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by Nina Needle and Ice by Melina Meza When a man has mastered himself, he is perfectly at ease in cold, in heat, in pleasure or pain, in honor or disgrace � Bhagavad Gita , trans. by Stephen Mitchell We get many comments on our blog, but every once in a while there is one that makes me feel sad, like this one, which one of our readers left on a post about menopause: This will certainly be relevant for me (65). Besides ongoing extreme irritability, yoga is not the joy it has always been for me because of joint stiffness and pain. What little stability I felt in life came from yoga, and feel that slipping away when I need it most. My first reaction to this was to write to Shari and suggest that she write about menopause and joint pain because I knew that she, too, was currently suffering from joint problems (see Yoga for Menopause: Joint Problems ). But even after ensuring that this topic was going to be addressed, I was concerned about the underlying issue: yoga is not the joy it has al...