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		<title>Are Your Shoulders In Your Back Pockets?</title>
		<link>http://www.yogatuneup.com/blog/2012/02/01/are-your-shoulders-in-your-back-pockets/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trina Altman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Tension]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[During many yoga classes I have attended, the teacher would continually tell us to “open your heart” and “bring your shoulders back and down.” In Pilates reformer classes, the cue was to “place your shoulders in your back pockets,” or just the stern command:  “SHOULDERS DOWN!” Wanting to be a good student, I did this… [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Posing View: Downwardly Dogmatic Assertions on Yoga&#8217;s Safety</title>
		<link>http://www.yogatuneup.com/blog/2012/01/20/a-posing-view-downwardly-dogmatic-assertions-on-yogas-safety/</link>
		<comments>http://www.yogatuneup.com/blog/2012/01/20/a-posing-view-downwardly-dogmatic-assertions-on-yogas-safety/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 17:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Claiborne Davis</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.yogatuneup.com/blog/?p=1831</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If your social circles include yoga teachers and students, then surely you know about and are a possible constituent of the Texas-sized uproar over a recent piece in the New York Times Magazine by William J. Broad.  The five-page, single-spaced printed article with amusing photographs of yoga poses (also available online) suggests very unamusingly that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are You &#8220;Too Powerful&#8221; For Some Poses?</title>
		<link>http://www.yogatuneup.com/blog/2011/10/26/are-you-too-powerful-for-some-poses/</link>
		<comments>http://www.yogatuneup.com/blog/2011/10/26/are-you-too-powerful-for-some-poses/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 16:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>YuMee Chung</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[tight shoulders]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.yogatuneup.com/blog/?p=1670</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I once got a dream job thanks to the latissimus dorsi muscle.
I kid you not. It happened during a beginner inversions class that opened with the mechanics of downward facing dog and ended with a fun, partnered half-handstand at the wall. This was supposed to be one of those classes that makes everyone, including the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>13</slash:comments>
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		<title>Stretch Anytime, Anywhere</title>
		<link>http://www.yogatuneup.com/blog/2011/09/14/stretch-anytime-anywhere/</link>
		<comments>http://www.yogatuneup.com/blog/2011/09/14/stretch-anytime-anywhere/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2011 16:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jill Miller</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Flexibility]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[stretching]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.yogatuneup.com/blog/?p=1583</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[[See previous entries on Jill's stretching series here and here.]
Stretching, Phase 4:  a way of life.
Look around at your environment to aid you in a stretch.
1. Lean back in your desk chair and arch your back with your arms reaching to the sky once every 30 minutes (and try the pose below, also on the 5 Minute [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>24</slash:comments>
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		<title>Let Yoga Tune Up® Keep You Flexible</title>
		<link>http://www.yogatuneup.com/blog/2011/09/07/let-yoga-tune-up%c2%ae-keep-you-flexible/</link>
		<comments>http://www.yogatuneup.com/blog/2011/09/07/let-yoga-tune-up%c2%ae-keep-you-flexible/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 16:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jill Miller</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Flexibility]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[stretching]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stretching exercises]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yoga]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[[For Jill's how and why on stretching, read the first half of this article here.]
Stretching, Phase 3: There’s more than one way to stretch!
The good news is that there are a multitude of ways to stretch those muscles and fascias. Stretching can be a fun and variety-filled activity. No really, it’s fun!
Here is a “menu” of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Loosen Up! How to Stretch Your Way to Flexibility</title>
		<link>http://www.yogatuneup.com/blog/2011/09/02/loosen-up-how-to-stretch-your-way-to-flexibility/</link>
		<comments>http://www.yogatuneup.com/blog/2011/09/02/loosen-up-how-to-stretch-your-way-to-flexibility/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Sep 2011 16:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jill Miller</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Flexibility]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few months ago I wrote a blog on the perils of overstretching that seemed to strike a chord with many of my students and readers. But for every overstretched yogi or yogini out there, there are four times as many folks who are bound up and moving like the tin man! Most folks I meet [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>30</slash:comments>
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		<title>Is Pregnancy Making You Too Hip?</title>
		<link>http://www.yogatuneup.com/blog/2011/08/31/is-pregnancy-making-you-too-hip/</link>
		<comments>http://www.yogatuneup.com/blog/2011/08/31/is-pregnancy-making-you-too-hip/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2011 16:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tiffany Chambers-Goldberg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Flexibility]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hips]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[yoga for pregnancy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hip Pain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yoga for Pregancy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.yogatuneup.com/blog/?p=1563</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I teach a hip class every Friday. I love teaching hip work partly because it’s easy for me, since my pelvis and hips are hyper-mobile.  Then I became pregnant, and this added to my ability to bend and stretch in gumby-like ways. Natures’ gift to pregnant women is the protein hormone relaxin that is believed [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>Mastered the 2 Minute Practice? Try 4 Minutes!</title>
		<link>http://www.yogatuneup.com/blog/2011/07/15/mastered-the-2-minute-practice-try-4-minutes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.yogatuneup.com/blog/2011/07/15/mastered-the-2-minute-practice-try-4-minutes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2011 16:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shelley Piser</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Back Pain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Flexibility]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leg Stretches]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lower Back Pain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chest Opener]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hamstring Stretch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Healing Lower Back Pain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hip Pain Relief]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leg Stretch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[piriformis syndrome exercise]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shoulder Stretch]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.yogatuneup.com/blog/?p=1461</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently, one of my students discovered how tight her left shoulder was while I was teaching her the leg stretch series and practicing Yoga Tune Up® Leg Stretch #3.  Although this pose focuses on the lumbar twist, it is also a deep shoulder and chest opener. I could see that she was intrigued by the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
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		<title>Roll Out Tension To Stay Loose When It Counts</title>
		<link>http://www.yogatuneup.com/blog/2011/06/29/stay-loose/</link>
		<comments>http://www.yogatuneup.com/blog/2011/06/29/stay-loose/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jun 2011 17:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ariel Kiley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Flexibility]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Injuries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[relaxation techniques]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tension]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yoga]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[After my car was struck from behind, and it dawned on me that I was in the midst of a violent car accident, I did the only thing I could: I relaxed.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>20</slash:comments>
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		<title>Regular Practice Can Prepare You For the Unknown</title>
		<link>http://www.yogatuneup.com/blog/2011/06/24/neck-flexibility/</link>
		<comments>http://www.yogatuneup.com/blog/2011/06/24/neck-flexibility/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2011 16:30:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ariel Kiley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Flexibility]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Injuries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[neck stretch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stretches]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yoga]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.yogatuneup.com/blog/?p=1394</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When the body is confronted with unforeseeable trauma, such as the car accident I was in, it may be forced to stretch or twist in ways that aren’t a part of typical daily movement.  But with a regular yoga practice the range of motion in joints and muscles throughout the body is increased.  So if [...]]]></description>
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