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    Morning Links: Why High Heels Don’t Mix With Yoga

    • Your high heels are pretty, but they're causing you problems. *(Yogadork) • The social experiment that led one community to lose 150,000 pounds. (HuffPost Fitness) • Bob Harper's 20-minute workout...aka Memorial Day damage control. (FitSugar) • Live in New York? Check out this healthy...
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    That Girl: Meet Busy (And Balanced!) Yoga Mom, Leslie Jaffray

    This week on That Girl, we are celebrating Leslie Jaffray, a devoted yogi from Canada who strives to maintain a balance between physical health and her busy days as a mom and a corporate professional. Yoga helps bring that balance into her life. She greets each day with sun salutations, and it's...
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    Afternoon Links: Are Yoga “Rockstars” Jerks?

    • Yoga*"rockstars": physically amazing human beings...or big jerks? (YogaDork) • Speaking of yoga rockstars...yoga is getting its first reality show called--get this--Rock Your Yoga*(Well&Good) •*So, that TIME magazine article that everyone's all up in arms about? Yeah, it's not what you think...
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    Afternoon Links: Leaving Your Yoga Mat Rolled Up Is Nasty

    • Want your yoga mat to last? Don't do these three gross things with it (FitSugar) • Among the reasons why a woman might want to get pregnant, skipping work is probably one of the worst (The Stir) • Why having a fit mom totally rocks (HuffPost Healthy Living) • Are you a safe cyclist? Most...
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    Smoke Pot, Do Yoga: This Could Totally Be Your Path To Enlightenment

    When most yoga teachers tell us to inhale deeply and then exhale and "let it all out", we don't think they are instructing us to do so with pot. But if you ask Liz McDonald, owner of Brazilian Yoga and Pilates in Los Angeles, getting high before yoga class is like, totally, the hippest way to...
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    Sage Rountree Explains Why All Runners Should Be Doing Yoga

    Author, trainer, and Runner's World contributor*Sage Rountree has been using yoga to help athletes better their performance for years. But after getting onto what she calls "a running kick" recently*(a "kick" which, by the way, entails 40-mile ultramarathons), Roundtree has turned her attention...
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    8 Things That Irritate The Zen Out Of Your Yoga Instructors

    To me (an anxiety-ridden writer who is perpetually under a deadline of some sort), yoga instructors seem to have a pretty great life. They are somehow both zen and tough as, in their beautiful lululemon stretch pants, they casually sink into a Side Crow pose and smile blissfully, willing me to...
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    For life long depression, anxiety, loneliness, would yoga, reiki, or thai chi, be...

    ...best? Don't even think about suggesting therapy!
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    Male-Only Naked Yoga Class Raises Very Important Question

    Somehow the vision of a room full of naked guys practicing yoga intrigues me and grosses me out at the same time. It's not like naked yoga is a new trend--we've been hearing about it for the last year or so. We've even heard about how this could have been the demise of Kim Kardashian's lengthy...
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    Toilet Yoga Looks Like A Joke; Is Seriously Pretty Cool

    Let's be honest: Toilet Yoga looks like a joke. It's definitely weirder than keeping a stack of magazines in the bathroom, and might even strike you as gross. But, in its defense: It's actually pretty cool. Not only is the goal to aid digestion, which many Americans actually do need help with...
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    Afternoon Links: Yoga Poses To Look Good Naked

    • Sore muscle remedies that work. (HuffPost Women) • Yoga poses to help you look good naked. (fitsugar) • Dr. Oz reveals how to eat more and weigh less. (The Stir) • The greatest kisses in literature. (HuffPost Women) • Things men do that scare women off. (YourTango) • What message do you...
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    For life long depression, anxiety, loneliness, would yoga, reiki, or thai chi, be

    best? Don't even think about suggesting therapy!
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    Afternoon Links: How To Buy A Yoga Mat

    • The healing power of honey. (HuffPost Fitness) • What to ask before you buy your yoga mat. (fitsugar) • try out this Super Bowl recipe challenge. (The Stir) • Steps for better communication. (YourTango) • How to kick your diet soda habit. (HuffPost Women) • Fight fat the modern way...
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    SFO Has The Country’s First Airport Yoga Room

    Quick! Someone—anyone—give me a reason to fly through SFO. San Francisco's International Airport now has the country's first airport yoga room*for travelers, complete with yoga mats, dimmed lights and a 'zen garden atmosphere.' Now if only more airports would knock out their McDonald's and put...
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    How to find a good Yoga DVD? HELP?

    I'm thinking about getting Yoga DVDs. Will it better if I purchase: http://www.amazon.com/Core-Strength-Viny… and http://www.amazon.com/Yoga-Weight-Beginn… OR just purchase this: http://www.amazon.com/Yoga-Weight-Loss-D… Which DVDs are better?
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    How to find a good Yoga DVD?

    I'm thinking about getting Yoga DVDs. Will it better if I purchase: http://www.amazon.com/Core-Strength-Viny… and http://www.amazon.com/Yoga-Weight-Beginn… OR just purchase this: http://www.amazon.com/Yoga-Weight-Loss-D… Which DVDs are better?
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    For life long depression, anxiety, loneliness, would yoga, reiki, or thai...

    ...chi, be best? Don't even think about suggesting therapy!
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    Old People Doing Yoga: Cool, But Not Saying Much About Yoga.

    Old people doing yoga has practically become its own internet meme: My new favorite theory is that lululemon is funding an underground society of yogis whose sole job it is to dig up 90-something yoga teachers for a biweekly installment of *the smug "see, yoga is THIS good for you" profile...
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    World’s Oldest Yoga Teacher Shows Us How Stretching Is Really Done

    Oooh, we love a good yoga-inspirational story. Bernice Bates is not your typical great-grandmother. She practices yoga every day, she teaches once a week at her retirement home in Florida, and she was recently voted as the World's Oldest Yoga Teacher by the Guinness Book of World Records. Oh...
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    Yoga Pants: 2011?s Most Controversial Piece Of Clothing

    What do abortion, marriage equality, and yoga pants*all have in common? Everyone's got an opinion on each of them, and each have made national news this year. Beloved by young women of the Ugg boot-wearing ilk and despised by those who have higher standards for what qualifies as "pants", these...
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