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		<title>Veterans Yoga Project Formally Joins Global War on Terrorism Memorial Foundation’s Johnny Micheal Spann Ally Program</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[VYP Family Spotlight: Robert Sturman Written By: Laura Diekema Robert Sturman was born and raised in Los Angeles, CA. He is the son of a veteran, his father serving as [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Our Why: A Veteran&#8217;s Story &#8220;Yoga is for women. It is not something I ever really put any thought into. It is for the soccer moms to get together once [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jan 2022 00:28:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by permission from&#160;The International Association of Yoga Therapists.&#160;This article was originally published in&#160;Yoga Therapy Today. Only in an open, nonjudgmental space can we acknowledge what we are feeling. Only [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jan 2022 00:22:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[VYP Teachers talk about their Rituals of Self-care to Combat Compassion Fatigue Written By: Kristine Ringler, VYP BOD Veterans Yoga Project’s Mindful Resilience Training helps teachers better understand the symptoms [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Studio Spotlight: 18th Element Yoga in Colorado Springs Written By: Abby Rosmarin Imagine working for 60 hours straight. Imagine being a yoga teacher and being part of something that goes [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Veteran &#38; Teacher Profile: Mark BallingerA Marine&#8217;s Resilience after a Helo Crash Written By: Abby Rosmarin In 2011, everything in Mark’s life changed. A helicopter crash would affect him in [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jan 2022 23:07:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Veteran &#38; Teacher Profile: Why I Practice Yoga with a Community Nobody teaches you how to process your buddy’s suicide.  So I shoved all the emotions in. I buried them [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Veteran Profile: Darcie OIF II My name is Darcie and I’m an OIF II vet. I’m 37 and have been a middle school English teacher for the past eleven years. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Veteran &#38; Teacher Profile: Simone Groezinger Meet Simone! Simone M Groezinger is a yoga instructor and Veterans Yoga Project Ambassador in Germany. We spent time with her recently to learn [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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