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		<title>The New York Times on &#8220;How Yoga Can Wreck Your Body&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Is the New York Times out to get yoga? You might think so, if you read their recent article, &#8220;How Yoga Can Wreck Your Body,&#8221; a scary tale of injuries, strokes, and hip replacements. The article is adapted from the book “The Science of Yoga: The Risks and Rewards,” by William J. Broad, to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Better Posture for Better Hamstrings?</title>
		<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>
		<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>NamaSTAY Yoga Towel Review</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I received a NamaSTAY yoga towel earlier this year and I&#8217;ve been meaning to review it again beyond my initial impressions. It&#8217;s a good idea to test drive something like a yoga towel for a little while before making a final verdict. Since I received my yoga towel, they have discontinued the color towel I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://namasteph.com/yoga-reviews/namastay-yoga-towel-review/</link>
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		<title>My Blog Won an Award&#8230;I Think</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://namasteph.com/general/my-blog-won-an-award-i-think/</link>
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		<title>U.S. News Article on Yoga as a Career</title>
		<description><![CDATA[U.S. News interviewed me for an article they just published titled &#8220;Yoga Teaching Increasingly Popular as Second Career.&#8221; I&#8217;m the naysayer cautioning that &#8220;yoga isn&#8217;t a path to instant riches.&#8221; Considering the length allotted for articles, I felt that the writer did a decent job covering a variety of bases, though there were some points [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://namasteph.com/yoga-news/u-s-news-article-on-yoga-as-a-career/</link>
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		<title>How I Survived My First Bikram Yoga Class</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had previously felt that I would never try Bikram or hot yoga, because I was concerned that the heat might be too much for me. With my Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, I have mild orthostatic intolerance, which basically means if I have my head down (say in standing forward bend) and stand up too quickly, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://namasteph.com/bikram-hot-yoga/how-i-survived-my-first-bikram-yoga-class/</link>
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		<title>Affordable Danskin Yoga Clothes at Walmart</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I know some folks truly hate Walmart and see it as the store of Satan. In my neighborhood, a smaller, urban Walmart revitalized a strip mall wasteland that had formerly been a mall. Local businesses who were struggling in the area have seen an increase in business by about 30% since the Walmart arrived. I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://namasteph.com/yoga-gear/affordable-danskin-yoga-clothes-at-walmart/</link>
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		<title>Why Yoga Journal&#8217;s Model Search is a Bad Thing</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://namasteph.com/general/why-yoga-journals-model-search-is-a-bad-thing/</link>
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		<title>Yoga Journal&#8217;s &#8220;Talent&#8221; Search: Everything That&#8217;s Wrong About Yoga Today</title>
		<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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