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		<title>What Does the Sheer Yoga Pant Scandal Say about Us?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2013 21:04:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are see-through yoga pants worthy of front-page headlines? Bonus: Dressing for Yoga in the Post-Lululemon Transparent Pants Era. Apparently the media thinks so. Yesterday, my hubby texted me the story. Secretly, I knew he hoped I would return my $100 dollar pair of yoga pants (Sorry Babe, I bought a different style than the one being [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Standing Backbend: A Yoga Poem.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Mar 2013 02:41:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a city within my body complete with noises, angry motorists, busy pedestrians, smog, violence, poverty. But this city is human in both its dark and light, day and night, outside and inside, sometimes softened by the night air where stars shine down on me. Come city lift up your chin gaze upwards know [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mothers &amp; Daughters &amp; International Women&#8217;s Day.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Mar 2013 17:39:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anne Falkowski</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is International Women&#8217;s Day. It&#8217;s a day to celebrate being a woman. Today my Facebook is plastered with inspirational quotes from powerful woman and also sobering statistics that one in every three woman will be sexually abused in her lifetime. As I meet my yoga mat, I ask myself what does it mean to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Facing the Yoga Mean Girls.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Mar 2013 17:11:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anne Falkowski</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are there mean girls in yoga? Unfortunately, in the 15 years that I have been practicing and teaching yoga, I have met my share. Not the kind armed with an expensive hair cut or wearing the latest Coach handbag, but the kind with messy hair tied back in a pony tail, mala beads wrapped around [...]]]></description>
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		<title>13 Things Every New Yoga Teacher Needs to Know.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2013 04:55:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anne Falkowski</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You have finished your 200 hour yoga teacher training and bought your teaching insurance. Now, its time to show the world your passion about yoga and maybe even make a difference in the world; a yoga teacher must not only know how to teach yoga but also how to create an environment conducive to healing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yoga Cry Baby.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2013 01:06:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anne Falkowski</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever cried on your yoga mat? I’m not talking about sweet, mysterious sobs welling up from recently opened places inside your beloved body, releasing stored tension and stuck emotion. Nope; that is a beautiful thing and courageous yoga work. I’m talking much less noble stuff: crying like a big old baby and pissed [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Yoga Journal &amp; Singles&#8217; Ads&#8230;.Yes or No?</title>
		<link>http://www.elephantjournal.com/2013/01/yoga-journal-singles-ads-yes-or-no/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2013 15:43:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anne Falkowski</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Or, &#8220;Attention Yoga Journal&#8230;. What Were You Thinking?&#8221; Today I opened up my shiny new edition of Yoga Journal. On the cover is a healthy bodied gal, clad completely in white, holding her big toe with her hand high up in the air. A pose I can only dream of doing. And yes, I do [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
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		<title>What Does Power Yoga Say About You?</title>
		<link>http://www.elephantjournal.com/2013/01/what-does-power-yoga-say-about-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2013 13:11:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anne Falkowski</dc:creator>
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		<title>Are You Really Doing Yoga?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2013 02:59:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are you really doing yoga? Oh, I know you are doing it on the mat; you have a great down dog, up dog, chaturanga, that type of thing. But do you let what you learn on the yoga mat have a place in your life? Or do you simply plug away in your day-to-day business as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>12 Reasons To Get Back To Your Yoga Class.</title>
		<link>http://www.elephantjournal.com/2013/01/12-reasons-to-get-back-to-your-yoga-class/</link>
		<comments>http://www.elephantjournal.com/2013/01/12-reasons-to-get-back-to-your-yoga-class/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2013 23:22:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes we abandon our yoga mats and a little encouragement is needed to find our way back to a yoga class; a gentle push out of our comfort zone and into the wild, winter day. I once heard that the hardest part of getting to yoga was getting to your car (or bike, for those [...]]]></description>
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