80 rejuvenating classes for your mind and body. 30 miles of private hiking trails, personal training, farm-to-table meals, and a massage each day.
But the most incredible luxury you’ll experience is finding your way back to you.
Golden Door exists to change lives. Our focus is for you to come experience a transformation of mind, body, and spirit during your stay and leave a different person; energized and excited to embrace your life ahead.
A private room with your own garden deck or patio • Daily in-room massage • Warm-ups, t-shirts and terry robe are supplied and laundered daily • Sandals, sun hat and a fanny pack for hikes • Golden Door Skin Care products • Courtesy roundtrip transportation from San Diego or Los Angeles area airports
PRIVACY, SERENITY, LIGHT
All rooms are single occupancy only with a private bath and, true to its inspirational heritage, a sliding door to the outdoors, for both views of, and access to, the surrounding Japanese gardens and the vast sky beyond. Less is more, and these accommodations focus on elegant simplicity.
TENDING TO EVERY DETAIL
You needn’t pack much for your time with us. We provide warm-ups, t-shirts and terry robes, all laundered daily, plus a yukata, a casual cotton kimono, and sandals. You will also receive Golden Door skincare products, a reusable water bottle, journal, tote and yoga mat.
LUXURIOUSLY TRADITIONAL
We maintain a staff to guest ratio of 4:1 to meet your every need without interruption or delay. Maid service is provided twice daily. Staff is available for any personalized needs your stay with us may require, and we focus on every individual element down to your diet requests and personal goals.
7 state of the art gyms • 2 swimming pools • Watsu Water Therapy pool • 2 labyrinths • A lighted tennis court • A bathhouse with Jacuzzi, steam-room and sauna • 9 skincare and body care treatment rooms • 5 acres of bio-intensive gardens
A 2000-square-foot equipment gym. Two swimming pools and a Watsu water therapy pool. Three group exercise studios. A state-of- the-art Pilates Studio. A group spinning room. A Tennis court. Plus a hilltop retreat for private fitness sessions. And sessions designed for every skills level. Here, fitness isn’t easy – but it is hard to resist
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RELAX, RESTORE, REFRESH
Included in every guest’s week-long program is a daily in-room massage, five skincare or body treatments and a manicure/pedicure, all designed to provide balance to the rigors of working out. A menu of luxurious beauty and body treatments are also available in the Bathhouse, from exfoliating body scrubs and hydrotherapy baths to treatments customized to your skin type and concerns.
Cultivating a backyard approach to farm-to-table cuisine, executive Chef Greg Frey Jr. grounds his menus in seasonal ingredients grown and produced on property. Hyper-local sourcing of seafood and poultry translates to first-name basis relationships with farmers and fishermen in the surrounding San Diego area while improving food quality and minimizing the carbon footprint.
The Golden Door has three pools that cater to different experiences throughout each day. Our main pool has a lounging area where lunch may be served and guests are invited to relax. The smaller and more intimate pool is where a game of volleyball might be played. The Wasu pool is secluded and ready for water therapy treatments.
BEAUTY IS JUST THE BEGINNING
Mature Japanese gardens capture the spirit of Golden Door. Zen rock gardens that feed the soul. Roji, simple rustic gardens, for engaging with others over tea, and kaiyu-shiki-teien, stroll gardens that engage visitors in the richness of the garden experience.
BEAUTY IS JUST THE BEGINNING
Mature Japanese gardens capture the spirit of Golden Door. Zen rock gardens that feed the soul. Roji, simple rustic gardens, for engaging with others over tea, and kaiyu-shiki-teien, stroll gardens that engage visitors in the richness of the garden experience.
GARDENS THAT NOURISH
As Japanese gardens feed the soul, our culinary gardens will feed your body. Fresh vegetables rise from the earth in our vegetable gardens. Oranges may be plucked fresh from our giving trees. One day, the olive trees of a grove reclaimed will bear their nutritious fruit
Holistic health is not about the shape of your body, but the shape of your life. Melding movement and mindfulness, immerse yourself in our offerings.
You’ll begin with a personal program interview that will design a unique, tailored experience. Then, our expert trainers and teachers will meet you just where you are on your wellness path, providing foundational practices for your stay at Golden Door and new goals to continue at home.
Your program may include up to four sessions with a personal trainer, a selection of fitness classes from over 40 options with varying levels of challenge, and evening programs and lectures. Balance the physical movement with curated mindfulness and improvement sessions including yoga, pilates, cardio options. Or maybe get your groove on with Zumba, and 80’s dance party, or in our legendary Yuichi class that will make you feel like a Broadway chorus line star!
Our beautiful landscape is your playground. Explore and embrace a new adventure in our 600 acres with more than 30 miles of hiking and walking trails. Try something new like archery, fencing, spinning or boxing. Dive into a water class. Craft a daily schedule that can also alleviate pain, bring back balance and flexibility, and build a new foundation of physical and mental empowerment.
Rekindle and reshape your body and your life at Golden Door.
Cultivating a backyard approach to farm-to-table cuisine, executive Chef Greg Frey Jr. grounds his menus in seasonal ingredients grown and produced on property. Hyper-local sourcing of seafood and poultry translates to first-name basis relationships with farmers and fishermen in the surrounding San Diego area while improving food quality and minimizing the carbon footprint.
Dance aerobics with varying themes including Pop & Hip Hop. Multi-level, low-impact classes available.
An innovative and dynamic movement class that combines easy dance steps with rhythmic drumming inspired by beat-driven music. With fitballs used as a drum and a pair of drumsticks in your hands, hidden musician will emerge and you’ll forget you’re working up a sweat!
Classes may include: Tap, Line, Hip Hop or Jazz dance styles. (Check Activity Board by Pool.)
Feel like you’re in a Broadway chorus line as Yuichi Sugiyama—renowned choreographer and Golden Door legend—puts you through your paces. Just plain fun!
This aerobic dance craze, invented by Columbian dancer Beto Perez, incorporates hip-hop, samba, salsa, cha-cha and martial arts and uses both fast and slow rhythms for a total body workout.
Old school aerobics brought back to songs you’ll remember.
Refine your yoga practice with a mindful look at alignment for joint safety. You will learn innovative ways to enlighten areas of your practice to keep you injury free and to offer the possibility for success in advancing your practice to the next level.
Yoga in the pool makes postures accessible to all. Warm water facilitates muscle release and decreases the effort of weight bearing. A deeply relaxing session of flowing yoga sequences, classic standing poses, and deep stretches.
Practicing Ashtanga rejuvenates your body, making it stronger, toned, more flexible and controlled. Ashtanga is for experienced levels, to focus on breath, challenging poses, and meditation. It is a condensed version of traditional Ashtanga.
Move energy from your root chakra to your crown with this fun flowing series of standing, seated, and inverted poses with an emphasis on alleviating muscle soreness. This full-bodied immersion will leave you feeling open yet integrated and invigorated.
Breath, sound, and movement are explored to align and move your chakra energy into balance while highlighting areas of focus and growth.
Enjoy powering up your center with creative movements so that you can feel the heat energizing you! We focus on postures that strengthen the core stabilizers of the body. Will also practice “Breath of Fire” which helps to support the core muscles, digestion and metabolism. Come and get your fire started!
This practice is focused on promoting joint mobility through specific simple postures held for a longer duration of time. This not only helps us to get to the deeper tissues of the body—it also helps one to develop a different perspective of observing body sensation with more curiosity and compassion. The postures powerfully affect the vagus nerve creating an increased flow of calm and peaceful energy.
Experience the power of breath and continuous movement in this series designed to warm your body, unwind your mind, and reinvigorate your practice. Strong standing poses as well as deep opening poses complete this balanced experience of yoga.
Everyone has a unique posture, habit, and body type. At the start of this class, we will take an assessment of the areas you would like to work on. It could be balance, posture, or even an emotional release. This class aligns with your needs in mind.
We hold so much tension and stress in our neck, shoulders, and hips. This class focuses on releasing the tension with a variety of yoga poses, using yoga blocks, straps & bolsters. You will feel the restorative benefits after this class!
A beautiful collaboration of restorative yoga and energy healing. Many bolsters are offered to comfort you as you hold space and open throughout your practice. Releasing all that does not serve you & receiving all that is needed to support you for cleansing, clearing and healing.
Relax deeply in seated and reclining poses that are gently supported and held quietly. This gravitational release improves circulation and energy, relieves soreness and tight muscles and improves breath flow allowing the mind to settle easily into a meditative experience.
Greet the morning with a continuous dance-like sequence of twelve sun salutation poses interwoven with standing poses and joined together with breath and mental focus. This dynamic series strengthens as it lengthens while improving your cardiovascular health. Best suited for those with healthy wrists, elbows, & shoulders.
Yoga is known for its ability to yoke solar and lunar energies such as strength with openness.This session does just that with a well-balanced practice consisting of poses that create strength, flexibility, and balance.
Warrior poses cultivate a strong and steady foundation for yoga and for life.Build determination for inner and outer transformation with this heroic sequence of standing poses inspired by the mythic warrior Virabhadra. This sequence is completed with deep floor poses.
Calm your nervous system and your mind through breath and gentle poses so that a state of deep rest becomes a familiar experience that may be called upon when needed for sound sleep. Recline in two easily accessible and comfortable positions while being guided into a rhythmic
breathing pattern accompanied by imagery designed for relaxation.
Welcome home to your body and the Golden Door!This class offers a way to undo the stressors of travel and to get you started on your Golden Door journey. Emphasis is placed on lengthening, opening and releasing poses. All levels welcome.
Yes, your back moves in 6 different directions. We will focus on bending the spine back to help free the chest, increase your breath, and to create more openness in the front of the hips to help counter the effects of sitting. Modifications offered for varied levels of back-bending ability. Leave this class feeling more open-hearted and confident.
Ease into your body in this meditative class with postures that assist in balancing and nourishing your energy. Experience a sense of both lightness and grounding in each pose and emerge feeling integrated in mind, body, and spirit.
“How we eat can change the world.” —Alice Waters
The distance between farm and table at Golden Door is mere steps away. Our bio-intensive farm produces gorgeous, flavorful, organic vegetables, greens and proteins that are showcased in your personalized menu and meals. Wander the garden paths for a freshly picked snack, or marvel at the natural habit of the hens – it is all a sustainable balance at Golden Door. Nourish your body and soul with meals that reflect your dietary needs and preferences knowing we are nourishing the earth and farmers as well.
Our nutrition offerings include fresh produce grown on-site, three full meals a day plus mid-morning and mid-afternoon snacks, and appetizers before dinner. We also invite you to our nutrition education and cooking classes. Every stay includes an unforgettable celebratory alfresco meal on the farm.
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Member Since 2022
