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Drawing on modern neuroscience, ancient wisdom, and decades of practice and teaching, Eddie Stern’s One Simple Thing, with a foreword from Deepak Chopra, explains how what we do affects who we become, and reveals how a steady routine of physical movements, activities, and attitudes are able to transform not just our bodies but our brain functions and emotions, and how we experience life.

Kundalini energy is something that we can all tap into and use to help us reach our fullest potential. It is a vital power source within each of us, ready to be used if we are willing to unlock it through meditation and self-reflection. As we move through the chapters in this book, you’ll learn how to activate and control your Kundalini energy as you go through the different stages of awakening.

Regain your independence, mobility, balance, and achieve weight loss in just 10 minutes a day with a straightforward 28-day program—all from the comfort of your chair! Are you over 60 and seeking an accessible, low-impact exercise routine that could restore your mobility, independence, and zest for life? Have you ever felt overwhelmed by conventional fitness methods, scared about injuries, or given up on your physical fitness due to limited mobility or chronic pain?

Mom and yoga teacher Sarah Ezrin offer 34 practices to find more presence, patience, and acceptance—with your child and with yourself. Each chapter highlights a yogic posture and theme and explores how it relates to parenting, including presence, boundaries, balance, and nonattachment. Chapters include prompts such as intention setting, breathwork, and journaling. Ezrin also features the stories and insights of a wide range of yoga practitioner parents whose experiences include single parenting, grandparenting, and passing on intergenerational yoga traditions.

In Sanskrit, yoga means to “yoke.” To yoke mind and body, movement and breath, light and dark, the good and the bad. This larger idea of “yoke” is what Jessamyn Stanley calls the yoga of the everyday—a yoga that is not just about perfecting your downward dog but about applying the hard lessons learned on the mat to the even harder daily project of living. In a series of deeply honest, funny autobiographical essays, Jessamyn explores everything from imposter syndrome to cannabis to why it’s a full-time job loving yourself, all through the lens of yoke.

Kundalini awakenings can have profound physical, emotional, and mental effects, making it difficult to cope with everyday life, yet these powerful awakenings can also allow you to release past trauma, see past the illusions of the false self, and awaken your spiritual heart, enabling you to recognize the divine self. In this step-by-step guide to the three-phase process of Kundalini awakening, Mary Shutan delivers practical information on how to deal with such a spiritual emergence in our modern world.

Dr. Steven Laureys has conducted groundbreaking research into human consciousness for more than 20 years. For this best-selling book, he explores the effect of meditation on the brain. He uses hard science to explain the benefits of a practice that was once thought of as purely spiritual. The result is a highly accessible, scientifically questioning guide to meditation, designed to open the practice to a broader audience.

This book will teach you all you need to know to start practicing Yoga. It will teach you some fundamental skills for preparing your body, mind, and soul. It will also show you how to gradually develop the flexibility required for advanced postures - in a safe, steady manner (rushing things will not be advantageous in this kind of self-improvement endeavor as it will only lead to harm).

Learn the Bikram Hot Yoga Series from beginning to end in this well-detailed book. We start with a history of Bikram Choudhury and how he was sent to Japan in 1970 to teach the Ghosh Lineage of yoga and then soon after traveled to the United States and opened his first studio in 1973. We then go over some of the features and benefits of the Bikram Hot Yoga Series, along with a few precautions you should be mindful of before you start your practice. When you are done listening to this book, you will be ready to jump in and take your first hot yoga class.

Before he was one of the most well-known yoga teachers in North America and an international hip-hop artist, MC YOGI was a juvenile delinquent who was kicked out of three schools, sent to live at a group home for at-risk youth, arrested for vandalism, and caught up in a world of drugs, chaos, and carelessness. Through Technicolor stories of graffiti and guns, mystics and musicians, love, loss, and finding his soul's purpose, MC YOGI's journey is saturated in spiritual wisdom, illuminating the potential for transformation within us all.

Maren and Jamie Showkeir's unprecedented book brings into crisp focus the full range of yoga's rich, transformational benefits. Based on the traditional Eight Limbs of Yoga (the postures, or asanas, are only one limb), it offers straightforward, practical suggestions on how to integrate yoga's ancient philosophy and beautiful spiritual principles into the modern workplace. They explain each of yoga's tenets and show how a broad, steadfast practice leads to a productive, creative, and energizing work environment.

Feeling stiff and stagnant? Reclaim your mobility and well-being with the 28-Day Chair Yoga Challenge for Men.

With Transitory Nature, radical Buddhist and spiritual guide Sue Hunt walks listeners through a nine-month Consciousness Design Process to dismantle Binary Worldview and challenge existing hierarchies of power. From our interactions with our inner selves, to how we interface with both the public sphere and our own intergenerational inheritance and cultural programming, Hunt shows how liberation lies in stepping into the contemplative vision of self and surrounding reality which she terms “non-binary worldview".

In India, both yoga and cannabis are considered gifts from the Hindu god Shiva. They are seen as twin currents of wisdom and enlightenment, allies for healing and consciousness expansion. As ethnobotanist and yogi Chris Kilham explains, when wisely and thoughtfully combined, cannabis and yoga offer profound benefits for body, mind, and spirit. Kilham examines the history and lore of both cannabis and yoga, with a special focus on the role of cannabis in Indian and Himalayan yoga traditions where it has been used for thousands of years.

Jacoby Ballard provides an empowering and affirming guide to embodied healing through yoga and the dharma, grounded in the brilliance, resilience, and lived experiences of queer folks.

This is the inspiring autobiography of one man’s quest for a more peaceful, spiritual approach to life. Spanning the years from his childhood in a remote village in India to his current role as spiritual head of the Himalayan Institute, this vivid account reveals his experiences and encounters with numerous teachers, sages, and his mentor, Swami Rama. Touched by Fire is a heartfelt book offering many valuable lessons.

André Van Lysebeth, un des enseignants les plus importants du yoga occidental, nous livre ses analyses et conseils inédits. Parmi les nombreux sujets abordés dans cet ouvrage : Le végétarisme sans dogme ni pression ; Le jeûne, une thérapeutique naturelle ; Prana et Apana, se nourrir de Prana ; Le soja transgénique ; L'importance du germe et des céréales ; Le procès du sucre industriel ; Maigrir en mangeant ; Groupes sanguins et diététique ; Cholestérol, mon ami ; Maigrir, la méthode de Swami Sarasvati.

Le Yoga Nidra et la méditation sont des méthodes douces permettant de contrebalancer l'agitation quotidienne. La régularité de la pratique du Yoga Nidra réduit significativement le stress, l'anxiété, la détresse psychologique, la fatigue jusqu'à redonner au corps son état paisible et équilibré. Il améliore la qualité du sommeil et renforce le système immunitaire. C’est un véritable voyage vers la paix intérieure.

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 highly insightful audiobook, the author gives a thorough relook into the actual underlying principles of yoga and presents yoga in terms of simple, practical, and down-to-earth instructions free of mysticism, while analyzing each aspect scientifically based on recent advancements in neuroscience.