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	<title>The Naga Center-School of Traditional Thai Massage and Medicine, and Community Thai Massage Clinic-Portland, OR</title>
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		<title>Contemplating Thai Massage Regulation in the U.S.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 19:09:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve done deep tissue Swedish massage for 17 years.  I mean really deep, no fluff and buff stuff here.  But it doesn’t come close to Thai massage.  Nothing I’ve seen does.  It’s yoga and Rolfing® and acupressure and tapotment and chiropractics and Reiki and deep compression work and myofacial release and hydrotherapy with herbs and the power of spirit, all rolled into one.]]></description>
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		<title>Giving Back: The Responsibility of Cultural Appropriation</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 19:07:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Some oh, fifteen or twenty odd years ago I read a line in a book that I never forgot; it said &#8220;with cultural appropriation comes responsibility&#8221;.  That sentence wedged itself inside of me such that when I began to study Thai massage it was there to whisper to me and help guide my approach [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Healing the Practitioner with Thai Massage</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 19:06:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I began my study of massage 17 years ago, when I was 21 years old.  My first love was Swedish deep tissue and I quickly became adept at the art of penetrating down into the knots of flesh and stress.  For the first handful of years, being young and indestructible, I paid little if any [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wai Khru:  An In Depth Examination</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 19:05:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a long and detailed article about the Thai healing arts Wai Khru ceremony. &#160; “It is considered of utmost importance in the Thai tradition to have a teacher and to be initiated into the tradition,” says my teacher.  “And to always honor and bring to mind our teachers, and those who have come [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Traditional Payment: Understanding Donations</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 19:04:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>roo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dana is a gift joyfully given.  It is the art of voluntary donation.  In Buddhism it is in Dana that we find the heart of the symbiotic relationship between the Sangha and the layperson.  The Sangha cannot exist without the support of the householders; through donations of food, clothing and other necessities; and the householder’s spiritual [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Authenticity</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 19:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>roo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; The old man from the Village must be somewhere in his late eighties.  He is made of seventy-two thousand wrinkles.  After the bowing, the offerings and the request, I become the first western student he has ever accepted.  His massage style is rough and loving at the same time.  He says things like “this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sen Lines and Lysol</title>
		<link>http://www.nagacenter.org/2011/06/27/sen-lines-and-lysol/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2011 14:56:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was vegetarian by the time I was nine years old, and a massage therapist by the time I was twenty-one.  I don&#8217;t even remember choosing organic, organic just is.  So when I was in my late twenties and a friend watching me clean my house said &#8220;Nephyr, why are you using all that toxic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dana &#8211; the art of voluntary donation</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2011 08:10:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nephyr</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dana Dana is a gift joyfully given.  It is the art of voluntary donation.  In Buddhism it is in Dana that we find the heart of the symbiotic relationship between the Sangha and the layperson.  The Sangha cannot exist without the support of the householders; through donations of food, clothing and other necessities; and the householder’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Goodbye Massage Table: with a heart twinge</title>
		<link>http://www.nagacenter.org/2011/04/09/goodbye-massage-table-with-a-heart-twinge/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nagacenter.org/2011/04/09/goodbye-massage-table-with-a-heart-twinge/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Apr 2011 09:49:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nephyr</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My first massage table was handmade by a guy named Perry.  I know his name was Perry because on the bottom of the table there is a picture of a pear followed by the letter E.  The hunters green vinyl is covered in cracks now, and I gave up table work years ago, but still [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where is the Theory</title>
		<link>http://www.nagacenter.org/2011/03/15/where-is-the-theory/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2011 14:41:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nephyr</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[thai yoga massage]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I find people frequently saying that Thai massage either has no medical theory behind it, or that the theory is all Indian or Chinese.  While it is true that India and China share some theory with Thailand, it is not correct to simply say that Thai theory is in fact Chinese, or Indian.  Thailand has [...]]]></description>
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