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	<title>Karuna Center for Yoga &#38; Healing Arts, Northampton, MA</title>
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		<title>William Broad Radio Interview</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:30:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago there was a lot of controversy surrounding the NY Times article &#8220;How Yoga Can Wreck Your Body&#8221; by William Broad. The article was an excerpt from his book &#8220;The Science of Yoga: The Risks and Rewards&#8221;. Unlike the tone of the article, this NPR interview offers a more balanced perspective on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Invocation To Patanjali</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:39:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin</dc:creator>
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Yogena                     cittasya padena vacam 
malam  sarirasya ca vaidyakena 
yopakarottam                      pravaram muninam 
patanjalim  pranajalir anato&#8217;smi 
abahu [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dear Eileen,</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:34:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Teacher Training]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The recently graduated 200 hour Teacher Training class would like to express our warmest and sincerest gratitude to you for creating such a transformative program. Last weekend was a profound celebration of the growth that we have all done over the past year together. Having this time come to an end was bitter sweet but, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Isvara Sutras: 1:23-1:27</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:32:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Student Writings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yoga Philosophy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Isvara Pranidana]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Svadhyaya]]></category>

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As part of the practice of Svadhyaya, introspection through study of scripture, students from the 2011/12 200 hour teacher training were asked to contemplate the Isvara Sutras, 1:23 through 1:27, in Edwin Bryant&#8217;s translation of The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. The following post provides examples of how students responded to Bryant&#8217;s interpretation and how the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>For Contemplation&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 21:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Yoga Philosophy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nisargadatta]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Stay without ambition, without the least desire, exposed, vulnerable, unprotected, uncertain, alone, completely open to and welcoming life as it happens, without the selfish conviction that all must yield your pleasure or profit, material or so called spiritual.&#8220;
Nisargadatta Maharaj


Photo Credit: Beth Maciorowski&#8217;s Photography

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		<title>Pranayama: Removing the Veil, Sutra 2.52</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 21:38:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[yoga sutras]]></category>

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Inspired by the Pranayama Sutra below translated by B.K.S. Iyengar:
Sutra 2.52: Tatah kisyate prakasavaranam 
 
Pranayama removes the veil covering the light of knowledge and heralds the dawn of wisdom. 
 
Its practice destroys illusion, consisting of ignorance, desire, and delusion which obscure the intelligence; and allows the inner light of wisdom to shine.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wreck Your Body?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 05:06:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a storm going on in the yoga community stirred by the New York Times Article, “How Yoga Can Wreck Your Body”. Many are questioning the validity of the claims made by Broad about the hazards of practicing yoga. The students and teachers at Karuna have been discussing the implications of this article and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Surrender vs. Resignation</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 09:58:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karuna</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Yoga Philosophy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Written by Eileen Muir, inspired by Adyashanti while she was on a silent meditation retreat with him.

Resignation is a painful place to be in. It is often a strategy we do in order to not feel
pain, fear, or sometimes terror. It is a sort of ‘pretend surrender’. Often we do ‘pretend
surrender’ when we think we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Welcoming the Karuna Community</title>
		<link>http://karunayoga.com/welcoming-the-karuna-community/</link>
		<comments>http://karunayoga.com/welcoming-the-karuna-community/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 09:48:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karuna</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[audio chant]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to Karuna&#8217;s blog page! Our intention is that this blog will become
a forum for the larger Karuna community to share their thoughts, inspiration, and
philosophical insights. We are excited to have this new tool to reach beyond the studio
walls!
May the information that shapes our ever evolving practice integrate into every aspect of our waking life. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poem written in response to Yoga Sutras 1.12-1.15</title>
		<link>http://karunayoga.com/poem-written-in-response-to-yoga-sutras-1-12-1-15/</link>
		<comments>http://karunayoga.com/poem-written-in-response-to-yoga-sutras-1-12-1-15/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 09:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karuna</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Student Writings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[yoga sutras]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sutras:

Sutra 1.12: abhyasa vairagyabhyam tan nirodhah 
[The vrtti states of mind] are stilled by practice and dispassion
Sutra 1.13: tatra sthitau yatno ‘bhysah 
From these, practice is the effort to be fixed in concentrating the mind
Sutra 1.14:  sa tu dirgha-kala-nairantarya-satkarasevito drdha-bhumih 
Practice becomes firmly established when it has been cultivated uninterruptedly and with devotion over a [...]]]></description>
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