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		<title>Resolve to Intend</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 15:11:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you’re anything like me, you may view New Year’s Resolutions as just another chance to set yourself up for failure.  After all, how likely is it that you’ll really only eat whole, unprocessed foods or exercise daily for the next 365 days?  Last year, I resolved to meditate 10 minutes daily with a caveat [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=yogalab.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13720823&amp;post=488&amp;subd=yogalab&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Folly of Fast Life</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2011 13:44:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently I re-heard a Fresh Air interview with Grant Achatz , the famous avant-garde chef who lost his sense of taste to cancer and then got it back.  It&#8217;s a fascinating interview and if you have a half-hour, take a listen.  At his latest restaurant Alinea, in Chicago, you&#8217;re likely to see 20+ courses cross your placemat; 23 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=yogalab.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13720823&amp;post=470&amp;subd=yogalab&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Free Day of Yoga: 5 Things to Love</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 13:10:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[1.  Free-ness.  It&#8217;s all in the name. 2.  Spirit of Adventure.  There&#8217;s something about free yoga that makes you say, &#8220;Sure, I&#8217;ll try Japanese Zen Circus Yoga on a Paddleboard!&#8221;  What have you got to lose? 3.  New Faces, New Places.  So often, you see the same teachers (your amazing favorites) every week (as you [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=yogalab.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13720823&amp;post=477&amp;subd=yogalab&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Yoga citta vrtti nirodha</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Sep 2011 13:41:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yoga Lab Austin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Yoga – 8-limbed path, citta – mindstuff (i.e. your mind when you’re not paying it any mind), vrtti – fluctuation, revolution, nirodha – to make something cease to exist     The Yoga Sutras were written way back in BCE by a sage named Patanjali.  Sutra means thread, so these are threads of wisdom or [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=yogalab.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13720823&amp;post=39&amp;subd=yogalab&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Minding My Neck</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2011 20:53:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been thinking lately about my posture, which, as a yoga teacher and student and as someone with sufficient anatomical knowledge to know better, is shockingly bad.  For those of you fellow slumpers, chew on this: when you slouch and allow the shoulders to round forward, your gaze is directed ever-so-slightly downward.  In order to look [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=yogalab.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13720823&amp;post=417&amp;subd=yogalab&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Breathe Light, Breathe Dark</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 17:37:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a Buddhist meditation technique called lojong where you imagine breathing in darkness (fear, anger, claustrophobia, tension) and then breathing out light (love, compassion, spaciousness, relaxation).   Ultimately, you&#8217;re offering to breathe in the dark so there&#8217;s less in the world, and breathe out the light so there&#8217;s more.  I have always balked at this idea [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=yogalab.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13720823&amp;post=413&amp;subd=yogalab&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Effort &amp; Ease</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Aug 2011 14:35:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s one of the most famous sutras in the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali: sthira sukham asanam.  Translated, that&#8217;s something like, the posture is steady and comfortable.  Doesn&#8217;t sound too earth-shattering, so what&#8217;s all the fuss?  I&#8217;ve been discussing this verse with my students the last few weeks, looking at the individual words and searching for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=yogalab.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13720823&amp;post=408&amp;subd=yogalab&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Namaste Y&#8217;all</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jul 2011 14:08:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Namaste y&#8217;all, it&#8217;s been awhile.  Used as a greeting or farewell, a gesture of respect or thanks, in India and Nepal &#8211; where they practice non-physical (read non-handshaking) forms of meeting and greeting - namaste is the aloha of Sanskrit.  Here in the States, most of us are familiar with namaste from yoga classes (or from [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=yogalab.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13720823&amp;post=404&amp;subd=yogalab&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Grey Zone</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Feb 2011 16:08:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[change]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Uncertainty drives me up the wall.  I love clear-cut, black and white decisions: absolutely, without a doubt, no hesitation, 100%.  This is my comfort zone. Unfortunately &#8211; and this either becomes clearer or more true as I get older, not sure which &#8211; not all of life (not much of it, in fact) is lived [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=yogalab.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13720823&amp;post=401&amp;subd=yogalab&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>All Bundled Up</title>
		<link>http://yogalab.wordpress.com/2011/01/30/all-bundled-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Jan 2011 22:36:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Chip Hartranft]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last weekend, Chris and I went up to Illinois for a long weekend visit, and I had to remember how to dress for the cold: longjohns and/or tights, t-shirt, long-sleeved shirt, pants, sweater, jacket, scarf, gloves, hat, several pairs of socks.  Happily bundled, I walked around town, relishing the cold, padded out like the Michelin Woman.  Before our [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=yogalab.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13720823&amp;post=390&amp;subd=yogalab&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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