Featured AVEDA Destination Spa

Blackberry Farm:  Walland, Tennessee

For nearly 70 years, this luxury mountain resort steeped in southern hospitality has offered vistas of the Great Smoky Mountains, as well as acclaimed "foothills cuisine" created with fresh produce and herbs from the heirloom garden, and a full menu of Aveda signature treatments enhanced by its own signature Blackberry Mist treatment.

Chopra Center for Wellbeing: Carlsbad, California - Get to know Deepak Chopra Get Authentic, Contemporary Ayurvedic Products Get it all direct from the source - Chopra.com

When I attended the Chopra Center, it was in La Jolla, now it is in Carlsbad.  The location may have changed, but the same quality treatments and programs continue.  Here are a few of the classes I indulged in and a definite for anyone wanting to achieve balance: Perfect Health is a great introductory program to Ayurveda and bringing balance to your daily routine, healing into your physical body and relief to your emotional turbulence. SynchroDestiny helps you to better understand how the threads of your life are woven together and wish to consciously participate in the manifestation of your dreams and desires, you are ready for SynchroDestiny.

This magical workshop unfolds the unfathomable mysteries of life, exploring the universal patterns that shape your destiny—coincidence, karma, consciousness and intention. You will learn specific skills and practices that will enable you to be successful in any environment.

Journey into Healing is a signature Chopra Center workshop is based on the 5,000 year-old practice of Ayurveda, the complementary system of healing which originated in ancient India. Along with special guest healthcare practitioners, the co-founders of the Chopra Center, Deepak Chopra, M.D. and David Simon, M.D., journey through a mind-body natural healing process that explores how to integrate ancient teachings and modern scientific research into a total program for wellness. Founded on the principle that "health is more than then absence of disease, it is physical, emotional and spiritual wellbeing," Journey into Healing explores and explains how to bring these timeless healing practices into your daily life.

This powerful four-day workshop includes instruction in accessing your inner pharmacy through the five senses, detailed explanation of your mind-body personality (dosha), body-centered restful awareness, intimate interactive exchanges, Primordial Sound Meditation instruction and a more complete understanding of a healthful and balanced mind and body.

Seduction of Spirit is great if you desire to learn the secret of meditation.  It will truly ground your meditation practice, experience higher states of consciousness and deepen your spiritual connection to discover your purpose in life. Heralded as the Chopra Center’s most profound spiritual experience, this six-day meditation retreat interweaves the Seven Spiritual Laws of Success, advanced meditation techniques, daily energy work and yoga practice, all which provide the perfect ingredients for an experience that will create an opening of your emotional and spiritual pathways.

Miraval Life in Balance: Catalina, Arizona

One treatment that many of my clients have experienced and benefited from is the Miraval’s Equine Experience.  Miraval challenges you with a journey to self awareness, fitness, recreation and arts extend your experience throughout the resort and into the foothills of the Sonoran Desert. Miraval's challenge activities help adventure seekers to challenge their perceived limits of physical and risk tolerance, as well as their creative and intellectual preconceptions. All introduce new techniques and promise satisfying results.   Let their horses take you on the journey of a lifetime.

Miraval’s Equine Experience gives you the opportunity to learn to communicate with horses – animals that, by nature, have the ability to read your energy immediately. But as you’ll soon find out, “It’s not about the horse.”

You’ll perform equestrian ground skills that often bring to light personal patterns that may be holding you back from the life you want to live. These patterns may be causing stress in your life and damaging your relationships. Learn how to recognize the power – or lack of it – in your actions and how to overcome your fears and uncertainties.

This simple but revolutionary technique was developed by Miraval’s own Wyatt Webb, a man with decades of experience under his Western belt. With his easy-going personality and non-judgmental approach, Wyatt Webb will put you at ease and help you examine these patterns, beliefs and self-defeating behaviors that affect your personal and professional relationships. He will lead you to remember your authentic self, the person you were meant to be.

Be open to the possibility of learning something new about yourself in this program and you might be surprised what you find out.

Miraval’s Equine Experience Intensive with Wyatt Webb is a Four-day program where you’ll get six hours of very focused, personalized attention on a daily basis from Wyatt himself. He’ll guide you through the work with the horses in the morning and group talks in the afternoon. You’ll gain greater self-awareness through this experience that you can apply to many areas of your life afterwards. This is an opportunity to gain remarkable insights into your personal and professional interactions.

Canyon Ranch: Lenox, Massachusetts

Has several programs to inspire and motivate you to live the healthiest life possible. You and your Program Advisor can plan your perfect stay, beginning where you are right now and considering how you want to feel – what path you’d like to take. Every Canyon Ranch vacation is unique. Canyon Ranch will offer you programs for restoration, exploration and transformation.  Restoration places the focus on remembering your true self. Gain support and new energy for all of the good choices you already make in your life, or simply nourish your mind and body.

Exploration allows you to delve into something new. With a few suggestions from your Program Advisor, you’ll discover all the newest options in health, wellness, relaxation and fun at the Ranch.

Transformation will awaken the possibility of making positive changes in your life. Share your intentions with your Program Advisor and begin to consider the journey that awaits.

Spa Services to open the heart and mind:

		Spa Montage in Laguna Beach, CA offers a "Surrender" program in where an analysis is performed, and instead of getting a menu of services, they design a program for you.
		Mii Amo in Sedona, AZ offers products to scrub and cleanse the body made from blue corn and a succulent plant called stonecrop, while an eagle feather is waved as part of a ceremony to cleanse the spirit, inspired by local American Indian culture.
		Cliff House Resort & Spa in Ogunquit, ME offers body wraps made from Maine blueberries, wild roses or juniper berries. Stones from the nearby Bald Head Cliff are used in a stone massage, and warm seashells are applied to the body in a two- hour "Seashell Therapy" treatment.
		The Grotto at Glen Ivy Hot Spring Spa, Corona, CA offers a mysterious, intriguing cavern which is filled with a natural mineral water mist and the scent of sea kelp and aloe vera. You wear only a swim suit so your entire body can be “painted” with a rich green body moisturizer (the source of the sea kelp and aloe vera scent). Then move into the Hydrating Chamber so the rich moisturizer can work its magic. After you feel calm, cool and moisturized, simply shower off the body masque. To top it all off, enter the cool mist chamber for a cup of Glen Ivy tea and a crisp green apple.  This social spa event is truly unlike any other. It is a place where shared experiences renew relationships.

 LaStone “The Original Hot Stone Therapy” which is offered at these top spas in the USA.

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Check your local spas to see what services they offer.  Change and transition can occur with any spa service performed by a qualified therapist.  Before you book your service, ask about the qualifications and specialties of your massage therapist.  Look for the best.  A Reiki master, a Reflexologist with over 500 hours specializing in reflexology the trainer for the spa for the therapies you are considering.  Then relax and release.