Finally, the Spa at The Mirage offers a one-of-a-kind fitness experience, instructor-led Yoga Among the Dolphins, in a serene, underwater viewing area with multiple windows.

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Then during a half-hour, instructor-led session, you decide which weather conditions are the most optimal to fly through on a route between Heathrow airport and Dubai, and attempt a takeoff, a brief cruise and a landing.

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David Romanelli, a New York-based yoga instructor, led a class this summer in Colorado that was accompanied, live, by the jazz-fusion musician Stanley Jordan.

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