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		<title>Morning Stiff Neck Pain?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 13:37:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Don’t try to stretch it out. Neck muscles sometimes spasm because they are overstretched! Ouch, you can’t move your neck. What to do? Stiff Neck Massage Tip: Put your neck and upper shoulder muscles on slack. To do this, lean on a counter or table. Shrug your shoulder towards your ear and slump your ear [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Finding Neutral for Your Neck</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2013 22:54:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The curve of the neck develops after birth as we lift our head up to look around us and for some milk to drink. This desire for sustenance and connection begins the development of our neck curve. Throughout our life, we are constantly looking ahead – still searching for sustenance and connection with others. Our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stiff Neck?  Try the Bobble-Headed Bunny Move</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Apr 2013 16:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Waking up with a stiff neck, the feeling of restriction and lack of motion is awful. It really makes you want to stretch. Don&#8217;t! Stretching does not cure everything. Sometimes it makes things worse. Stiff necks often occur when our necks have been overstretched. For instance, sleeping in a funky, neck-stretched-over position can create a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yoga Teachers: Honesty</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 14:31:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[May 21, 2012 I had a student who came to my class regularly for a while. During that time, I felt that Down Dog was not really an appropriate pose for him. I suggested that he do Down Dog at the wall. I also spent time making suggestions for his home practice to open his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yoga Teachers: Building Compassion</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 21:45:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Brilliant</dc:creator>
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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>
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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>
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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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