With recent accolades and a coveted five-star rating for its fine dining restaurant from Forbes Travel Guide, the Sheraton Wild Horse Pass Resort & Spa in Arizona is ready to showcase its stunning desert address for gourmands and wellness seekers longing for a true sense of place. At Kai restaurant, Native American-inspired cuisine is imbued with sophistication by a culinary team headed by Executive Chef Thomas Riordan. The menu features robust choices including duo of goose and rabbit finished with wheat berries and desert sage; and grilled tenderloin of tribal buffalo served with smoked corn puree, cholla buds, scarlet runner bean chile and saguaro blossom syrup. Finish off your meal with an enticing dessert such as mesquite sweet potato sponge with orange flower meringue, calamansi caramel and yam custard; or mini traditional fry bread puffs with 60-day corn sugar and brûléed corn custard.

“Local” remains the theme in Aji Spa, where guests can indulge in a therapeutic Pima Medicine Massage utilizing techniques passed down from Pima Medicine Healers; or a Kioho Burden Basket Meditation, based on the heavy “burden baskets” once carried by Pima women as part of their daily chores. During the therapy, a meditation instructor leads guests through a one-on-one session focusing on stress reduction, visualization and energy balance designed to help cast off stress and leave burdens behind. Other indigenous treatments include the Ongam Hobin Sacred Salt Wrap, Ho’ishp Sacred Prickly Pear Body Treatments and private Thoachta healing sessions with Belen Stoneman — a combination of consultation, massage and Pima energy healing techniques.