Ah we have a lot to talk about 🙂 Re Canyon Ranch – its honestly amazing and I get why its so expensive – there iis so much included in that fee (food, all the fitness classes and so many workshops). The facilities are incredible and vast. You can get your hair cut/colored, get botox, get laser treatments – like head to toe 🙂 They don’t just have a ‘fitness center’ its a massive building full of rooms for all the different classes with a lot of on staff trainers (and there are like 20 classes a day). The spa is also excellent (has a cold plunge which I appreciate). And twice I had full blood work drawn up – stuff a doctor wouldn’t have done here (which cost additional $250 but was great at the time to know certain things that I was worried about). The food is good and abundant (and all inclusive) and extremely healthy (like, even low on salt – we had to add salt to everything). We saw a lot of intergenerational family girl trips which was so sweet. So imho you get what you pay for but to pay that price tag you simply HAVE to work out a lot, use the pool a lot, eat a lot, go to the workshops, or you aren’t really getting what you pay for. Oh i found their in-house spiritual counselor GREAT (we went to multiple talks by him), but I found their in-house astrologist a waste of money (said the exact same things to me as my friends, literally ver batim). I honestly think it was late and she was just really tired so she phoned it in. The rooms are huge and so quiet, and the 2 mile hike you speak of? We usually did it three times a day to reconnect in between workout classes or their talking sessions (which again, part of that high price tag is paying for these in-house workshop leaders so if you don’t go to the classes you are not getting what you are paying for). I don’t know if they do day-passes, but I know that a lot of people live in their condos and get full use of everything (and were the most vibrant 80 year olds i ever did meet). its definitely a MUCH older crowd, probably because of the price tag.

ah thank you 🙂 I was so nervous about it, honestly, so i’m so glad that it was received well 🙂

OH WOW. ok sending this to my friends. Thank you so much!

With these girls they’ve always been full of nourishment, honestly, with some being more poolside hangs than fitness/yoga. So the biggest shift is the intention to come back feeling better than we left: bringing a book that addresses what we need addressing most at that time (sometimes its parenting, sometimes its leadership/business sometimes its marriage sometimes its spirituality) and then way less poolside hangs and more fitness/yoga + journaling +sleep. I still love a chill hang weekend and have other groups of friends who love a relax/drink wine by the pool weekend. I’ve never been to racho la puerta! will look it up 🙂

SAME! please post more, Emily

I’m sure you are right. chemistry is so important but i need to put myself out there. x

that’s a great idea. love that 🙂

thank you 🙂 I really love this advice and I needed it. xx