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Do Your Downward Dog Down By The River at The Inn at Palmetto Bluff

Where: 476 Mount Pelia Road [map], Bluffton, SC, United States, 29910

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.

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Limber Up For Spring With These Five Yoga Packages

Whether it's because vinyasa is finally a word in common currency or the fact that summer shorts-and-bikinis weather is but three months away, these five hotels are offering yoga packages to get you sweaty and bendy this season.

Palm Springs: The Colony Palms Hotel is putting on a six-day, five-night "Yogatrip" starting May 15 that includes daily classes, breakfasts, hikes, lunches, and, thankfully a Temecula Valley wine tour on one day along with other extras. Rates for the whole package start at $1,195 per person for the week.

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Hundreds of People Writhing Under the Sun for 4 Days: It's The Standard Miami's March Yoga Weekend!

Where: 40 Island Avenue [map], Miami, FL, United States, 33139

YOGA. Once you get into it, you're into it, and The Standard Miami is about to host a four-day yoga festival called Wanderlust that's half convention and half retreat, but a complete escape.

We only really do yoga along with our Wii Fit, but the Wanderlust festival is appealing that part of our brain that wants to feel pretty and cool while wearing white and downward dogging next to an expanse of cool blue pool water. The Standard Miami's spa is known with its year-round yoga and wellness programs, so Wanderlust weekend—March 17-20th is a chance to step it up and block out the entire property, welcoming only those who like the sound of an all-inclusive mind and body getaway.

The deal is pretty great—$750 per person for three nights at the hotel, four days of yoga classes and activities, full access to all spa amenities (a Turkish hammam, aroma steam baths!), daily breakfast, and the Miami sun and humidity.

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Five More Yoga Hotels to Do Your Downward Dog

We already gave you the lowdown on some top spots for hotels with om-inducing yoga offerings. But yoga is becoming such a popular amenity that we had to scope our some more places where you can do your lotus pose. We found five additional hotel yoga sessions that will infuse you with prana, or life force.

Check out our top five picks for hotel yoga after the jump.

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Five Yoga Hotels to Do Your Downward Dog

Can’t join the 10,000 people expected to turn out for Yoga at the Great Lawn in Central Park on June 22 to help yogi-to-the-stars Elena Brower set the U.S. record for the largest yoga class ever? You can opt instead to team up with yoga enthusiasts on both coasts at the Standard Spa, Miami Beach, and at the Standard, Hollywood to participate simultaneously in free yoga classes that will stream live from the main event in New York.

Looking for more than just one day of yoga? You're in luck as hotels have been implementing yoga into their spa and fitness offerings for quite some time now. Here are our five picks for alternative places to get a good yoga workout.

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Red Mountain Resort Goes Zen With Its Alternative Medicine Sessions

Where: 1275 EAST RED MOUNTAIN CIRCLE [map], IVINS, UT, United States, 84738

Red Mountain Resort & Spa wants you to go the natural route. Considered "alternative" to many in the West, Eastern medicine techniques have long been used to prevent and heal various illnesses. This month, Red Mountain is championing various alt-approaches in conjunction with Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

While we don't advocate one mode of healing over another, we do support awareness-raising efforts, and Red Mountain's approach just happens to translate into zen-inducing programs for guests. Just listen to the music on their homepage for a taste of the vibe they're going for.

Since there's a certain contingent that's dubious of chanting "Om" and being pricked by chakra-balancing needles, Red Mountain's programs are meant to educate as much as they are soothe your stressed out nerves. You can sign up to be led in a session of Preventative Meditation, learn more about "A Chinese Medical Perspective on Healing From Cancer", sit in on a lecture about Prevention, Detection and Nutrition, or partake in a Healing Fire Ceremony with a certified shaman.

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Richard Gere's Got a Bed & Breakfast, And Yoga Is Only $20

Where: 954 Old Post Road [map], Bedford, ny, United States, 10506

Looks like someone took Nights in Rodanthe a little too much to heart: Richard Gere has opened his own Bed & Breakfast an hour outside of New York City in Bedford, NY. Called the Bedford Post Inn, the vintage house and barn with 8 guest rooms is the first step Gere and his wife are taking towards fulfilling their dream that the place "will be a magnet for like-minded, powerful souls to come together to save the planet—or at least to chat about big-picture ideas over veggie burgers."

Gere, a Buddhist, has even cleared the attic to make way for a serene "yoga loft," which opened in late 2008 along with the Bed & Breakfast's restaurant, Moonbat, focused on on local ingredients and the slow food philosophy.

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