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		<title>Yoga Journal (and yoga), then and now</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 17:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last month I acquired a couple of Yoga Journal magazines from the late 1980s and early 1990s. What a revelation! I&#8217;m familiar with the magazine, having subscribed on and off (mostly on) since the late 1990s. But what a difference two decades can make. So impressive were the back issues that I found limited archives online [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=yogaspy.com&amp;blog=8842958&amp;post=2262&amp;subd=yogaspy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 17:50:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I need not introduce How Yoga Can Wreck Your Body, the New York Times article that&#8217;s gone viral. My first response upon reading it: These anecdotes are outliers! Who sits in Vajrasana for hours daily, tears Achilles tendons in Downward Dog, or pops ribs in a spinal twist?! My second response: No Iyengar yoga teacher would intentionally push [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=yogaspy.com&amp;blog=8842958&amp;post=2245&amp;subd=yogaspy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 20:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the late 1990s, I took to yoga asana without a second thought. My body immediately loved it. I initially attended three to five classes weekly. My little apartment, with carpet and cat, wasn&#8217;t ideal for home practice, but I eventually appropriated a floor and wall space at the UC Berkeley rec center for my [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=yogaspy.com&amp;blog=8842958&amp;post=2211&amp;subd=yogaspy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sun salutation, cat, and the meaning of accommodation</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2011 20:25:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My student Mieko sent me this mesmerizing video. &#8220;My cat only scratches my yoga mat,&#8221; she wrote, &#8220;How is your cat?&#8221; My cat occasionally joins me on the mat, sauntering underneath my Adho Mukha Svanasana, nudging my legs when I&#8217;m sitting, or plopping himself at feet when I&#8217;m in a lunge. I make way for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=yogaspy.com&amp;blog=8842958&amp;post=2199&amp;subd=yogaspy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Could you live without a mirror?</title>
		<link>http://yogaspy.com/2011/12/21/could-you-live-without-a-mirror/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 20:11:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just returned from a trip to Hilo, my hometown on the Big Island of Hawai‘i. During my stay, I spent four nights in Captain Cook, South Kona, to attend a workshop by Aadil Palkhivala at Big Island Yoga Center. I rented a rustic in-law apartment with futon on floor and open-air kitchen and bathroom. Tropical foliage [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=yogaspy.com&amp;blog=8842958&amp;post=2191&amp;subd=yogaspy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What color is your parachute?</title>
		<link>http://yogaspy.com/2011/12/08/what-color-is-your-parachute/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 15:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently ordered yoga bolsters for a bunch of my students from Halfmoon, an excellent Vancouver-based prop maker. The bolsters come in four colors, so I had to ask, &#8220;What color do you want?&#8221; &#8220;Oh, any color,&#8221; a couple of them replied. I insisted that they make a choice. Others indicated their preferred color without [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=yogaspy.com&amp;blog=8842958&amp;post=2172&amp;subd=yogaspy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Forced stillness</title>
		<link>http://yogaspy.com/2011/11/30/forced-stillness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 16:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other day, I returned to the MRI clinic where I got my knee scanned last summer. (I wanted more of the orange foam earplugs given to patients. They look ordinary but block noise better than any others I&#8217;ve tried. I use them when it&#8217;s not quiet enough for sleep.) In the elevator, I met [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=yogaspy.com&amp;blog=8842958&amp;post=2159&amp;subd=yogaspy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What have I got to be thankful for?</title>
		<link>http://yogaspy.com/2011/11/25/what-have-i-got-to-be-thankful-for/</link>
		<comments>http://yogaspy.com/2011/11/25/what-have-i-got-to-be-thankful-for/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 14:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently reconnected with a yoga classmate (I&#8217;ll call her Jill) whom I met in Berkeley. We&#8217;d lost touch after I moved to Vancouver a few years ago. Around Christmas 2008, in her mid 30s with a new marriage and PhD, she was diagnosed with breast cancer. This year, she had a baby. What a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=yogaspy.com&amp;blog=8842958&amp;post=2151&amp;subd=yogaspy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On procrastination</title>
		<link>http://yogaspy.com/2011/11/14/on-procrastination/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 17:31:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seven weeks remain in the year 2011. Seven weeks! Are you satisfied with your year so far? If not, you have seven weeks to turn it around. Me, I&#8217;ll face off with procrastination. Take my blog. I post infrequently despite a swarm of viable topics buzzing in my head. I take ages to transform them from [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=yogaspy.com&amp;blog=8842958&amp;post=2129&amp;subd=yogaspy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The first time I saw Remembrance Day poppies</title>
		<link>http://yogaspy.com/2011/11/11/the-first-time-i-saw-remembrance-day-poppies/</link>
		<comments>http://yogaspy.com/2011/11/11/the-first-time-i-saw-remembrance-day-poppies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 18:02:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I first moved to Canada, I was surprised by the red poppy pins worn around Remembrance Day. News anchors and politicians pinned them to their lapels, as did Vancouverites of all stripes. Walking down the street, I&#8217;d see scattered red dots coming toward me and smile to myself. Initially I attended Remembrance Day ceremonies, solemn, traditional, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=yogaspy.com&amp;blog=8842958&amp;post=2137&amp;subd=yogaspy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Come dancing*</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 16:52:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last summer, my friend Siobhan performed a compelling solo dance for her &#8220;project&#8221; at an Iyengar yoga teacher training in Victoria, BC. All participants had to express parinama (transformation), samskaras (imprints), gunas (three qualities of nature), and heyam dukham anagatam (Google it), through any creative medium. Naturally, people chose familiar modes of expression: An art teacher made [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=yogaspy.com&amp;blog=8842958&amp;post=2091&amp;subd=yogaspy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Are you chatty with your yoga students?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 00:03:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of my yoga-teacher colleagues wondered if she reveals too much of herself to her students. Before class, she might chat with students, and so they end up knowing bits and pieces about her life. Warm and outgoing, she calls herself an &#8220;open book&#8221; with people. But she questioned whether should be more &#8220;mysterious,&#8221; ie, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=yogaspy.com&amp;blog=8842958&amp;post=2081&amp;subd=yogaspy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The element of risk</title>
		<link>http://yogaspy.com/2011/09/15/the-element-of-risk/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 15:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When was the last time you took an exam that mattered? During my end-of-summer trip to California, an acquaintance asked about my training to be a certified Iyengar yoga teacher. I gave him the gist, describing how the training program, while international in scope, is small and selective, mentor-based, and lengthy. And then there is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=yogaspy.com&amp;blog=8842958&amp;post=2063&amp;subd=yogaspy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Yoga Journal: the music issue</title>
		<link>http://yogaspy.com/2011/08/20/yoga-journal-the-music-issue/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Aug 2011 16:57:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The September 2011 issue of Yoga Journal is &#8220;the music issue.&#8221; It contains a home practice sequence synced with an MC Yogi playlist, interviews with musicians who do yoga, and a look at the kirtan spectacle in America. The online magazine offers Funky Love Songs, &#8220;some of the grooviest, most genre-bending forms of mantra music in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=yogaspy.com&amp;blog=8842958&amp;post=2031&amp;subd=yogaspy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>No water bottles in the studio</title>
		<link>http://yogaspy.com/2011/08/09/no-water-bottles-in-the-studio/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 19:46:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Sunday, I was about to start teaching when I spied water bottles amid the mats, blocks, and blankets. It was hot, and I teach a rigorous class. One student claims that I can make her sweat in Tadasana. &#8220;Put your water bottles against the wall,&#8221; I said, &#8220;otherwise I might kick them over. Strict [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=yogaspy.com&amp;blog=8842958&amp;post=2019&amp;subd=yogaspy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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