Explore & Learn

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

Building healthy habits can have a huge impact on your overall health and well-being. From getting enough sleep to exercising regularly, there are many healthy habits that you can adopt to improve your health and your life.

During this life-changing five-night Canyon Ranch Immersion™ retreat, led by renowned wellness advocate Steve Jordan, you'll experience a comprehensive journey of personal transformation.

Changing your behavior is vital to having the life that you want. But it can be hard when you want to make long-term improvements. We designed this retreat, using evidence-based methodologies and featuring talks from Steve Jordan and a team of Canyon Ranch experts on the science and practice of change, to be the reset or the kickstart required to get you on the right track.

Join a small group of like-minded people who will inspire you during this unique, Canyon Ranch Tucson retreat. Experience 14 expert-led talks and seven one-on-one services with our integrative experts, where you get to focus on your unique goals.

You’ll have access to dedicated activities, unlimited dining, our world-class spa and fitness facilities, and everything else our Tucson resort, surrounded by the Santa Catalina mountains, offers. And you'll receive personalized insights, practical skills, and effective tools to adopt new, beneficial habits.

Whether you’re focused on a wellness concern, weight loss, athletic performance, or need a healthy living reboot, you’ll take home a road map designed around your needs and goals to develop enduring practices that will turn your intentions into a lifelong reality.

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

Learn more about Canyon Ranch Immersion™. To book, call (844) 772-8435 or email immersions@canyonranch.com for more information.

Featured Speaker

Steve Jordan
With a career path made for movies, Steve Jordan was launched into the world of health and fitness by rehabilitating himself after a traumatic brain injury in 1994. His holistic mind and body approach created a miraculous recovery that left people in awe. Steve found his passion during this life-changing experience to create miracles in other people through health and fitness.

Steve’s professional success has opened up opportunities to be featured on dozens of media platforms, including Dr. Oz, The Today Show, The Tyra Banks Show, Oxygen, NBC, ABC, E!, Bodies the Exhibition, Men’s Fitness, Self, Fitness, Bodybuilding.com, and more.

Find out about Steve by visiting his website.

Canyon Ranch Experts

Jake Fisher
DC, CCSP, CSCS, Sports Medicine Provider
Jake is committed to helping guests at Canyon Ranch uncover root causes for their pain and injury using neuromuscular skeletal assessments. He creates tailored plans for them to decrease pain and improve the performance and quality of their lives. Jake specializes in chiropractic, sports rehabilitation, and strength conditioning and develops individualized programs and systems for guests.

Krisna Hanks
MS, MBA, Health & Performance Coach
Krisna is committed to helping guests live their best lives. In pre-stay consults, she helps guests plan how to maximize their time at Canyon Ranch. Integrative Coaching sessions help guests identify goals, develop strategies, and support intentions for milestone achievement. A post-stay session allows guests to address concerns to ensure continued success and maintenance. Her strength-based approach provides support, accountability, and consistency to health and wellness transformation.

Amy Hawthorne
MS, LMFT, Director of Mental Health & Wellness
Amy specializes in getting to the root of issues quickly, helping guests to recognize the deeper “why” for current life circumstances, identifying and healing past traumas, and addressing maladaptive relationship patterns.

Stephanie Miezin
MS, RD, CSSD, Director of Nutrition
Stephanie is committed to helping our guests achieve their goals, whether trying to reach a healthy weight, enhance performance using diet and nutrition, or seek healthy cooking options. She specializes in performance nutrition, culinary nutrition, culinary arts, and weight management.

Mike Siemens
MS, RCEP, Director of Performance Science
For over 30 years, Mike has worked one-on-one with our guests, creating customized exercise programs for a wide variety of fitness levels and movement goals. He also hires, trains, and mentors our team of Performance Scientists and develops programming for the department.

Jenny Simon
MC, LPC, PhD, Mental Health and Wellness Therapist
Jenny is a state-licensed mental health therapist. She helps our guests gain insight and awareness, recognizes blocks to healing, and teaches healthy ways to manage the daily stress of life. She specializes in treating the long-term effects of childhood trauma.

Adam Smith
MA, Spiritual Wellness Provider
Adam is part of a Spiritual Wellness team that offers six unique spiritual services for guests. He also delivers presentations to guests and staff on topics related to Spiritual Wellness. With a background as a hospital and hospice chaplain and bereavement counselor, he specializes in spiritual/pastoral care, grief support, contemplation, and mysticism.

Michele Sutton
MA, CHES, BCC, NBC-HWC, Health and Wellness Coach
Michele brings over 14 years of wellness coaching to Canyon Ranch Tucson. Her experience in neuropsychology, personal training, group fitness, lay (wellness) ministry, and education helps guests meet their wellness intentions. She specializes in holistic well-being, behavior change, stress management, tobacco cessation, and mind-body awareness.

Warren Weekes
Director of Culinary Operations
Chef Warren manages The Grill and The Double U Café restaurants at our Tucson resort. He brings a depth of culinary training and international experience to our original wellness resort in the Sonoran Desert. His expertise revolves around creativity, vision, and innovation in the kitchen to create unique culinary experiences.

Note: Presentations, speakers, and times are subject to change.

Daily

Breakfast at Your Leisure
Double U Café opens at 5:30 am
Canyon Ranch Grill™ opens at 7 am

Sunday, February 26: Arrival Day

9 am – 4 pm: Arrival and Check-in

4 pm – 5:30 pm: Program Orientation and Reception

5:30 – 7 pm: Welcome Dinner
No reservation is required.

8 pm: Yoga Nidra
Yoga Nidra is the yoga of awakening awareness during sleep and in the zone between wakefulness and sleep. Learn pre-sleep practices to deeply relax, quiet your mind, and let go of the day.

Monday, February 27

7 am: Morning Walk

9 am: Optimal Health and Fitness are Within Reach with Steve Jordan
Optimal health and fitness is a dynamic balance of a physical, emotional, social, spiritual, and intellectual journey. Learn the techniques that Steve uses with his celebrity clients and put pen to paper to begin to facilitate your mind, body, and spiritual transformation.

10 – 11:30 am: Cultivating Mindful Change Part 1
Gain insights and tools to consider as you begin your immersion. You’ll learn how to begin creating a strategic plan to optimize your success in making lasting changes with a Health & Performance Coach.

Lunch on your own at The Grill or the Double U Café

1 pm: Cultivating Mindful Change Part 2
Take your insights and tools from the morning and roll up your sleeves and start building your healthy habits plan.

2 pm: Nutrition: From Research to Real Life
Learn what the latest nutrition research says about eating to support optimal health, wellness, and performance. Take home easy and enjoyable tips for incorporating research findings into real-life habits for a lifetime of delicious, healthful eating.

6 pm: Group Dinner

Tuesday, February 28

7 am: Morning Walk with Steve Jordan

9 am: Transformation: A Deeper Understanding
Join a Mental Health & Wellness therapist and explore what stands in our way of making change as well as specific things we can do, if we want to change.

10 am: Overcoming Fitness Setbacks
Join a Sports Medicine Specialist to discover how to overcome obstacles, seek the care you need, and get back on track.

Lunch on your own at The Grill or the Double U Café

1 pm: Peace Within, Peace Without
Explore spiritual practices that support inner transformation and cultivate peace within you, as well as in response to the changes in your life and the world around you.

2 – 3 pm: Coaching Corner: Readiness for Change
Check in with our health coach, share your experience and bring your questions.

7:30 pm: Joy is in the Journey with Steve Jordan
I’ll enjoy life when I accomplish the goal, when I lose 10lbs, when I get the promotion, when I get through this problem, then I'll be happy. Does this sound familiar? We often put our joy in the future. The problem with this approach is there's always some reason we can't be happy in the present moment. But the key is to find joy in the journey.

Wednesday, March 1

7 am: Morning Walk

Morning
Free time to enjoy outdoor and indoor activities, classes, and spa services.

3 pm: Nurturing Resilience
This presentation by a mental health and wellness therapist will focus on resiliency-building techniques that will help you sustain long lasting meaningful change.

4 pm: Rule Your Day: The Secrets To Living On Purpose
Learn to be intentional with Steve’s 5 To Thrive ways for claiming control over each new day. He teaches you how to identify negative thinking, visualize an abundant future, rise above your circumstances, and transcend distractions to focus on what matters most.

6 – 7:30 pm: Dinner and Learn: Healthy Habits with Culinary Nutrition
Join leaders from the Culinary and Nutrition departments to learn more about how food choices can be healthy, nutritious, and delicious.

Thursday, March 2

7 am: Morning Walk

9 am: Fast Fitness
With guidance from a Performance Scientist, learn new tips for hitting—and maintaining—your fitness goals. Get quick workouts perfect for time crunches, when you are stuck at your desk, or you are traveling and have no equipment.

10 am: Playful Presence
Join a Spiritual Wellness Expert to explore the benefits of a beginner’s mind and discover how play can nourish and revitalize you.

Lunch on your own at The Grill or the Double U Café

2 pm: Believe It and You Will Achieve It
Most people start out their lives with big dreams. The biggest reason most people don’t make it into their vision of their life? They don’t believe it. They don’t yet truly see themselves in their future vision. Learn and apply ways that will begin to change your belief system once and for all.

3 – 4:30 pm: Canyon Ranch To Go
Explore the impact of external forces on behavior change with a Health & Performance Coach. You’ll receive key performance practices to support your unique wellness goals and learn how to apply them at home.

4:30 – 5 pm: Closing Circle

5:30 – 7 pm: Farewell Dinner

Friday, March 3

Day of Departure or Begin Extended Stay