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		<title>John Friend, Head of Anusara: The Accusations</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:39:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[More trouble in Anusaraland. Let's pause for a moment. Take a deep breath. Because this is some heavy shit. An anonymous tipster has sent us info that could potentially muddy the shiny, happy, image of John Friend and Anusara Inc., and shed some light on the recent flurry of exits by some of the brand's foremost teachers like Elena Brower and Amy Ippoliti.]]></description>
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		<title>Yoga Beefs: Ganesha Yoga Mat Recalled for &#8216;Inappropriate&#8217; Use of Hindu Deity</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:06:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems not everyone is pleased about your stinky toes rolling over Ganesha to Down Dog. This yoga beef time pits the very vocal president of the Universal Society of Hinduism Rajan Zed vs. Santa Monica based personalized mat biz Yogamatic. Zed wrote a letter to the mat company Jan. 27 declaring the use of Lord Ganesha's image on a yoga mat to be "inappropriate" asking for immediate recall, and comparing it to a mat with the image of Jesus Christ.]]></description>
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		<title>Hot Mess: Bikram Sues Yoga to the People for $1 Million</title>
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		<comments>http://www.yogadork.com/news/hot-mess-bikram-sues-yoga-to-the-people-for-1-million/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 19:52:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bikram is pissed. And when Bikram is pissy, you can bet he&#8217;s suey! The beef between B-Don and Yoga to the People went public a few months ago with the closure of a Penn Station Bikram Yoga location and the subsequent slinging of blame in the direction of YTTP in public letter form. The story&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yoga and Harry Potter &#8216;Evil&#8217; Satanic &#8216;Magic&#8217;, Says Chief Vatican Exorcist</title>
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		<comments>http://www.yogadork.com/news/yoga-and-harry-potter-evil-satanic-magic-says-chief-vatican-exorcist/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Nov 2011 22:08:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[And then we learned our sun salutations were dancing us straight on the prana express to the hot blazeballs of hell. Thanks to 85-year-old Father Gabriel Amorth, the president of the International Association of Exorcists, who has warned us of fiery flames of eternal damnation in his claim that yoga and Harry Potter are &#8220;magic&#8221; and &#8220;the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bikram Beef with Yoga to the People, &#8216;Directly Copying&#8217; a &#8216;Disrespect&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Aug 2011 20:32:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BEEF! Uh oh. Bikram may have his legal team under lockdown once again. The offender? Yoga to the People, the often mat-to-mat packed and sweaty yoga studio touting &#8220;no glorified teachers, scripts or pedestals&#8221;  with multiple locations around NYC, as well as West Coast. And they wrote it in a letter, to the people. Apparently the beef came [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BKS Iyengar Says Ramdev &#8216;Short Cut&#8217; Style Corrupting Yoga</title>
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		<comments>http://www.yogadork.com/news/bks-iyengar-says-ramdev-short-cut-style-corrupting-yoga/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2011 21:24:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(above: BKS Iyengar hanging loose) And then Iyengar says to Ramdev &#8220;knock it off with the kapalbhati peddling, compadre. Capice?!&#8221; Actually, that&#8217;s not true. What BKS Iyengar did say on Tuesday, speaking to a group of Chinese yoga enthusiasts (in China), was that those who &#8221;sell programmes like kapalbhati&#8221; are basically corrupting Patanjali&#8217;s yoga. The 93-year-old Guruji [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shiva Rea to Critics: &#8220;Skimpy is Ridiculous. I am a student like everyone else.&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.yogadork.com/news/shiva-rea-to-critics-skimpy-is-ridiculous-i-am-a-student-like-everyone-else/</link>
		<comments>http://www.yogadork.com/news/shiva-rea-to-critics-skimpy-is-ridiculous-i-am-a-student-like-everyone-else/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2011 20:38:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shiva Rea speaks up in response to last week&#8217;s media tour of Trance Dance slam fest. Choosing facebook to publicly, semi-unofficially respond, Shiva gives her take on her experience at Rishikesh and thoughts on the definition of &#8220;skimpy&#8221;. We&#8217;re glad she took the time and believe it&#8217;s fair to hear from the Shakti goddess herself. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shiva Rea Gets Slammed for Flow &#8216;Just a Show&#8217; at Indian Yoga Festival</title>
		<link>http://www.yogadork.com/news/shiva-rea-gets-slammed-for-flow-just-a-show-at-indian-yoga-festival/</link>
		<comments>http://www.yogadork.com/news/shiva-rea-gets-slammed-for-flow-just-a-show-at-indian-yoga-festival/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Mar 2011 19:15:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;This is not yoga, it&#8217;s just a show, but to succeed in California, this is what they have to do.&#8221; Austrian yoga teacher Florian Palzinsky, 42, groaning in response to Shiva Rea&#8217;s short-shorts &#8220;writhing&#8221; in Yoga Trance Dance at the International Yoga Festival in Rishikesh. According to reports, some 20 peeved practitioners, not feeling the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Branding Yoga, Branding India: More Commentary on Yoga and Hinduism Connection</title>
		<link>http://www.yogadork.com/news/branding-yoga-branding-india-more-commentary-on-yoga-and-hinduism-connection/</link>
		<comments>http://www.yogadork.com/news/branding-yoga-branding-india-more-commentary-on-yoga-and-hinduism-connection/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 2010 20:09:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[UPDATED: Further commentary on the Hindu American Foundation&#8217;s &#8220;Take Yoga Back&#8221; Campaign, and Yoga history and connection with religion in general -  from authors Stefanie Syman, Mark Singleton, Deepak Chopra, and Hindu American Foundation co-founder, Suhag A. Shukla, Esq. Via Times of India Op-Ed &#8211; &#8220;Yoga&#8217;s appeal is universal&#8221; Yoga gives cultural weight to Brand [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pastor Mark Driscoll: Yoga is for Demons, and We&#8217;re All Going to Hell</title>
		<link>http://www.yogadork.com/news/pastor-mark-driscoll-yoga-is-for-demons-and-were-all-going-to-hell/</link>
		<comments>http://www.yogadork.com/news/pastor-mark-driscoll-yoga-is-for-demons-and-were-all-going-to-hell/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Oct 2010 17:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wowy wow. Behold one of the boldest anti-yogevangelist claims yet! We&#8217;ve recently seen public condemning of yoga practice by big bopper Southern Baptist Albert Mohler,  who&#8217;s convinced that yoga could be breathe its way into replacing Christianity! But holy Jesus ravioli, are we yogadorks actually yoga&#8230;demons? Pastor Mark Driscoll, an indisputable megachurch superstar in Seattle, [...]]]></description>
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