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		<title>Yoga, Injuries, and William J. Broad&#8217;s Trainwreck</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 04:55:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karen Macklin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Asana]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Glenn Black]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[How Yoga Can Wreck Your Body]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[William J. Broad]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ten days ago, the New York Times published an opinion piece by senior science writer William J. Broad entitled “How Yoga Can Wreck Your Body”.  The responses to this article have numbered in the tens, possibly in the hundreds. Yoga practitioners are miffed—and for good reason. In the piece, Broad makes a case that yoga is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do Yogis Have to Be Vegetarian?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 02:31:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karen Macklin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ahimsa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ayurveda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dharma Mittra]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Diet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vata]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vegetarianism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It’s one of the most controversial topics in the yoga world: vegetarianism. Some say you’re not truly practicing yoga if you eat meat; others say that not all body types can thrive on purely vegetarian diets. Is there a definitive answer? On any retreat, you’re bound to hear a lively discussion at the lunch table [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Q&amp;A: Sri Dharma Mittra on Ahimsa and Vegetarianism</title>
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		<comments>http://www.pranamaya.com/blog/special-features/qa-sri-dharma-mittra-on-ahimsa-and-vegetarianism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 07:04:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karen Macklin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Exclusive Interviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2012]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bhagavad Gita]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Discipline]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eight Limbs of Yoga]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ethics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Meditation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York City Yoga]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sri Dharma Mittra has devoted much of his life to service and teaching. In 1967, he founded the Yoga Asana Center in New York City, which is known today as the Dharma Yoga Center, and he&#8217;s been teaching weekly classes and offering his wisdom there ever since. The Sacred Cow talked to Dharma this month [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Should Yoga Traditions be Copyrighted?</title>
		<link>http://www.pranamaya.com/blog/regular-posts/should-yoga-traditions-be-copyrighted/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 23:02:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karen Macklin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Regular Posts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anusara]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bikram Choudhury]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Copyright]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hot Yoga]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Friend]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ParaYoga]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rod Stryker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yoga]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yoga to the People]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pranamaya.com/blog/?p=828</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Yoga&#8217;s back in court again! In 2003, Bikram Choudhury obtained a copyright for the sequence of poses he developed for his namesake practice, Bikram Yoga. Since then, he hasn’t hesitated to sue those who violate that copyright. Now, in a new turn of events, his copyright is being deemed illegal.  Choudhury recently sued Yoga to the People, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Does Yoga Mix with Non-Hindu Religions?</title>
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		<comments>http://www.pranamaya.com/blog/regular-posts/does-yoga-mix-with-non-hindu-religions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 00:21:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karen Macklin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Catholicism]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Islam]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Lululemon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lulus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Multiculturalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[St. Joseph High School]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Yoga and Church]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the world gets smaller each day through the mixing and mingling that happens online, via air travel, and through immigration, our cultures and traditions keep getting more and more mushed together. I’m typically in favor of cultural mushing, but it can get a bit complicated, especially when it comes to religion. For those who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Should Men Have Their Own Yoga Classes?</title>
		<link>http://www.pranamaya.com/blog/regular-posts/should-men-have-their-own-yoga-classes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pranamaya.com/blog/regular-posts/should-men-have-their-own-yoga-classes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Nov 2011 06:25:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karen Macklin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Asana]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Broga]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Male Yoga Instructors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[masculine Yoga]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yoga and Gender]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yoga Class]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yoga for Dudes]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Yoga for Stiff Guys]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Even after the yoga revolution of recent years, women still dominate the yoga scene. We’re the majority in the classrooms, we’re on the covers of the yoga magazines, and we make up the bulk of the teacher trainings. Yoga has become known as a woman’s activity. And some people have been trying to change that. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Does Politics Belong in Yoga?</title>
		<link>http://www.pranamaya.com/blog/regular-posts/does-politics-belong-in-yoga/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pranamaya.com/blog/regular-posts/does-politics-belong-in-yoga/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 18:59:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karen Macklin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Regular Posts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Conservatives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eight-Limbed Path]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Liberals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Occupy Wall Street]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Protest]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Viveka]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yamas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yoga]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Yoga Teachers]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pranamaya.com/blog/?p=793</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[You’re in a yoga class. The teacher mentions something about ahimsa and strongly states his opinion about all the damage the US is doing in Afghanistan. Several of the students nod their heads in agreement. One picks up her yoga mat and walks out, never to return again. Her son is a US soldier in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Does It Mean to Live Your Dharma?</title>
		<link>http://www.pranamaya.com/blog/regular-posts/what-does-it-mean-to-live-your-dharma/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pranamaya.com/blog/regular-posts/what-does-it-mean-to-live-your-dharma/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 01:09:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karen Macklin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Regular Posts]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Economic Recession]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Life Path]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Love Your Work]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pranamaya.com/blog/?p=775</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Everywhere I go, I meet another person who is quitting a job to start a new business, pursue a passion, or launch forth into the world to create change, achieve a vision, and spark transformation. Despite (or maybe because of) the economic collapse, the hum of war, and our ecological woes, people are feeling more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do Yoga and Alcohol Mix?</title>
		<link>http://www.pranamaya.com/blog/regular-posts/yoga-and-cocktails/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pranamaya.com/blog/regular-posts/yoga-and-cocktails/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 04:25:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karen Macklin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Regular Posts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alcohol]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Asana]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Beer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cocktails]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Discernment]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Partying]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Purification]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tamasic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tapas]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pranamaya.com/blog/?p=744</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I gave up drinking within about a year of starting to do yoga. It wasn’t a moral issue. But with regular asana practice, I simply began to see more clearly what the alcohol was doing to my body. And it wasn&#8217;t pretty. Now, let me be clear. Alcohol never agreed with me. I come from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Q&amp;A: Leslie Howard On the Pelvic Floor and Yoga</title>
		<link>http://www.pranamaya.com/blog/special-features/qa-leslie-howard-on-the-pelvic-floor-and-yoga/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pranamaya.com/blog/special-features/qa-leslie-howard-on-the-pelvic-floor-and-yoga/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 04:20:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karen Macklin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Leslie Howard is a Bay Area-based yoga teacher who runs workshops nationally that teach women about the muscles and potential dysfunctions of the pelvic floor. She talked to The Sacred Cow this month about misconceptions and realities of the pelvic floor and whether or not modern yogis should be practicing mula bandha at all. Sacred Cow: [...]]]></description>
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