Devon Hiking Spa is designed for you to enjoy a fun, active vacation and return home with healthy eating and exercise principles that will improve your life. At Devon Hiking Spa, you’ll nurture your body, mind, and soul with daily exercise, balanced meals, and good laughs. You’ll enjoy a sense of camaraderie among a small group of like-minded participants. And, you’ll learn from our nutrition and fitness experts. Whether your goal is to improve your eating habits, increase your physical fitness, incorporate healthy practices into your daily schedule, or manage your weight, we meet your needs. Give us a week, and we’ll help you change your life.
Our program, called “Fit Health into Life,” meshes the health spa experience with the “real world.” Instead of serving a restrictive diet, which often leads to short-term weight loss, we eat at real restaurants where you learn to navigate menus and make healthful decisions for the long term. Instead of using bulky gym equipment in our fitness classes, we work with portable resistance bands and show you exercises you can easily continue at home. In addition, we provide you with pedometers so you can begin to keep track of your daily steps with us and at home.
Our fitness philosophy is simple: we want you to “move more.” We realize most people do not have an hour to spend at the gym each day. You can still incorporate more activity into your daily routine. How? Take the stairs instead of the elevator, park farther away from the store, stand up from your chair and do ten jumping jacks each hour, contract your abdominal muscles while you sit in front of the computer, throw a few punches (jab, hook, uppercut) at your reflection when you look in the mirror, listen to your favorite song and dance around the house, mop the floor, vacuum the carpet, mow the lawn, and choose non-sedentary social activities, like bowling or miniature golf. In addition to “moving more”, we focus on flexibility and resistance training.
Unlike most spas, we run programs with fixed dates at a resort hotel. Each five-night program is limited to ten participants and includes deluxe accommodations, all meals and snacks, daily guided hikes, fitness classes, two massages, and informative lectures and workshops.
A typical day at Devon Hiking Spa begins with a 30 minute stretch class. After breakfast, you choose to participate in a beginner, intermediate, or advanced hiking experience. You eat lunch on the trail and return to the hotel in the late afternoon for a fitness class and/or massage before dinner. After dinner, we offer lectures and workshops on health-related topics. All activities, meals, and lectures are optional, so you are always free to lounge at the pool, workout in the gym, or play tennis or golf at the resort.
Devon Hiking Spa provides an extraordinary level of service and personal attention. In addition, the gimmick-free nutrition and fitness program is based on sound science. Whether you are already fit or motivated to get there, traveling on your own or with a friend or spouse, you will find Devon Hiking Spa to be a fun, valuable experience.
Devon Hiking Spa, and its “Fit Health into Life” program, was founded by Devon Metz, M.S., R.D., a registered dietitian with a Master of Science degree in clinical nutrition. Devon spent six years working in the spa industry at New Life Hiking Spa, Miraval Resort and Spa, and Canyon Ranch in the Berkshires. Throughout the years, Devon filled the roles of “nutritionist,” hiking guide, fitness instructor, and program coordinator. In addition, she listened to spa-goers’ likes and dislikes, researched the spa industry, and developed the concepts that led to the creation of Devon Hiking Spa and its “Fit Health into Life” program.
