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		<title>Could Your Butt in Yoga Pants End Up on a Website?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2012 04:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephanie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yikes &#8211; from the folks who do the &#8220;People of Walmart&#8221; &#8211; an entire site with pictures of &#8220;Girls in Yoga Pants.&#8221; It&#8217;s pretty offensive. They have, for example, a category called &#8220;Titty Tuesday.&#8221; Be forewarned, if you are a woman and you go to this site, you can expect to be pissed off. Yuck.]]></description>
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		<title>More on Sexploitation in Yoga: John Friend, Tara Stiles, and the &#8220;Bitter&#8221; Charge</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2012 20:15:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephanie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Was anyone truly surprised when it came out recently that John Friend, founder of Anusara, is a bit of a playboy? Exploitation of female yogis has been a problem in yoga ever since it came to America, with charges of sexual impropriety and outright harassment against &#8220;gurus&#8221; such as Muktananda, Amrit Desai (who was kicked [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Better Posture for Better Hamstrings?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Sep 2011 03:50:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephanie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m always looking for tips on helping my hamstrings. Recently, I found the following interesting comment on Metafilter by a person who found improving day-to-day posture helped with flexibility. I hope it helps someone. Better posture can&#8217;t hurt regardless! I had the same problem. I was never able to touch my toes, no matter how much [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Ashtanga Yoga Dangerous?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 22:59:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephanie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Thoughts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[injuries]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://namasteph.com/?p=412</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I was in a yoga teacher training workshop over the weekend, and our teacher mentioned off-hand that a number of senior teachers in a certain yoga tradition that he chose not to name were getting hip replacement surgery! I was, of course, extremely curious to know what tradition he was talking about, but did not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Blog Won an Award&#8230;I Think</title>
		<link>http://namasteph.com/general/my-blog-won-an-award-i-think/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2011 03:29:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephanie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A year later, I see a link coming in to this blog from the Accidental Yogist, which is a great Los Angeles-based yoga blog. Apparently, some yoga blog awards were given out, and my blog was on the list &#8211; but I must have missed the email. However, in searching for the &#8220;Online Nursing Programs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Yoga Journal&#8217;s Model Search is a Bad Thing</title>
		<link>http://namasteph.com/general/why-yoga-journals-model-search-is-a-bad-thing/</link>
		<comments>http://namasteph.com/general/why-yoga-journals-model-search-is-a-bad-thing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2011 17:01:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephanie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Thoughts]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://namasteph.com/?p=371</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As a follow up to my last post on Yoga Journal&#8217;s model search, I wanted to share an email I wrote to the woman who first alerted me to the contest with her &#8220;vote for me!&#8221; email. I had actually sent her the link to the blog post she inspired. She wrote back to say [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yoga Journal&#8217;s &#8220;Talent&#8221; Search: Everything That&#8217;s Wrong About Yoga Today</title>
		<link>http://namasteph.com/general/yoga-journals-talent-search-everything-thats-wrong-about-yoga-today/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2011 20:37:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephanie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Someone I don&#8217;t know just emailed me with the subject &#8220;Vote for me!&#8221; &#8211; upon opening this email, I was asked to vote for this person to become the next Yoga Journal &#8220;model.&#8221; UGH. This &#8220;talent&#8221; search is *everything* that is wrong about yoga today. So what do you see when you go to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yoga: It&#8217;s Good for Your Feet!</title>
		<link>http://namasteph.com/general/yoga-its-good-for-your-feet/</link>
		<comments>http://namasteph.com/general/yoga-its-good-for-your-feet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2011 07:30:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephanie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Thoughts]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just a quick note on how appreciative I am that yoga helps me keep my feet healthy. I&#8217;ve seen the results of wearing high heels for a lifetime &#8211; my mom has a very painful hammertoe because of the shoes she used to wear when younger. In part because of yoga, I find myself very [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Should Yoga Teachers Swear?</title>
		<link>http://namasteph.com/general/should-yoga-teachers-swear/</link>
		<comments>http://namasteph.com/general/should-yoga-teachers-swear/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2011 18:31:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephanie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Austin Yoga]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://namasteph.com/?p=355</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I was checking out a free yoga class at Yoga Yoga in Austin on Saturday on their big free yoga day event. The class, being free, was of course packed, and when the teacher asked how many people were her regulars, only one or two hands shot up. So the class was filled with people [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Yoga Hindu? Can There Really Be Christian Yoga?</title>
		<link>http://namasteph.com/general/is-yoga-hindu-can-there-really-be-christian-yoga/</link>
		<comments>http://namasteph.com/general/is-yoga-hindu-can-there-really-be-christian-yoga/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Jan 2011 01:34:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephanie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Christian Yoga]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://namasteph.com/?p=310</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In an article on the Huffington Post, a Hindu scholar tries to shoo Christians away from yoga: While yoga is not a &#8220;religion&#8221; in the sense that the Abrahamic religions are, it is a well-established spiritual path. Its physical postures are only the tip of an iceberg, beneath which is a distinct metaphysics with profound [...]]]></description>
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