Miraval Life in Balance Spa at Monarch Beach Resort, Dana Point

Monarch Beach Resort in Dana Point, California.

Monarch Beach Resort offers a seaside retreat in beautiful Dana Point, CA, where guests can enjoy luxury accommodations, fine dining, golfing and exclusive activities. Miraval Life in Balance Spa provides a balancing escape for mindfulness, stress-relief and relaxation. MacKenzie MacDonald, Assistant Director of Spa | Programming & Fitness, gives us a look inside the Orange County spa.

Beach yoga at Miraval Life in Balance at Monarch Beach Resort in Dana Point.

Why You’ll Love It: I would say it’s a tie between our spa's inclusive 55 yoga/meditation/fitness classes per week, and a post-treatment blowout in our Drybar branded salon.

Featured Amenities: From our healthful whole foods-inspired menu served in our spa café and garden patio to the newly renovated spa courtyard pool, there is space for everyone to enjoy an intimate pre-or post-treatment moment alone.

Insider Tip: Check out the detoxifying ginger or soothing green welcome elixir. Ask for a mix of the two over ice—it's our internal secret recipe for an energy and immunity boost.

Miraval Life in Balance at Monarch Beach Resort offers a casual spa high tea experience featuring California spa lobster rolls and house-made spa macarons.

Spa Snacks: On weekends we serve a casual spa high tea experience featuring our California spa lobster rolls and house-made spa macarons with Tea Leaves custom blends and free-flowing champagne. This is the ultimate in-robe tea experience and the perfect midday reprieve from treatments and classes.

Most Unique Treatment: The Shamana Karma Body Ritual. This 80-min ayurvedic poultice treatment with a post-treatment hibiscus powder dusting was developed by our Miraval Ayurvedic Master. The poultices are still made by his family by hand around the table. This farm-to-table approach to treatments is delectably authentic.