Sarasota News Leader
January 11, 2013
sat around like Hugh Hefner with my robe on.
I drank hot tea and did something I only do
every couple of years: I opened the blackout
curtains to let in the sunrise the next morning.
Then I closed my eyes at exactly 10 p.m. to
be fresh for the next day. I am not sure of the
sheet thread count, but I would venture to say
it was in the billions.
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As for the spa: As soon as the sun came up, I
bounded from bed for Day 2 of sunrise yoga,
but as soon as my overworked legs touched
the ground, I found myself on the floor in a
puddle of bathrobe (my new favorite thing to
wear around the room).
It seems I pushed myself a little too far the
previous day, but that is OK, because this was
WORKING OFF THAT WEIGHT
an excuse to hit the spa. I hobbled to that faCanyon Ranch has the largest fitness facility in cility and made arrangements for massages,
Florida, boasting the 70,000 square feet I men- scrubs and other energy/healing techniques
tioned earlier. When I say "fitness facility," I do to make me a mental rock star.
not mean a simple little gym, either. Canyon All guests of Canyon Ranch have access to
Ranch is equipped with pools, weights, mathe spa pools and amenities, but massages are
chines, rock-climbing walls, studios and jogextra. The detox body wrap was my modality
ging paths. I also would venture to say Canyon
de jour. It had won me over with its adverRanch's facility is sort of like the land of milk
tisement, "Relax in the cocooning warmth of
and honey for anyone who wants to sweat.
our dry flotation experience while your skin
My day began with sunrise yoga on the soaks up the benefits of the natural seaweeds,
beach, followed by a healthful glass of fresh- oils and lotions." Once it was complete, I was
ly squeezed juice. Feeling in the rhythm of fit- encouraged to continue my state of well being
ness, I immediately bounded into a TRX class, in the pools.
then breakfast, water aerobics, a beach run,
lunch, rock climbing, power aerobics, a nap, The pools are what my wildest dreams are
personal training and dinner. By the end of made of and, as I mentioned earlier, I happen
the day my legs were jelly and I could not stay to have my Ph.D. in "spa going," so I am really
good at this part of my trips.
awake past 9 p.m.
Open-air yoga is just one of the amenities at Canyon Ranch.
