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The settlement was founded in 1878 by Seventh-day Adventists who opened a sanitarium that they called the Rural Health Retreat at Crystal Springs, later St. Helena Sanitarium, and now St. Helena Hospital. [2] [3] [4] The community that developed around the sanitarium was called Sanitarium. [2]
After freight and stagecoach traffic on the road dwindled with the completion of the First transcontinental railroad in 1868, Webber began advertising the hotel as a health retreat. [3] As a tourist destination, guests included nurse Clara Barton , actor Lola Montez , and painter Thomas Hill .
The Esalen Institute, commonly called Esalen, is a non-profit American retreat center and intentional community in Big Sur, California, which focuses on humanistic alternative education. [2] The institute played a key role in the Human Potential Movement beginning in the 1960s. Its innovative use of encounter groups, a focus on the mind-body ...
The Ranch, California For fresh air and lots of exercise, this retreat delivers (The Ranch Malibu) Hiking, lots and lots of hiking, is quite literally the order of the day at The Ranch.
The Sufism Reoriented sanctuary is located in Saranap, an unincorporated village in Contra Costa County, California. Carol Weyland Conner, a clinical psychologist, served as the spiritual leader of Sufism Reoriented from June 2001 until her death in April 2023. [7] The current spiritual leader of Sufism Reoriented is Walker Lambert. [8] [9]
The owner, Barlow J. Smith, sold out after five months and opened a retreat in Rutherford, in the Napa Valley. He invited Kellogg to come to Rutherford as a house physician. A patient there encouraged Kellogg to establish his own health resort, and helped arrange investors. Kellog began work on a site near St. Helena, California.
The motel, initially bought by William Randolph Hearst in 1929, boasted 30 rooms that served as "an inexpensive seaside holiday vacation retreat for families" before being acquired by California ...
A 40-acre glamping property in the remote wilderness of California’s Kings Canyon National Park is for sale for $5.35 million. Sequoia High Sierra Camp in Fresno County offers 35 established ...