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:

2009 Summer Focus Weeks - $7,495 includes our full week-long program plus these special presenters and events:

• Spirited Walker® with Carolyn Scott Kortge: June 14 - 21. Turn a simple walk around the block into a journey by engaging each of your senses to become fully awake and aware. In teaching The Spirited Walker, Carolyn Scott Kortge “blends athletic performance and meditative focus in an approach to fitness that puts care of the body on equal footing with care of the soul”.
• Expressive Arts Week with Judith Greer Essex  June 21 - June 28. Art-making is an inherent talent we all possess as children. Re-discover it this week. Art-making helps put life’s issues in perspective while allowing you to experience life’s joy.  Judith Greer Essex is a pioneer in the art-based therapy movement and a respected expert in the role of the body and expression in self-integration.
• Water Week   July 19 – 26 and August 30 – September 6. In the warm clear water, your body feels buoyant, cushioned, and protected. Swimming provides you the optimum in resistance workouts for your entire body while reducing strain on muscles and joints and improving cardiovascular function, muscle strength, endurance, posture, and flexibility. Whether you’re one who only ventures onto the beach on the 4th of July or does 50 laps every day before breakfast, the Golden Door swimming staff will bring out your “inner mermaid”.
• Inner Door Week with Ann Harriet Buck   July 26 – August 2. The most revered and long-lived program at the Golden Door, The Inner Door program keeps pace with the times; while also relying on time-tested practices like meditation and introspection, and supportive group energy to achieve life-altering insights. Program founder, Annharriet Buck has studied meditation and mindfulness with the renowned Zen Master, poet, peace and human rights activist, Thich Nhat Hanh and has certification in stress management and
  guided imagery.
• Labyrinth Week with Dr. Lauren Artress  August 2 - 9. 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, relates the fascinating origins, forms, and uses of the labyrinth. She will be your guide you as you walk the Golden Door’s labyrinth, a replica of the labyrinth laid in the stone floor of Chartres Cathedral in France, and help you draw new wisdom from this transformative week.  Our full program plus the unique labyrinth experience at the special rate of $6,000
• Golden Door Cooks at Home with Executive Chef Dean Rucker   August 9 – 16. 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. You’ll spend one beautiful summer morning harvesting vegetables to be grilled for your picnic lunch right in the organic garden. Cooking class will feature a full five-course meal using recipes from the new cookbook. Help prep a meal in our kitchen. And on barbeque night, take a turn learning fancy fruit and vegetable carving. This is truly a hands-on week! 
• Eat Well. Move Daily. Be Healthy with Drs Wendy and Jason Bazilian August 23 – 30. “A Bazilian simple strategies” blending the science, culture and philosophy of eastern and western medicine and nutrition can help you improve your whole health. A perfect complement to the regular Golden Door week, 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”.