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<description><![CDATA[For nearly thirty years, Aadil has had a reputation as a "teacher of teachers." Aadil has been training yoga teachers in India, Europe and the United States since 1976. Aadil began the study of yoga with B.K.S. Iyengar at the age of 7 and was introduced to the Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother at the age of 10. When Aadil was twenty, he embarked on his first teaching tour of Europe and North America. Two years later, Iyengar awarded him the Advanced Yoga Teacher's Certificate. Aadil and his wife, Mirra, are the founders and directors of internationally-renowned ... ]]></description>
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<title>Yoga - Living Without Regret</title>
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<description><![CDATA[If we wish to teach our students life's greatest lesson-that it is only love that really matters-we must start by learning to love the work of teaching. Perhaps the greatest service we can do for our students is to remind them in both obvious and subtle ways to find their true calling in life, and to provide them with tools to help them on their quest.]]></description>
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<title>Talking Shop With a Yoga Master</title>
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<description><![CDATA[I was born in Bombay to a family of lawyers. I started my yoga training with BKS Iyengar at age 7 and by age 22 I was the youngest student to earn an Advanced Teacher Training Certificate. As a child I was taught the teachings of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother of Pondicherry, both of whom are my spiritual teachers, along with my wife Mirra, who teaches Purna Yoga Meditation.]]></description>
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<title>Yoga and Contortionism</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 10:39:50 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A student once asked me about the contortionists from Cirque du Soleil doing a pose called Scorpion. The question was whether anyone's back should be capable of doing this pose, or do the contortionists have some different joint in their spine that allows them to do this?]]></description>
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<title>Yoga and the Meaning of Namaste</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The gesture Namaste represents the belief that there is a Divine spark within each of us that is located in the heart chakra. The gesture is an acknowledgment of the soul in one by the soul in another. "Nama" means bow, "as" means I, and "te" means you. Therefore, Namaste literally means "bow me you" or "I bow to you."]]></description>
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<title>Saucha - Cleanliness in Yoga - Part I</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2008 16:47:44 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In yoga, cleanliness is called saucha, and is very important on the yoga path. I hope this article will help explain the reason for its importance.]]></description>
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<title>Saucha - Cleanliness and Yoga Part II</title>
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<description><![CDATA[As we become more refined, we would take care to look at that which needs the most attention. For most people, the bathroom is the dirtiest place of the house. Saucha of the house starts with the bathroom. Making sure the toilet, showers, and the sink are spotless will help you cultivate respect for your body, because it is the bathroom that you see your body the most.]]></description>
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<title>Teaching Yoga - Giving Pause</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:47:16 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[We often try to do our students a favor by packing as many instructions into each class as possible. We have an urge to teach everything we know about every pose, particularly after taking an inspiring workshop with a master teacher. I have observed many beginning teachers who chatter non-stop throughout class, a consequence of the lethal mixing of tense nerves and the desire to impress.]]></description>
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<title>Teaching Yoga - Feeling Peace</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:43:27 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Like a fish unaware of the polluted waters it lives in, we are so surrounded and infused with stress that we don't even know it's here. As yoga teachers, part of our job is to teach our students to become aware of when, where, and why they are stressed.]]></description>
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<title>Yoga and Balance</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 14:57:10 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[As we explored various ways to do poses using wall ropes, we taught our discoveries to others. During this time, a group of students from abroad came to study with Guruji. They had studied with him in the past and were eager to learn "what was new". They were all thrilled with the new wall rope system, and when they left, they expressed their desire to put up wall ropes in their studios back home.]]></description>
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<title>Yoga and the Middle Way</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 08:49:11 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[If you fall into complete non-doing (not getting up, not drinking water, not eating), you will most probably be dead in about a week. If you do too much (such as running nonstop across the Sahara), you will also find yourself knocking at Death's door.]]></description>
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<title>Yoga and Respecting the Nervous System</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 14:54:23 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The nervous system is our communicator with Spirit, our connection with the inner worlds, a gateway between the physical and spiritual. The nervous system is a transmitter as well as a receiver, an electrical system emitting powerful electromagnetic waves that connect and harmonize all aspects of our being.]]></description>
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<title>Yoga and Peace</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 14:10:02 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Long ago, a man experienced a series of startling revelations. Soon after, he founded a new religious movement. As is typical with all such movements, he had both devoted followers and fierce detractors. His followers went everywhere he went, and hung on to his every word. His detractors thought him a self-serving and evil man, one who had abandoned the ancient, sacred traditions just to glorify himself.]]></description>
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<title>Yoga and Love, Part II</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 08:55:19 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Love is the feeling of being complete, of oneness, of wholeness. We feel love when we are united with our deepest Self. Without that, can we feel truly united with another?]]></description>
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<title>Yoga and Love - Part I</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 08:53:51 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Tales of love surround us. Popular songs, amorous movies, romance novels, grocery-store tabloids-all sell "love." Yet do these starry-eyed dramas rife with reckless and chaotic emotions truly portray its ways? Passion and possessiveness, jealousy and infatuation - can these be love? Don't these actually reduce the expansive love of the Spirit to grasping, grabby desires of the ephemeral flesh?]]></description>
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<title>Yoga With Intensity, Not Force</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:27:05 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[As teachers, we must ensure that our students work intensely, yet without force. We generally assume that working forcefully is working intensely. Not so! Force is the opposite of true intensity. We force when we are not fully present in the body, not listening, not aware, not alert - just working blindly.]]></description>
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<title>Yoga and Kindness</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:59:26 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Once I was teaching in Idaho, and the class was full of beginners. I noticed two older men in the back of the room, struggling with every move they made. I gave them my best despite their lack of promise, and treated them with kindness.]]></description>
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<title>Teaching Yoga - Encouraging Students Through Questions</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 11:14:06 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[As teachers, we are of most benefit to our students when we help them explore, discover, and fulfill their individual dharma. In class, encourage your students to contemplate their dharma by frequently asking them powerful questions.]]></description>
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<title>Yoga - Where is Your Reference Point?</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 08:54:30 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[When you are in yoga class doing postures, vigilantly observe whether you have an urge to compare yourself with others, especially if you pretend not to care. When you discover this ingrained human urge, take a deep inhalation.]]></description>
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<title>Living Yoga - Transforming What is Not Love</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 13:29:18 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[It may be something physical: I have a long nose that no one would love. Or I am not lovable because I am so fat and ugly. It may be something about our personality: I am an angry person.]]></description>
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<title>Living Yoga - Respect Thyself</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 13:28:16 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Respect emerges from within. The wanton disrespect we sometimes show toward things and others is really just a manifestation of our lack of self-respect. When I do not respect myself for who I am, how can I respect you for who you are? When I don't feel worthy, I feel compelled to make you feel unworthy, or make you make me feel worthy. When I lack self-respect, I inevitably crave respect from others, becoming either the tyrant who commands people to look up to him, or the whining child who constantly complains that he is not getting enough attention.]]></description>
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<title>Yoga - Teaching With Compassion</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 10:18:59 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The mind will strive to create in the body exactly what it believes to be true. As self-help author Earl Nightingale puts it, "You become what you think about." At age ten, my daughter came back from school one day and said, "My teacher told me again that I am not good at math. If she keeps telling me that, how will I ever become good at math?" My daughter apparently feels the power of the mind more clearly than her teacher does. In Milton's immortal words, "The mind is its own place, and in itself / Can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven."]]></description>
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<title>Teaching Yoga - Don't Label Your Students</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2008 10:05:33 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[As teachers, we should encourage our students to understand themselves based on their internal reference points rather than those of the external world. This practice will inflect our teaching in both practical and subtle ways.]]></description>
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<title>Yoga and Meditation - How to Find a Meditation Teacher</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 14:54:10 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Most yoga students begin their journey toward health by taking "Yoga Classes," which usually means classes doing the physical practice of Yoga, called asana (yoga poses). Did you know that Yoga, which means "union" in Sanskrit, is actually a much vaster set of tools for health and healing? The physical exercise is just one aspect of this amazing science and art. Meditation is another aspect of yoga with an additional set of tools that can help create an essential practice for living a healthy and whole life.]]></description>
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<title>Yoga and the Cobbler's Pose - Inspiration For Beginners</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 10:47:27 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Years of sitting in chairs and cars have left most of us with chronic tightness in our inner thighs. How can we release this tightness and free up our hips and groins? This is necessary to enjoy everyday life and also to do many yoga poses, particularly the standing poses.]]></description>
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<title>The Magic of Yoga - Inspiration For Beginners</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 10:42:31 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[As you practice Yoga, you begin to notice changes in the way you react to events at work and situations at home. With aches and pains no longer nagging you, with your nervous system in a state of calmness, and with your mind not congested with frantic thoughts, you find that you are able to respond to life quite differently from the way in which you once did. Suppose someone swerves in front of you when you're driving along the freeway.]]></description>
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<title>Yoga For Sport Enthusiasts, Runners, Hikers and Bikers</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 10:18:55 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[When winter's warm romantic fireplaces have finally been extinguished and the heat of summer arrives, many of us run outside and do active things we haven't done in eight or nine months: hike, bike, water ski, and play baseball. Little wonder that the offices of physical therapists are so busy in the summer months.]]></description>
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<title>Yoga - To Force Or to Feel?</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 08:25:58 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Most of us who do yoga yearn for more from the practice than just physical benefits--indeed, for more than just benefit to ourselves. But how can twisting our bodies, opening our hips, and straightening our legs make a difference in the wider world? How can lifting our chests help lift up this troubled planet?]]></description>
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<title>Yoga and Side Shoulder Stand - Go Beyond Asana to Reach Infinity</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 20:36:11 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In this magnificent pose, Parshva Sarvangasana (Side Shoulderstand), the shoulders and arms remain rooted to the earth while the legs extend toward the horizon, reaching out to touch infinity. This suggests the true purpose of yoga: to be grounded while simultaneously stretching into the vastness of the unexplored Self. To do yoga is to be fully rooted in the present while at the same time embracing the possibilities of the future--a state in which we are both being and becoming.]]></description>
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<title>Yoga Careers Have Broad Appeal and Rewards</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:19:56 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Finding work that is financially rewarding and personally fulfilling is becoming a greater and greater challenge in today's workforce, which struggles to understand how to balance financial security with the need to contribute to the world in a healthy balanced way. More people are looking for part time work that fills their need for wellness and health, while augmenting their income. And more and more are turning to a career in Yoga.]]></description>
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<title>Yoga From the Inside Out</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:16:00 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Our lives, in modern society, often leave us with a strange sort of emptiness, which we usually don't notice--except for the few quiet moments we give ourselves right before sleep and just after waking. To avoid confronting this emptiness, we tire ourselves out with intense effort at work, jog endlessly to run away from ourselves, gossip lest we mutter the truth, or hypnotize ourselves into a stupor with television. We wonder when our lives will improve and hope that someday, when luck strikes, something magical will make our lives happy and meaningful. In the meantime, we wonder if humanity will be any better for our role in it after we are gone.]]></description>
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<title>Yoga - Overcoming Obstacles With Backbends</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:12:44 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[As we practice asanas with awareness, we not only feel better but we are also better able to feel--that is, we become more sensitive to everything in our lives. As our sensitivity deepens and widens, we begin to practice asanas in such a way that we are practicing the larger yoga: the discovery of our Self and our dharma (our true purpose) and the overcoming of the obstacles that impede this journey.]]></description>
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<title>Yoga and the Heart</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:54:30 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Going within--exploring the hidden chambers of the heart to find one's true Self--is really the first step in yoga. Continuing from that step, we can take the next one: bringing forth the latent divinity that we discover within, so that we may fully serve our individual dharma, or life purpose.]]></description>
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<title>Yoga - A Beginner's Guide to Inversions</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 08:11:19 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[When I announced that it was time for Shirsasana, (Headstand) during a workshop I was teaching in Philadelphia a few years ago, an elderly woman slunk out of the room, quickly followed by her yoga teacher. Moments later, they both came back. Later, I learned that the student had left the room because she had never been upside down in her life and was frightened to try; her yoga teacher had gently persuaded her to return, telling her that this was the perfect opportunity. Hesitantly, the student had agreed.]]></description>
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<title>Yoga For Moms and Babies</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:12:04 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[For new moms there is no greater challenge than the first year of a baby's life. Becoming a new mom brings rich sources for joy and happiness. However the physical changes from pregnancy and birth, along with hormonal, emotional, and social changes can add up to stress, tears, sleeplessness, and feelings of isolation. For many new moms, taking a yoga class brings needed connection, relaxation, and a new way to be with their baby.]]></description>
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<title>Yoga For Kids 7 Years and Older</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:10:29 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Today's kids face increased homework loads and pressure to compete academically, athletically, and socially. Stress relief tools for kids are becoming increasingly important. More and more, kids are finding Yoga to be an effective way to deal with stress, and gain other valuable tools for living at the same time.]]></description>
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<title>Yoga Studios - How to Choose a Home For Yoga and Meditation</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 08:20:32 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[If you are new to yoga, or new to the area and looking for a new studio to call your home, there are a few things you need to watch for when choosing a yoga studio. With the increase in the popularity of yoga, there has been a remarkable increase in the number of yoga studios as well as exercise facilities who have begun to offer yoga instruction.]]></description>
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