A WISE Retreat Competitors

Since its founding in 1979, Canyon Ranch has been a trailblazer and an industry-leading proponent of integrative wellness, operating a celebrated collection of immersive, life-changing destinations that inspire the well way of life. Award-winning resorts in Tucson, Arizona, and Lenox, Massachusetts, a new wellness retreat in Austin, Texas and the largest day spa in North America at The Venetian® Resort in Las Vegas offer Canyon Ranch guests lasting transformation, with experience pathways composed to answer their wellness intentions. Behind it all, personal guidance from world-class experts in health and healing, food and nutrition, spa and skincare services, fitness and movement, and mind and spirit impact Canyon Ranch guests long after they leave.

Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health is a nonprofit educational organization dedicated to serving people and communities in realizing their full potential through the transformative wisdom and practice of Yoga. Our purpose is to ignite personal and societal transformation and our vision is a world united in service towards well-being, justice, and peace. Kripalu teaches skills for optimal living through experiential education for the whole person; body, mind, and spirit. It is the largest retreat center for yoga, health, and holistic living in North America. Each day, our employees strive to offer loving and compassionate service for our guests and for each other. Kripalu is committed to becoming an employer and community where all belong.

Dear Friends, In 1969, as Swami Vishnudevananda sat in deep meditation in front of the altar at the Yoga Retreat temple, he experienced a powerful vision. In his vision, the whole planet Earth was engulfed in fire forcing everyone to run. As people tried to escape, they broke loose of their barriers: physical barriers, mental barriers, spiritual barriers, gender barriers, religious barriers, and racial barriers. All those barriers that we artificially restrict ourselves with suddenly became meaningless in the presence of that fire. Swamiji awoke from this vision trembling for he thought that a great calamity was imminent. Then he had a sudden insight. Swamiji realized that by transcending their barriers in order to escape this fire, humanity had actually become united. He saw our world progressing to a greater and brighter future even though the vision itself was terrifying. All of this turmoil in the world today is due to transformation. We are going through a time of transformation that will lead us toward a bright and wonderful future. Yet this transition period, just like any other transition, is by its very nature, chaotic. If we resist this transformation, we will suffer. If we understand it for what it truly is and choose the right path, then humanity will have a hopeful future. I invite you to join us this year at the ashram, to reconnect with your inner spiritual strength and to become a spiritual shelter for others upon your return. Om Shanti, Om Peace