European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 16, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Los Angole Ottmo Laurel Springs ranch is Jane Fonda s 160-acre Home in Santa Barbara Calif. It is also operated As a super deluxe spa profits of which help finance a nonprofit Camp for youngsters of different racial ethnic and  backgrounds. Banda s spa megabucks Treadmill to fitness Tynik Kofinke los Angeles times the familiar voice on Thean Wonng machine i surprisingly lucidly Hollo this is Jane Fonda thank you Lor Colling the Lamel Springs Retreat i m sorry that no one is available to speak with you at Iho moment but i m very pleased you called " then Why is it that while passing through the rustic Gale o her ranch you icel like a trespasser what if like Rupert Pupko in Iho movie the King of comedy. You be Only imagined this personal invitation onto her property when is someone going to scream. Go away. Get lost scram1"7 Bui that won t happen not if you re one of the three to six people willing to pay $2,500 for the we Klong privilege of if not actually rubbing shoulders with the 51-year-old goddess of Good health eating her recipes hiking her trails and following her fitness for life philosophy As a guest at what could be the most exclusive spa in the world her 160-acre Home in Santa Barbara. Calif. Sure these Days Slars seem eager for entrepreneurship. Owning As they do everything from restaurants Tom Sellock and clubs Billy idol to even hair Dressig salons Mickey Rourke. And the undisputed Queen of them All is Fonda who with her Best Selling workout videos books and studio in Beverly Hills Calif. Has made a bundle from her businesses but nearly All celebrities would draw the line at any venture that interfered with their personal privacy. Why did t Fonda i did t do the Retreat because i wanted to get Rich off it she states firmly. I knew that if people could receive information about exercise and nutrition in the personal Way thai i have Ihen their commitment to their health would be changed forever. And by taking people out of their environment and putting them in a very intense and private situation which is also extremely peaceful and individualized the experience is even More profound so i thought i have this House i have this ranch Why Don t i iry to make in available to other people " and Why not also fund some social causes and get a tax write Oft in the process. Fonda says that she and her estranged husband state assemblyman Tom Hayden. Purchased the ranch in 1977 to Start Camp Laurel Springs their non profit summer facility Lor youngsters of different racial ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds that includes a program for inner City kids from the los Angeles unified school District. But the Camp has become increasingly difficult to fund in recent years maintains Fonda who came up with the idea of underwriting it with a non profit in Lobprise in the form of a super deluxe spa. It opened in november in the Remote and remodeler Redwood Lodge known As the Hill House which Fonda used to rent to Singer Joe Cocker. Yes. The spa is expensive for most  Fonda said Bui to Money goes Lor things they can also feel proud  Fonda s projections depending How fast we can Lake off show that Wilhm two years the spa s not proceeds which go into the tem Escal foundation will be enough not just to support the Camp but also research in health child development and education. At first the idea of spending the Day at Fonda s Laurel Springs Retreat sounds More like a punishment than a Reward no doubt the super athlete whose feel the Burn philosophy has toned up and tuckered out men and women of All sizes and Ages would be expected to organize a regimen Moro fitting to a medieval torture chamber than a Xanadu of rest and relaxation and when reveille in the form of a gentle Wake up Call comes at 6 15 a your worst fears arc confirmed. The very idea of calling it a Retreat seems like cruel joke but the punch line is still to come a voice explaining sweetly but insistently that the Ste mile hike will Start in a matter of minutes and you had belter get downstairs Pronto at any other resort turning off the phone jumping Back into bed and catching a few More hours of sleep would hardly raise an Eyebrow and even if you did get up and go out. You could look Forward alter the hike to All those Lovely Beauty treatments like mud Baths manicures and makeup lessons thai other spas offer not this one instead your Reward consists of being led to a state of Tho Art gym. Hooked up to a six Lead egg machine and put on a Treadmill by or Daniel Kosich. The program director Lor Fonda s workout Empire. He conducts a rigorous evaluation to assess your cardiovascular fitness body fat composition flexibility and muscle balance. And it s not even 10 a m yell the Point of the Treadmill is you re going to learn How it feels to exercise at your optimum level Kosich tells his Guinea pig los Angeles screenwriter Susan Lindau it s so wonderful when it slops hurting she laughs after she finishes her herculean Effort and removes the electrodes Bui to said my fitness level was above average and i be never been above average on anything in my  with that she went on yet another hike in All honesty life could be worse than to be coddled Lor a week in this Navajo and Nautilus nirvana furnished Coily by Fonda with los Angeles decorator Barbara Pohlman they met through Singer Linda Ronstadt sleeping on linens from the Ralph Lauren Home collection dining on franciscan desert Rose China ceding on Low fat High Energy gourmet fare exercising amid Rau Schonborg lithographs and getting massaged before a panoramic View of the Pacific Ocean it is almost enough to forget All the hiking biking twisting and turning that your personal Trainer puts you through every Day. Bui sharing the misery creates an atmosphere of instant intimacy resulting in nighttime gab sessions in front of the 17-loot-High Stone fireplace. Or in the Frothy hot tub under the stars because of Fonda s other career As an actress the spa gels its Lair share of show business managers agents studio executives and of course celebrities no matter who s who and who s not. They All seem to gel infected with farm lever alter us a Lew Days at the ranch. While California has a disproportionately greater number of spas than Iho rest of the country due to Bolh the gentleness of ils weather and the body consciousness of its residents. Fonda s spa has generated More than average curiosity. The reason no double. Is that the spa just happens to be right next door to Fonda s own modest farmhouse and while she is Only an infrequent visitor to the ranch Fonda is a presence nevertheless from the pictures of her in the spa s brochures and recipe collection to the Adirondack furniture and Folksy objects d Art thai she personally picked out Lor the Lodge quarters to the Jane Fonda workout t shirts towels and water bottles on Sale in Iho workout Center. As a result the unspoken but Clear message of the re real is live like Fonda eat like Fonda work out like Fonda and maybe just maybe you la end up looking like Fonda. Fonda maintains that her Retreat fills a vacuum within the Industry somewhere Between the Boot Camp approach and the pampering places with herbal wraps and manicures what it s not. She emphasizes is a reducing factory where you can Loso 10 pounds in one  the stars and stripes Page 17