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		<title>Yoga Teachers: Building Compassion</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 21:45:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[April 23 How do you express your compassion? &#160; &#160;- Through my voice. Volume and tone can have a powerful effect. &#160; &#160;- Being calm &#038; centered in yourself. Then you can really listen. &#160; &#160;- Listening and relatedly meeting people where they are. &#160; &#160;- Empathic listening. Listening with every part of me. How [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yoga Teachers: When Our Students Say &#8216;I Can&#8217;t&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 23:35:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[April 16 What to say (do or feel) when our students believe that they lack the &#8216;appropriate&#8217; range of motion and say that they&#8217;ll never be able to do the pose fully. - Think of yoga as a process. - Work with inner dynamics in the present moment. - Work on the mechanics. - &#8220;I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yoga Teachers &#8211; Teaching Poses We Cannot Yet Do?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Apr 2012 13:39:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[April 9 Do we need to be able to do every yoga pose that we teach? * One teacher said that she mostly avoids teaching the poses that she cannot do. Though she does sprinkle them in occasionally. * Another said that it is all a process. * From another teacher, &#8220;I fluctuate between hiding [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yoga Teachers &#8211;    Does Therapeutic = Feel Good?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2012 15:39:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[April 2 If something is therapeutic, does that mean it feels good? &#160; &#160;*One teacher said that she followed the &#8216;no pain no gain&#8217; philosophy. If something is therapeutic, it should hurt. &#160; &#160;*Another teacher said that when she first started practicing yoga &#8211; eveything hurt: her back, her knees. That was all part of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yoga Teachers: Shine &amp; Refine &#8211; Listening</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2012 15:03:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Brilliant</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Monday, March 26 Buddha said &#8211; (Anguttara Nikaya III 248): There are five advantages of listening to the dharma. What five? &#160; &#160;One hears things not heard before, &#160; &#160;clarifies things heard before, &#160; &#160;dispels doubts, &#160; &#160;straightens one&#8217;s ideas, &#160; &#160;and one&#8217;s mind is delighted. On Monday afternoons, among other things yogic that are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yoga Teachers: Shine &amp; Refine &#8211; Paradoxes of Teaching</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2012 14:09:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Brilliant</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[March 12, 2012 Paradoxes of Teaching: &#160; &#160;While we are all busy teaching, as teachers we seem to be starved for the time to practice ourselves. &#160; &#160;We teach, yet we are often the ones who are really learning. &#160; &#160;We attempt to teach our students the ability to be present, yet sometimes they don&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yoga Teachers: Shine &amp; Refine &#8211; Stay Connected</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2012 01:47:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[March 5, 2012 Ah, not be cut off, not through the slightest partition shut out from the law of the stars. The inner &#8211; what is it? if not intensified sky, hurled through with birds and deep with winds of homecoming. &#160; &#160;  -Rainer Maria Rilke Sukhasana &#160; &#160; Funnel breath, Lift Ribs &#38; OM Sukhasana [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yoga Teachers: Shine &amp; Refine Feb 27, 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:02:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you listen to your inner voice? When? We want our students to listen to their inner selves. The only way to do that is to connect with our inner teacher. &#160; &#160;One teacher finds her inner voice when she relaxes her abs. &#160; &#160;I hear my inner voice, get annoyed by it and shut [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yoga Teachers: Shine &amp; Refine Feb 6, 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:02:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Brilliant</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Natalie Levin, who is starting a new course of study &#8211; the Jungian Seminar for Advanced Studies at the Jungian Institute of Philadelphia sent me this quote: &#8220;An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yoga Teachers: Shine &amp; Refine  Jan 30, 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:41:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The week of teachings with Geshe Michael Roach on the Bhagavad Gita has been intense. I have received so much valuable info. In pondering what to bring into my teaching right away, I focus on my genuine concern for the well-being of my students. This morning in Shine &#038; Refine, each teacher generously shared what [...]]]></description>
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