CIVANA Wellness Resort & Spa is a premium wellness destination located in Arizona’s Sonoran Desert.

Nestled high in the Sonoran Desert just outside of Scottsdale in Carefree, Arizona, CIVANA Wellness Resort & Spa is an award-winning wellness destination that includes luxury accommodations, a world-class spa, an extensive program of wellness classes and offerings, and healthy cuisine. The resort recently launched a “Habit of Happiness” program that encourages guests to connect with their happy state of mind through engagement in consistent mind-body strategies.

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Every guest at CIVANA is also invited to participate in over a dozen complimentary movement and fitness classes ranging from aerial yoga and morning hikes to yoga, myofascial release and more. The Spa at CIVANA is a stunning oasis of relaxation with an aqua therapy circuit and a menu that features a wide range of therapeutic and rejuvenating treatments that are focused on healing through water.

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The resort also offers a 5-night Chopra Health Retreat that teaches the centuries-old healing method of Ayurveda through daily spa experiences including personalized massages, meditation and yoga, educational sessions and workshops, and a multi-step detoxification process that aids in the release of toxins.

We chatted with CIVANA’s Spa Director, Stevie White, to learn more about treatments to try, insider tips, and more.

Why You’ll Love It: Guests love CIVANA’s signature spa services and our Aqua Therapy Circuit.

The spa’s relaxation lounge offers sweeping views of Black Mountain from the outdoor deck.

Key Features: CIVANA’s Spa offers more than 23 treatment rooms located on two levels, men’s and women’s locker rooms with steam rooms, and an outdoor 25-meter heated spa saltwater pool, lounging, bistro-style seating and cabanas. The co-ed relaxation lounge is a grounding sanctuary and the perfect place to rest before and after your treatment, offering healthy snacks and teas, oversized lounge pods, and an outdoor deck offering a sweeping view of Black Mountain.

Guests can relax on oversized lounge pods while enjoying healthy snacks and teas.

Insider’s Tip: We offer many ways to expand your horizons through our intentionally crafted spa menu. Guests are invited to experience the sensation of sound vibration with our signature services featuring sound bowl enhancements; an effortless, relaxing Watsu service; tone and tighten with a facial that provides immediate results including facial cupping and gua sha tools; and balance their energy with our energetic services.

Bonus: At CIVANA every spa journey begins uniquely with access to the Aqua Therapy Circuit; featuring hot and cold Kneipp Walks, a Tepidarium pool, cold deluge shower, and KLAFS Sanarium offering humidity and heat from within (the only commercial one available in the United States).

Snacks Served: We offer fresh fruit, hot tea and water.

Splurge Treatment: Our newly launched 120-minute Spirit of the Desert Massage. Absorb the healing power of the desert and tap into your intention in this 2-hour transformative journey. Begin with a guided meditation to help you focus on the present with added sound bowls to ground and connect. Vibration touches every part of our being. Not only heard through our ears but felt in every cell in our body. To remind us of our wholeness. Your massage therapist will use steam-warmed poultices filled with delicate flowers and natural herbs to form a powerful herbal elixir. Experience this ancient art of gentle warm pressure to relieve muscle tension and renewed feelings of balance. Rhythmic strokes combined with a soothing massage of nutrient rich oils are applied to promote natural rebalancing of body, mind, and spirit.

The spa’s dry sauna is among the many amenities offered.

Unique Treatment: Watsu (60 minutes). Dip into the warm water of a private outdoor pool and prepare to be swept away. Surrender fully to in intuitive guidance of the water as your therapist gently sweeps your body through a dance-like series of floating movements. Gentle stretches and twists elevate the water’s naturally restorative powers, helping to ease physical and emotional tension. Bathing suits are required.

The spa’s amenities include a 25-meter pool and sundeck.

Insider’s Favorite: CIVANA Renew. Movement is the key to life. CIVANA Renew is a treatment designed for your inner body—your cellular body—where all the magic happens. Incorporating wellness rituals and techniques that encourage change within the tissues, increase lymphatic drainage, circulation, and elimination, all while providing optimum marine and herbal nourishment to restore and renew. This signature facial incorporates the use of lymphatic style cupping and gua sha techniques to release tension, create movement, and enhance detoxification, while restoring vitality and bringing life back to the skin. Sound meditation is woven throughout the treatment to enhance the vibrational healing of each cell, remove blockages, enhancing our relaxation response and innate ability to heal. This all-encompassing treatment helps to align, balance and restore homeostasis to your mind, body and soul.