Wellness Yoga

This comprehensive history sets yoga in its global cultural context for the first time. It leads us on a fascinating journey across the world, from arcane religious rituals and medieval body-magic, through muscular Christianity and the British Raj, to the Indian nationalist movement and the arrival of yoga in the 20th-century West. We discover how the practice reached its present-day ubiquity and how it became embedded in powerful social currents shaping the world's future.

Recovery from active addiction is a lifelong journey that can take many paths. By aligning yoga philosophy and poses with each of the 12 steps, Kyczy Hawk presents a physical and spiritual guide that complements and augments any 12-step practice. Listeners will investigate how they think, feel, and believe by using a new vocabulary to process traditional recovery principles.

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.

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).

Life with Breath is a journey in discovering the mind-body relationship that is linked through breath and how this serves as a basis for reducing stress, improving health and well-being, building resilience, improving performance, and transforming negative habitual patterns of behavior. Specifically, yoga breathing. Traditionally called, Pranayama. A "life with breath” is a journey into re-uniting oneself with oneself. It’s a self-care routine to live in harmony with the body’s natural cycles and rhythms for optimal health and well-being.

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.

Yoga is a philosophy of life and a systematic science that enables us to realize our true nature and experience our union with the Divine. Inner Quest weaves together hundreds of answers to the questions that well up from within our heart as we travel the spiritual path. Topics include: reincarnation, relationships, karma, death and dying, understanding the mind, health and healing, meditation, and more.

Although modern science has unraveled some of the mysteries of our sleeping, dreaming, and waking states and age-old yoga practices are helping us enjoy better sleep, clearer minds, and healthier bodies, over 65 percent of U.S. adults are still sleep deprived. Sleep deprivation causes and aggravates ailments like stress, heart conditions, high blood pressure, obesity, and depression. Master yoga teacher, trainer, and best-selling author Mark Stephens provides easy-to-do, effective yoga activities for better sleep, no matter your age.

For the millions of Americans whose digestive disorders fail to respond to conventional medical treatments, Dr. Chopra offers an alternative approach based upon the principles of Ayurvedic medicine. Among the topics covered are the relationship between emotions and intestinal functions, biological rhythms and neuromuscular integration, and the importance of diet.

Pantajali's Yoga Sutras have long been recognized as infallible guides to discovering the eternal joy and ultimate freedom that the great masters declare to be the birthright of every human being. In The Practice of the Yoga Sutra: Sadhana Pada, Pandit Tigunait elaborates on Patanjali's succinct and straightforward plan to transcend pain and embrace lasting happiness.

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!

If you are searching for a form of yoga that gives you a toned body, better control over your thoughts, better management of your emotions, and a road to attain spiritual liberation, try Ashtanga yoga. As you continue with your asanas, or postures, you will notice yourself to be calmer. Your mind will quieter and stiller, and you will start living a more spiritual, healthier, and complete life

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.

Although many forms of trauma treatment rely solely on talk therapy as a means of healing, we cannot "talk out" every issue related to trauma. Indeed, trauma is stored in the body and the brain and must be treated as such. Designed with both mental health clinicians and clients in mind, Trauma-Informed Yoga offers forty-seven short, simple practices that regulate the autonomic nervous system, calm the racing mind, and center those of us living chaotic twenty-first century lives.

Sri Swami Rama teaches that holistic health depends on answering two questions: “What is the purpose in life?” and “How are you going to achieve that purpose?” Each of us already possesses the tools to regulate our own well-being, but through the wisdom in this book you can learn how to achieve optimum clarity and health through cleansing and nourishing, exercise and stillness, and understanding your emotions. A Practical Guide to Holistic Health is the perfect book for those who feel stuck, or are simply looking to improve the quality of their lives in a holistic way.

Do you struggle awakening your chakras? Do you want to create balance and harmony in your life? Do you want to learn about the seven locations and functions of each chakra? Do you want to heal your body's energy? If you do, this audiobook will help you to address these problems. Listen to these chakra healing scripts which can help you unlock the power, once and for all.

Schmerz-Auszeiten und innere Ruhe mit dem revolutionären Body-Coaching. Unerklärliche Dauerschmerzen, Erschöpfung, Unruhe: Schuld daran ist ein überlastetes Nervensystem – Millionen leiden darunter und schleppen sich mit akuten Beschwerden durch ihren Alltag. Die Lösung präsentiert Physiotherapeutin Julia Wohlfarth mit ihrem Body-Coaching, das ganz gezielt unsere blockierten verspannten Areale adressiert: ob Vagus-Training und Lümmeln für Sofort-Entspannung, Barfußgehen im Schnee oder Sofa-Routinen für Hüfte und Rücken.

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.

Discover how you can finally get rid of stress naturally with the ultimate yoga handbook that reveals the exact steps to dramatically enhance your wellness through yoga. Living a life of abundance, happiness, and fulfillment is not as hard as you might think - nor is it something just a few lucky people are destined to experience. Getting rid of stress and living a worry-free life is actually much simpler than you thought it would be.

Suzan Colon, yoga teacher and former senior editor at O, The Oprah Magazine, digs deep into the spiritual philosophy behind yoga and distills 30 essential components to enrich your practice and revolutionize your life from the inside out.