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Spilt Milk Yoga is a companion guide for mothers who want to experience the happiness, peace, and purpose available in each moment, and who want to be more present and connected to themselves and their children.

Grounded in investigative research and real survivor stories, Surviving Modern Yoga uncovers the physical and sexual abuse perpetrated by Ashtanga yoga leader Pattabhi Jois—and reckons with the culture, structures, and mythos that enabled it.

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.

In The Secret Power of Yoga, Nischala Joy Devi guides the listener to the heart and spirit of yoga by offering a commentary on Patanjali's Yoga Sutras that emanates from an intuitive, feminine, heart-centered approach. Unlocking the secrets of this sacred text, The Secret Power of Yoga views consciousness as residing not only in the mind but reestablishes the ancient wisdom that recognizes the essential role of the heart.

This companion volume—with all-new material—offers 54 ready-made ideas and templates to elevate your classes, refine your voice, and teach inspired themes with joy and confidence. Each chapter—like Rise to Joy, Less is More, and Rebel, Yogi!—introduces a series of updated themes. Authors Sage Rountree and Alexandra DeSiato offer practical upgrades to the bestselling first volume of Teaching Yoga Beyond the Poses, with new prompts, expanded notes, and thoughtful cues to help you connect with students and center their experiences in class.

A sanctuary is a place of renewal and peace. Whether you have ten minutes of two hours, Yoga Sanctuary offers you a rejuvenating, flow-style hatha yoga practice. Using this program, you will experience Yoga Sanctuary as the most flexible, easy-to-use guided practice available.

Are you tired of exercise routines that feel overly complicated or unmotivating? Are you looking for a simple, gentle way to stay active, improve mobility, and feel stronger without leaving your chair? Look no further. This simplified chair yoga guide is designed for seniors looking to achieve healthy weight, improve mobility and flexibility, and feel stronger and more confident—all in just 10 minutes a day from the comfort of a chair!

Deborah Adele uses a lifetime of learning and study to bring understanding to these essential yoga concepts. The Sutras explain that the Kleshas create versions of the truth for our minds that are the most appealing. These appealing truths are often false, and they create entanglements that prevent us from being truly happy. As we grasp for more appealing truths, we only create a cycle of needs and wants that confusingly never satisfy.

In this book you will find more than 125 stretching exercises, from yoga and beyond, and get results as I have - even being able to do it from home and not being embarrassed when going to the beach. See stretching exercises that can be done in a slow manner and usually either in sitting or lying positions. All this will trick your mind into pushing yourself just that much further, which brings results!

Everyday activities becoming more challenging? Longing to regain flexibility and strength? This guide is your dedicated companion on this journey. Adapt to age-related changes with practical exercises and mindfulness techniques.

Keeping the body in shape becomes a necessity in these modern times. Vigorous exercises are not only performed for aesthetic purposes, but also for the physical health. If a person has a well-maintained figure, he has few health risks. It is not actually difficult to find time for weekly exercises. A good mindset is the key to reaching your goal successfully. Among the existing forms of psychomotor movements, yoga is the simplest and most efficient.

Revised and updated, Teaching Yoga by yoga expert Mark Stephens is one of the most popular resources for new and experienced teachers, and has been a trusted guide since its publication in 2010. This classic resource covers fundamental topics of yoga history and philosophy, as well as each of the 11 major styles of contemporary yoga. There is also practical advice for every stage of the teaching process, including tools for teaching 108 yoga poses (asanas), breathing techniques (pranayama), and meditation.

More than 4,000 years ago, the early masters of yoga made an astonishing discovery: Before we can find true happiness, we must first learn how to be open to the energy of our emotions. In Yoga for Emotional Flow, Stephen Cope, psychotherapist and senior scholar-in-residence at Kripalu, the largest yoga center in America, presents a life-changing strategy for riding the wave in even the most challenging emotional situation.

Explore the stories from Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain mythology that nurtured the idea of yoga and shaped the development of its most iconic asanas. Learn how svana-asana (dog pose) is connected to Shiva, bhujanga-asana (cobra pose) was inspired by shape-shifting beings who live below the earth, and much more.

Arranged into three sections, the audiobook is designed to help listeners understand the history, purpose and characteristics of the practice; its feel and expression with an emphasis on breath, process and introspection and how to structure a successful practice. Each section ends with self-enquiry and breath exploration so teachers can practically apply the knowledge shared in each chapter and build a framework for a successful teaching practice.

Imagine someone breathing deeply, calm confidence evident in their eyes, strength in their step, and with nimbleness that befits a true athlete. This someone can be you when you develop the yoga habit in your life. And you don't have to be heroically athletic or dedicate many hours of your time. Simply come along with me on this journey of discovery. Discovery of your own inner voice and inner quiet, your own deepest breath, and your own connection to this ancient way of tuning the body, mind, and spirit.

For thousands of years the science of meditation has been studied and practiced by aspirants seeking to make their lives more serene, creative, and fulfilling. In this practical guide to the inner life, Swami Rama teaches us how to slip away from the mental turbulence of our ordinary thought processes into an infinite reservoir of consciousness.

Perhaps no one is more qualified to offer a program on the practice of both yoga and chant than Richard Freeman, who lived in India for nearly a decade mastering Sanskrit chant and how it can complement and enrich the practice of yoga. Now he shares the fruits of his intensive study with Yoga Chants, an instructional program on the authentic meaning, precise pronunciation, and yogic application of traditional Sanskrit chant.

About 20 million Americans are practicing some form of yoga. Yet the original purpose of yoga as a path to inner freedom and enlightenment is embodied by only a few students in the West. Yoga Wisdom introduces this growing market to the endangered mental and spiritual disciplines of this ancient philosophy for living. From yoga's origins and how it evolved into many schools to the moral and esoteric principles that unite them all, here is the perfect primer on yoga and its authentic practice.

Twenty simple and effective tools to help you create and sustain a fulfilling and independent yoga practice that can seamlessly fit into your life. Too busy? Too stressed? Can't focus? But would you love to discover the power of regular practice? This audiobook is for you. The Book of Yoga Self-Practice is the ultimate guide for every aspiring yogi or dedicated student who wants to find the magic of an independent yoga self-practice - one that's simple, practical, captivating and attainable.