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Amy Hassinger is a graduate of Barnard College and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She is the author of The Priest's Madonna (April 2006; $24.95US/$35.00CAN; 0-399-15317-9) and Nina: Adolescence. She teaches in the University of Nebraska's MFA Program in Creative Writing and lives in Illinois with her husband and daughter. For more information, please visit www.amyhassinger.com

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Learning to Let Go
I started practicing yoga nine years ago because I wanted to look sexy. I bought B.K.S. Iyengar's Light on Yoga, and taught myself the asanas, following his suggested courses in the appendix. Within a few months of regular practice, I could see and feel the results. I was strong, limber, and best of all, my stomach was flat -- a state it hadn't enjoyed since puberty. I was an immediate convert. But a convert to the sport of yoga, not its practice. I treated yoga almost exclusively as an athle Read
By: Amy Hassinger | 27/04/2006 | Wellness