaurants. Some of our programs and retreats will include meals as part of the experience while others allow you to explore the local fare.
Our Story
The Comfort Zone Center for Whole Self was founded by Ed & Wendy Harrold in 2006. Ed began his career in yoga and holistic health 12 years ago after leaving a family-owned insurance adjusting business. Ed was introduced to yoga through an old friend and partner with admittedly "no intention of exploring this lifestyle so deeply". Ed was a gifted athlete whose body was beginning to fail him. He thought yoga would help some injuries that were beginning to plague his body. Little did he know he would embrace this tradition so enthusiastically and move on to open yoga studios in NJ and create a yogic-based performance training program designed for athletes and fitness enthusiasts called Flexibility For Athletes.
Wendy's catapult into yoga and holistic health began 6 years ago because of the sudden loss of her mother to lung cancer. To heal from the grief, Wendy began to explore yoga and energy based healing rituals foreign to her at the time. These life changing modalities led her on a mission. She left her 12-year corporate position in banking to learn, educate and heal others and bring all of this to the masses. Shortly into her journey, Ed & Wendy met. Embracing their journey together, they followed their hearts to open their dream here in Lewes, DE; a comprehensive facility focused on healing on many levels.
In addition, Ed's Flexibility For Athletes programs can be experienced here at our facility, at Kripalu Center and leading fitness facilities throughout the country. To learn more about this program, visit our sister site at www.mindandbodyworkout.net. Ed is also the Director of Yoga and Sports Training for Stephen Cope's Institute for Extraordinary Living at Kripalu Center. The Institute, in its' partnership with Harvard Medical School, studies the effects of yoga strategies to the challenges of optimal performance in the arts, sports and various forms of highly concentrated activity.
Ed & Wendy have both been blessed along the way to work and build relationships with some the leading professionals in this industry and are thrilled to announce their newly formed alliance and partnership with Sierra Bender, creator of well-known national and international retreat Boot Camp for Goddesses® and Dr. Robert Diamond, DC, Tuina Practitioner.
The heart of Boot Camp for Goddesses® empowers each woman to claim her own worth, to claim her right to be. It seeks to reveal the Goddess traits of mystery, magic, solitude and inner beauty which live in every woman. Through Boot Camp for Goddesses®, a woman can take command of her space, her emotions and her mind while remaining in her feminine essence. It is a place where she can come to nurture and honor her mind, body and spirit.
We share a vision with Sierra. Through our combined philosophies and expertise, we can bring "Whole Self" healing to a new level as we tackle many of the issues facing our society. Sierra will now call Comfort Zone her home base for most of her national retreats. You can also experience Sierra at Omega Institute and various venues internationally. To learn more about Sierra, visit her site at www.bootcampforgoddesses.com.
Dr. Bob has been in practice for 25 years and brings a wealth of talent and knowledge to our health & wellness practices. He began his career with the study of Chiropractic receiving his Doctorate of Chiropractic from Sherman College of Chiropractic in 1982. Believing there was more to the body's natural healing practice, he received his Master Tui Na Practitioner from Qui Don University, Beijing China in 1983. Dr. Bob has an office in Langhorne, PA and will now be splitting his time between PA and our Center. He's a gifted healer and practitioner. He shares our vision of "whole self" healing and is an asset towards our long-term strategies. Learn more about Tuina.
Our Mission
To teach clients how to embrace new ways, through sometimes very old traditions, in holistic health. Through different modalities, allow us to push you to the edge of your "comfort zone" to facilitate healing so you may see your full potential and put it into action. No matter what your fitness level or whether or not you consider yourself a spiritual person, we will help you experience the full spectrum of the human experience - strength and vulnerability, pain and pleasure, determination and receptivity, self-reliance and intimacy, action and rest.
We do this through:
- fitness & athletic programs for adults and adolescents
- weightloss and other substance abuse programs
- yoga & spiritual practice classes & workshops
- professional trainings in holistic modalities
- corporate wellness programs and retreats
- abuse survivor programs
- specialized programs for men & women individually and as couples
- dance and self-expression
- families and kids
We have a passion for what we do and what we bring to the table. You'll feel it from the moment you enter our place!
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Our shared rooms include two queen size beds, cable television, hairdryers, refrigerator, free local calls, continental breakfast, daily maid service, fitness center, outdoor pool.
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Our private rooms include king bed, cable television, hairdryers, refrigerator, free local calls, continental breakfast, daily maid service, fitness center, outdoor pool.
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Our dorm style living is a 3 bedroom condominium with bunk beds in each bedroom, 2 full bathrooms, living room, dining area and full kitchen, cable television. We provide bedding and basic bath linens. You will need to make your own bed. There is no daily housekeeping service.
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The Comfort Zone workshops are brought to you by a team of dedicated practitioners, each professionally trained in their discipline.
Ranging from meditation to physical training, our workshops will bring you to that next level that you seek. |
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