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	<title>Yoga Tune Up &#187; General Health</title>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Exercise In High Heels!</title>
		<link>http://www.yogatuneup.com/blog/2012/01/27/dont-exercise-in-high-heels/</link>
		<comments>http://www.yogatuneup.com/blog/2012/01/27/dont-exercise-in-high-heels/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 17:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trina Altman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Stacy” (not her real name) was my new private client. She arrived at the studio where I teach in a wheel chair. She was post–op and post her allotted amount of physical therapy sessions. With a torn Achilles tendon, horrible back spasms, and a broken right and subsequently left sesamoid bone, she was in a [...]]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[Flexibility]]></category>
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		<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>Theresa&#8217;s YTU Self-Care: The Road To Health And Balance</title>
		<link>http://www.yogatuneup.com/blog/2012/01/13/theresas-ytu-self-care-the-road-to-health-and-balance/</link>
		<comments>http://www.yogatuneup.com/blog/2012/01/13/theresas-ytu-self-care-the-road-to-health-and-balance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 17:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bonnie Golden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Knees]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[self massage]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.yogatuneup.com/blog/?p=1805</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Theresa is a full time college student, wife, and mother of three. She has been on a positive life changing path for the past two years. Losing 92 pounds has been one of her greatest accomplishments! Theresa has also been working closely with a personal fitness trainer who has taught her how to manage food [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Why Anatomy Matters</title>
		<link>http://www.yogatuneup.com/blog/2011/12/21/why-anatomy-matters/</link>
		<comments>http://www.yogatuneup.com/blog/2011/12/21/why-anatomy-matters/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 17:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah Court</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anatomy Training]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Injuries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Teaching Yoga]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[anatomy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.yogatuneup.com/blog/?p=1761</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I’ll be brutally honest with you: when I did my first yoga teacher training, I didn’t understand the mandatory anatomy part. At all. For three long, painful days, I tried to concentrate really hard and write down everything the teacher was talking about, but to me it was a mountain of information in a foreign [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Going Deeper Into A Pose? Or Going Off The Deep End?</title>
		<link>http://www.yogatuneup.com/blog/2011/12/16/going-deeper-into-a-pose-or-going-off-the-deep-end/</link>
		<comments>http://www.yogatuneup.com/blog/2011/12/16/going-deeper-into-a-pose-or-going-off-the-deep-end/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 17:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jill Miller</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Health]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.yogatuneup.com/blog/?p=1754</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever wondered what your yoga teacher means when she instructs you to “go deeper into the pose?” What exactly does this cue mean? Let’s say you’ve been holding the pose for a while, and are already shaking and trembling. Then instead of calling out a new pose, your teacher calls out “drop deeper into the pose!” You [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Some Thoughts On The Diaphragm</title>
		<link>http://www.yogatuneup.com/blog/2011/10/12/some-thoughts-on-the-diaphragm/</link>
		<comments>http://www.yogatuneup.com/blog/2011/10/12/some-thoughts-on-the-diaphragm/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 16:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith Wittenstein</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mind Body & Spirit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[yoga breathing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[belly breathing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[diaphragm]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[uddiyana bandha]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.yogatuneup.com/blog/?p=1647</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The diaphragm is the muscle primarily responsible for respiration.  It is a dome or umbrella-shaped sheet of muscle that extends across the bottom of the rib cage and separates the thoracic cavity from the abdominal cavity.
The diaphragm originates on the xyphoid process, on the bottom six ribs, and on anterior surface of the first three [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>21</slash:comments>
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		<title>Stuck in a Rut? Shake It Up!</title>
		<link>http://www.yogatuneup.com/blog/2011/09/30/stuck-in-a-rut-shake-it-up/</link>
		<comments>http://www.yogatuneup.com/blog/2011/09/30/stuck-in-a-rut-shake-it-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 16:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jill Miller</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Health]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mind Body & Spirit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yoga Pose]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[yoga teacher training]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[yoga workshops]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.yogatuneup.com/blog/?p=1631</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[[See the first half of this article here.]
Snow globe yoga: Shake it up! Inspiration comes in many forms. One of my favorite ways of practicing is to pick a pose, any yoga pose, and then imagine that pose in a snow globe. I shake up the imaginary snow globe and let the pose land in any [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>30</slash:comments>
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		<title>Experiencing &#8220;Yoga Block&#8221;? How To Get Out Of That Yoga Rut</title>
		<link>http://www.yogatuneup.com/blog/2011/09/28/experiencing-yoga-block-how-to-get-out-of-that-yoga-rut/</link>
		<comments>http://www.yogatuneup.com/blog/2011/09/28/experiencing-yoga-block-how-to-get-out-of-that-yoga-rut/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 16:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jill Miller</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jill Miller]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pose Videos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[at home yoga]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[yoga dvd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[yoga practice]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.yogatuneup.com/blog/?p=1625</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Is your yoga practice getting a little stale? Maybe you’ve been going to the same class at the same time each week for the past year. Or perhaps you use a video — the same video — every day. If you’re finding yourself a tad uninspired to get on your mat, you might be suffering from [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>23</slash:comments>
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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>
		<category><![CDATA[General Health]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[stretching]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stretching exercises]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.yogatuneup.com/blog/?p=1565</guid>
		<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 Yoga Therapy Right for You? The Next Wave of Conscious Care</title>
		<link>http://www.yogatuneup.com/blog/2011/08/19/is-yoga-therapy-right-for-you-the-next-wave-of-conscious-care/</link>
		<comments>http://www.yogatuneup.com/blog/2011/08/19/is-yoga-therapy-right-for-you-the-next-wave-of-conscious-care/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2011 16:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jill Miller</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pain Relief]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stress Relief]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pain management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stress reduction]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.yogatuneup.com/blog/?p=1503</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Is yoga therapy right for you? Have you tried everything under the sun to eliminate an ache, pain or chronic condition? If your doctor has suggested that you try yoga therapy (and not just yoga classes), the first step is to find a great yoga therapist to steer you into a customized practice that may potentially improve the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>25</slash:comments>
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