24 hours in Santa Fe
When traveling, living like a local in a town that warms your heart like Santa Fe can be the most immersive way to absorb the city’s energy. This idyllic New Mexican town epitomizes culture, wellness, and vibrant musings. On a solo 24 hours in the city, our ideal day leaves you feeling inspired, enlivened and rejuvenated all between sunrise and sunset. From walks down Canyon Road taking in the gorgeous sculptures and paintings from imaginative artists to a community-driven yoga class at BODY of Santa Fe, create space for this quintessential high desert day.
Santa Fe invites everyone in it to slow down and take in the energy of this spiritual vortex. A favorite way to take in the town is on foot, walking around to marvel at the transportive architecture is sure to make you an adobe aficionado in no time. While you should always expect the unexpected, this itinerary provides structure to absorb the magic at your own pace:
8:30 AM: Pick up an Adaptogen Roast or Matcha Chai at the Nourished Cafe inside BODY of Santa Fe to kick start your morning. The Matcha Chai is fragrant and full of invigorating spices like anise seed and cassia cinnamon with matcha tea, and oat milk. If you prefer a coffee taste, Joe’s Adaptogen roast includes full spectrum mushrooms like cordyceps, reishi, and lion's mane, with ashwagandha, L-theanine, chicory root, cacao, and more. Either give you a warm, gentle, nourishing spring into your next adventure.
Neighborhood Stroll: Walk from BODY to the start of Canyon Road to see America’s most galleries per capita on one street, right in the heart of Santa Fe. The neighborhoods in between BODY will have you snapping photos the entire way to capture the gorgeous colorful doors, adobe architecture, and depending on the season, vibrant flowers blooming throughout your path. You may find you create an album on your phone brimming with a variety of earthen homes with exposed wooden beams, turquoise wooden doors, and hanging dried chilies.
Canyon Road: With over 1,000 featured fine artists, the galleries of Canyon Road promise to evoke wonder and emotion. From Lorri Alcott’s captivating bronze sculptures at Canyon Road Contemporary to Walt Hortin’s bronze bear sculptures at Sage Creek Gallery, you will spend hours wide-eyed and awakened to the richness of the Southwest.
Noon Yoga: Head back to BODY of Santa Fe for a noon yoga class with the dynamic Santa Fe yoga community. The instructors at BODY are seasoned, gifted yogis who craft their classes to be enjoyed by beginners and the most advanced practitioners. The studio itself at BODY is a gorgeous, bright, airy, crisp space designed for calming, intentional practice at any level.
Lunch: Without needing to step out of the building, find all organic locally sourced plant-based, gluten-free dishes inside BODY at the Nourished Cafe. The menu was designed by Chef Joel Coleman, one of Santa Fe’s most celebrated chefs featuring a Thai Red Curry Bowl with gluten-free sweet potato noodles, Green Chili Stew, and ample amounts of gluten-free plant-based baked goods. Experience the best of Santa Fe produce with vegetables sourced from the famous Santa Fe Farmer's Market.
BODY Spa: It wouldn’t be Santa Fe without wellness and it wouldn’t be BODY if the spa wasn’t teamed with the town’s most talented body workers and estheticians. Whether you’re feeling called to a Hydra Facial or you need deep somatic healing and massage that will give you a crash course on your body and how to care for any ailments you’re experiencing, the spa is there to heal and serve you.
4 PM: After your spa treatment, shop the body, clothing, and home departments at BODY. Unique to anywhere, BODY’s ethos serves to promote environmentally conscious, sustainable fashion and products that contribute to healthy living. From ethically sourced sustainable fashion lines like Rita Row, Prairie Underground, and Sula to organic skincare from DNA Skin Institute. Try on the difference of sustainable clothing or lay on our bed draped with the organic cotton bedding of Coyuchi to feel how the materials you sleep in can promote intentional rest.
Sunset: Take a stroll through the neighborhood to drinks or dinner on the adobe-lined streets with homes burning logs of piñon pine whose fragrance permeates through the streets, for the coziest feeling. You can work your way back up to Canyon Road or to the Plaza for more historic architecture and iconic restaurants.