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<\/b>Deborah Szekely, 99 years young, is known as the \u201cMother of the Modern Spa Movement. \u201d She and her husband Edmund Bordeaux Szekely founded Rancho la Puerta, North America\u2019s first wellness spa, in 1940. In the ensuing 81 years, Szekely and her team have continuously adapted the resort\u2019s offerings to suit modern tastes, and today it remains one of the world\u2019s top spa destinations. Fans include Kate Winslet, Madonna, Governor Jerry Brown, Claudia Schiffer,<\/b>\u00a0Arianna Huffington, and Judge Judy.<\/p>\nResidences at Rancho La Puerta<\/b><\/h5>\n
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The latest innovation could not be timelier.\u00a0 The Residences at Rancho La Puerta, a community of 108 private homes set amid the resort\u2019s 4,000 pristine acres in Tecate, Mexico is only an hour from San Diego. Nestled beside a vineyard and a pond, boasting spectacular mountain views, the village will be separate from the Ranch, yet connected, with access to all the wellness amenities. The two, three, and four-bedroom homes will range from approximately 2,000 to 4,300 square feet, and the first ten residences will be ready in early 2022. Prices range from $725-$1015 a night.\u00a0<\/b> Deborah is thrilled to be able to bring private residences to the property. \u201cPeople have asked for years and years, saying that they would like to retire here,\u201d she says, \u201cand their community will consist of people with common goals and common thoughts coming together\u201d \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/b><\/p>\nIntegrative Health & Medicine Center<\/b><\/h5>\n
The Residences will also have a state-of-the-art Integrative Health and Medicine Center\u00a0specializing in personalized, predictive, and proactive interventions to prevent and treat chronic disease. This holistic model not only gets to the underlying cause of health issues but uses a functional and natural medical approach to implement personalized treatment protocols. Each offering blends the best of Western medicine with the wisdom of all global healing traditions.\u00a0Planned Treatments will include Stem Cell Therapies, personalized IV Nutrients, High dose Vitamin C infusions, Mistletoe Therapy, and more.<\/p>\n
The Spa Experience<\/b><\/h5>\n
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Rancho,\u00a0<\/b>as insiders call it, began as a rustic wellness retreat, $17.50 a week, and bring your tent. The full spa experience\u2014 a plethora of exercise classes, include Pilates, stretch, Tai chi, Aerial Yoga to name but a few. Other therapies including massages, reflexology, water therapy, facials, manicures, and pedicures\u2014was not always a part of Rancho la Puerta’s program. “For example, we never offered massage at the Ranch until I started [California spa] the Golden Door, 18 years after the first guests arrived at Rancho la Puerta,\u201d says Deborah. One of the first treatments during the spa\u2019s early days was an herbal wrap, created out of necessity. \u201cWithout it many of the guests, because they never exercised at home, were so stiff they literally crawled out of their beds after their first day of hiking and exercise at the Ranch,\u201d Szekely says, laughing. \u201cHerbal wraps were the answer. The heat relaxed the muscles.\u201d<\/p>\nHappier & More Energetic<\/b><\/h5>\n
Later, the Szekelys hired experts to begin programs in skincare at Rancho la Puerta, and they were an immediate hit. \u201cGuests had worked hard all day, and they looked forward to having the soothing attention of facials and massages.\u201d\u00a0Today, the spa has health centers for both women and men, and Szekely says they are as important a part of each guest\u2019s stay as the hikes, exercise classes, cooking school, and other programs. \u201cWe emphasize balance,\u201d she says. \u201cLong ago, I said, “To me, it never has been enough that my spas simply make you better looking. I believe people can be happier and more energetic, and altogether more fulfilled human beings.” The number of spa treatments offered has quadrupled over the past decade, and there is an experienced staff of 75, many of them long-term employees.<\/p>\n
Four-tier Healing process<\/b><\/h5>\n
Cleansing<\/b>: Spa treatments consist of four types, cleansing, restoring, relaxing, and energizing. Cleansing involves getting rid of toxins in the body, and treatments include a detox massage and the original herbal wrap, the Ranch\u2019s signature treatment, which purifies and eliminates toxins. Fresh plants and herbs like eucalyptus, rosemary, or sage grown in the Ranch\u2019s organic garden, or that grow wild in the nearby mountains, are used in treatments. The 30-minute wrap is often combined with a 20-minute massage, which opens up your pores and allows moisturizers to seep into your skin. Rancho\u2019s experts employ a method of cupping using plastic suction cups instead of glass, which don\u2019t leave those horrid red marks on your skin.<\/p>\n
Restoring<\/b>\u00a0might include a rosemary loofah salt glow, which starts with a loofah glove that helps remove dead skin cells, followed by a scrub, then a shower to wash that off, and ending with a massage. This treatment renews your skin, opening the pores and removing dead skin, leaving your body feeling silky smooth.<\/p>\n
Relaxing<\/b>\u00a0involves treatments like a head-to-toe candle oil massage, a combination of body treatments using warm oil from a candle poured onto your skin.<\/p>\n
Energizing<\/b>\u00a0entails healing therapies that activate and strengthen, like reflexology on your hands and feet, and energy balance, a fundamental holistic philosophy including a somatic experience that relieves stress, and craniosacral therapy, acupuncture, and reiki, which remove energy blocks and allow healing energy to flow and harmonize the whole body.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/b><\/p>\nSpa & Fitness Concierges\u00a0<\/b><\/h5>\n
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Rancho la Puerta\u2019s spa offers over 55 treatments, and choosing among so many options may seem overwhelming, but stay calm. There are concierges and other experts on staff to help you figure out what works for you. You are free to consult with experts, ask questions and revise your program at any time during your visit. What you do on any day at the Ranch is entirely up to you, and depends upon what interests you, but most guests enjoy a morning hike followed by breakfast, and then perhaps a meditation class or a visit to the gym.\u00a0 And you can decide when to incorporate spa treatments throughout your day. Some people prefer to take a few classes in the morning, followed by a spa treatment, and then relax for the rest of the afternoon.\u00a0<\/p>\n
And while many guests want to exercise, you don\u2019t need to be huffing and puffing at Rancho La Puerta, unless you want to \u2013 you may simply choose to relax and be pampered with therapies like moisturizing scalp treatments for the hair. These treatments are also popular with men.<\/p>\n
Visible Results in One Week<\/b><\/h5>\n
You can actually see the results after a week at the Ranch. Photos are taken when you arrive, and at the end of the visit your skin will look different, healthy and glowing, due to the nourishing diet from their organic farm, healing body treatments and exercise routines during the stay.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Heavenly Villas\u00a0<\/b><\/h5>\n
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Rancho accommodations include seveal \u201cVillas Cielo\u201d, or \u201cHeavenly\u201d villas, secluded private residences that offer a den that can be converted into a private gym or an office, with WiFi. You can also receive private spa treatments. These villas were added in recent years as a bow to the modern world for guests who are unable to completely unplug from daily life for a week. At a villa, you get the full resort experience, but you can also work as much as needed.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Food is a part of the spa experience. From the beginning in 1940, Rancho La Puerta was ahead of its time, growing its food and on the resort\u2019s organic farm and grapes in their vineyard.\u00a0 The rest is sourced from local farmers and fishermen \u2013 perhaps the original \u201cfarm-to-table\u201d venue.\u00a0Over eight decades, the Ranch has developed hundreds of recipes through extensive experimentation and dietary research culminating in a superb all-natural menu.<\/p>\n
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\u00a0Executive Chef Reyna Venegas is also local, raised in Baja California, and at the beginning of her career worked as a hostess at Rancho\u2019s Dining Hall. She later traveled to Lyon, France, to intern at a two-Michelin star restaurant under chef Philippe Gauvreau, and after graduating from the Culinary Art School in Tijuana earned a scholarship and was a pastry major in Monte-Carlo. Venegas honed her skills at acclaimed restaurants and eventually came full circle, back to Rancho La Puerta where she combines French techniques with local ingredients for delicious, healthy meals.<\/p>\n
Cooking Classes at La Cocina Que Canta\u00a0<\/b><\/h5>\n
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Cooking classes are offered at La Cocina que Canta \u2013 \u201cthe kitchen that sings\u201d – which is set in the resort\u2019s six-acre organic garden. Chef Venegas teaches classes, as do world-renowned visiting chefs and cookbook authors who regularly come to offer lessons. The \u201csinging kitchen\u201d is a reference to the sensory experience, the aromas, colors, and sounds, and the energy of a lively group of people cooking together with just-picked ingredients. It all comes together in an explosion of taste – you dine on the meal you have just created.<\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/b>State of Mind: Healthy Way of Life<\/b><\/h5>\n
Dubbed the \u201cGodmother of Wellness,\u201d by the media, Deborah calls herself a health nut. \u201cTo me, that\u2019s a favorable term,\u201d says the nearly 100-year-old wellness warrior. The most important key to leading a healthy life, Deborah believes, is a state of mind. \u201cIt\u2019s more than just positivity, people should enjoy what they do,\u201d she says. \u201cWhatever they work at should be a joy or pleasure, not work,\u201d Deborah says. \u201cDelight in the little things in nature and life. I think it\u2019s hard to be truly healthy without that. I think the psychological aspects are very important, and that\u2019s why the ranch is so successful because there\u2019s a spirit here and that spirit is so important.\u201d These are the basic tenets with which she started Rancho la Puerta in the forties, and they still are today, although the resort has evolved from a barebones summer camp to a full-fledged luxury spa resort with every conceivable amenity in the foothills of the sacred Kuuchamaa Peak. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\nWorld War II Summer Camp to Luxury Spa\u00a0<\/b><\/h5>\n
\u00a0The original no-frills camp had its origins in World War II, when Szekely and her husband, a native of Hungary, were living in southern California, and because of his refusal to return to Europe to serve in the military, an order was issued for his arrest as a deserter. \u201cWe got a letter from U.S. Immigration and Naturalization saying that if he was found in our country on June 1st, 1940, he would be arrested and shipped back to his country. So, we went to Mexico.\u201d Her husband, a renowned scholar, had planned to teach a summer school session in Oslo. \u201cWe knew we would have to hold the summer school because we were counting on the money from the students, and they had already signed up. So, we just wrote them and said the summer school instead of being in Oslo is going to be in Tecate.\u00a0<\/b>And we had to make it cheap because they had to bring their tents.\u201d<\/p>\nHollywood elite<\/b><\/h5>\n
What they started as a summer health camp was so successful that several participants wanted to come back and spend the winter, because of the perfect weather. Soon, Rancho La Puerta became popular with Hollywood stars. \u201cBurt Lancaster practically lived here between pictures,\u201d Deborah says. \u201cWe built exercise bars for him; he came that often. He designed them and we built them.\u201d The movie star worked out on those bars every morning. Bill Holden was also a regular, and Kim Novak and Barbra Streisand visited<\/p>\n
Pillars of Tecate<\/b><\/h5>\n
The Szekelys rented the land for many years before buying some, and gradually added more and more. \u201cWe acquired a lot of land because little old ladies would come and say, \u2018My daughter married and lives in Los Angeles and we want to move there, won\u2019t you buy our land?\u2019\u201d says Deborah. Although the locals originally thought the spa folks were somewhat odd, eventually several young women in town sought jobs at the Ranch, and today the resort is one of Tecate\u2019s largest employers. \u201cSo naturally we contribute to the community,\u201d Szekely says. A few years ago, when a serious fire destroyed over 100 houses in town, they reached out to spa guests and raised over $100,000 in aid within a week. They help to educate Tecate\u2019s children on the environment and sustainability and offer summer classes at the resort\u2019s organic garden. They built the first public park in Tecate and bought the town\u2019s first school bus. The children had to walk to school and often skipped classes when the weather was inclement. Deborah decided to buy a bus to bring her workers to work in the mornings, and on the way, it also picks up the kids and takes them to school. \u201cIt\u2019s been sort of a double blessing,\u201d she laughs. \u201cThe ranch has a very long, blessed history,\u201d she says, \u201cand I really do believe that doing good is rewarding, and we’ve been beautifully rewarded.<\/p>\n
Meant to Be Here<\/b><\/h5>\n
\u201cI had no dreams for the ranch,\u201d Deborah says, adding that once the war ended, they expected to move to England. \u201cWe had no intention of staying. So – and I say this all the time – we were meant to be here. It was nothing that we planned, created, plotted, none of that.\u201d Local lore held that Kuuchamaa was a sacred mountain. \u201cKuuchama was a sacred mountain to the Native Americans for generations,\u201d she says. \u201cAnd I do believe that the mountain has had a great influence on us. And you can believe, take it or leave it, I took it and kept it.\u201d Today, Deborah\u2019s husband is buried on the mountain, as is her late son, Alexander. \u201cThat\u2019s their home,\u201d she says firmly. \u201cWe have a family cemetery. I\u2019ll be buried there too eventually. No rush.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sarah Livia Szekely Brightwood<\/b><\/h5>\n
Deborah\u2019s daughter, landscape architect Sarah Livia Szekely Brightwood who created the Rancho\u2019 world class gardens now runs the resort full time. But \u201cmother \u201cis still at the ranch at least once a week. She says her daughter is doing a terrific job. \u201cSarah is gifted, and I think in some ways it reflects her personality,\u201d says Deborah. \u201cShe is very spiritual. She\u2019s very musical. She\u2019s an artist, and I think most of the classes reflect more of her.\u201d<\/p>\n
A Paradise<\/b><\/h5>\n
But there are other forces at work than just human endeavor, she insists. \u201cI know that we\u2019re here because we were meant to be here. I believe that. And the reason it\u2019s so successful is that we\u2019re on the path that we\u2019re supposed to be on.\u201d Recently, Deborah roamed around the entire ranch, into every nook and cranny. \u201cIf you were trying to describe – I’m not kidding \u2013 paradise, I don’t think a paradise could be much lovelier, honestly.\u201d<\/p>\n
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