Fitness Health Spirituality

In 2006, Abby Rike lost the life she knew and loved when her husband and two young children were killed in a car accident. Devastated and numb, she shut down. For nearly three years she walked through life like a spectre, present in body only. As she descended, so did her health. Fortunately, Abby was not alone. She had loving parents, supportive friends, and a faith that continued to sustain her. Little by little she found the courage to return to life. Joining The Biggest Loser proved a catalyst for the physical and emotional changes she needed to make.

Do you want a stress-free life? Americans are the most stressed people in the world - between 75 and 90 percent of all visits to primary-care physicians are due to stress-related disorders. New York Times best-selling author Dr. Don Colbert explains why this epidemic of stress is out of control as he exposes stress as the culprit behind many debilitating and killer diseases.

Seventy percent of us spend most of our days in a state of stress, with our nervous systems in a state of fight, flight or freeze. Modern day stress has become pervasive in all aspects of our lives through constant pressure, the weight of perceived expectations and the drive to be always on. Many live with an energy and nervous system that feels like a tightly clenched fist, rather than an easeful, gently unfurling hand.

Yoga for Beginners is the essential guide to getting started with yoga. This audiobook offers everything you need to start enjoying yoga's calming and strengthening effects on your life. Right from mudras to bandhas and breathing practices, one must master each step to gain complete control over one’s body.

Did you know you can transform your life and lose weight with meditation? When it comes to losing weight, you cannot afford to settle for the latest fad diet.

"Dr. Nick" shares the amazing eating plan that helped him shed 267 pounds, and keep them off. As a medical doctor who has personally struggled with his weight, Dr. Nick Yphantides can empathize with the plight of the overweight and offer a proven, medically safe plan for losing weight. In My Big Fat Greek Diet, he teaches readers the powerful 7 Pillars of Weight Loss.

Have you ever felt bad about not exercising? Do you find yourself jumping from one program to the next because it was either too hard or too boring? Written by a personal trainer, Move for Joy will help you stop starting over. By connecting your fitness journey with the joy of Jesus, this audiobook will help you and your clients put together a sustainable workout guide that supports your life, how you were made to move, and what you truly enjoy.

Collected by the author, these stories from the yoga and Zen traditions are the flint and steel that strike a spark that lights up the mind with insights that one should ponder to bring to light ever deeper meaning. They may be similar in intent to Zen koans - but they are rather different in content. In many Zen koans, someone says or does something extraordinarily inappropriate, which catches your attention just because it's extraordinary - but afterwards the light from them has to be applied to daily life.

Kundalini; Asanas; Kriya; Chakren. Und was genau hat es eigentlich mit der weißen Kleidung und dem Turban auf sich? Wenn Sie sich diese Frage schon länger stellen oder die zuvor genannten Begriffe nicht ganz zuordnen können – dann sind Sie hier genau richtig! Dieser Yoga-Stil ist auch unter "Yoga des Bewusstseins" oder "Yoga der Chakren und Energien" bekannt. Wenn Sie auf der Suche nach einem Yoga-Stil sind, bei dem hauptsächlich Ihr Körper definiert wird – dann muss ich Sie an dieser Stelle leider enttäuschen.

This audiobook, Rapid Weight Loss for Beginners, will help explain the ways you can lose weight based on your likings. There are different and efficient ways for how you can lose weight through meditation, dieting, and exercising. Even stretching can be a factor in weight loss.

Yoga as a way of life has been around for at least 5,000 years. That tenacity that cannot be denied. Yoga is more of a philosophy or a way of life than a religion or a physical practice. The term yoga signified "unity" in ancient India. It means coming together as a whole person, soul, body, and mind. Physical positions, also known as asanas, are used to bring about this connection, although asana is only one of several forms of yoga. Yoga is a natural complement to meditation because of the way its postures focus on the connection between the body and the mind.

Der Yoga-Ratgeber des Bestsellerautors. Deepak Chopra ist der wohl bekannteste amerikanisch-indische Ayurveda-Arzt und Autor zahlreicher Bücher zu Themen des ganzheitlichen Heilens. In seinen zahlreichen Vorträgen und seinen Werken, zu denen inzwischen auch literarische Erzählungen gehören, verbindet er östliche Weisheitslehren mit westlicher Wissenschaft. Chopra beschreibt Yoga als einen Weg zur geistigen Erneuerung. Grundlage der ausführlich beschriebenen Übungen sind dabei sieben Gesetze, aus denen sieben einfache Yogaübungen für die tägliche Praxis entwickelt wurden.

In Yogini’s Dilemma, certified yoga therapist and founder of the Yoga Mandala School Nicole Grant lays out the classical eight-faceted path and wisdom of yoga so that aspiring yoga teachers can better decide whether teaching yoga is for them. By mapping the relationship between body, mind, spirit, and culture, they will discover the tools needed to take the next steps with confidence and curiosity. Nicole draws from over two decades of dedicated yoga practice in the lineage of Sri T. Krishnamacharya to teach aspiring yoga teachers.

When American sociologist and wellness expert Tanya Pergola first visited Tanzania and Maasailand, she became startlingly aware that she was in a place and with people who could teach her something profound. She sensed that lodged within the colorful and beautiful rituals and ceremonies of the indigenous Maasai people were gems of wisdom that could be harvested and shared as antidotes for our increasingly complex, stressful, and often enigmatic modern lives.

This wonderful full-scale pocket guide from Earth Lodge beautifully illustrates and describes 36 mudras, or symbolic hand gestures, that you can use to align your spirit with your intentions and empower prayer. Mudras are used throughout the world in daily spiritual practices. Studies show that they have the same effect on the brain as language: when you use a mudra, you activate a specific thought or intent, and that thought carries energy, working like a radio signal to tune your vibration for fulfillment and manifestation.

By examining the chakras, their imbalances, and the symptoms that are associated with them, we will discover ways in which it is possible to restore their balance and help the body's natural flow of energy to return to its normal state.

"What is healing?" asks Catherine Carrigan as she begins this book. It is a question that resonates with all of us; at some time in our lives, we have all experienced pain, suffering, and feelings of isolation. But, as she writes, when we come to know ourselves from a deeper perspective - taking into account the great connectedness of humanity - we are able to access pathways of information and healing that unlock a whole new world for us.

The material world that we see with our eyes is a magnificent creation of God. All living beings coexist on this planet according to the laws of the nature. Among all the living beings, human beings are a wonderful creation of God. God has blessed humans with immense potential and unlimited powers. Have you realized the unlimited powers that you possess? Here you will learn many techniques to balance your mind, body, and spirit.

God’s desire for you is one of beauty, dignity, confidence, and strength from the inside out. Your true essence should come from the knowledge of who you are in Christ, not from a manufacturer’s label. And your hope should not be put in the sizes hanging in the back of your closet. Grace for Your Waist is not just another “howa-to” book. It’s a deeper look at how God’s grace and hope, applied and fitted for your life, can dress you for spiritual success. Janelle offers a transparent look inside her own personal closet of people-pleasing, rejection, and fear.

This book gives practical steps to show you how to ditch traditional diets and step into your personal forever lifestyle change plan. Many ask, “Is weight loss possible for me?” Teresa Shields Parker’s answer may surprise you. “It is possible, but only if you don’t go on another diet!” Teresa has lost over 250 pounds and kept it off since 2013. She says lasting change happens when we go through God’s process.