Canyon Ranch In the Berkshires

 

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Ann P.

San Francisco, CA

7/20/2007

I can't believe I'm the first to write a review for Canyon Ranch. This place is really fabulous. I took my mom there in March. I was a bit nervous. I was expecting a bunch of size 0 Upper East side / East Hampton types to be gazelling around. Instead the place was populated with normal people trying to get away. My mom and I did totally different things there: she was visiting nurses and going to easy going exercise and walking classes; I was stressed out from a job search and recent break-up so did all the energy healing, yin yoga, psychic things I could sign up for. Having oil poured on my 3rd eye steadily for 30 minutes was probably the oddest thing I did, but I just went with it. They have so many activities that it's a guarantee that you'll be able to customize a stay just for you. And the staff is so incredibly nice. My mom hadn't been to an exercise class in years and the lead instructors would see her, hand the class over to the assistant and stand by my mom showing her how to modify the exercises so she felt comfortable. One night by the fire we started talking to this lovely French woman who turned out to be a Holocaust survivor who had been hidden by a French family with her brother. We talked for hours and learned so much. Very interesting clientele. We'd go back in a heartbeat. I just got to find a company to IPO or a lottery to win in order to do it.

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