Myrna Beardshear
Director of Spa, Health and Fitness

A native of South Africa, Myrna brings a rich background to Red Mountain. She has owned a business importing African Art into the United States, for which she traveled extensively throughout remote areas of Southern Africa, sourcing the most unique and finest quality native art. She lived under canvas in the African bush on the banks of the Zambezi River while developing a five-star safari lodge in Barotseland, southwestern Zambia. Myrna also worked with the government and the King of Barotseland to set up a Wild Life Protection Unit to stabilize the wildlife in the area.

On returning to the U.S. in 1995, Myrna was the opening Spa Director at Merv Griffin’s Givenchy Hotel and Spa in Palm Springs, California. She served in the same capacity at the five-star La Quinta Resort & Spa before moving to Las Vegas to open the Spa and Fitness Center at the prestigious Stirling Club in Las Vegas as Director of Spa and Fitness. Myrna came to Red Mountain Spa in 2003 as Spa Director and in 2006 took on the leadership of Health & Fitness departments as well as the spa and salon, Sagestone at Red Mountain.