If you can't head to India for a yoga retreat this summer, an alternative could be waiting for you in South Carolina. The Inn at Palmetto Bluff may be more known for its golf course, but it's offering a Lotus on the River wellness weekend that will get yogis all twisted—in a good way—outdoors. The hotel claims that South Carolina's naturally warm air and moisture will detoxify you as you strike a pose alongside the May River.

The three-day yoga getaway will include plenty of time for you to practice your flying crow pose. But the weekend will also include meditation, lectures from guest speakers and a full-moon kayak expedition. ]]> Jennifer Kester 2011-05-27T15:00:01-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2006/7/6/16845/49342 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/palmetto_bluff.jpg"><p>Most people getaway to the <a href="http://www.palmettobluffresort.com"><b>Inn at Palmetto Bluff</b></a> for the golf on a Jack Nicklaus-designed course.<p>But there's more to this place than just golf and sipping mint juleps on a front porch. The hotel allows its guests to participate in digging up the surrounding area for artifacts from the land's previous inhabitants, which include the Altamaha and Yemassee Indian tribes, African slaves who worked the plantations and the wealthy banking family who owned the place in the early 1900s.<p>Some guests have found arrowheads, ceramics, animal bones and even a bottle of 1899 Chateau Lafite.<p>Of course, you can't just tear up the yard for free. The cost of being an archaeologist for the day is $100 and the juliana 2006-07-06T16:08:45-05:00 32.2150180 -80.894007 Search HotelChatter string http://www.hotelchatter.com/search/