Photo above: The Canyon Ranch spa in Tucson.
Sometimes, we all need a kick to adopt healthier habits and start feeling better fast. Here are four places with the facilities and expertise to you get you going—even if all you've got is a few days.
Canyon Ranch
Massachusetts and Arizona
Last November, Canyon Ranch's Berkshires and Tucson properties introduced new two-night-minimum Get Healthy immersions that give you access to 35+ daily activities, plus workshops, lectures, nutritional consults, and diagnostic screenings. No more excuses!
Four Seasons Hotel
Westlake Village California
It has all the trappings of a luxury hotel and since 2022 is home to the Center for Health & Wellbeing, with a team of 100 health and fitness experts, a 40,000-square foot spa, and a roster of biohacks. Open to guests and non-guests.
Chiva-Som
Thailand and Qatar
The settings are beautiful, but the brand, which launched in Hua Hin, has a cult following for the quality of its experts, themed retreats (each hour of your day is scheduled), and therapists from its Bangkok massage school; one CEO has been 90 times. The newer Qatari sister property, Zulal Wellness Resort, recently launched retreats for families—because it's never too early to start.
The Ranch Malibu
California and New York
Tough love is still the approach at this uber-exclusive, 200-acre bootcamp with “no options” programming, miniscule plant-based meals, and a third of each day devoted to intense exercise. The return rate for The Ranch's seven- and nine-day retreats is 50 percent. In addition to pop-ups in Italy and Vail, a permanent outpost opened recently in the Hudson Valley, with abbreviated three-to-four-day programs for the time-crunched East Coast crowd. (But the days are just as militant.)
This story appears in the Summer 2024 issue of Town & Country. SUBSCRIBE NOW
Jen Murphy is a journalist who specializes in fitness, wellness, and active travel. She covers fitness for the New York Times and is the author of the Yoga (Man)ual.
