Visiting Wellness Guide

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Join us as we host acclaimed wellness experts, authors, thought leaders, artists, and more for one-of-a-kind experiences geared toward exploring and optimizing your physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, and relational well-being. Together we're creating a community of seekers who want to connect more deeply with themselves, others, and the world around them.

Dr. Cassie Holmes

November 15, 2025

Dr. Cassie Holmes is a professor at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management and the author of Happier Hour: How to Beat Distraction, Expand Your Time, and Focus on What Matters Most. Her research on time and happiness has been featured by NPR, The New York Times, The Atlantic, and The Today Show, and her work has changed the lives of thousands—including her UCLA MBA students who consistently rank her course among the best. Through evidence-based insights and personal storytelling, Cassie teaches people how to transform the way they experience time—so they can feel more present, fulfilled, and alive in the everyday moments that matter most.

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Available Offerings

  • Happier Hour: How to Beat Distraction, Expand Your Time, and Focus on What Matters Most: Based on her top-rated UCLA course, this engaging workshop offers science-backed tools for shifting how you perceive and invest your time. Learn how small changes in how you spend your hours can lead to more joy, greater presence, and a life that feels deeply fulfilling—without needing to change your circumstances.
  • Happier Hour Q&A + Book Signing: An intimate AMA-style session where Dr. Holmes takes your questions, offers practical takeaways, and connects one-on-one through a book signing following the workshop.
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Your stay includes:

  • 20% off our Best Available Rate.
  • Access to enroll in Visiting Wellness Guide classes.
  • Access to daily wellness experiences; from mindfulness, movement, culinary, personal growth to outdoor adventure and creative arts.
  • Access to 5,000+ sq ft of fitness, yoga, meditation spaces, and nearby hiking/biking trails.
  • Connection with on-site wellness experts with opportunity for private sessions.
  • Comfortable overnight accommodations and access to restful amenities, including resort pool.
  • Complimentary bikes to explore Carefree, Arizona.
  • Complimentary CIVANA water bottle with access to on-property FloWater alkaline water hydration stations.
  • Complimentary self-parking.

*Must use code to receive Visiting Wellness Guide rate offering. Rates are subject to availability and blackout dates. Cannot be combined with other offers and does not apply to group rates. Experience Fee will be applied per guest, per night + tax and includes: full access to daily complimentary wellness programming, restful resort amenities, fitness center, resort bikes, CIVANA water bottle with access to on-property FloWater alkaline water hydration stations, WIFI, self-parking, and more.