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In this collection, expert Headspace mindfulness and meditation teachers guide you through seven 25-minute themed walks to help you connect with yourself and the world around you. Each walk is rooted in mindfulness-based stress reduction and other therapeutic techniques from Headspace’s teachers and mental health clinicians.

If you think that you have to retreat to a cave in the Himalayas to find the enlightenment that yoga promises, think again. In this second edition of Living Your Yoga, Judith Hanson Lasater stretches the meaning of yoga beyond its familiar poses and breathing techniques to include the events of daily life - all of them - as ways to practice. Using the time-honored wisdom of the Yoga Sutra and the Bhagavad Gita to steer the course, she serves up off-the-mat practices to guide you in deepening your relationships with yourself, your family and friends, and the world around you.

The yoga teacher’s guide to planning and sequencing yoga classes—with 67 yoga pose sequences for students of all skill levels. Also features additional resources, including yoga class planning worksheets, comprehensive glossaries, and much more! Addressing one of the most popular topics in...

Are you ready to revolutionize your daily stroll? Walking Your Way to Vitality introduces a fresh perspective on the world's most accessible form of exercise. Drawing from decades of experience in East Asian medicine and healthcare, the authors present six unique walking styles rooted in the time-honored concepts of qi, prana, tai chi, chi gong, and yoga.

"Lo Hatha Yoga": La concezione che solitamente gli occidentali hanno di uno yogi è quella di un uomo magro, mal nutrito, fiacco estenuato, che pensa pochissimo al cibo, che si sforza di restare il più a lungo possibile digiuno, che considera l'alimentazione una questione troppo materiale e troppo lontana dalla spiritualità alla quale tende. È una concezione questa, tanto comune quanto sbagliata. Un vero yogi considera la nutrizione come il primo dovere verso il proprio corpo, ha cura di mantenerlo sempre debitamente nutrito.

Research shows that increasing your muscle strength is the single most important thing you can do for your physical and mental health. This book shows you how--in just 30 minutes a day, once or twice a week--using the science-backed MSTF method. The mixed messages we’ve received about exercise...

The scientific evidence behind why maintaining a lifestyle more like that of our ancestors will restore our health and well-being. In Go Wild, Harvard Medical School Professor John Ratey, MD, and journalist Richard Manning reveal that although civilization has rapidly evolved, our bodies have...

The bestselling author of The Willpower Instinct introduces a surprising science-based book that doesn't tell us why we should exercise but instead shows us how to fall in love with movement. Exercise is health-enhancing and life-extending, yet many of us feel it's a chore. But, as Kelly...

In a fast-paced world where stress and anxiety have become the norm, Peace of Mind offers a deeply thoughtful, evidence-based exploration of what it truly means to be well. Blending the wisdom of mindfulness with the rigor of psychological science, this transformative guide takes readers on a journey from understanding the roots of well-being to cultivating lasting inner peace.

We all know what it's like to have a "charge" about something. It's a feeling of excitement, fear, sexual arousal, or irritation. But what we don't currently know is how to use charge for the behaviors we want to create.Charge is a word for the basic life force running through us. This force is...

Millions of Americans know yoga as a superb form of exercise and as a potent source of calm in the midst of our stress-filled lives. Far fewer are aware of the full promise of yoga as "the way of the fully alive human being" - a 4,000-year-old practical path of liberation that fits the needs of modern Western seekers with startling precision. Now Stephen Cope, a Western-trained psychotherapist who has lived and taught for more than 10 years at the largest yoga center in America, offers this marvelously lively and irreverent "pilgrim's progress" for today's world.

An indispensible resource for those interested in all forms of movement education, including yoga, pilates, dance, and more Somatic educator and writer Liz Koch has spent decades studying the principles of Core Awareness—a body-based approach to movement that utilizes attention to inner...

What does yoga have to do with caste, gender, and power? This groundbreaking work explores how yoga can be a vital path to resistance, agency, and collective liberation. Yoga as Embodied Resistance illuminates the essential—but often unseen—relationships between caste and gender in yoga...

Many of us think that we just aren't enough. Not good enough, not pretty enough, not rich enough, and not happy enough. But just because we think something doesn't mean it's true. YOU ARE MORE THAN YOU THINK YOU ARE teaches you how to revise your belief system, fulfill your deepest dreams and...

Find simple, soothing meditations designed to help you reset, breathe deeply, and reconnect with yourself. Guided by Jungle Mama K (Kaitlin), these practices support grounding, stress relief, and mindful living—no matter where you are in your day.

A trauma-informed approach to healing body and mind: an evidence-based yoga program for survivors, clinicians, and yoga teachers Research-backed and trauma-informed, this book introduces a yoga program that helps readers heal from the cognitive, emotional, and physiological symptoms of PTSD...

Twenty simple and effective tools to help you create and sustain a fulfilling and independent yoga practice that can seamlessly fit into your life. Too busy? Too stressed? Can't focus? But would you love to discover the power of regular practice? This audiobook is for you. The Book of Yoga Self-Practice is the ultimate guide for every aspiring yogi or dedicated student who wants to find the magic of an independent yoga self-practice - one that's simple, practical, captivating and attainable.

Journey to the heart of yoga with acclaimed teacher Rolf Gates Are you looking for deeper meaning in your yoga practice? In Meditations on the Mat, popular yoga teacher and trainer Rolf Gates shares a four-part audio program to bring you in touch with the heart of yoga. Through guided...

DESPRE AUDIOBOOK: Vizionar, mistic și yoghin, Sadhguru le prezintă cititorilor occidentali știința clasică a yoga. Practica hatha yoga este doar una dintre cele opt ramuri ale corpului de cunoștințe care este yoga. De fapt, yoga este un sistem sofisticat de împuternicire de sine, capabil să valorifice și să activeze energiile interioare în așa fel încât corpul și mintea ta să funcționeze la capacitate optimă. Este un mijloc de a crea situațiile interioare exact așa cum ți le dorești, transformându-te în arhitectul propriei bucurii.

Fight insomnia with simple yoga poses, meditations, and breathwork that will help you sleep better, longer—from a master yoga trainer and the author of Yoga Sequencing and Teaching Yoga. Although modern science has unraveled some of the mysteries of our sleeping, dreaming, and waking states...