Boulder Crest Retreat for Military and Veteran Wellness, in western Virginia, is the nation's first privately-funded wellness center dedicated exclusively to combat veterans and their families.
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- Boulder Crest Names New Executive Director
Margaret Morton, Leesburg Today, Wednesday, July 1, 2015 "Gene 'Dusty' Baxley started work this week as the new executive director of the Boulder Crest Retreat for Military and Veteran Wellness in Bluemont. Baxley also will serve on the retreat’s board of directors. .. . "Baxley is a certified transcendental meditation teacher, who recently served as the national director of Operation Warrior Wellness for the David Lynch Foundation, as well as executive director of transcendental meditation for veterans with the Maharishi Foundation USA. He is credited with having developed and managed numerous projects teaching transcendental meditation to hundreds of veterans at military installations around the country."
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Boulder Crest Retreat is the nation's first privately-funded rural wellness center dedicated exclusively to our nation's combat veterans and their families.
- Boulder Crest Retreat presents PATHH, a breakthrough combat stress recovery program (6 min)
(video currently unavailable) Boulder Crest Retreat for Military and Veteran Wellness is the nation's first privately-funded wellness center dedicated exclusively to combat veterans and their families. Our unique role has provided us with the optimal platform to develop breakthrough programs focused on combat stress recovery - programs we call PATHH (Progressive and Alternative Therapies for Healing Heroes). We embedded a film crew in a recent Warrior PATHH for six warriors, and this video captures the essence of PATHH as well as outlining our plan for the future.
- HealthNewsDigest - Veterans Issues How Meditation is Helping Veterans Heal
"We believe in the power of Transcendental Meditation, which is why it is an important part of our Warrior PATHH program," explains Dusty Baxley, executive director of the Boulder Crest Retreat and a certified TM teacher and practitioner. "By empowering combat veterans with this very simple technique, they are able to find relief from the challenges that prevent them from coming all the way home."
- Horses Help Heal Veterans' Invisible Wounds | National Geographic (5 min)
Serving in combat can affect soldiers long after they return home from war. For some, the wounds are physical and visible. For others, they go deeper, affecting their mental health. Staff at Boulder Crest Retreat in Bluemont, VA, use horses—equine therapy—to help veterans heal these invisible wounds.