Discover Canyon Ranch; the wellness resort to transform you

Health and fitness, the newest growing trend still yet evolving in travel with more people ditching the traditional fly and flop for the more active and healthy holiday, didn’t just start a few years ago. Canyon Ranch in Tucson, Arizona kick started the wellness revolution in 1979.

Most of us know we should be exercising and focusing on living a healthy lifestyle but we claim we’re too busy. Wellness is a necessity, not a luxury and Canyon Ranch; the health and fitness spa destination will help you explore new ways to lead a healthier, more fulfilled lifestyle. This award-winning all-inclusive resort in the magnificent Sonoran Desert offers endless opportunities for pleasure, relaxation, discovery and renewal.

Everything at Canyon Ranch is about your health and fitness. You can hike in the desert, play tennis, refine your golf game and indulge in the most lavish spa treatments and with a choice of 40 fitness classes each day from yoga to dance and water exercises such as treadmills in the swimming pool, you can be as busy or as quiet as you like. Outdoor actives include biking, climbing walls and adventure programmes such as a high ropes challenge course to get your adrenaline pumping.

The Life Enhancement Programme is ideal if you want to begin or restart a fitness programme, develop a healthy diet, explore spiritual practices, investigate alternative approaches to health, recuperate after illness, manage your stress or come to terms with a life transition. This programme is part of the integrated approach to nutrition, stress management, and staying fit. 

At the award-winning spa, you will find highly trained health professionals and a complete state-of-the-art Health & Healing Centre with extensive diagnostic testing capabilities, including an onsite sleep lab. A range of health professionals will take the time to evaluate your health history, understand your health concerns and develop your personalised map to wellness. The centre offers personalised physical evaluations, as well as a full range of diagnostic services for cardiovascular disease, diabetes, metabolic disorders, sleep disorders and genomics testing.

Start or continue your wellness journey by discovering Canyon Ranch, the health and fitness resort to restore, explore and transform yourself.

- Paul

Yoga June, at The BodyHoliday, LeSPORT

Yoga June. The heading says it all – yoga throughout the whole month of June at LeSport, The BodyHoliday in St. Lucia. Their Wellness Centre’s usual weekly activities schedule include daily yoga classes, but in the month of June, there are many more classes and of different varieties for guests to indulge in while on holiday.

Types of classes include meditative, hatha, restorative, ashtanga, vinyasa, fitness, and nidra yoga, among the teaching of other specifics such as body balance, breathing, hip-back bending and more. Whether you’re an enthusiast, or looking to try yoga for the first time, the range of classes really allow you to develop at your own pace without feeling out of place.

Every year there are usually three teachers, all of varying teaching styles that focus on different aspects of yoga. This year, we’ll see Dr. Abhishek Jain, Michael Bailey, and Kathyrn Cullen all share their expertise. Last year I was fortunate enough to have spent two weeks in June on holiday there, and as a yoga lover, I made the most of all their classes on offer. The yoga studio is set in their stunning Wellness Centre - far enough away from the many different activities that go on, so much so that during some yoga classes such as meditative yoga, you can experience real tranquillity.

I woke up daily for an early morning class, and in the late afternoon once the sun had enriched me, I took a second class. With access to daily yoga I really got a sense of the power of yoga and what it can bring to me when you breathe and flow with awareness. Every class became a new sense of rejuvenation. The guests at LeSport are really friendly, and it was not long before I became friendly with the other holidaymakers who had come for Yoga June, many who had already been to the resort before. By the end of the holiday I really felt healthier, energised and fitter -  a state of excellent wellness.

The BodyHoliday, LeSport is the perfect place to for a pure health and fitness experience. With a multi-award winning spa, and a daily schedule of varying classes, this all-inclusive resort boasts the best of everything. Health and Fitness Travel went there earlier this year to experience what they had to offer. For those of you who just can’t get enough of yoga, The BodyHoliday also have Yoga October.

- Adam