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Well-Being
There is something about being around
a horse that makes you calm and
centered, You’re thinking daily yoga
and relaxing spa treatments — plus a
little “horse time” would be ideal.
Where to go:
One of Canada’s first “destination spas,”
Ste. Anne’s Spa in Grafton, Ontario offers guests plenty
of opportunity for hands-on horse time. You can join
the stable caretaker for morning or evening chores such
as feeding, mucking the stalls, guiding the horses from
barn to paddock and pastures. You can also arrange time
for activities such as brushing the animal’s coat and
mane, massaging sore muscles and even braiding the tail.
A range of other activities and options spread across
this 400–acres property include daily yoga and other
fitness classes, walking or snowshoeing along gently
rolling, snow-covered countryside trails, working out
in the gym, and following a water circuit in the field
stone grotto. Meals are built around healthy and
wholesome country cuisine.
You want to launch a new way of
thinking and a new way of living.
You’re looking for guidance to help
you make better food choices
allowing you to achieve and maintain
a healthy weight.
Where to go:
Set out like a mini village in the Blue
Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, The Art of Living
Retreat Center combines Eastern disciplines with
modern practices to help guests rethink life’s daily
habits and rituals.
A variety of personal development programs are built
around Ayurveda, the ancient life science that helps
diagnose and treat imbalances of body, mind and soul.
Programs cover topics such as: how different foods can
affect both lifestyle and mood based on one’s personal
constitution, and how cleansing and eating the right foods
can help us achieve an ideal and maintainable weight.
The Center’s Shankara Ayurveda Spa offers a menu of
holistic treatments to encourage relaxation and healing,
while one-on-one Ayurvedic consultation helps guests
learn new lifestyle habits promoting health and
longevity. Vegetarian meals are also prepared in
keeping with Ayurvedic philosophies.
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Watch the sun rise over endless mountaintops, rejuvenate with an Ayurvedic
treatment at The Spa, or feel the quiet of a walk in the forest at The Art of Living
Retreat Center, located in North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Mountains.
Photos: © The Art of Living Retreat Center
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