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	<title>Yoga with Nikki Chau &#187; Yoga Tips</title>
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		<title>Breed and Feed, or, How to Detox and Do Other Things Good Too with Savasana</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 08:46:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nikki Chau</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I once described Savasana to my boyfriend–who doesn&#8217;t do yoga–as, &#8220;taking a sanctioned nap in public&#8221;, to which he asked quizzically, &#8220;You pay people to do something you can do at home?&#8221; I laughed, &#8220;I guess you can look at &#8230; <a href="http://www.nikkiyoga.com/breed-and-feed-how-to-detox-with-savasana/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>GABA and Yoga, or, Why Do Yoga More Often</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 09:29:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nikki Chau</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[My Training]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why do yoga? Why do yoga when you could do so many other things in the world? You could read, write, draw, sketch, hack, paint, sing, strum, play, create. You could Facebook, FaceTime, Tweet, IM, email. You could cook, shop, &#8230; <a href="http://www.nikkiyoga.com/gaba-and-yoga-or-why-do-yoga-more-often/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Yoga News Alert: New Yoga Studio Coming Soon to Richmond Beach</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2011 06:33:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nikki Chau</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alignment-based]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bikram]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday evening, my mom and I went to Richmond Beach for a walk after dinner. As I closed my car door in the upper parking lot of the Saltwater Park, ready to take the wooden stairs down to the beach, &#8230; <a href="http://www.nikkiyoga.com/yoga-news-alert-new-yoga-studio-coming-soon-to-richmond-beach/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Whatever Serves You Right</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Apr 2011 02:15:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nikki Chau</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Baptiste Yoga]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bikram]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hot Yoga]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was catching up with my friend Grant, who&#8217;s also been coming to my classes at Village Green Yoga in Issaquah for the past year or so. He sheepishly looked at me and said, &#8220;I have to confess something. There &#8230; <a href="http://www.nikkiyoga.com/whatever-serves-you-right/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Janet MacLeod Workshop Recap</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Mar 2011 23:45:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nikki Chau</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alignment-based]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iyengar]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I live really close to Tree House Yoga, an Iyengar yoga studio in Shoreline, a suburb adjacent to Seattle on I-5 North. This past weekend, Senior teacher Janet MacLeod came up from San Francisco for a workshop, and though I &#8230; <a href="http://www.nikkiyoga.com/janet-macleod-workshop-recap/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>When The Real Party Begins</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Feb 2011 08:38:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nikki Chau</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Inspiration]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[ali ghambari]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[annamaya kosha]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been reading Yoga Body: The Origins of Modern Posture Practice, by Mark Singleton, and it is nothing short of mind-blowing. It&#8217;s clear Mark has done extensive research and found substantial evidence to show that the physical yoga practice as &#8230; <a href="http://www.nikkiyoga.com/when-the-real-party-begins/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A Motivational Tip to Meditate (and Do Other Things in Life)</title>
		<link>http://www.nikkiyoga.com/a-motivational-tip-to-meditate-and-do-other-things-in-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Oct 2010 07:56:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nikki Chau</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Shinzen Young]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;If you can&#8217;t be disciplined, be clever.&#8221; &#8211; Shinzen Young, The Science Of Enlightenment. Motivation and Discipline are in that category of abstract concepts that sells books, DVDs, and seminars, not to mention hopes and dreams that we will be &#8230; <a href="http://www.nikkiyoga.com/a-motivational-tip-to-meditate-and-do-other-things-in-life/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Revisiting the Definition of Yoga, Part II</title>
		<link>http://www.nikkiyoga.com/revisiting-the-definition-of-yoga-part-ii/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Sep 2010 22:35:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nikki Chau</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[My Training]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week at a workshop with Tias Little, I ran into Janell Hartman, a fellow yoga instructor friend, and one who gave me my very first yoga teaching gig: she asked me to sub for a Punk Rock Yoga class when &#8230; <a href="http://www.nikkiyoga.com/revisiting-the-definition-of-yoga-part-ii/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Revisiting the Definition of Yoga, Part I</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Sep 2010 06:43:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nikki Chau</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[C&#8217;est le Devoir I&#8217;m doing an 800-hr correspondence course with Georg and Brenda Feuerstein&#8217;s Traditional Yoga Studies. Among the reading materials (like a study binder the size of a small child) is the book The Yoga Tradition: Its History, Literature, Philosophy and &#8230; <a href="http://www.nikkiyoga.com/revisiting-the-definition-of-yoga-part-i/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Support Your Local Yoga Teacher &#8211; An Interview with Laura DeFreitas</title>
		<link>http://www.nikkiyoga.com/support-your-local-yoga-teacher-an-interview-with-laura-defreitas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 08:09:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nikki Chau</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Art of Teaching]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I first got to know Laura DeFreitas about a year and a half ago when she became an independent yoga teacher and started teaching at Taj Yoga, where I teach now, and where I was doing my yoga teacher training &#8230; <a href="http://www.nikkiyoga.com/support-your-local-yoga-teacher-an-interview-with-laura-defreitas/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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