On Saturday, August 13th, Mayflower Inn & Spa hosted The Sculpt Society, the #1 Sculpt and Dance Cardio workout, for an exclusive, in-person event with its leading trainer, Katy Schuele. The Sculpt Society combines powerful toning exercises with dance cardio for a fun and effective workout, loved by many. The day kicked off as hotel guests, friends, and members of the local community arrived on the warm summer morning and began the class in the Shakespeare Garden under the expansive tent. The lively and high-energy Sculpt Society workout ran for 45-minutes, and included fun dance cardio and toning movements, and left everyone feeling challenged and happy.

“I’m delighted to have the opportunity to work with the Auberge Resorts Collection brand and introduce inspiring dishes for the property that will weave together my adventures around the world and my knowledge of naturopathy and herbology,” said Cortney Burns, executive chef, Mayflower Inn & Spa, Auberge Resorts Collection. “The history of New England is my culinary muse and I’ve spent decades honing what has become my cooking style: using history as a springboard for creativity while drawing on my own culinary knowledge and nutrient-rich approach to lead the way.” Chef Burns is Mayflower’s third female visiting chef and the first of its Inspiring Chefs program, which delivers transformative dining experiences and world-class cuisine from top-tier talent. Using the destination as her muse, she will allow the bounty of Litchfield farmers to inspire her dishes, intuitively and intentionally positioning peak season ingredients center stage. Her priority is to consciously source from local purveyors with quality of care, good practice and ambitions to heal the land and community—in tune with the Inn’s pillars of wellness and critical to her own well-rounded cooking style.

On April 29th - May 1st, 2022, Mayflower Inn & Spa hosted the New York City-based womenswear brand, La Ligne, for an exclusive weekend of shopping in the countryside as part of the Friends of Mayflower series.

Inspired by Veuve Clicquot's premiere champagne, La Grande Dame, experience culinary and beverage delights with a trip to the countryside, highlighted throughout the autumn harvest season at Mayflower Inn & Spa. Garden Gastronomy begins with a quest for excellence and a reverence for the beautifully natural taste of produce fresh from the garden. With a reimagination of our on-property Chef’s Garden in tandem with La Grande Dame, curation of one-of-a-kind experiences, and a harvest menu which draws on the freshest ingredients from local purveyors, watch as Garden Gastronomy comes to life.

It is often said that artists hold up a mirror to society. If this is the case, then their art serves as a prism through which we can view the times we live in, often from an entirely new perspective. In the Auberge ArtSalon series, six emerging artists will turn their own unique gaze on six iconic Auberge retreats to create art installations that reflect each property’s individual character, setting, heritage, and place in the world today

Mother-Daughter Owned Jewelry Designer Of Rare Origin kicked off the first-ever Friends of Mayflower event in the countryside over Mother’s Day Weekend. Friends of Mayflower is a curated series of residences, events and experiences with tastemakers in culinary, design, fashion, wellness and the arts designed to enrich the lives of our guests and community at Mayflower Inn & Spa.

Kemble approached the redesign to Mayflower’s historic site with “great trepidation, respect and a sense of enthusiasm.” More than a hotel, she says the Mayflower Inn & Spa feels like someone’s home, with a sense of gracious hosting, comfort and personality. The idea was a refresh, not a demolition.. She picked out the things that were worth preserving, that had aged well and brought a sense of authenticity to the site, including mahogany four-poster beds and lamps, refectory tables, chinoiserie chairs, a papier-mache chinoiserie coffee table and game tables. She mixed in Scandinavian and colonial American design influences with sisal carpets, Turkish rugs, hand-crafted ceramics, wicker, as well as textiles from Schumacher, Sister Parish, and Penny Morrison.

THE WELL is the brainchild of co-founders Rebecca Parekh, Kane Sarhan, and Sarrah Hallock, whose health club in New York City brings together all aspects of the wellness journey into a single space. There, doctors, practitioners, and health professionals (including yoga instructors and nutrition experts) treat guest ailments in a pioneering, integrated approach to maximize full-body wellbeing.

As the Chief Medical Officer of THE WELL at Mayflower Inn, renowned functional medicine doctor Frank Lipman, M.D, has been a pioneer of integrative and functional medicine for almost 40 years. He is also the best-selling author of How to Be Well and The New Rules of Aging Well. Under his guidance, trained health practitioners investigate different areas of guests’ lives during one-on-one coaching sessions, then formulate personalized, adjustable plans that outline attainable actions guests can take in order to achieve their wellness goals, be that improving nutrition, digestion, sleep, or reducing stress. In light of the launch of THE WELL at Mayflower Inn & Spa, we asked Lipman about the importance of functional medicine and ways in which you can increase well-being in your own life.

I’ve been studying Reiki for 26 years when my path to the healing art began in 1990 when my hands started talking to me. The message was clear: they wanted to be used as instruments for change. Now as a Reiki Master in the Traditional Usui System, my technique includes channeling healing energy to you through my hands, which activates the natural healing processes of your body to restore your physical and emotional well-being, shifting your perspective on life and allowing space for you embrace self-responsibility to operate from a place of love instead of fear.