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		<title>Meditation &amp; &#8220;True Love&#8221;: Musings for V-Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m delighted to have a personal essay up today on the online magazine YourTango.com, &#8220;smart talk about love.&#8221; It&#8217;s a new venue for me&#8212;and a new genre. Soul baring!
Well, soul baring with a purpose. I use a story of my own heartache to talk about a powerful meditation practice. For me, this is also a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joellehann.com/yoganation/2010/02/11/meditation-true-love-musings-for-v-day/</link>
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		<title>Big Success in Albany! But pressure still on</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This just in! From Yoga for New York action committee:
&#8220;Success! Terrific Success! The vote in the NYS Senate Higher Education Committee was a unanimous &#8220;YES&#8221; in support of S5701A &#8211; protecting yoga teacher training from burdensome and unnecessary government regulation and licensing.
Now what? More Committees to get through (remember in school learning about how a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joellehann.com/yoganation/2010/02/02/big-success-in-albany-but-pressure-still-on/</link>
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		<title>Do Yoga in Costa Rica! With Me!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yes, it&#8217;s true&#8212;I&#8217;m leading a yoga retreat to Costa Rica. This is the third year that my co-teacher, Stephanie Sandleben and I will fly down to the Osa Peninsula for a week of jungle heat and yummy asana, February 26 &#8211; March 5, 2010.
Playa Nicuesa Rainforest Lodge is our host&#8212;a fabulous eco-lodge on the secluded [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joellehann.com/yoganation/2010/01/28/do-yoga-in-costa-rica-with-me/</link>
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		<title>Sweat for Haiti: January 27</title>
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Haven&#8217;t contributed to Haiti relief yet? Never fear: get yourself to a participating yoga studio on Weds, January 27 (tomorrow!) and let your practice contribute to the cause.
Yoga and activist organization &#8220;Off the Mat, Into the World&#8221; spearheaded by Seane Corn and friends, is getting studios to donate proceeds to relief funds in an effort [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joellehann.com/yoganation/2010/01/26/sweat-for-haiti-january-27/</link>
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		<title>Yoga is a Religion? Right?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yoga is a religion&#8212;at least according 57% of non-yoga-ing Americans polled by the Yoga Alliance last Saturday, Yoga Day USA. The (semi-)regulatory organization was gathering  Americans&#8217; opinion of the sport (?) to see what stops more people from trying it out.
According to its press release, inspite of the ubiquitousness of this multi-billion dollar industry that&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joellehann.com/yoganation/2010/01/25/yoga-is-a-religion-right/</link>
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		<title>Drawing Yoga&#8211;Special Workshop this Saturday</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sponsored by the awesome Yoga City NYC:
This Saturday, senior Iyengar yoga teacher Bobby Clennell will lead a unique yoga class. You won&#8217;t do any asana or pranayama&#8212;in fact, you&#8217;ll have a sketch pad and a pencil. Yes, you&#8217;ll be drawing yoga.
From 1:30 &#8211; 4pm,  Clennell, who is also a talented illustrator, will lead students to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joellehann.com/yoganation/2010/01/14/drawing-yoga-special-workshop-this-saturday/</link>
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		<title>Save the Date: Yoga Benefit &amp; Silent Auction, Jan 21</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is no ordinary benefit. If you are going to donate to any cause this winter, this is the one. Protect yoga from state mandates! January 21&#8212;cocktails, hor d&#8217;ouevres, and silent auction at Chibo (info below). Save the date.
Yoga for New York, a non-profit formed last summer to prevent state government regulation of yoga, needs [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joellehann.com/yoganation/2010/01/12/save-the-date-yoga-benefit-silent-auction-jan-21/</link>
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		<title>Miami&#8211;What Kind of Yoga?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Miami.
In this town, even the mannequins have boob jobs.
What kind of yoga can you expect where opulence is mistaken for elegance? A mile of bronzed thigh atop a 5” stiletto; lots of mascara and highlights; tight, tight jeans. Little goatees. Flash and glitter. Reflecting pools, royal palms, sequestered cloth cabanas.
Here where beach culture and night [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joellehann.com/yoganation/2010/01/11/miami-what-kind-of-yoga/</link>
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		<title>New Year, New Money</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How are your new year&#8217;s resolutions going? Do any of them include improving your relationship to money?
Well, all of us, rich and poor could use some help in that department. Perhaps especially yogis.
Upcoming: some free or affordable help from cool people including yogi and financial adviser Brent Kessel and Spencer Sherman, co-founders of Abacus Wealth [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joellehann.com/yoganation/2010/01/11/new-year-new-money/</link>
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		<title>ATTEND THIS MEETING TODAY (if you&#8217;re a new york yoga teacher)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yo, New York yoga teachers! This meeting today is for you. I&#8217;m in Miami, but YOU need to be there!
&#8220;We need yoga teachers to help determine the future of yoga in NY. We are at risk of having our future decided for us, without our voice,&#8221; say the organizers, the lovely Liz and Mel of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joellehann.com/yoganation/2010/01/06/attend-this-meeting-today-if-youre-a-new-york-yoga-teacher/</link>
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