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Step-by-Step Instruction for Newcomers to Meditation

Have you ever thought about trying meditation, but didn't know how to get started? On Meditation for Beginners, renowned teacher Jack Kornfield uses clear language and step-by-step guidance to show us how to startand stick witha daily meditation practice. From the basics of how to get started to dealing with distractions, this complete course introduces us to the Insight tradition of meditation that has helped practitioners throughout the ages cultivate profound inner calm and a lasting capacity for happiness.

Available in three formats, Meditation for Beginners offers us a variety of entry points into this life-changing practice. In the DVD edition, we join Jack in a live 99-minute session that brings you the experience of a meditation retreat in your living room. With the integrated book with online audio tracks version, Jack shares teachings based on the original video program plus six guided practices on audio. The two-CD audio program distills the information from the DVD and book, providing four guided meditations for those ready to dive right in to practice. Topics covered in each program include:

How to use breathing, posture, and attention to enter the meditative stateSimple and effective strategies for dealing with "busy brain," and other common challenges in meditationHow meditation can help you deepen compassion, find healing through forgiveness, and dissolve your fear of deathFour cornerstone meditations for your practicefrom resting in the moment to experiencing lovingkindness, and more

With his gentle delivery and ability to translate ancient practices for modern audiences, Jack Kornfield has become one of the most accessible and sought-after teachers for helping first-time meditators get their start. Now you can begin to develop the foundational skills to start your practice immediatelyand discover the life-changing power of meditation for yourselfwith Meditation for Beginners.

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The Spiritual Technology of Manifesting Through the Chakras

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You may have seen the movies and read the books about manifestation, but your power to create your dreams still seems to be missing the mark. Don't throw in the towel yetthere's a radically new approach that may reveal the missing piece of the puzzle. With Creating on Purpose, innovative teachers Anodea Judith and Lion Goodman present a comprehensive, systematic method for realizing your highest aspirations. Shared with thousands in their popular nationwide workshops, this unique, step-by-step approach guides us through a rich study of the inner self, the outer world, and how to connect the two to make your dreams come true.

Manifestation is the process of bringing the spiritual and material together to create a better life for yourself, your family, and your community, explain Anodea and Lion. At the heart of this work are the energy centers known as the chakras, which offer us a profound formula for wholeness, a template for transformation, and a sacred map for manifestation. Learn how to make use of the top-down flow of energy between chakrasan ancient key to effective change, and a way of aligning our desires with our highest good, as you explore:

Chakra Seven: Consciousness CreatesReceive guidance and grace, clarify ideas into intention, and clear limiting beliefsChakra Six: Vision VitalizesImagine possibilities, discover your purpose, and visualize your path to fulfillmentChakra Five: Conversation CatalyzesTell your story, refine your mission, and set goals to chart your courseChakra Four: Love EnlivensFind the right relationships, establish your network, and co-create with beauty and loveChakra Three: Power ProducesBecome proactive, strengthen your will, and handle distractions and obstaclesChakra Two: Pleasure PleasesRide the river of passion, balance masculine and feminine energies, and attract what you want and needChakra One: Matter MattersHonor your commitments, inhabit your body, and complete every cycle

"When you align your heavenly wisdom with the love in your heart and combine your future vision with your unique skills and abilities," write Anodea and Lion, "you can begin to drive your vehicle toward your destiny, giving your gifts for the benefit of all beings." Here is your opportunity to participate in this important work through Creating on Purpose.

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Crafting Your Authentic Recipe for Success

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From the creator of Melissa & Doug, an entrepreneur's guide to discovering and launching your unique vision
"Her toys took the market by storm, and in this book Melissa Bernstein shows what it takes to follow in her footsteps with your next big idea." Adam Grant, PhD, New York Times bestselling author of Think Again

Entrepreneurship isn't for the faint of heart. Melissa Bernstein, cofounder of the wildly successful toy company Melissa & Doug and cofounder of the wellness company Lifelines, knows this firsthand. Connecting deeply with your soul and crafting a clear vision are central to launching a successful business. In The Heart of Entrepreneurship, Bernstein offers a guide to the creative and visionary process of bringing a business, product, or service to life.

Bernstein walks you through the method she uses when launching a new product or venturea process she has guided hundreds of students through at Duke University and in Sounds True's Inner MBA program. She likens this work to creating a new recipe. It involves:

 Cultivating a mindset of curiosity

 Gathering ingredients

 Diving deep into your area of intrigue

 Allowing ideas to simmer

 Assessing and altering as needed

 Serving your perfected recipe to consumers

Each chapter offers insights and practical exercises to help you apply these concepts to your own life and business.

Turning your passion into ideas that serve others requires courage and commitment and offers a profound sense of fulfillment. Bernstein explains, "You'll come to see that the solutions to both entrepreneurial challenges and life's most important questions are waiting (and have always been waiting) within your very soul."

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The Right Words and Strategies to Free Yourself from Burnout, Exhaustion, and Over-Giving

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From boundary expert Terri Cole comes an empowering workbook featuring a wide variety of new practices, exercises, and encouragement.

Our culture is finally recognizing the importance of having and maintaining strong personal boundaries. But were you ever taught exactly how to set healthy boundaries? Fortunately, you don't have to figure it out for yourself. Following on the runaway success of her book Boundary Boss, Terri Cole presents a practice-packed guide to help you establish the robust boundaries that are essential for an empowered and deeply satisfying life.
The Boundary Boss Workbook greatly expands on the transformational tools Cole introduced in her debut book. You'll start with the essential truths about boundaries and how they operate, then dive straight into potent exercisesincluding assessments, scripts, mindfulness, embodiment, gratitude, celebration, and more. Here you'll explore:

- The importance of boundaries and how they affect every part of your life

- Self-assessment quizzes to identify your preferences, desires, limits, and deal-breakers

- Your self-care tool kitmeditations, reflections, and empowering practices

- Getting proactivehow to anticipate and prepare for boundary-setting situations

- Boundary scriptscreating the right words in your own voice for asserting boundaries

- Internal boundary practices to shift your self-talk, habits, and unconscious behavior

- Establishing and upholding new rules for healthy, authentic, and lasting relationships

Boundary work takes intention and commitmentbut the results are worth it. "Drawing healthy boundaries is one of the highest expressions of self-love," says Cole. "When you do, every part of your life will blossom. You'll become more empowered in all your relationshipsespecially the one you have with yourself."

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"This journal is beautiful. It will help you find your voice and, finally, hold it sacred." Cleo Wade, bestselling author of Heart Talk 

 
Transformational questions for personal and collective change.

 

In this time of global reckoning, revolution, and reinvention, authors Rebecca Walker and Lily Diamond invite you to excavate the narratives that have shaped your life and write a new, fulfilling story for the future.  

Consisting of 150+ questionsdesigned to be answered in as little as five minutes or as long as a lifetimeWhat's Your Story?: A Journal for Everyday Evolution is essential for anyone ready to begin living their most authentic, creative, and meaningful life.   Explore by area of life: Each chapter invites you to explore a different part of life as you move through your dayfrom waking up and encountering your mind, to being in relationship with your body, other people, nature, and technology, to reflecting on community, identity, and mortality. Explore by theme: Five themes, color-coded throughout each chapter, allow you to explore a particular focus from beginning to end: creativity and self-expression; self-care; activism; spirituality; and grief, loss, and the work of healing. "Finding the voice to know, write, and speak your story can mean the difference between an existence of repressed silence and a life of joyful fulfillment," write the authors. "Our stories have the power to limit or liberate us."

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Resolving Psychological Barriers to Your Physical Health

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Your Essential How-To Guide for Self-Healing

 

The greatest medical breakthrough in recent years isn't the creation of a new drug or treatmentit's the discovery of how much your mind affects your health. With Your Power to Heal, Dr. Henry Grayson offers a treasury of techniques and insights to help you harness the mindbody connection. "When we can identify and change the inner voices that keep us feeling powerless," writes Dr. Grayson, "we can go beyond treating just symptoms or relying on doctors to fix us. We have far greater potential to heal than we realize."

 

In this practical guidebook, Dr. Grayson presents life-changing insights and effective tools anyone can use, including:

 

 The new physics of healingthe ever-expanding body of research that reveals our untapped capacity for self-healing

 Simple tips to nip many symptoms in the bud as they start

 Self-assessment questionnaires to help you locate and change subconscious beliefs and disturbances

 The Emotional Freedom Technique for resolving trauma and restoring your vitality

 Thought Field Therapy to clear the blockages in your body's energy system that are impeding health

 Why therapy, diets, and exercise regimens often failand how to make them succeed

 

You don't need years of meditation practice to use your mind to improve your health. Your Power to Heal is an invaluable resource to help you harness the power of your own thoughts, transform illness at its source instead of just alleviating symptoms, and start taking charge of your health today.

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What does it mean to "meditate with the body"? Until you answer this question, explains Reggie Ray, meditation may be no more than a mental gymnastic something you can practice for years without fruitful results.

In Touching Enlightenment, the esteemed author of five books about Buddhist history and practice guides you back to the original practice of the Buddha: a systematic process that results in a profound awareness in your body rather than in your head.

Combining the scholarship that has earned him international renown with original insights from nearly four decades practicing and teaching meditation, Reggie Ray invites you to explore:

How to enter fully into communion with your embodied natureThe insights of Tibetan yoga, from guidance on breathing and working with discomfort to its challenge to modern practitioners on the path to realizationWhy "rejected" experience becomes imprinted in the body and how to receive it anew to reconstitute your human way of being Karma of cause and karma of result taking full responsibility for your lifeYour three bodiesthe physical, the interpersonal, and the cosmic

"To be awake, to be enlightened, is to be fully and completely embodied. To be fully embodied means to be at one with who we are, in every respect, including our physical being, our emotions, and the totality of our karmic situation," writes Reggie Ray. In Touching Enlightenment, he offers you a map of unprecedented clarity and power for embarking on the journey toward ultimate realization in and through the body.

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How to Have Game-Changing Conversations That Will Transform Your Business and Your Life

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Discover the Proven "Low Drama, High Joy" Method for Productive, Empathy-Based Communication and Collaboration.

 

Why do so many organizations, teams, couples, families, and groups who should be working together end up wasting energy on unproductive conflict? Even when everyone has the same general goals, what's often missing is a deeper alignment based on mutual trust, respect, and empathy. With Radical Alignment, top-level life and business coaches (and happily married couple) Alexandra Jamieson and Bob Gower share their potent method for helping groups to stop clashing and start working togetherto jump from "we can't" to an enthusiastic "hell yes!"

 

The essential tool at the heart of Radical Alignment is the All-In Method: a four-step approach to communication designed to increase clarity, minimize miscommunication, honor each person's individuality, and build a shared sense of trust and respect for long-term success. With easy-to-follow instruction, Jamieson and Gower bring you:

 

 The Foundations of Great Communicationwhat works, what doesn't, and how to analyze the strengths and weaknesses of your own style

 The All-In Methoda step-by-step walk-through of this proven approach to getting into radical alignment with others

 The Method in Actionexamples and exercises for using the All-In Method at work, at home, and in any situation

 Scripts, suggestions, guidance, and additional resources for making this a lifelong practice for greater connection and intimacy

 

"We believe passionately that the world needs more aligned teams in our businesses, organizations, communities, families, and intimate partnerships," write the authors. "This means we need people who are able to have powerful and clear exchanges that build better connections." Radical Alignment brings you a "low drama, high joy" technique to transform the way you collaborate and communicate in every area of your life.

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From Broken Hearts to Spiritual Warriors

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A USA Today Bestseller

A Buddhist Lama and intersectional thought leader shares a guide for those who would dream a more just, ethical world into being.

Saints, spiritual warriors, bodhisattvas, tzaddikimno matter how they are named in a given tradition, they all share a profound wish to free others from suffering. Saints are not unattainable beings of stained glass or carved stone. "Saints are ordinary and human, doing things any person can learn to do," teaches Lama Rod Owens. "Our era calls for saints who are from this time and place, speak the language of this moment, and integrate both social and spiritual liberation. I believe we all can and must become New Saints."

With The New Saints, Lama Rod shares a guidebook for becoming an effective agent of justice, peace, and change. Combining personal stories, traditional teachings, and instructions for contemplative and somatic practices, he shares inspiring resources for self-exploration and wise action. Each chapter reinforces the truth of our interdependencyallowing us to be of service to the collective well-being, access the unseen realms of divine guidance and strength, and call on the support of the countless beings who share our struggles and hopes.

The status quo of our society is crumbling, and rightly so. But what future will emerge to replace it? "There's nothing like crisis to wake us up and force us to get serious about change," says Lama Rod. "Ancient, powerful magic is returning. With the end of the lies of the old world comes the awakening of truth." For those who have the willingness to allow our hearts to break, disrupt systems of violence, and let deep, authentic care guide our actions instead of fear and hate, here is a clarion call for becoming a spiritual warriora human refreshed, serving a vision of a world shaped by love.

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An Invitation to the Practice of Mindfulness

We may long for wholeness, suggests Jon Kabat-Zinn, but the truth is that it is already here and already ours. The practice of mindfulness holds the possibility of not just a fleeting sense of contentment, but a true embracing of a deeper unity that envelops and permeates our lives. With Mindfulness for Beginners you are invited to learn how to transform your relationship to the way you think, feel, love, work, and playand thereby awaken to and embody more completely who you really are. Here, the teacher, scientist, and clinician who first demonstrated the benefits of mindfulness within mainstream Western medicine offers a book that you can use in three unique ways: as a collection of reflections and practices to be opened and explored at random; as an illuminating and engaging start-to-finish read; or as an unfolding "lesson-a-day" primer on mindfulness practice.

Beginning and advanced meditators alike will discover in these pages a valuable distillation of the key attitudes and essential practices that Jon Kabat-Zinn has found most useful with his students, including:

Why heartfulness is synonymous with true mindfulnessThe value of coming back to our bodies and to our senses over and over againHow our thoughts "self-liberate" when touched by awarenessMoving beyond our "story" into direct experienceStabilizing our attention and presence amidst daily activitiesThe three poisons that cause sufferingand their antidotesHow mindfulness heals, even after the factReclaiming our wholeness, and more.

The prescription for living a more mindful life seems simple enough: return your awareness again and again to whatever is going on. But if you've tried it, you know that here is where all the questions and challenges really begin. Mindfulness for Beginners provides welcome answers, insights, and instruction to help us make that shift, moment by moment, into a more spacious, clear, reliable, and loving connection with ourselves and the world.
Includes digital access to five guided mindfulness meditations by Jon Kabat-Zinn, selected from the audio program that inspired this book.

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Ayurvedic Principles to Reduce Inflammation, Increase Cellular Repair & Live with Vitality

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A powerful formula that brings together ancient Ayurvedic wisdom with modern science to live more vibrantly as we age
"This book is an essential read for anyone seeking to age with vitality." Mark Hyman, MD, New York Times bestselling author of Young Forever

Esteemed Ayurvedic practitioner Dr. Avanti Kumar-Singh invites us to reframe our approach to aging through The Longevity Formulaboosting longevity by reducing inflammation and increasing cellular repair. This approach to increasing our health span isn't complicated, and it doesn't require expensive tests or procedures. Instead, it offers simple, science-backed practices based in the time-honored tradition of Ayurveda.

Dr. Kumar-Singh has experienced the power of these practices herself. During her successful career as an emergency room doctor, she suffered a health crisis that Western medicine couldn't fully resolve. In her search for answers, she returned to Ayurveda, the healing tradition of her South Asian roots. Ayurveda is a holistic system that shows us how to live in harmony with nature, with its daily and seasonal rhythms. It's complementary with Western medicine, and it honors aging as a time of vitality and wisdom. Dr. Kumar-Singh offers an accessible introduction to Ayurveda and how it supports the mechanisms of aging. Throughout the book, she shares accessible yet potent practices that will help you:

 Replenish your tissues to support memory and mood, reduce chronic pain, and strengthen muscle and bone

 Remove toxins that contribute to chronic disease through simple daily routines

 Add and move prana (energy or life force) through breathing and movement

 Sync with nature to understand your body's clock and how it supports your sleep, eating, and exercise

 Feed your system, nourishing not only your body but also your mind and soul

These practices don't require complicated equipment, expensive ingredients, or prior experience with Ayurveda. As Dr. Kumar-Singh writes, "The essence of Ayurveda is that we are not separate from nature. When we live in harmony with nature, we have optimal and vibrant health." With this fundamental principle, she shows us how to build gradual and sustainable habits to support our physical, emotional, and spiritual health as we age.

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"This book is a refreshing story of great courage, revealing how one can embrace life in its entirety in order to live more fully and offering readers a depth of humanity we need badly in today's world." Michael Finkelstein, MD, author of Slow Medicine

 

How do you keep going when the doctors give you a 2% chance of survival? For Terri Tate, it was a blend of faith, perseverance, prescription-strength humorand most of all, a heart that never quit. "I had to stop reproaching myself for not being able to adhere to any one system of treatment," writes Terri. "I needed to create my own recipe for healing."

 
A Crooked Smile invites you to share Terri's astonishing experiences through cancer diagnosis, multiple surgeries, and the labyrinth of modern health care. Most of all, her physical challenges compelled her to take a spiritual journey she could never have imagined. Writing with a mix of gentle wit and courageous vulnerability, Terri recounts her years of living in a crucible of inner growthand shares her surprising adventures with unlooked-for helpers, shamanic guides, and unexpected openings to spiritual sources of wisdom and healing.

 

"I do believe that our bodies possess self-healing mechanisms that we're only beginning to tap," writes Terri. "Whatever contributed to my survival, I am certain that something mystical beyond the medical was at work, and the final decision was out of my hands." With A Crooked Smile, she shares an unforgettable story of perseverance, love, and the small miracles that can save our lives.

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From Spiritual Ambition to the Heart of Awareness

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What is life when seeking ends?
Just what is, nothing more or less
an ordinary person doing ordinary things,
not wishing to be more or less,
content to simply be herSelf.

Dorothy Hunt, Only This

Do you ever feel as if your spiritual search is getting you nowhere? That despite sincere intention and effort, you're reaping frustration instead of fruit? In Ending the Search, Dorothy Hunt unravels a dilemma that has vexed countless people on a spiritual path. "You may have tried all manner of practices, meditation, guru shopping, chanting, prayer, and still you have not attained your heart's desire," she writes. "This book is about the ego's spiritual ambition, its search for its idea of 'enlightenment,' its struggles and its eventual fate as seeker becomes the sought."
Ending the Search explores the deep spiritual impulse to awaken and the ways a future-focused mind "co-opts" or veils what is timelessly free, loving, and ever present. Dorothy invites us to follow our longing for truth, love, or enlightenment back to their sourcethe Heart that is beckoning us beyond separation. While describing and honoring different practices and paths taken in one's search for Truth, she emphasizes the practice of self-inquiry as taught by Ramana Maharshi. We are invited to search not for an idea of something "out there," but for the true identity of the seeker, the unnamable Mystery that is compassionately aware, existing right now in each of us. The book also looks at the processes of embodiment and surrender, the need for "ruthless honesty" without self-judgment, and in its concluding section, shares a vision of life lived authentically.

"The spiritual search is a call to remember who or what you essentially are," explains Dorothy Hunt. "What ends the search is actually present from the very beginning, beckoning you to come Home. In truth, you are what you seek, yet you must make the discovery for yourself." This is your invitation, with Ending the Search.

Highlights:

 The nature of spiritual ambition

 When practice becomes problematic

 How the thinking mind separates us from the moment

 Silence and stillness, our greatest teachers

 Ego and the trance of separation

 The human heart as a doorway to the infinite

 The freedom of Presence

 The price of Realization

 Gurus, spiritual teachers, and charlatans

 Undoing core egoic beliefs

 Resting the mind in the Heart of Awareness

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Buddhist Meditations to Awaken from the Illusion of Separation

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What did the Dalai Lama say to the pizza guy from Brooklyn? "Make me one with everything!" It's a familiar joke, muses Lama Surya Das, but it holds a profound truth: that in addition to inner peace, meditation is a path for all-inclusive connection .With Make Me One with Everything, he invites us to experience this expansive dimension of the dharma through the art of intermeditation.

 

"If you've ever felt 'at one' with somethingyour beloved or your child, a wooded trail, a favorite songthen you've experienced intermeditation," teaches Surya Das .Based on Tibetan Buddhism's core insights into the deeply connected nature of who we are, intermeditation offers both new and experienced meditators a fresh new way to commune with every momenton and off the cushionin oneness with our partners, our family and friends, our enemies, those in need near or far, our higher Selves, and Nature itself.

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Meditations, Practices, and Skills for Awakening in Nature

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Reconnect with your wild essence as you awaken your innate bond with the natural world
"Rewilding is a return to our essential nature. It is an attempt to reclaim something of what we were before we used words like 'civilized' to define ourselves." Micah Mortali

In his long-awaited book Rewilding, Kripalu director Micah Mortali brings together yoga, mindfulness, wilderness training, and ancestral skills to create a unique guide for reigniting your primal energyyour undomesticated true selfand deepening your connection with the living earth.

For hundreds of thousands of years, humans lived intimately with the earth. We were in the wild and of the wild. Today, we live mostly urban livesand our vital wildness has gone dormant. As a result, we're more isolated, unhealthy, anxious, and depressed than ever, and our planet has suffered alongside us.

With Rewilding, Mortali invites us to shed the effects of over-civilization and explore an inner wisdom that is primal, ancient, and profound. Whether you live in the middle of a city or alongside the woods, the insights and practices on these pages will bring you home to your wild, wise, and alive self.

Highlights include:

 Practice-rich contentmindfulness exercises, guided meditations, yoga and pranayama, inward sensing, forest bathing, and much more

 The "life-force deficit"explore how our separation from nature affects us physiologically and spiritually

 Ancestral skillssuch as tracking, foraging, building fires, and finding shelter

 Develop a sense of calm, clarity, connection, and confidence in both your daily life and the great outdoors

 What you can learn from nature's teacherslessons from mountains, rivers, trees, and our animal kin

 Rewild in the wildguidelines around safety, preparedness, appropriate gear, and packing lists

 A mindful rewilding flowput everything together in an immersive, step-by-step rewilding experience

 Awaken your authentic spiritual connection with the natural world as you come home to your true self

 Understand the relationship between our health and the health of our planetand how we can begin to heal both

Part celebration of the natural world, part spiritual memoir, and part how-to guide, Rewilding is a must-read for anyone who wants to embrace their wild nature and essential place in the living earth.

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Most people think of the Tao Te Ching as a book on philosophy or a treatise on leadership. Yet there is a little-known treasure hidden within the familiar passages of Lao Tzu's work: step-by-step practical guidance for the spiritual journey. With Practicing the Tao Te Ching, renowned teacher Solala Towler reveals a new facet to this spiritual classic, offering accessible practice instructions paired with each of the 81 verses of the Tao Te Ching.

 

"Tao is a way of deep reflection and learning from nature, considered the highest teacher," writes Towler. "It shows us how to follow the energy flows within the heavens, the earth, and our own bodies." With lucid instruction and deep insight, he guides you through meditations, movement and breathing practices, subtle energy exercises, and inner reflectionsall to help you to embody Taoist wisdom in every aspect of your life.

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How to Live with Courage and Become an Everyday Leader

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A New Vision of Inclusive Leadership

 

What makes someone a leader? Someone you vote for, work for, or listen to for their expertise? With Step Up, equality advocate Ash Beckham challenges us to embrace a different vision of leadershipto stop focusing on external authorities and start reclaiming our own ability to create change. "What we need most are everyday leaders," she writes. "We need people to step up and be the change they wish to see in the world. Anyone can do it. You can do it."

 

Whether your path involves activism, political engagement, or simply being a positive voice in your workplace, home, and community, Beckham's Step Up provides essential guidance on cultivating the eight pillars of everyday leadership:

 

 Empathythe art of relating to others with compassion for our shared humanity, regardless of whether we agree

 Responsibilityhow we can raise our awareness and consciously choose to behave in ways that heal instead of harm

 Courageunderstanding the nature of fear so we can move beyond our comfort zone one step at a time

 Gracehow keeping our higher purpose always in sight helps us stop reacting with fear or anger

 Individualitylearning to value and celebrate our uniqueness, including the parts of ourselves we often reject

 Humilityways to keep the ego in check and open the door to honest, collaborative relationships

 Patienceguidance for disarming our tendency to rush ahead so we can act with greater deliberation and forethought

 Authenticityhow we can embody our deepest truths and lead by example in any situation

 

For each pillar, Beckham shares engaging stories of her own journey from isolation and anger to a place of greater openness and connectionsupported by scientific research and everyday practices to mindfully change the way you relate to yourself and the people in your life. Step Up is a powerful call to actionto speak when it feels easier to be silent, to do good without being self-righteous, and to create a world of inclusion where everyone has a voice and everyone belongs.

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A Complete Prescription to Optimize Your Health, Prevent Disease, and Live with Vitality and Joy

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An empowering guide to finding balance and restoring health in mind, body, and soul


Ayurveda teaches us that true health is our birthrightand that by artfully adapting to the rhythms of nature, we can bring ourselves back into balance and experience optimal well-being. Ayurveda Lifestyle Wisdom is a groundbreaking work within the field of holistic health and traditional yoga, written by internationally renowned Ayurvedic healer, teacher, and scholar Acharya Shunya.

Raised in a distinguished lineage of Vedic mystics and healers, Shunya learned the ancient art of Ayurveda directly from her grandfather, a well-known healer in Northern India. Here, she presents both an engaging narrative of her unique education, as well as a complete encyclopedia of Ayurvedic practices, recipes, and knowledge.

With Ayurveda Lifestyle Wisdom, Shunya maintains the integrity of Ayurveda's traditional teachings while showing us how to integrate them into our modern lifestyles. Through her in-depth teachings, we learn to live in a way that supports our greatest health through daily ritual, nourishing food, spiritual practice, and self-care.

Highlights include:

 Detailed instructions for a nourishing daily routine, organized by time of day and aligned with seasonal changes

 Clear, accessible guidance in the basic principles of Ayurveda, as transmitted through an uninterrupted lineage of Ayurvedic healers

 Dozens of traditional recipes, along with advice for structuring your meals according to the season, your constitution, and your unique health needs

 A treasury of lifestyle teachings and wellness practicesmeditation and pranayama, exercise and yoga, connecting with nature, rituals for self-care and pleasure, daily cleansing routines, and working with the doshas (energetic body types)

 An approach to healing both practical and spiritualrestore your body to health with holistic lifestyle guidance, rather than a list of rigid rules or do's and don'ts

 Beauty routines and rituals, including recipes for homemade scrubs, oil blends, gargles, and more

 How modern lifestyles contribute to chronic disease, and how to restore vital health through Ayurveda

 Experience greater physical energy, more joy, better sleep, increased sexual pleasure, improved digestion, stronger immunity, and many other benefits in mind, body, and soul

"This book that you are holding in your hand has the potential to change your state of health for the better, permanently," writes Shunya. "Health is not a probability that you may achieve. It is a reality, an underlying natural state of being."

Whether you're looking for help with a specific health concern, or if you'd simply like to improve your overall well-being, in Ayurveda Lifestyle Wisdom you'll finda treasury of Ayurvedic lifestyle teachings and wellness practices for every part of your day.

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Complete A-to-Y Guide to Asana Names, Sanskrit Terms, & Chants

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An in-depth reference guide to the vast majority of Sanskrit posture names, terms, and chants used in yoga.
Ashtanga. Adhomukhashvanasana, Chakra. Prana. The complex terminology of yoga can be overwhelming to someone new to the practice.

For longtime Sanskrit and yoga scholar Nicolai Bachman, these words are not just foreign terms to be memorized and recited during practice. In The Language of Yoga, Bachman shows that each syllable is a door to deeper, richer engagement with yoga not only as a physical exercise, but as a living, vibrating connection to the life force of this tradition. Providing translation, cultural significance, and precise pronunciation for more than 200 illustrated asanas, The Language of Yoga is the definitive guide to the modern usage of Sanskrit. You will also discover:

 Why the exploration of yoga philosophy complements and enriches the physical practice

 Correct spelling and pronunciation of common terms you'll likely encounter in the studio

 Mudras and chants for different life circumstances

 Downloadable audio files for pronunciation of hundreds of terms and posture names

More than just a supplement to your yoga practice, The Language of Yoga vividly illuminates an ancient system of sacred syllables that resonate deep in the subtle body. Whether you're a passionate enthusiast or a curious beginner, The Language of Yoga offers an invaluable reference guide for any explorer of the yogic path.

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Master Your Emotions, Transform Your Life

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Are you easily overwhelmed by your emotions? Is stress hurting your relationships and getting in the way of reaching your goals? With Wise Mind Living, esteemed psychotherapist and Columbia University professor Dr. Erin Olivo presents an in-depth resource that empowers us to stop struggling with emotions like fear, anger, shame, and sadnessand discover the doorway to better health and increased fulfillment in every area of our lives.

"When you're living in balance between your emotions and logic, you're experiencing Wise Mind Living," explains Dr. Olivo. "It's when you have the confidence to deal with difficult decisions or situations because you're in chargenot your emotions." The teachings and practices in this book give you a new understanding of the physiology of emotions and the debilitating effects of stress. Dr. Olivo provides mindfulness-based exercises and lifestyle skills to help us change the way we think, feel, and behave in situations where stress and anxiety arise, and gives practical instruction in putting it all together to manage your emotions for health and well-being.

Wise Mind Living invites you to explore:

Mindfulnesswhat it is and how to practice itCombining the strategies of change and acceptanceThe universal structure of all emotional experienceBecoming fluent with the eight core categories of emotionWhy there is no such thing as a "negative" emotionThe Wise Mind Review to objectively observe your experiencesOvercoming conditioned responses and knee-jerk reactionsRelinquishing struggle as the pathway to changePlus, step-by-step instruction in Dr. Olivo's six-week Wise Mind Living program

For anyone looking to get a handle on stress and anxiety once and for all, Wise Mind Living gives you a practical resource to help you navigate life's difficulties with balance, confidence, and inner peace.