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		<title>Beginner&#8217;s Mind</title>
		<link>http://speakingpresence.com/2011/04/14/beginners-mind/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2011 13:54:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carla Kimball</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don’t know if I’m getting older and feeling my age, if my chronic injuries need special attention, or if part of me is just getting “lazy”, but lately, after 20 years of practicing yoga (with a 5 year stint as a teacher), I increasingly find myself drawn to beginner yoga classes. In these “easy” [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakingpresence.com&#038;blog=6257156&#038;post=848&#038;subd=speakingpresence&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Returning to the familiar</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Dec 2010 21:30:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carla Kimball</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Having just returned from a holiday visit with family, I&#8217;m well aware of how unsettling it can be to break out of the routines that are part of the normal patterns of our day-to-day life.  To help manage these kinds of disruptions, my yoga teacher this morning reminded us of the benefits of returning to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakingpresence.com&#038;blog=6257156&#038;post=789&#038;subd=speakingpresence&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What do fear of public speaking, trauma, and yoga have in common</title>
		<link>http://speakingpresence.com/2010/02/23/trauma-yoga/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 01:42:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carla Kimball</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[anxiety]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had a conversation with a colleague today about how much I incorporate yoga practices in the coaching I do with my public speaking clients and it reminded me of this article, which I wrote back in 2008.  I thought readers of this blog might be interested and so here it is: In 2008 I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakingpresence.com&#038;blog=6257156&#038;post=542&#038;subd=speakingpresence&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lessons from a lint filter, water bottle and electric toothbrush</title>
		<link>http://speakingpresence.com/2010/02/17/lessons/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 18:19:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carla Kimball</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Somehow, as much as I’m trying to slow down and simplify my life, I always seem to be in a hurry. Every time I do my laundry I’m reminded that hurrying through my tasks isn’t the most efficient way to get things done.  I always seem to want to quickly empty the lint filter in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakingpresence.com&#038;blog=6257156&#038;post=526&#038;subd=speakingpresence&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The yoga of public speaking</title>
		<link>http://speakingpresence.com/2009/12/16/the-yoga-of-speaking/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 17:41:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carla Kimball</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://speakingpresence.com/?p=437</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been a yoga practitioner for more than 20 years.  At one time I taught yoga.  I now take every opportunity I can to study with different yoga teachers from different traditions.  I do so to expand my experience of myself and to extend my ability to return to a state of inner quiet while [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakingpresence.com&#038;blog=6257156&#038;post=437&#038;subd=speakingpresence&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Speaking with both feet on the ground</title>
		<link>http://speakingpresence.com/2009/11/07/swbfotg/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 07:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carla Kimball</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Several weeks ago I gave a workshop on this topic with the intention of, for the first time, beginning to clarify what I mean by the phrase &#8220;embodied presence&#8221;.  Here is some of the thinking that went into the workshop. Where we put our attention, that&#8217;s where energy goes.  This is probably the core principle [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakingpresence.com&#038;blog=6257156&#038;post=396&#038;subd=speakingpresence&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Contemplative practices reduce anxiety</title>
		<link>http://speakingpresence.com/2009/04/04/contemplative-practices/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2009 16:55:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carla Kimball</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Several weeks ago, I gave a talk with Dr. Sara Lazar, neuroscientist and researcher at Mass General Hospital, a Harvard teaching hospital.  Sara&#8217;s research is centered on changes in brain structures that result from meditation and yoga. Her results are very interesting!  Basically they show that regular awareness (or contemplative) practices like yoga and meditation  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakingpresence.com&#038;blog=6257156&#038;post=302&#038;subd=speakingpresence&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Paying attention</title>
		<link>http://speakingpresence.com/2009/02/25/paying-attention/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 18:59:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carla Kimball</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Discovering presence]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was in yoga class this morning doing a posture in which I was paying most attention to the position of my upper body.  While in the posture, I suddenly became aware that I had no sense of what my left leg as doing&#8230; it was just hanging there without any awareness on my part [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakingpresence.com&#038;blog=6257156&#038;post=216&#038;subd=speakingpresence&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Find the haven of your back body&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://speakingpresence.com/2009/02/07/back-body/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Feb 2009 20:02:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carla Kimball</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The ability to step back, not get caught up in the fray, see the forest for the trees, is key for leaders in all capacities.  When the chaos of an emergent crisis grabs everyone&#8217;s attention, it is so easy to jump in with both feet.  All our attention gets pulled to the details of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakingpresence.com&#038;blog=6257156&#038;post=162&#038;subd=speakingpresence&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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