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Overheard.(Escape to Shape travelling spa)

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| January 01, 2009 | Brown, Sarah | COPYRIGHT 2009 All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The Condé Nast Publications Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Byline: Sarah Brown

Take a yoga master and a foodie, both of whom have an appetite for adventureand facialsand what do you get? A traveling spa. Escape to Shapeweeklong, fitness-focused luxury sojourns to everywhere from Taormina to Zihuatanejo is the brainchild of Erica Gragg (founder of Tulum's yoga-centric Amansala Bikini Boot Camp) and Anja Schellekens (a hip young Belgian chef). Each "healthy holiday" is centered on eating (and cooking) calorie-conscious versions of the best local food, getting lean and mean with daily Vinyasa yoga, Pilates, and whatever the destination has to offer ( horseback riding in the Sahara, hiking Mount Etna). Spa-ing enters the picture with a resident masseuse, plus location-specific pampering (North African hammams, South American volcanic mud baths ), as does taking in the local flavorsalsa dancing in Cartagena or storming the souk (personal shopper in tow) in Marrakech. Groups are small, accommodations are grand: in Morocco, a nineteenth-century Casbah nestled between the Atlas Mountains and Medina, complete with an outdoor ...

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