Exercise your options during Summer Weeks at our award-winning Southern California health spa. Golden Door invites cutting-edge leaders in their field to enhance your already customized week-long stay. Summer Focus Weeks feature perennial favorites such as Judith Greer and Lauren Artress at our award-winning health spa in Southern California. This summer at the Golden Door, we're celebrating the variety of life and lifestyles. Men's Weeks, Coed Weeks, Summer Focus Weeks and Spa Interludes, each offer you a unique Golden Door experience. Select from our distinctive weeks, including:

2010 Summer Focus Weeks - $7,495 includes our full week-long program plus these special presenters and events:

• Spirited Walker® with Carolyn Scott Kortge: June 20 - 27. A simple walk can become a journey of discovery when you engage all your senses to become fully awake and aware. In teaching The Spirited Walker, Carolyn Scott Kortge “blends athletic performance and meditative focus in a unique approach to fitness.”
• Expressive Arts Week with Judith Greer Essex  June 27 - July 4. As children, we take our artistic talents for granted. As adults, we may need to be reminded we are all artists. Re-discover your inner artist this week. Put life’s issues in perspective experiencing one of life’s most natural joys.
• Dance Week   July 4 – 11. Bollywood, anyone? Shimmy, twirl, glide and stomp during this guest-favorite week. Kick off your shoes or tie on some taps. You’ll feel like you’ve gotten the lead on Broadway.
• Yoga Week  July 11 – 18.Based in both the physical and philosophical, yoga creates an environment that brings you into a state of dynamic balance where you can create a reservoir of peace, abundant energy, and poise.
  
• Labyrinth Week with Dr. Lauren Artress  July 18 - 25. The labyrinth has been celebrated through the centuries for its power to quiet and focus the mind. Lauren Artress, founder of Veriditas: The Worldwide Labyrinth Project, will be your guide you as you walk the Golden Door’s labyrinth. $6,000
• Inner Door Week with Ann Harriet Buck:   July 25 – August 1. The most revered and long-lived program at the Golden Door, Inner Door keeps pace with the times; while also using time-tested practices like meditation and introspection, and supportive group energy to achieve life-altering insights.
• Golden Door Cooks at Home with Executive Chef Dean Rucker August 1 – 8. Become a Golden Door At-Home Cook. We’ve built an entire week around your training! The text book? Chef Dean’s fabulous new cookbook!
• Eat Well. Move Daile. Be Healthy with Drs Wendy and Jason Bazilian August 8 – 15. “A Bazilian simple strategies” blending the science, culture and philosophy of eastern and western medicine and nutrition can help you improve your whole health.
• Pilates Week: August 15 – 22. After just one session you’ll feel as if you’re standing taller and moving more gracefully. Designed to stretch, strengthen, and balance the body, Pilates is not only a fitness sensation, but an important component is professional sports training and rehabilitation.
• Interlude Weeks with Carol LeBeau: August 22 – 25 and August 25 – 29. As the popular news anchor for KGTV in San Diego and part of the longest-running female news team in the country, Carol has toured with the Pope, jogged with the president and interviewed Oprah.
• Water Week August 29 – September 5.
  Swimming is the optimum in resistance workouts yet your body feels buoyant, cushioned, and protected. Water exercise reduces strain on muscles and joints, improves cardiovascular function, muscle strength, endurance, posture, and flexibility. $6,000