Castle Hot Springs in Arizona: Everything You Need to Know to Curate Your Own Wellness Adventure
Taking a wellness-driven retreat is an alluring travel idea for 2022. The thought alone conjures an escape to majestic nature, secluded destinations, restorative meditation, and golden tranquility. With a slate of new wellness offerings including the introduction of a new Intentional Wellness Menu, Arizona’s award-winning luxury desert oasis Castle Hot Springs is helping travelers achieve their 2022 self-care resolutions through a myriad of customized private experiences aimed at balancing the mind, body, and soul.
From personalized yoga sessions and restorative mindfulness classes to soaking in the property’s healing geo-thermal waters, Castle Hot Springs is designed to leave guests revitalized through a regenerative travel experience. The property reopened on September 1 and is currently accepting bookings.
Questions You May Have about Castle Hot Springs
Where is Castle Hot Springs?
Castle Hot Springs is located in Morristown, Arizona, about an hour from Phoenix. To get there you’ll have to travel down a 7 mile dirt road! (The road is maintained, but the resort recommends driving on it in an SUV or truck.) About 1 mile into the road, you’ll get a beautiful view of Lake Pleasant, one Arizona’s largest lakes and local favorite.
Is Castle Hot Springs open to the public?
Castle Hot Springs is only open to guests staying overnight. Currently, there are no dining or resort passes available to the general public.
If you want to visit Castle Hot Springs, you will need to book a stay at the resort. Stays are all-inclusive and include all meals and a wide range of activities including pickle ball, bocce ball, e-bikes, guided hikes, farm tours, yoga, meditation, and exclusive use of all the hot springs. For an additional charge, guests can add massage services, horseback riding, ATV rentals and more.
What to do at Castle Hot Springs?
Of course, Castle Hot Springs is best known for its hot spring, perfect for soaking and swimming! There are also a wide variety of other activities and adventures for guests at Castle Hot Springs. Some of these activities include meditation, yoga (including paddle board yoga), farm tours, archery, history tours, pickle ball, boce ball, guided hikes, electric mountain bikes, and more.
For an additional price, more activities include horseback riding, helicopter tours, Guided ATV tours, golfing, watersports at Lake Pleasant, and massages.
What spa services are available at Castle Hot Springs?
Guest enjoy custom services in custom cabanas situated along the spring water creek. Service options include massages and bodywork treatments.
Wellness Focused Options
As the resort continues to expand its wellness offerings, a new wellness focus is led by wellness guide Colleen Inman. A published author of wellness and yoga books, including a celebrated manual for yoga instructors and her latest book, Balancing the Earth Element. A mother of two and a true yogi at heart, Inman works with guests daily, and along with a professional team offers custom and modern-focuses and practices. When creating the new wellness menu for Castle Hot Springs, the natural elements came into play based on geography.
“The Intentional Wellness Program at Castle Hot Springs offers the seeds of future wellness to the proverbial table where guests may choose to pick up the kernel of wisdom they wish to cultivate in their own lives,” states Inman. “We will show them how to practice the wellness techniques and suggest appropriate ongoing methods to slowly weave the intention of future wellness into the very fabric of their life. Nature itself has inherent patterns in cycles that can teach us the wisdom of how to live in harmony and health.”
Embrace Your Balance With Castle Hot Springs’ Intentional Wellness Menu
Castle Hot Springs’ new Intentional Wellness Menu allows guests to immerse themselves in the restorative peace of the Sonoran Desert landscape with private wellness classes, including:
Yoga classes uniquely tailored to balancing guest’s current body conditions and season of life (Restorative Yoga, Hatha, Vinyasa, Slow Flow, Zen, Yin, Yoga Nidra)
Qigong gentle movement classes to loosen stagnation in the body
Tai Chi to introduce grace, stability, balance, and calm in the guest’s life
A variety of breathwork classes which aim at energizing, calming, and balancing in order to center the mind and body
Mindfulness classes ranging from Guided Meditation Hikes and Chakra Tune-Ups to Vedic Mantra Sessions and Restorative Sound Sessions, and others
Available to book now, each private session is $200/per person per hour for up to two guests at a time.
Re-Align And Restore With Castle Hot Springs’ Zen Wellness Package
The individualized Zen Wellness Package, offers an inclusive and regenerative experience that is customized and tailored to each guest’s unique preference and needs. Incorporating five hours of private, one-on-one elemental and astral assessments alongside balancing protocols from master-level instructors, participants will be gently guided on an internal journey toward a more balanced lifestyle that will extend well beyond their stay. In addition to this individualized programming, guests will also receive:
A 60-minute massage from one of Castle Hot Springs’ expert massage therapists in an outdoor cabana
Private and small-group yoga and meditation classes
Guidance on maintaining balance post-stay
A guide to the guest’s elemental and astral influences
Guided semi-private group hikes
Meal-inclusive (with gratuity)
Desert soaking: unlimited access to ground yourself within the resort’s thermal springs
Resort activities, including Stand-Up Paddle Board Yoga, tours of the property’s farm, and e-bikes, and more.
Castle Hot Springs’ Zen Wellness Package, starts at $2,000/per night for a two-night stay minimum in order to provide immersion into the program. Minimum 14-day advance booking. Longer stays can be customized. Separate confirmation for additional services required.
A Holistic Approach to Wellness
By offering a well-balanced approach to wellness, even moderation must be met with moderation. Castle Hot Springs encourages guests to find balance in the great outdoors, as well as internally. Castle Hot Springs’ geothermal hot springs have long made it a restorative ground for visitors beginning with Native Americans who journeyed to the mineral-rich hot springs for medicinal purposes. Naturally forged over time more than 13,000 years ago, the hot springs boast a variety of natural minerals that provides a multitude of health benefits including producing collagen for healthy skin, blood pressure reduction, and fatigue and stress prevention.
In addition to swimming and soaking in the geothermal springs, guests can choose from a variety of activities including stand-up paddleboard yoga, horseback riding, hiking, and training in archery amongst the resort’s surrounding rugged terrain; pickle and bocce ball on the great lawn; and the state’s first-ever Via Ferrata course.
Even Castle Hot Springs’ culinary programming ties into the resort’s overall wellness approach. The sustainable ‘Flavor Farming’-driven culinary and agricultural teams at Castle Hot Springs emphasize growing and utilizing crops for flavor rather than size and yield. Led by the agricultural team, the property grows more than 500 varieties of fruits, vegetables, herbs, and florals including distinct varieties of delicious heirloom and hybrid tomatoes on the resort’s thriving one-acre organic farm and greenhouse—all of which supply the resort’s on-site dining experience.
A one-of-a-kind, outdoor-driven adult getaway (ages 16 and up only) accessible via automobile or helicopter, Castle Hot Springs is conveniently located just an hour’s drive from Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport yet remains a perfectly remote hideaway for those seeking to disconnect in a naturally distanced environment. Nightly rates at Castle Hot Springs start from USD $1,500 inclusive of meals and activities for two.
For more information, visit Castle Hot Springs’ website and follow on Instagram: @castlehotsprings
[Images courtesy of Castle Hot Springs]