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		<title>Passages</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 03:11:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suzie Hurley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you been in a class at Willow Street where your teacher set the theme of the class as “change”? In our practice of yoga, we experience change in many ways, from the mat to what we take from the mat into our daily lives. Whether planned or unexpected, change permeates the flow of life. Change is the one thing we can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Deep Relaxation Yoga Nidra Practice with Betsey Downing</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 19:41:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Practice the ancient art of yogic sleep with the soothing sounds of Betsey Downing, a Senior Anusara Teacher and Doctor of Sports Psychology. This is part of the daily yoga practice of yogis at ashrams in India. The leader will ask you to relax every part of your body until you are in a profound [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Developing a Home Practice</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 03:32:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suzie Hurley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As we see and feel the changes that take place in our body/mind from coming to yoga class each week, there's often a gradual stirring to begin to practice on our own. Our yoga evolves beyond a class we look forward to once or twice a week, and into a regular home practice in which the benefits of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>12 Video Series of Anusara Yoga with Betsey Downing and Jaye Martin Now Available</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 19:04:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Practice at home with Betsey and Jaye as they lead you through 12 progessively taught 55-minute sessions in Anusara Yoga. Betsey and Jaye teach a logically sequenced series of poses within each class, gradually advancing the poses across a series of 12 classes. Perfect for beginners or experienced students looking for inspiration in their home [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Yamas and the Niyamas</title>
		<link>http://www.ihanuman.com/suziehurley/the-yamas-and-the-niyamas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 03:58:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suzie Hurley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Life is good. As free, joyful, and creative expressions of the One, we are blessed to be embodied in this life. Life is a magnificent gift of the Divine, not some sort of karmic punishment, nor something we need to transcend. Indeed, it is through our limited physical form that we are able to experience our Unlimited Being. Our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Progressive Teaching</title>
		<link>http://www.ihanuman.com/suziehurley/progressive-teaching/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 13:23:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suzie Hurley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the yoga boom continues to grow and new studios pop up everywhere, the question arises of how to offer classes in order to appeal to both new and experienced students. Yoga studios usually choose one of two options for class registration. One option is class cards, where the student pays for a specific number of classes over a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Nature of Desire</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 22:09:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsey Downing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Desire is not typically a very welcome concept in spiritual circles. In fact, most Eastern spiritual disciplines regard desire as the root cause of all suffering, observing that desire causes mental agitation as we think about what we want that we don’t have. Desire therefore causes people to lose the peacefulness that they are searching [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gratitude</title>
		<link>http://www.ihanuman.com/cherylcatranbone/gratitude/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2008 13:16:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cheryl Catranbone</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My journey of yoga is one of Gratitude; for the insights, healing, blessings, and the complete transformation of my life. I cherish every moment, every breath, all the experiences it has taken to get here. I found my first yoga class at a church in Ocean Springs, Mississippi, where yoga was anything but mainstream. I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reflecting on Garden of the Heart Yoga Center</title>
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		<comments>http://www.ihanuman.com/betseydowning/reflecting-on-garden-of-the-heart-yoga-center/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2008 12:59:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsey Downing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes it's nice to site back and reflect on where we have been and where we are now...My husband and I moved to Florida from Virginia five and a half years ago, after he retired. Initially I kept my yoga center in Virginia and went back regularly to run it, so I did not start [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Free Yoga Class with Betsey Downing</title>
		<link>http://www.ihanuman.com/features/yoga-class-with-betsey-downing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ihanuman.com/features/yoga-class-with-betsey-downing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Dec 2007 03:49:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>iHanuman Features</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Betsey Downing is a Senior Anusara Yoga Teacher living in Sarasota, Florida. She has been practicing yoga since 1972 and studying with John Friend as her primary teacher since 1994. Betsey is the Director of Garden of the Heart Yoga Center in Sarasota, Florida and she teaches workshops to teachers and students nationally and internationally. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Interview with Suzie Hurley</title>
		<link>http://www.ihanuman.com/features/interview-with-suzie-hurley/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ihanuman.com/features/interview-with-suzie-hurley/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Dec 2007 03:47:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Suzie Hurley is a certified Senior Anusara Yoga Teacher and Director of the Willow Street Yoga Center in Takoma Park, Maryland. In this interview, Suzie shares with us her fated journey from student to teacher and her early beginnings as a reluctant teacher at Pope Airforce Base in Fayetteville, NC. Suzie has been a student [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is Anusara Yoga?</title>
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		<comments>http://www.ihanuman.com/betseydowning/what-is-anusara-yoga/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2007 13:01:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsey Downing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anusara means "flowing with Grace" or "following your heart." Developed by John Friend, Anusara is a style of hatha yoga that encompasses the physical, mental, and spiritual dimensions of yoga. Anusara Yoga is an exceptionally therapeutic system because it is founded on Universal Principles of Alignment that bring the body into balance. This specific alignment [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Living with Virtuosity</title>
		<link>http://www.ihanuman.com/betseydowning/living-with-virtuosity/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ihanuman.com/betseydowning/living-with-virtuosity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Nov 2007 22:07:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsey Downing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Tantric Philosophy that underlies Anusara Yoga is a philosophy of intrinsic Goodness. The absolute essence of everything is Supreme Consciousness that pulsates with pure Goodness. Out of its infinite freedom, Supreme Consciousness chooses to limit itself by becoming embodied as the material universe in order that it may enjoy the experience of diversity. Living [...]]]></description>
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		<title>False Ceilings</title>
		<link>http://www.ihanuman.com/betseydowning/false-ceilings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2007 13:02:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsey Downing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Six Years ago I attended an Intermediate/Advanced Yoga Workshop taught by John Friend in Utah. We practiced all kinds of challenging and unusual poses, as well as the more typical postures. One day John had me demonstrate Adho Mukha Vrksasana, the Handstand Pose. I love this pose and have practiced it for years. However, he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Most Honorable Profession</title>
		<link>http://www.ihanuman.com/suziehurley/a-most-honorable-profession/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Oct 2007 20:06:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suzie Hurley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I first began teaching yoga in 1981, yoga wasn't exactly entrenched in the mainstream as it is now. I had been meditating for four years and doing asana out of a book daily. There was never a thought about becoming a yoga teacher, as I had four children, ages 7-14, and it was all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yoga and Seva in the Sacred Valley of Peru</title>
		<link>http://www.ihanuman.com/journal/2007/03/29/yoga-and-seva-in-the-sacred-valley-of-peru/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ihanuman.com/journal/2007/03/29/yoga-and-seva-in-the-sacred-valley-of-peru/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2007 03:03:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anusara Yoga teacher Tanya Beilke is leading a Yoga and Seva Retreat May 10-19 to the Sacred Valley in Peru. While there the retreat participants will be volunteering at Casa de Milagros (House of Miracles), a home for orphaned and abandoned children. Tanya is currently working to raise money and supplies needed to complete a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Philisophical Perspectives</title>
		<link>http://www.ihanuman.com/betseydowning/philisophical-perspectives/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ihanuman.com/betseydowning/philisophical-perspectives/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2005 22:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsey Downing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[See God in yourself and see God in others”. When I heard this from meditation teacher Swami Muktananda in the 70’s it was a revolutionary concept to me. However, something deep inside resonated with this teaching and I felt especially uplifted. It felt like a way to connect with the best in myself and with [...]]]></description>
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