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(with selected weeks at an additional $1,495 savings!) - offer our full week-long program plus special presenters and events:

• SPIRITED WALKER® with Carolyn Scott Kortge: June 20 – 27 A simple walk becomes a journey of discovery when you engage all your senses. Carolyn Scott Kortge, author of The Spirited Walker wants you to stretch your legs and your imagination, making “a conscious choice to step forward, even in familiar surroundings, with the fresh eyes of an explorer.” The “inner game” of walking, as taught by Carolyn, blends athletic performance and meditative focus, putting care of the spirit on equal footing with care of the body.
  Be among the first to learn the techniques from Carolyn’s new book Healing Walks for Hard Times prior to its August 2010 release. Carolyn offers simple steps you can take to get back on your feet when physical or emotional upheavals try to knock you off balance.
  
  
• EXPRESSIVE ARTS with Judith Greer Essex, PhD: June 27 – July 4 $6000 The expressive arts invite your emotional and intuitive sides to come out and play Play renews the creative spirit, and putting thoughts and feelings into visual form can help you see things in a new light. While getting up to your elbows in clay, laying down a swash of vermillion paint, or playing with scissors and glue, you may discover that free-spirited self you haven’t seen in awhile. As with any kind of play, no experience is needed!
  Dr. Judith Greer Essex is a Registered Expressive Arts Therapist and Licensed Marriage Family Therapist. She is a pioneer in the art-based therapy movement and is respected as an expert in the role of the body and expression in psychological integration.
  
  
• DANCE WEEK: July 4 – 11 $6000 Bollywood, Belly Dancing and Funk! Shimmy, twirl, stomp and glide during this guest-favorite week. Kick off your shoes or tie on some taps. Join the chorus line to learn the Broadway-style choreography of Yuichi Sugiyama; then get in line for our “Dance-A-Thon”.
  Plus, this week is your chance to learn the newest calorie-burning, muscle-pumping, body-energizing, dance craze -- Zumba! Pronounced "zoom-ba" this dance fitness workout includes salsa, merengue, cumbia, cha cha, reggaeton, hip hop, belly dancing, and more. It’s easy to learn and totally adaptable to your fitness level. No dance background is required. This riotous week shakes, rattles, and rolls!
  
  
• YOGA WEEK: July 11 – 18 $6000 Looking out over the treetops from the quiet spaciousness of our new Inner Focus Center, the Dragon Tree Retreat, you will feel suspended between heaven and earth—a sensation of floating in time and space that is a perfect complement to the ancient practice of yoga. This week, the Golden Door is most fortunate to have guest favorite, Madhu. Born just to the east of Delhi, Madhu was introduced to yoga at the age of seven and has never stopped learning. From Dubai to England to Zambia to Canada—Madhu has taught fitness, yoga, and dance classes since 1985. Now living in San Diego, this talented teacher and gentle soul has worked with Golden Door guests since 2007, earning their highest praise.
  
  
• LABYRINTH: July 18 – 25 $6000 The labyrinth is an ancient tool to quiet the mind,find balance, and seek insight. Based on the spirals found in nature, all true labyrinths share one path leading the walker to its center. The Golden Door labyrinth is a replica of the 11-circuit pattern laid in the stone floor of Chartres Cathedral in France.
  To those who come to walk this week, the Reverend Dr. Lauren Artress, founder of Veriditas, the Voice of the Labyrinth, offers fascinating lessons in the history and meaning of labyrinths. Walking alone and in groups, at dawn and by candlelight, you may come to a better understanding of yourself through this ancient tradition.
  
  
• INNER DOOR: 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, introspection, and supportive group energy to achieve life-altering insights. The subtle yet powerful Inner Door program is exclusive to the Golden Door. Program founder, Annharriet Buck, guides you through exercises to sharpen your insight while working on solutions to life’s challenges.
  Find supportive company in a Wise Woman Circle. Replace the “inner chatter” with the sounds of nature on a silent Meditation Hike. Astonish yourself with the clarity that lies just below the surface of your consciousness during daily Dream Sharing. This week will open your eyes, quiet your mind, and warm your heart.
  
  
• GOLDEN DOOR COOKS AT HOME: August 1 – 8 Become a Golden Door At-Home cook. We've built an entire week around your training! You’ll learn how to use pure, simple ingredients to create dishes with big, bold flavors. You’ll embrace the Golden Door Food Philosophy—a simple yet profound belief in the power of seasonal, whole foods and you’ll take home to your family and friends the tips and secrets of the legendary Golden Door cuisine.
  Our award-nominated cookbook will be your textbook for the week. It’s filled with new as well as classic Door favorites that are surprisingly easy to prepare. You’ll begin literally from the ground up in our organic vegetable garden and you’ll take it from plant to plate in cooking classes where questions are encouraged and the answers may surprise you.
  
  
• EAT WELL, MOVE DAILY, BE HEALTHYTM with Drs. Wendy Bazilian and Jason Bazilian, August 8 – 15 (also October 17-24) Drs. Wendy and Jason offer “a Bazilian simple strategies” that blend the science, culture and philosophy of eastern and western medicine and nutrition to help you improve your whole health. This special program includes classes on nutrition, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Integrative Medicine, Acupuncture and strategies for daily wellness. And just for fun, attend evening sessions in Asian art and calligraphy and a rousing game of ‘Bazilian Bingo.”
  Wendy Bazilian, DrPH, MA, RD, is a Registered Dietitian and American College of Sports Medicine-certified Health and Fitness Specialist. She is also the author of The SuperFoods Rx Diet. Jason Bazilian DAOM, MTOM, L. Ac. is a Doctor of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine – the first to earn a doctoral degree in this field in the United States.
  
  
• PILATES WEEK: August 15 – 22 The Golden Door Pilates program focuses on the basics of posture and breathing to re-align and strengthen your core—essential to efficient and injury-free movement. Whatever your fitness level, you can gain strength and flexibility with mat classes employing the Half Barrel, Magic Circle, Foam Roller and towel exercises. In our sunny new Pilates Studio, advanced students may opt for private sessions (at an additional fee) in mat work or using the Universal Reformer, Classic Cadillac, and Wunda Chair.
  This week’s guest instructor, Karena Thek Lineback, is a Master Pilates instructor and president of Pilates Teck, Inc in Newhall, California. She is the author of OsteoPilates, host of the TV special Pilates for Healthy Bodies on PBS and of Today’s Woman on KHTS Los Angeles.
  
  
• SUMMER INTERLUDES: August 22 – 25 $3625 or August 25 – 29 $4725 You’ll be entertained and inspired during our 3- and 4-Day Interludes. We are fortunate to have Carol LeBeau, 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.
  During the 3-Day session, Carol’s presentation will take a look back at her more than 30-year career in which she went from "token" woman in the newsroom to main anchor. During the 4-Day session, Carol details her transformation from stressed-out junk food junkie to a healthier, more effective, more productive and most importantly more joy-filled woman.
  
  
• WATER WEEK: August 29 – September 5 Do we save the best for last? Fans of our Water Week think so! The more fun you have this week, the more fit you may become. Water exercise adds a resistance factor to your workouts not possible on land while protecting your joints from stress. Whether you prefer to get in up to your knees or over your head, we have classes for you.
  Swim Clinics can be customized to help you learn to swim, improve your technique, or train you for competition. Stretch and tone with Water Ballet and Aqua Yoga. Improve your endurance with Aqua Bootcamp. And don’t forget water volleyball! Dog-paddler or distance swimmer, our Golden Door staff will make sure this is your wettest, wildest summer ever!
  
  

*Bring a Friend offer may not be applied to $6,000 weeks.