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In addition to this event, you can enjoy all of the daily activities that Lenox offers. Explore our sample ranch schedule.

Dreaming of a stress-free holiday season? December at Canyon Ranch Lenox is an experience like no other. The breathtaking winter landscape. The warmth and richness of the historic Bellefontaine Mansion with its illustrious Gilded-Age history. The fascinating schedule of life-changing health & wellness events and experiences.

Make December a time to gift yourself and your loved ones with soothing self-care and transformative experiences. Canyon Ranch Lenox helps you set your wellness intentions for Hanukkah, Christmas, and New Year’s, so you enter 2023 with joy, mindfulness, and well-being. Spend the holidays reconnecting with yourself, your family, and friends. Enjoy epicurean delights as our award-winning chefs outdo themselves by creating holiday favorites that are healthy, balanced, and bountiful.

We've added festive holiday touches everywhere and offer an array of special activities to illuminate the season while surrounded by the serene wintry beauty of New England. Best of all, we all celebrate together as 2022 draws to a close.

Take part in our special invitation and join in the spirit of friendship, gratitude, and joy. We’ll make it a healthy, hopeful, stressless holiday season and envision a brighter year ahead.

And for the New Year, we feel it’s time to turn arbitrary resolutions into meaningful intentions. Everything we do at the Ranch encourages wellness, not for a week but a lifetime. When you set a personal intention—at New Year’s or anytime—you’re making a choice that takes you where you want to go. Canyon Ranch is the perfect place for turning intentions into reality. In fact, it’s our specialty.

We hope to welcome you here during December, a very special time to retreat to Canyon Ranch in the Berkshires. Please accept our invitation to you and yours and make it a joyful and meaningful season and envision a brighter year ahead. A full event schedule will be online shortly.

Throughout December, Canyon Ranch Lenox presents an engaging schedule of events, activities, and experiences designed to inspire joy and wellness when the holiday season is at its peak. Program highlights include the new presentation Beating the Winter Blues, along with Connecting with Self, Self-Compassion is Your Super-Power, The Science of Happiness, Here & Now: The Gift of Mindfulness, and gingerbread house making.

December 18 - 26

Hanukkah
Menorah lightings each evening at sundown in the Mansion Library. On the last night of Hanukkah, dreidel games with Rabbi Debbie Zecher. Plus, musical entertainment with Rabbi Zecher, and win wonderful prizes.

December 21

Winter Solstice Trail Walk & Fire Ceremony
Spiritual Wellness providers Dan Marko & Holly Benzenhafer and Outdoor Sports Guides embark on a sunset walk on the shortest day of the year, ending with an ancient fire ceremony to celebrate the arrival of winter.

December 25

Christmas Dinner
The month culminates with culinary delights as our Executive Chef presents a festive Christmas Day dinner not to be missed.