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		<title>Forced stillness</title>
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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.wordpress.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>
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		<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.wordpress.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>
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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.wordpress.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>
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		<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.wordpress.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.wordpress.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.wordpress.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>
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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.wordpress.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>
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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.wordpress.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>
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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.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8842958&amp;post=2019&amp;subd=yogaspy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Was I suckered by the Seacret saleslady?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 18:48:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, I was striding through City Square Shopping Centre near Vancouver City Hall after a dental appointment. The centre&#8217;s airy heritage architecture can&#8217;t quite compensate for the mundane mall experience, so I had no reason to stick around. In passing, I noticed the abandoned Hello Kitty kiosk. &#8220;What happened to them?&#8221; I asked a neighboring [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=yogaspy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8842958&amp;post=1996&amp;subd=yogaspy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hooping and the hybridization of yoga in America</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2011 17:23:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nature, its three qualities, sattva, rajas, and tamas, and its evolutes, the elements, mind, senses of perception and organs of action, exist eternally to serve the seer, for enjoyment (bhoga) or emancipation (apavarga). Yoga Sutra II.18, Light on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, BKS Iyengar Yoga and hula hooping? Yes, according to an August 2011 Yoga [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=yogaspy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8842958&amp;post=1978&amp;subd=yogaspy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Do you have a Geeta story?</title>
		<link>http://yogaspy.wordpress.com/2011/07/11/do-you-have-a-geeta-story/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jul 2011 18:06:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A rite of passage for Iyengar yoga practitioners is a trip to the Ramamani Iyengar Memorial Yoga Institute (RIMYI) in Pune—to study directly with the Iyengars. Of course, BKS Iyengar is 92. Unless you met him in the 1970s or &#8217;80s (or possibly the &#8217;90s), it&#8217;s too late to make a personal connection now. It&#8217;s probably [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=yogaspy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8842958&amp;post=1954&amp;subd=yogaspy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Do Savasana first?</title>
		<link>http://yogaspy.wordpress.com/2011/06/28/do-savasana-first/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jun 2011 19:09:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last weekend I enjoyed a rigorous workshop taught by Chris Saudek, a senior Iyengar teacher from the Midwest. Since 1980 she has studied with the Iyengars in Pune; now, at the Senior Intermediate III level, she trains teachers in the US and Canada. The asana sessions were challenging in the classic Iyengar way, with basic [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=yogaspy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8842958&amp;post=1938&amp;subd=yogaspy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is a bad yoga class still pretty good?</title>
		<link>http://yogaspy.wordpress.com/2011/06/18/is-a-bad-yoga-class-still-pretty-good/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jun 2011 18:52:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently at the gym, I spied on a yoga-type class (it turned out to be &#8220;lyrical jazz&#8221;) in the adjacent dance studio. The teacher was doing what resembled Upavistha Konasana, facing a wall-to-wall mirror. Behind her, a lineup of students tried to copy. With her elbows grounded on the floor, the teacher lengthened her spine forward. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=yogaspy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8842958&amp;post=1925&amp;subd=yogaspy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Are your yoga teachers as eagled-eyed as mine?</title>
		<link>http://yogaspy.wordpress.com/2011/06/07/are-your-yoga-teachers-as-eagled-eyed-as-mine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2011 15:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At a recent Iyengar teacher training session, we took turns performing and observing different asanas. In Iyengar yoga, being a keen observer is essential to being a good teacher. The great ones can practically intuit students&#8217; weaknesses, habits, and blind spots. I ended up performing Adho Mukha Vrksasana (arm balance or handstand) at a wall for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=yogaspy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8842958&amp;post=1900&amp;subd=yogaspy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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