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While on her way to teach a yoga retreat in March 2014, Rachel Brathen collapses at an airport, brought to her knees by excruciating stomach pains. She is rushed to the hospital on the tiny island of Bonaire and hours later forced to undergo surgery. When she wakes up from anesthesia, her boyfriend is weeping at her bedside. While Rachel was struck down with seemingly mysterious pain, her best friend, Andrea, sustained fatal injuries as a result of a car accident. Rachel and Andrea had a magical friendship.

Yoga Beyond Belief offers a unique vision of contemporary yoga. It integrates scientific and practical approaches providing a much-needed integrative perspective that complements existing yoga books for all levels and styles of yoga students. Serving up a collection of valuable insights gleaned from a lifetime of exploration, practice, study, and teaching by one of America’s pioneering and leading teachers of yoga, the book assists listeners in making sense of the many discordant claims and teaching techniques that currently exist in the yoga world.

This book shows you how to get more clients and generate referrals.

The marathon…. A word to strike fear into the hearts of all weekend runners; a challenge like no other. And you've just signed up. Bugger. But never fear, you are not alone. The Grit Doctor is back with a vengeance and she's determined to whip you into shape. With the Run Fat Bitch Run Marathon Plan you'll Find the motivation to transform yourself from casual jogger to elite(ish) athlete. Create simple training plans to help you increase distance, stamina and speed. Cook fuss-free, tasty food which will provide all the nutrition your aching body needs. Twenty-six miles? Bring It On.

Dans 9 cas sur 10, c'est parce qu'on gère mal son stress qu'on grossit. Ou qu'on ne maigrit pas. C'est à cause du stress que l'on grignote, que l'on craque pour une tablette de chocolat, une glace ou un gâteau. Voici la seule méthode corps-esprit pour maigrir, basée sur une technique de gestion du stress ultrasimple et ultraperformante : la cohérence cardiaque. Grâce à elle, des dizaines de milliers de personnes ont retrouvé la ligne et l'équilibre. Avec la cohérence cardiaque, suivre un régime n'est pas indispensable !

Little synthesizes years of integrated study in classical yoga, Sanskrit, Buddhist studies, somatic practices, anatomy, massage, and trauma healing, and offers a multifaceted and holistic perspective on yoga practice. He shares his struggles and joys as a yogi and chronicles the transformation of his understanding and practice along the way. Each chapter is a lesson, and he includes companion practices such as poses, reflections, meditations, and explorations to help you embody the teachings. Little weaves together poetic metaphor, clear instruction, compassion, and humor.

In this captivating book, neuroscientist Shane O'Mara invites us to marvel at the benefits walking confers on our bodies and brains, and to appreciate the advantages of this uniquely human skill. From walking's evolutionary origins, traced back millions of years to life forms on the ocean floor, to new findings from cutting-edge research, he reveals how the brain and nervous system give us the ability to balance, weave through a crowded city, and run our "inner GPS" system.

This breakthrough audiobook delivers to you over 10 hours of the very best recordings of Om chanting meditation music to take your meditation and yoga sessions to the next level. Listening to these healing and almost hypnotic sounds will take you on a journey of peacefulness and calm.

The Yoga Sutras of Patañjali is a collection of Sanskrit sutras (aphorisms) on the theory and practice of yoga - 195 sutras (according to Vyāsa and Krishnamacharya) and 196 sutras (according to other scholars including BKS Iyengar). The Yoga Sutras was compiled in the early centuries CE, by the sage Patanjali in India who synthesized and organized knowledge about yoga from much older traditions.

A smart and refreshingly brilliant running book designed for the all-too-often overlooked middle-of-the-pack runner, written by Marathon Talk’s Martin Yelling and Anji Andrews. Welcome to the midpack! Running pushes us, stretches us, asks us difficult questions, challenges us. It gives us space, calms us down, picks us up, boosts our energy, rewards, inspires and fulfils us.

This is an introduction to the amazing world of krav maga, a self-defense option unlike any other! In Krav Maga: Easy and Quick Guide to Self-Defense, you'll learn about this comprehensive self-defense technique. Learn about the history behind krav maga, its origins, and how it grew to be an international phenomenon. Krav maga was created for the military but has been adapted for civilians. No matter your walk of life, krav maga is an option for you!

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 not kept pace.

It's never too late to change how you think, feel, and look.

Dans "Maigrir par la méthode Okinawa : Les secrets pour vivre en forme jusqu'à 100 ans et plus" - un ouvrage spécialement conçu pour aller à l'essentiel et maximiser vos résultats - vous découvrirez avec délectation qu'il ne faut pas nécessairement chambouler votre façon de manger ou faire preuve d'une discipline de fer, digne de l'armée pour perdre du poids, atteindre et maintenir votre poids idéal et "péter la forme". C'est toute la magie du régime Okinawa.

How to build muscle and burn fat … without morphing into a big, bulky bodybuilder. Have you failed to get in great shape after weeks and months of going to the gym? Do you lack confidence in the gym, feel too weak, or feel self-conscious about the current shape of your body? Are you put off lifting weights because you don’t want to end up with the bulky, overgrown bodybuilder look? No need to worry. This book is all about strength training NOT bodybuilding - and yes there is a difference.

You are never too old to pick up a gym habit or sculpt your dream body! The book Fitness over 50 will show you how to improve your fitness levels in no time!

Never mind the high-profile cases of athletes Marion Jones and Lance Armstrong. Steroids and other pharmaceuticals are being sold and consumed in life-threatening quantities online and through the backrooms of gyms and fitness centres, and the people buying them range from teen girls trying to look good on Instagram to middle-aged men who can't say goodbye to their youthful physiques. This is a vivid, eye-opening and compassionate journey alongside a young doctor as he discovers an underworld of misinformation and misdirected ambition, drug abuse and lives cut short.

There’s so much more to teaching yoga than doing yoga - from building a relationship with a studio (or opening your own) to navigating client relationships, publicizing classes, and avoiding burnout. Sage Rountree has been training yoga teachers for over a decade, and she’s heard the same concerns over and over: How can I help my students best? How can I keep my teaching fresh? How can I make smart choices around my schedule, my money, and the next steps in my career? The Professional Yoga Teacher’s Handbook speaks directly to these concerns in a warm, friendly voice.

In her first book, popular runner blogger Amanda Brooks lays out the path to finding greater fulfillment in running for those who consider themselves "middle of the pack runners" - they're not trying to win Boston (or even qualify for Boston); they just want to get strong and stay injury-free so they can continue to enjoy running.

Have you ever thought why every workout you have ever done stopped at the neck? Or wondered why traditional yoga calms the mind, tones the body but forgets the face? Are you looking for a natural way to look and feel younger and healthier? Danielle Collins, TV's face yoga expert, believes we should all have the opportunity to look and feel the very best we can for our age and to care for our face, body, and mind using natural and holistic techniques. Her method requires just five minutes a day and could not be easier to get started.