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		<title>Summer Wrap-up</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, we had a full and lively two sessions over the summer.  Here&#8217;s what we covered:
SELF-PRESERVATION INSTINCT
We started by reviewing the four primitive urges&#8211;food, sex, sleep and self-preservation&#8211;and drew our attention specifically to the self-preservation (SP) urge.
Each living creature has a built in instinct to survive, including human beings, which kicks in at the moment [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://downtoearthyoga.com/blog/?p=222</link>
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		<title>April Review-Working with Resources</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As we started April and our second quarter, I asked everyone to reconnect with their year long vision and check in with the first set of milestones.  I suggested that the places where people were consistently hitting their targets were related to how much they actually feel connected to the value of those targets.  Often [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://downtoearthyoga.com/blog/?p=218</link>
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		<title>March Review-Wood Element and Self-Esteem</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wood Element
We began the spring session talking about the wood element, which predominates in Nature during this time of year.  Aspects of the wood element are similar to what we experience in the dawning of spring, including:

strength and flexibility (like bamboo)
a return of warmth, generosity and fecundity
a strong seeking to grow and expand
budding of ideas [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://downtoearthyoga.com/blog/?p=215</link>
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		<title>February Review: Leadership and rubberbands</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We began February further clarifying our vision for 2010.  The first three rounds of visioning involved three criteria which I supplied:
1)  What is nourishing to me?
2)  What is inspiring to me?
3)  What is realistic for me?
The fourth round of visioning involved looking at one&#8217;s own values criteria, what I refer to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://downtoearthyoga.com/blog/?p=211</link>
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		<title>January 24:  Visioning, Next Round</title>
		<description><![CDATA[1/20/2010 Yoga Notes (thanks, Laurie)
Third criteria - Is my vision realistic?
How do I know if it&#8217;s realistic?  Having a realistic sense of myself, my world, my gifts, my limitation&#8211;these are loving assessments, not wet blankets that I&#8217;m throwing on my creative dreams.
1. I am not in denial of the reality of my physical conditions. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://downtoearthyoga.com/blog/?p=203</link>
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		<title>January 14: Visioning Questions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Courtesy of Laurie Jerva&#8217;s great note taking:
1/13/10
Homework for next week:
* get a buzzword for each one of my visions - an example might be Peace as the buzzword for the Health vision
* look at brainstorms
- should feel authentically nourishing
- ask yourself - is it inspiring?
if it&#8217;s a should then it is a secondary - want [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://downtoearthyoga.com/blog/?p=196</link>
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		<title>Ever wonder about your classmates&#8217; notes?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here are mine.  These are my notes from the session that ran from 9/16-11/4 of this year. A glimpse into the kinds of notes I take during class.  Any thoughts?  Laurie
notes-9-16-through-session
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		<link>http://downtoearthyoga.com/blog/?p=189</link>
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		<title>After the Storm</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Leaf detached
from Tree today;
a powerful 5 a.m. storm
set her free
Gentle Wind carried Leaf
in fanciful flight;
released from its
summer home,
Sky,
cradled by Wind,
Leaf
looped/tumbled/rose/fell
Earth waited,
ready to catch her;
a snowfall
of crimson, russet, gold
also came to rest
in a colorful, patchwork carpet
for Earth
Leaf creates soil;
nourishment for Tree
Winter:
hibernation
preparation
restoration
Spring, once more;
variations on green
Leaf appears
Tree lifts Leaf
to Sky
SKS
October  2009
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		<link>http://downtoearthyoga.com/blog/?p=184</link>
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		<title>Karuna</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Like a caress.
Like an old, worn blanket, wrapped around the shoulders.
Like a smile from a true friend.
There will always be a sense of sadness about her.
Behind the eyes, it will remain, quiet and poised.
The difference is, now she knows this is not all she is; it does not define her.
For so long, she accepted karuna as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://downtoearthyoga.com/blog/?p=180</link>
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		<title>Grief</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Grief is
pain, deeply imbedded,
rising to the surface,
unexpected,
quick,
sudden.
Grief is not
self-indulgent,
self-absorbed,
selfish.

No, it is none of those.
It is connection
with our lost past,
our lost hopes,
our lost people.
When grief comes upon us,
the cause is often
just a word,
a flash,
a note.
We do not sit and wait
for its visitation.
It takes us unaware;
washes over us.
Time is of no consequence;
images may even sharpen, in time.
I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://downtoearthyoga.com/blog/?p=177</link>
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