Fitness Health Spirituality

Common sense tells us that to lose weight, we must eat less and exercise more. But somehow we get stalled. We start on a weight-loss program with good intentions but cannot stay on track. Neither the countless fad diets, nor the annual spending of $50 billion on weight loss helps us feel better or lose weight. Too many of us are in a cycle of shame and guilt. We spend countless hours worrying about what we ate or if we exercised enough, blaming ourselves for actions that we can't undo.

Perpetually bored, anxious, fatigued, and overweight, modern society has failed to deliver the happiness it promised. The remedy, Jevan Pradas argues, is in a unique synthesis of a Paleolithic lifestyle and Buddhist meditation. A sprawling journey, featuring Jevan's adventures with naked Amazonian tribes and retreats with enlightened monks to learn the secrets of optimal well-being, The Awakened Ape will teach you how to achieve deep states of bliss. All while shaping your body into the fit and healthy animal millions of years of evolution programmed you to be.

Scholars have learned a lot more about the history of yoga in recent years, but their research can be hard to track down. Although their work is insightful, it is aimed more at specialists than at a general audience. The Truth of Yoga draws on many of their findings, presented in a format designed for practitioners. The aim is to highlight ideas on which listeners can draw to keep traditions alive in the 21st century.

With this handy little guide as your starting point, you will become an expert in the basics of Shakti and the Shakta tradition. Highly focused on the practical and the theoretical aspects of the Shakti, this book will teach you how to harness the power of Shakti to change your life for the better.

The Art of Vinyasa takes a unique look at Ashtanga yoga as meditation in motion that produces profound inner change. Two of the most well-respected teachers of the Ashtanga style of yoga, Richard Freeman and Mary Taylor, explore this rigorous practice not as a gymnastic feat but as a meditative form.

Award-winning rapper, producer, and champion of healthy living — Khnum Ibomu, widely known as ‘Stic’ from the revolutionary but gangsta hip-hop duo, dead prez, has inspired millions with his music and lifestyle. But he wasn’t always the people’s champ of healthy living in hip-hop.

Singing Bowl Meditation Bundle includes the best Tibetan sound for your mind and soul.This collection of singing bowl tracks gives you: a strong feeling of peace so you can distance yourself from the issues in your life, allowing you to rise above them; keys to melt the stress away from your mind; sounds that ring at just the right frequency to fill you with calm, peace, and intuition; and more....

We can do more with this life. We all know it, we all wish for it, but just how to do itthat eludes us. In his new book, A Life Worth Breathing, internationally renowned yoga teacher and spiritual philosopher Max Strom shows us the way. His groundbreaking book reaches past expected dogma in a language that is vital, inspired, and accessible. Strom leads us on a journey of self-discovery as we excavate our past in order to have a better understanding of our present.

Are you seeking out a healthy way to help yourself overcome eating issues or an eating disorder?Mindful Eating is the perfect book for you, packed with essential tips and tricks about how you can begin changing your diet for the better, and subsequently improve your life in the process.

Don't let a diagnosis of high cholesterol scare you. This easy-to-understand book uncovers a dynamically unique strategy for gaining control and living in vibrant, divine health naturally. Reclaim God's very best for you and get ready to win!

Whether you are looking to lose weight, trying to increase your strength and stamina, hoping to sharpen your mental edge, or seeking to go deeper within, Baron Baptiste can take you there. Baptiste Power Yoga isn't just the ultimate workout, it's the ultimate life transformation program.

Are you yearning for a profound sense of relaxation, but find it challenging to still your mind? Discover the transformative power of Yoga Nidra, a practice designed to guide you into deep states of restorative relaxation, effortlessly bridging the gap between wakefulness and sleep. Yoga Nidra is a unique meditation technique that invites your consciousness into the delicate moments just before sleep, allowing you to access a tranquil state that rejuvenates both mind and body.

Balance your body, mind, and spirit and heal yourself with your own hands using this clear, step-by-step guide to the practice of the ancient Japanese healing art of Jin Shin - written by a trained expert with nearly three decades of experience.

Becoming trim and healthy doesn't have to be difficult or painstaking anymore. After trying almost every fad diet out there, Serene Allison and Pearl Barrett, creators of the Trim Healthy Mama movement, took matters into their own hands. Through trial and error and much research, they created the Trim Healthy Mama Plan, the breakthrough lifestyle program to help people of all ages and stages get healthy, slim down, and keep off the weight once and for all.

Constipation literally divides a life into two parts: when you have it and when you don't. The book presents facts, not myths, about a disease that everyone seems to have but no one seems to know how to cure. It speaks frankly and honestly about the causes of constipation, its symptoms and its cure. It provides lessons learned from over 30 years in the human health field that dispel the mystery and doubt that surrounds the subject.

High blood pressure is one of the leading causes of disability or death due to stroke, heart attack, heart failure and kidney failure. After improving for a period of several years, the tables seem to have turned again. Now, even with the awareness and risks involved with this silent killer, high blood pressure continues to claim more lives and has become a serious problem. Nutrition and exercise are the keys to healthier living and Dr. Colbert explains how to make them work.

Kriya Yoga is an ancient system of meditation and yoga techniques that was first brought to the West in the late 1800s by Paramahansa Yogananda, a spiritual teacher from India. Kriya Yoga is often referred to as the “yoga of action” or “the path of karma yoga” because it is based on the principle that spiritual growth can only be achieved through selfless service and action. This easy-to-follow guide will teach you everything you need to know about Kriya Yoga, from the basic principles and history to the different techniques you can use to get the most out of this powerful spiritual tool.

Baron Baptiste—one of the world’s most beloved master yoga teachers—inspires us to transform more than body and mind. He also gives us the tools to set ourselves free to live the healthy life we’ve always imagined. In the next forty days, you will create a whole new way of being. By tapping ancient wisdom and based on his own personal experience, Baptiste has created a relevant and completely practical program that will lead you to the clarity of mind, body, and spirit that awaits on the other side of your revolution. Let the revolution begin now!

The tradition of the Himalayan sages that exists today is an unbroken chain that extends for more than 5,000 years. Undisturbed by the passage of time, this tradition is not concerned with teachings that apply only to a particular era of history or geographical region of the world - its entire emphasis is on the experience of the universal truth of who we are.

Both instructive and inspiring, Kriya Yoga: Spiritual Awakening for the New Age can be the spark showing the aspiring devotee both how and why to take up the lifelong practice of Kriya Yoga. Learn the pitfalls to look out for along the way, and how to reach ultimate success on your journey to self-realization.