A woman in flowing white raising her arms beside the granite boulders of Box Canyon

The Santerra Signature Experience

Box Canyon · Yucca, Arizona

34 villas · 320 acres

What do you want more ofin your life?

Choose what you came for — we'll show you the science, and the way there.

Seven paths in — read the science first

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Fig. 001 · From the soil to the soul

(001) What is the Santerra experience?

Lasting transformation

For too long, we were told that health was a habit, or a superfood, or the next supplement, diet, or prescription we simply had to have. But rewind the clock a few thousand years, and the health of the body, the mind, and the spirit were never separate segments of a life — they were one interconnected whole.

The Santerra experience is built around lasting transformation. It starts with your intention — what you’re really looking for — and then we measure your health comprehensively. Months later, when we remeasure and we’ve walked with you through the change, it won’t just be how you feel. You’ll have the data to back up why you feel the way you do.

A low cream and stone villa at dusk with lit path lights along a stone walkway to its timber door, under a purple and orange sky with a rocky peak behind. — Path lights on, the peak going dark

A stone entry pavilion with a tall rectangular opening stands between two shallow reflecting pools, with a lit stone wall and basin inside and olive trees and desert mountains behind it at sunset. — The doorway into the spa, lit from inside

(002) The Method

A science to transformation

Most programs run only the middle phase — the week itself. We run all three, because change that lasts is prepared for, lived, then protected.

[PHASE 1]

Preparation

Your experience starts at booking — a research-grade flourishing assessment, your wearable's real baseline, and one honest intention set before you arrive. Ground prepared on purpose.

[PHASE 2]

Immersion

Five nights out of your cue environment: the table, the trails, the fire, a small cohort, forgiveness and purpose work, and rest you haven't had in years.

[PHASE 3]

Reinforcement

Ninety days of follow-through — monthly coaching, weekly practices, your community — and then we measure again, so the change shows up as data.

A rocky desert ridge in silhouette at sunset, with saguaro cactus on the skyline and distant mountain ranges under a cloud-streaked orange sky.

The ridgeline at sundown

(003) The Seven Pillars

Seven ways to tend a life

Health was never one thing. A flourishing life is fed in seven ways — the same seven your baseline assessment measures before you arrive, and the same seven we tend, hour by hour, across the week. It’s how a change you can feel becomes a change you can see.

Rhythm

Light & dark

Morning light on the trails, early dinners, a nightly wind-down, and a full day of rest — the body's clock reset, and sleep that finally restores.

Nourishment

What you take in

Garden-led meals from the wellness menu, a zero-proof table, and a cooking class to carry home. Food as medicine, never restriction.

Movement

The body in motion

Sunrise hikes, gentle yoga and breathwork, and unhurried miles of trail — movement that restores rather than depletes.

Resilience

Hot & cold

The sauna-and-cold-plunge circuit, and the tools to meet stress without being run by it. The body learns it is safe to stand down.

Clarity

Silence & solitude

Guided stillness, journaling, and solo silent time in nature — the looping worry that steals your sleep, quieted.

Connection

Belonging

One long table, a small cohort, and a partner who becomes your ninety-day accountability. You don't do this alone.

Renewal

Nature & spirit

Forgiveness work, the fire at sundown, and long hours out on the land — the spirit tended, the burdens set down.

A figure in white below the jagged peak at the head of the canyon

“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach.”

Henry David Thoreau· Walden, 1854

(004) The Signature Experience

Six days, one arc

This is the Santerra Signature Experience. Tuesday through Sunday, the week bends from arrival to sending. Open any day to see how it unfolds — hour by unhurried hour.

Arrive by late afternoon and let the pace change. Your room has been prepared for rest, not stimulation. Before dinner we gather for a gentle welcome — introductions, the shape of the week, and one quiet question: what did you actually come here for? Over the first dinner at one long table, you name a single honest intention. Nothing else is asked of you tonight but to arrive.

Hands lifting a tomato from a basket of just-picked vegetables and herbs — [FIG. 007] What the kitchen cooks was cut that morning

An outdoor massage under a linen canopy — [FIG. 008] A treatment in the spa — study imagery

The last band of orange light along the desert horizon after sunset — [FIG. 009] Bortle 2 — the site itself emits no detectable light in thirteen years of satellite record

[Plan your experience]

A woman in a long pale robe walks away down a shaded outdoor corridor between plaster and rammed earth walls, with desert hills visible at the far end. — The walk to dinner

A plaster villa living room with a pale sectional sofa, two wooden armchairs, a low timber coffee table on a jute rug and a lit fireplace at right, with full-height sliding glass doors opening onto a walled courtyard pool and desert mountains beyond. — Sliders open onto the water court

The wide boulder massif below the granite peaks under high cloud

The road ends where Santerra begins

Three hundred and twenty acres

(005) The Place

Three hundred and twenty acres of quiet

Santerra sits at the end of Box Canyon Drive in the Hualapai range of northwest Arizona. Federal and state land wraps three sides, the county abandoned the road at our boundary, and across thirteen annual satellite composites since 2012 the property itself has emitted no detectable light, because nothing has ever been built there. Two hours from Las Vegas, two and a half from Phoenix and four and a half from Los Angeles — or thirty-five minutes by road from the private airport at Lake Havasu, with a helipad on the property. Close enough to reach easily, and a world away from your inbox.

The desert track running toward the mountains with the sun breaking over the ridge — [FIG. 011] The road in, first light

Granite and open desert: Boulder fields, washes and Joshua tree stands at the foot of the Hualapai range — the ground the whole week is built on.
Miles of private trail: The county abandoned the road at our boundary, so the trails are yours. Made for the unhurried morning walks the week is built around.
A Bortle 2 sky: Across thirteen annual satellite composites since 2012, the property itself emits no detectable light — nothing has ever been built there. Stargazing is a nightly habit here, not an excursion.
The farm and the kitchen: Plant-forward menus cooked from what was cut that morning, and a zero-proof table. Food as medicine, never restriction.
Water, hot and cold: Six private vessels in every villa — plunge pool, hot tub, cold plunge, Finnish sauna, steam shower and an outdoor soaking tub. A door opens from the steam shower straight to the tub and an outdoor rain shower, so the whole contrast circuit runs without dressing or leaving your own walls.
Two hours from Las Vegas: Two and a half from Phoenix, four and a half from Los Angeles, and thirty-five minutes from the private airport at Lake Havasu. There is a helipad on site. Close enough to reach easily, far enough that the inbox finally goes quiet.

[The villas, and what's included]

Jared and Annette Thurmon, founders and hosts of Santerra, standing in the boulder field — [FIG. 003] Jared & Annette Thurmon — your hosts

(006) Your Hosts

Two people, one long table

Santerra was founded by Jared and Annette Thurmon. They curated the week session by session and meal by meal, and they stay as close to it as two people can — alongside a team they chose themselves, who carry it the rest of the time.

One small cohort at a time. When they are here, they are at the table with you rather than behind it.

“It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste much of it.”

Seneca· On the Shortness of Life

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A figure in white in the boulder field with the granite massif rising behind — The land does most of the work

A Joshua tree silhouetted against a violet dusk sky — Dusk comes slowly here