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After teaching courses on marriage and family relations for 40 years, it’s clear to Russ Crescimanno that most couples don’t have a clue on how to compromise. There is, he says, a science to love and intimacy, and many rocky marriages could thrive if couples would just practice some core principles. Also: While close to 20 million people practice Yoga in America, very few know the true purpose of the regimen popularly viewed as a means for improving bodily and psychological wellbeing. In translating ancient Sanskrit texts, professor Graham Schweig has discovered the “secret of Yoga,” revealing astonishing and little known facts.
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"Achieving Love and Intimacy in Marriage"
[Music: That’s the Story of Love]
This time of year a lot of us are choosing gifts for people we love. But sometimes the gift that’s hardest to give is of ourselves. The holidays can tear couples apart. And instead of enjoying each other, too often we find ourselves feeling overwhelmed. I’m Sarah McConnell and today on With Good Reason, a marriage and family expert tells us many marriages in danger of falliung apart could actually thrive if more of us learned that there is an art to love and intimacy.
Later on today’s show, with all the emphasis on becoming supple and fit, its easy to forget that Yoga is an ancient spiritual practice:
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But first, Russ Crescimanno is a professor emeritus at Piedmont Virginia Community College. He’s been teaching a course on “Marriage and Family Relations” for 40 years and has recently published...
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Lorraine Romero
Posted on February 22, 2010 at 10:55 PM | Permalink
Yearning for more
The first interview was so interesting I was wishing there was more.