Um Like... Om: A Girl Goddess's Guide To Yoga

The perfect primer for yoga enthusiasts Um Like... OM goes above and beyond teaching the technique of yoga: it reveals how yoga can help teenage girls face any challenge that comes their way, from dealing with difficult parents, to break-ups, to the pressure to conform. Written in a hip and empathetic voice by a yoga practitioner who knows all about the ups and downs of the teenage years, this book also provides tips and tricks on how girls can tell their inner critic to take a hike and embrace the girl goddess within. Packed with illustrated yoga poses, real-life teen stories, inspiring quotations, sidebars with FYIs (``Fun Yoga Information''), book and music recommendations, and a glossary, Um Like... OM is the ultimate guide to yoga-and life-for teens. eBook.

Anywhere Anytime Any Body Yoga

Anywhere Anytime Any Body Yoga is for anyone interested in improving health and flexibility who does not have the time or money to visit a yoga studio or cannot sit on the floor and twist like a pretzel. Anyone can practice yoga regardless of their physical condition flexibility or schedule. The book introduces the spiritual and physical benefits of yoga, and how readers can learn to work with their own body type to perform postures safely and effectively. With no acrobatics needed, these postures can be done anywhere the reader desires, be it standing in lines, in waiting rooms even while watching TV. This book is tailored for adults who would like to enjoy the benefits of yoga but can't devote their lives to it. eBook.

The Healing Path Of Yoga: Time-honored wisdom and scientifically proven methods that alleviate stress, open your heart, and enrich your life

Stress is now considered the foremost contributor to poor health and a major factor in causing heart disease, cancer, and a myriad of chronic and acute diseases. This book will make yoga a fundamental part of your quest for wellness and well-being, whether you are a novice or a current pactitioner. The Healing Path of Yoga presents the key to heightened overall wellness of body, mind, and spirit. eBook.

The Complete Illustrated Book of Yoga

Since 1960 more than 1 million people have used this classic guide to tap the incredible power of yoga. The attractive new edition will appeal to a wide audience of contemporary yoga students. eBook.

Better Sex Through Yoga: Easy routines to boost your sex drive, enhance physical pleasure, and spice up your bedroom life

Bring the ancient practice of yoga from the mat into the bedroom with electrifying results! A combination of traditional yoga poses, Pilates, and dance, along with twenty mind-blowing sex positions, Better Sex Through Yoga is guaranteed to tone up your body and turn up the heat on your lovemaking. Working out has never been this good or satisfying! eBook.

Collins Gem - Pilates

A clear practical introduction to Pilates. This form of exercise has been growing in popularity and is now being recommended by osteopaths, physiotherapists and GPs as one of the safest forms of exercise today. Gem Pilates demonstrates the various exercises with illustrated step-by-step instructions for easy use at home. Step by step instructions to over 20 movements that you can practise at home on a mat with minimal equipment. eBook.

Itsy Bitsy Yoga: Poses To Help Your Baby Sleep Longer Digest Better And Grow Stronger

If you've been searching for an excellent way to bond with your baby and improve his or her health, Itsy Bitsy Yoga is the solution you've been looking for. Helen Garabedian, a certified instructor in yoga and infant massage, has developed over seventy yoga postures and thirty-five series for moms and dads to enjoy with their growing babies. You don't need any previous yoga experience. Learn the many benefits of yoga, posture by posture, for babies up to two years of age: sleep better, get relief from gas pains and colic, digest food easier, stay healthier. The book also features seven Magic Poses that can soothe fussy upset babies within minutes! So start enjoying more time with your happy yoga baby right now. eBook.

Yoga Body : The Origins Of Modern Posture Practice

In this groundbreaking book, Mark Singleton calls into question many commonly held beliefs about the nature and origins of postural yoga, and suggests a radically new way of understanding the meaning of yoga as it is practiced by millions of people across the world today. Yoga Body turns the conventional wisdom about yoga on its head. eBook.

Office Yoga

Renowned teacher Darrin Zeer brings this ancient Indian art to the modern-day office with a fully illustrated easy-to-use guide offering 75 stress-relieving stretches perfect for the cube environment. Humorous and colorful illustrations by Michael Klein enliven exercises that can be performed anywhere from the elevator to the conference room. eBook.

Yoga Mom, Buddha Baby: The Yoga Workout For New Moms

Practicing yoga with your baby as you hold your baby, have your baby next to you, or have your baby leaning against your thighs or atop your belly is a wonderful way to add joy to your first year together. Popular yoga teacher Jyothi Larson shares the specially adapted yoga poses she has taught to hundreds of moms and their "Buddha babies," her term for the happy and calm babies in her classes. In this beautifully illustrated book with easy-to-follow instructions, Larson presents twenty routines that help you get back in shape faster as you bond with your baby. eBook.

Power Yoga: An Individualized Approach to Strength Grace and Inner Peace

Author Ulrica Norberg suggests that yoga can aid us in developing our own life philosophies through a synthesis of Eastern ideology and an expanding understanding of ourselves. She takes readers through the elements of East Asian philosophy the history and composition of yoga and the basic movements and techniques specific to the dynamic yoga form of power yoga. Filled with beautiful full-color photographs illustrating sun-salutation (the basis of power yoga exercises) numerous asanas (poses) and relaxation techniques her book is useful for all levels of instruction and inspiration. eBook.

Standing Pilates

Perform Pilates postures just about anywhere-- and get faster results! Joseph Pilates's revolutionary methods of strengthening, toning, and even lengthening the body have become hugely popular all around the world. Now, in Standing Pilates, celebrated Pilates expert Joan Breibart takes Pilates off the floor, showing you step by step how to perform classic postures while standing or sitting. You get clear instruction on how to increase your focus, develop proper form, and strengthen and tone your body more easily and efficiently. No matter your current fitness level, Standing Pilates is the revolutionary new way to reshape your body and reach your fitness goals in less time. eBook.

Meditation In A New York Minute

Executive meditation coach Mark Thornton writes about a revolution - finding your deepest heart in everyday moments. In Meditation in a New York Minute, Thornton demystifies meditation and makes it accessible to all. He presents his complete program for enjoying the many benefits of meditation - stress reduction, energy, intense mental clarity -in a New York minute. "If your life is moving at warp speed," begins Thornton, "more than ever, you need to create calm quickly and profoundly." You can be super busy, super successful, and super calm at the same time. With Meditation in a New York Minute , now the rewards of this centuries-old inner art are available to everyone on the go. eBook.

Zen Meditation In Plain English

Written in a warm and easily accessible style, the book appeals to anyone with an interest in meditation, Zen, or, as is often the case today, a combination of the two. Zen Meditation in Plain English emphasizes the importance of receiving good instruction and of finding groups to practice with, yet it lays out the necessary steps to practice Zen meditation on your own. The book includes easily followed exercises to help the reader along. An excellent, practical introduction, this book represents the culmination of the search for a clear and insightful path into the philosophy and practice of Zen meditation. eBook.

Walking Meditation

With Walking Meditation, you will enjoy the first in-depth instructional program in this serene spiritual practice to help you walk with presence and peace of mind, whether in nature or on a busy city street. Esteemed Buddhist master Thich Nhat Hanh, along with one of his students, Nguyen Anh-Huong, illuminate the central tenets of this powerful art, including how to recognize the miracle in simply walking not as a means to an end, but as the opportunity to touch the fullness of life. With Walking Meditation, practitioners from every spiritual tradition will rediscover our home in the here and now, as the long road we all must walk turns to quiet joy. eBook.

Meditation Secrets For Women

Finally an approach to meditation especially for women! The benefits of meditations are manifold but so few practices are tailored to the special needs and interests of women. Now with Meditation Secrets for Women you can discover how to love your body and find a time and place to tune into yourself and restore inner balance. Get in touch with your body's natural rhythms. Honor your instincts and tap into your feminine power so that you can emerge nourished revitalized and joyful. Meditation Secrets for Women offers all the tools and insights necessary for women to design their own custom meditation techniques without all the restrictions of traditional practices. eBook.

Meditation for Busy People

Meditation for Busy People offers simple strategies to reduce tension, minimize chronic stress, and quickly relax and unwind. Few people today find it easy to just sit down and relax. Meditation for Busy People is filled with methods that can actually be integrated into everyday life. Both active and passive meditation techniques are covered, and the aim of all the techniques is to teach the practitioner how to find the stillness in the storm of everyday life. Many methods are specially designed to be integrated into the reader's everyday routines, so that they soon can tackle even the most hectic day with an attitude of relaxed calm and playfulness. eBook.

Letting Go - Manage Your Stress With Meditation

Learn how meditation can help you relieve stress, let go of negative thoughts, and gain a new perspective on life and its challenges. This book discusses the physical, mental and emotional effects of stress, and offers a simple meditation technique that will fit easily into your life. It includes posture and breathing techniques, and strategies on living in, and getting the most of, each moment. eBook.

The Beginner's Guide To Insight Meditation

Arinna Weisman and Jean Smith combine clear explanations of the Buddha's teachings on freedom and happiness with their personal stories highlighting some of the challenges and insights of practice. The Beginner's Guide to Insight Meditation offers advice about going on retreat and help in choosing a teacher and a sangha (practice community), as well as suggestions for further reading and information on various Insight Meditation or Vipassana centers and resources. Here is an enormously practical book that covers every aspect of the teachings a beginner needs to get started. eBook.

Quiet Mind, Fearless Heart: The Taoist Path through Stress and Spirituality

With graceful wisdom and gentle humor, Dr. Brian Luke Seaward helps you see past the limitations of the ego to the highest potential of the human spirit at the core of your very being. Through a unique alchemy of the ancient Chinese philosophy of Taoism and the timeless insights of the visionary Joseph Campbell, Seaward shows you how to harness this potential so that you may find the courage to be a victor, not a victim of life's problems. Through the realization of this alchemy you will become the hero at the center of your own mythical life journey. Using simple but powerful exercises, meditations, and self-exploration techniques, you will learn to reconnect and harmonize with the universal spirit energy, or Tao, that flows through you to achieve inner balance, the joy of life, and optimal health. This book gives you the tools and skills to overcome adversity, resolve the emotional and psychological obstacles keeping you from realizing your potential, and vanquish stress, bringing peace to your heart and soul. Featuring the insights of renowned spiritual luminaries and philosophers from around the world and throughout the ages as well as many inspirational stories from women and men just like you, this powerful motivational guide shows you how to cope with everyday stress, embrace your divinity, and find true harmony in your life. eBook.

Nurturing Spirituality in Children: Simple Hands-On Activities

The greatest gifts that a child can receive are an opened mind, a caring heart, and ignited creativity. This fully expanded, illustrated edition of Nurturing Spirituality in Children includes sixty-two simple and thought-provoking lessons that can be shared with children in less than ten minutes each. Children who develop a healthy balance of mind and spirit are better able to respond to life's challenges when given the tools to think and discover for themselves. Dr. Jenkins gives scores of age-appropriate activities that help children learn empathy trust forgiveness growth and inner peace. eBook.

A Soul-Centered Life: Exploring An Animated Spirituality

Retrieving a theological understanding of the soul, Demkovich explores an animating spirituality that integrates faith and life, the moral and the intellectual, into an animated spirituality that makes life meaningful and satisfying. "If you find something is missing in the very soul of your being, then I am certain that this book has something for you. Demkovich explores an animated spirituality that integrates faith and life, the moral and the intellectual, into an animated spirituality that makes life meaningful and satisfying. eBook.

Returning To The Essential: Selected Writings Of Jean Bies

Bies introduces readers to metaphysical, esoteric, and spiritual teachings from diverse scared sources. His words are rooted in the inechaustible ground of the Perennial Philosophy, the language of the Essential to which this book invites us to return. eBook.

Spirituality For The Rest Of Us: A Down-To-Earth Guide To Knowing God

This is a good book for people who like reading books about spiritual growth. It's even better for people who don't! If you've ever thought that maybe you 'just weren't the spiritual type,' this book's for you. eBook.

Why We Believe What We Believe: Uncovering Our Biological Need For Meaning Spirituality And Truth

Do you remember events differently from how they really happened? Where do your superstitions come from? How do morals evolve? Why are some people religious and others nonreligious? Everyone has thoughts and questions like these and now Andrew Newberg and Mark Waldman expose for the first time how our complex views emerge from the neural activities of the brain. From the ordinary to the extraordinary they give meaning to the mysteries of life providing us with our individual uniqueness and the ability to fill our lives with joy. Most important though they give us inspiration and hope beacons to guide us through the light and dark corners of the soul. eBook.

Soulful Spirituality: Becoming Fully Alive and Deeply Human

An internationally respected psychologist and spiritual guide shows how an authentic spiritual journey must be grounded in human development. Spirituality has an indispensable role to play in the expression of our humanity. David Benner has spent thirty-five years integrating psychology and spirituality. This book will appeal to readers seeking depth and substance in their quest for authentic spirituality. eBook.

You Can Heal Your Life

Louise L. Hay, bestselling author, is an internationally known leader in the self-help field. Her key message is: "If we are willing to do the mental work, almost anything can be healed." The author has a great deal of experience and firsthand information to share about healing, including how she cured herself after being diagnosed with cancer. What we think about ourselves becomes the truth for us. I believe that everyone, myself included, is responsible for everything in our lives, the best and the worst. Every thought we think is creating our future. Each one of us creates our experiences by our thoughts and our feelings. The thoughts we think and the words we speak create our experiences. eBook.