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		<title>A Letter from Brazil</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last month I talked about my very personal reasons to sponsor a needy child&#8212;in Brazil.
About two weeks ago I received my first letter from Ana Vitoria, who lives in the northeast of South America&#8217;s largest country. Cool!
I&#8217;ve always loved getting letters in the mail. In high school, I wrote to my friends regularly&#8212;and they wrote [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RIP Jack the Cat</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Maybe it&#8217;s pre-11.11.11 vibes&#8212;you know, on Friday we shift into the long-awaited Acquarian age, according to Yogi Bhajan. Oct 28 marked the long-awaited end of one big cycle of the Mayan calendar.
Or maybe it&#8217;s just me&#8212;I&#8217;ve  spontaneously stopped eating much meat or drinking much alcohol lately, and it&#8217;s making me sensitive to, you know, broccoli, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>3 Reasons Why I&#8217;m Sponsoring a Child in Brazil</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Flying back from my brother&#8217;s home in September was emotional. He was 4 weeks (out of 6) into intensive chemo and radiation, confused, weak, and scared about the future. His wife and I were working around the clock to care for him&#8211;and his two kids who were just starting kindergarten and pre-school.
It was hard to leave at that moment, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Adding &#8220;Namaste&#8221; to Bachelorette Parties</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As reported in the New York Times today, more young brides are adding fitness to their bachelorette parties. And that includes yoga.
Are you surprised?
What surprises me (constantly, sigh) is the endless creative ways that entrepreneurs organize yoga for busy brides-to-be. Writes the Times:
It’s not just New Yorkers: The Los Angeles-based company Yoga for Weddings (slogan: [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joellehann.com/yoganation/2011/10/20/adding-namaste-to-bachelorette-parties/</link>
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		<title>Be a Part-Time Vegetarian</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Can&#8217;t quite give up meat? Me neither.
But since my brother&#8217;s diagnosis with Stage IV brain cancer this summer, I&#8217;ve become a lot more interested in all things concerning health. Diet is a key. And, sadly, meat is a huge concern.
Yesterday, the Huffington Post came out with a great idea: be a part-time vegetarian.
That means, have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Neal Pollack! Stoner yoga memoirist reflects on health, wealth, happiness&#8211;and a year on the charts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ It’s almost a year since Neal Pollack published his hilarious yoga memoir, Stretch: The Unlikely Making of a Yoga Dude. I was late to the game, but caught up with him when I was out in LA for work this May. Pollack is wry, unapologetic and completely smitten with yoga, which made for an [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joellehann.com/yoganation/2011/07/11/neal-pollack-stoner-yoga-memoirist-reflects-on-health-wealth-happiness-and-a-year-on-the-charts/</link>
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		<title>Protest or Party? Yoga as Political Theater or Giant Concert, your choice</title>
		<description><![CDATA[According to the New York Times today, agitators in India are using hunger strikes&#8212;and yoga&#8212;to protest corruption in their government. While some people, such as Mr Anna Hazare, of the DMK political party are fasting to affect change, others such as  yoga guru Swami Ramdev, are planning mass yoga sessions.
&#8230; Swami Ramdev,    [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joellehann.com/yoganation/2011/06/03/protest-or-party-yoga-as-political-theater-or-giant-concert-your-choice/</link>
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		<title>The Blue Tape</title>
		<description><![CDATA[2011 Yoga Journal Conference, NYC 
Part Deux

One of my favorite passages from Neal Pollack&#8217;s hilarious book Stretch: The Unlikely Making of a Yoga Dude involves him going to a Yoga Journal conference in San Francisco. He describes it thus:
Lurching through the doors of the Hyatt, I entered a sea of crazy old ladies seeking their [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joellehann.com/yoganation/2011/05/16/the-blue-tape/</link>
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		<title>From the Sublime to the Ridiculous</title>
		<description><![CDATA[2011 Yoga Journal Conference, NYC 
Part Une
This weekend in is the second Yoga Journal conference in New York (the first was in 2009), and through a stroke of good fortune I was able to attend. Not wanting to waste a single drop of my precious pass, I chose to do the Friday all-day intensive with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joellehann.com/yoganation/2011/05/15/from-the-sublime-to-the-ridiculous/</link>
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		<title>Anti-Gravity Yoga</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On a hot July day last summer, my adventurous friend Michele, who normally cooks at a research station in Antarctica, took me to Om Factory&#8217;s Anti-Gravity Yoga class.
I thought, no problem, I&#8217;ve done a lot of yoga, and even a lot of weird yoga. In fact, it would be a good addition to my repertoire, [...]]]></description>
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