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Article snippet: LENOX, Mass. — In the freshly renovated dining hall of the Canyon Ranch on a Thursday night this fall, guests at the East Coast outpost of this famous health, fitness and wellness resort scattered at separate tables after a long day of cardio cross-training and Pilates classes, facials, massages, genetics-based nutrition consultations and indoor-swimming pool aerobics. There were two beautiful and tall yoga-pants-clad young women on a getaway with grandmothers in leopard-print leggings. Near them, a middle-aged man and woman toasted each other with decaffeinated herbal tea. Alcohol has never been served at Canyon Ranch because it is considered a distraction from the work of restoring and rejuvenating. But you can now get your face shot full of Botox here. Nearly 40 years after it first opened, Canyon Ranch is having some serious work done. It has been sold by its founders, Mel and Enid Zuckerman, to a real-estate investment company owned by a Texas billionaire, John Goff, and is no longer being run by the team overseen by Mr. Zuckerman, long a familiar presence on the original Canyon Ranch property in Tucson. The new C.E.O. is Susan Docherty, 55, the first female corporate officer at General Motors, who worked there on the Hummer and Cadillac Escalade brands. Hiring executives with experience from luxury hotel chains like Ritz-Carlton, she is now turning a family business into a well-oiled hospitality machine. The gift shop sells $900 cashmere throws and boardroo... Link to the full article to read more