A 35-session course should fit your life — not the other way around.
Most people in Western North Carolina live well over two hours from the nearest EECP-equipped clinic. We offer three ways to complete your sessions without that problem.
In-Home Mobile
We bring our portable EECP equipment to your home. A bedroom, sunroom, or den becomes your wellness space. No driving up and down the parkway. Your spouse reads next to you. Your dog sleeps near your feet.
- —Full 35-session course in your home
- —Two-a-day option — done in about three weeks
- —Couples at the same address share one travel fee
- —Same equipment and standards as our on-site studio
On-Site Day Visits
For locals who'd rather come to us. Our Cowan Cove studio in West Asheville hosts day-visit clients alongside the residential retreat — same equipment, same standards, no overnight stay.
- —Two-a-day option — finish the course in ~3 weeks
- —Cedar barrel sauna between sessions
- —Five mini goats in the backyard
- —Ten minutes from downtown Asheville
Couples & Households
Doing this with your spouse or partner is one of the most underrated things a marriage can do. When both of you complete a course on the same timeline, the return is symmetric.
- —One travel fee per household
- —Higher completion rates — partners support each other
- —Each partner has their own reasons; we build around both
- —Available in-home or on-site
Most Western North Carolinians live well over two hours from the nearest EECP machine.
If you've been told EECP could help you — or if you're healthy and want a wellness session for circulation and VO₂ — finding a chair locally is harder than it should be.
The Traditional Path
- ✕Drive to a clinic five days a week for seven weeks
- ✕35 round trips — 200+ miles each, over two hours each way
- ✕Scheduling around work, weather, and mountain switchbacks
- ✕Fuel, time, and wear add up to thousands of dollars
- ✕Sessions feel like appointments, not restoration
The Asheville EECP Way
- ✓Sessions in your home, or steps from your car at our studio
- ✓Two-a-day option completes the course in about three weeks
- ✓Couples and households treated together for one fee
- ✓Mountain views, cedar sauna, and quiet between sessions
- ✓The wellness session becomes part of your day, not a disruption
The only ECP system designed to travel.
We operate exclusively on the Renew NCP-5 — the latest-generation portable ECP unit, FDA-cleared and small enough to fit in the back of an SUV. Folds compact, weighs under 200 pounds, runs on a standard outlet.
Still running.
I left the hospital against medical advice. Five years later, I'm running faster at fifty-two than I did at forty.
In January 2021 I was sitting in a hospital bed with a 100% blocked left anterior descending artery — the one cardiologists call the widow maker — and a 95% blockage in my circumflex. The words if you live that long were still in my ears.
I didn't take the surgery. I found EECP instead. When no one in Florida would treat me as a first-line patient, I bought a machine myself and started working on the problem in my own office. Five years and 700+ hours of sessions later, I'm still here.
I built this because there are thousands of people in places like Western North Carolina who have never heard EECP exists. That's not a medical problem. That's an access problem. We fix access problems.
"If you're healthy and want a wellness session for your circulation, or you're traveling here to complete a course at the retreat — Asheville EECP is the local-resident answer to the same equation. Same equipment. Same care. Closer to home."
— Jack Clifford · Founder, Asheville EECP & Atlantic EECP
If you want to really understand EECP, start here.
After five years on the machine and watching my wife do the same, I wrote the definitive patient-facing book on Enhanced External Counterpulsation. It covers the science, the history, the politics of why this therapy has been kept quiet, the conditions it addresses, and the practical reality of going through a 35-session course.
It's the book I wish I'd had on the weekend I sat in a hospital bed deciding whether to take the surgery. If you're considering EECP — or considering it for someone you love — read it first. Then call us.
Get the book at eecpbook.com →What people say after completing their sessions.
"I had been told there was nothing left to try. Three stents, bypass surgery, still had angina every time I walked to the mailbox. After 35 sessions I walked the BRP loop without stopping. I don't know how to explain it except that something changed."
"My wife and I did it together. That was the right call. By week four we were both sleeping better, both had more energy. The thing I didn't expect was how much it felt like we were doing something together again — not just managing our health separately."
"I had post-COVID fatigue for nearly two years. The exhaustion was debilitating — I couldn't work a full day. After completing my sessions I was back to full-time within six weeks. I wish I had found this a year earlier."
Initials used at client request. Outcomes vary by individual. Composite testimonials drawn from Atlantic EECP and Waking Dreams Retreat clients during the Asheville EECP launch period.
Conditions where blood flow and endothelial function are the core problem.
The strongest published evidence sits in chronic angina and heart failure. The same mechanism — improved circulation and endothelial health — has shown promise across a growing set of conditions. See how we position each one →
Chronic & Refractory Angina
For ongoing chest pain despite medication, stents, or bypass — EECP is FDA-cleared and Medicare-covered for angina under NCD 20.20. We operate self-pay.
More →Ischemic Heart Failure
The PEECH trial showed improvements in exercise duration, quality of life, and NYHA class in patients with reduced ejection fraction.
More →Post-COVID & Long COVID
The endothelial damage at the core of long COVID is exactly what EECP addresses. Observational data shows improvement across all eight SF-36 quality-of-life domains.
More →Healthy & Athletic Wellness
Under the NCP-5's healthy-individual clearance, EECP is used for circulation, vasodilation, and increased VO₂ — passive cardiovascular conditioning.
More →From West Asheville to Black Mountain, we come to you.
We serve the greater Asheville metro and the surrounding Blue Ridge — Buncombe, Henderson, Madison, and Haywood counties. Mobile in-home service, or on-site day visits at our Cowan Cove studio in West Asheville.
