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		<title>California Yoga Co&#8217;s Brian Monnier on the Competitive Biz and Restorative Powers of Yoga</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Oct 2010 20:27:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brian Monnier is the proprietor of San Francisco-based California Yoga Company. He took some time to chat with Osmosis Online about his path to becoming a yoga practitioner, teacher, and eventually hanging up his own shingle. He shares that the business of yoga in San Francisco is especially competitive, and discusses the challenges, and rewards of running a small business. Osmosis Online: So I may as well disclose to the meager readership up front that we were on high school swim and water polo teams together half a lifetime ago. So I know you were always an athletic, energetic guy &#8212; but at what point did the transition into becoming a yoga practitioner come in? Brian Monnier: Ah the water polo days! Gotta love those endless egg-beater drills and morning workouts! I actually started doing yoga as result of injuries sustained through my years of Martial arts. I had been getting a tons of seemly small tweaks during workouts. One day, I went to stand up and my knee buckled in pain. My lower back also around the same time was really in a bad state. Going to the doctor, he recommended surgery. Not being able to afford it, I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From Grape Seeds Come Beauty&#8211;and a Business: A Chat with The Grapeseed Co.&#8217;s Kristin Fraser Cotte</title>
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		<title>Cracking the Vault: What You Can Do About Big Banks and the Financial Crisis, Part II</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Given the very public actions of the big banks, and the subsequent fallout, is it at all surprising that people are moving their money? And can doing so send a message to the big banks?]]></description>
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