Musings on Asheville’s Recognition as a Center for Holistic Healing Opportunities
Asheville has been known as a center of healing since the late 1800′s. People have traveled here because of the inspiring natural environment with its purity of air, water, and temperate climate. Conventional medicine has capitalized on this to the point that we now have Mission Hospital with its award winning cardiovascular and cancer services. Mission is the largest employer in Buncombe county.
Along side the development of conventional medicine here has been a growing community of natural and holistic health providers that were drawn not only to the beautiful natural environment, but also to the open and progressive nature of the people who live here. This openness, and the presence of healing waters and native american traditions of herbal cures developed from the most diverse flora anywhere in the US, opened the doors to non-conventional practitioners who have enriched the opportunities for healing to be found here. This community now offers just about any holistic healing service that is available anywhere in the world.
I was drawn to Asheville through employment as a human service worker, specifically counseling. At that time there was a joke among people I talked with that said that if you threw a Coke bottle out of the window of an airplane over Read more »





