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Sedona, Arizona

Find your path in Arizona

In Sedona, the path to enlightenment involves hiking boots and yoga mats. Sedona Spirit Yoga & Hiking offers four-day retreats where you’ll take guided hikes through red rock wilderness to vortex sites, places where the Earth’s energy is supposedly strongest. You’ll also learn meditation, experience a Native American sweat lodge and maybe even nail that eagle pose. Abbreviated three- to six-hour yoga hikes are also offered.

Play hooky: In between downward dogs and trail switchbacks, check out uptown Sedona’s restaurants, which include vegan and raw choices, or browse art galleries.

Info: September-June; from $995, including lodging and breakfast; yoga hikes from $90; 888/282-9901. –Nora Burba Trulsson

Oaxaca, Mexico

Mix up moles south of the border

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written by Andrew