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An integrative approach to health means addressing not only our physical body, but our energetic body as well." Now on Self-Healing with Energy Medicine, this best-selling author teams up with Dr. Ann Marie Chiasson to offer insights and expert guidance about how to clear blockages to healing, enhance your longevity, and increase your vitality.

In the seven centuries since the death of Jelaluddin Rumi, in 1273, the world has come to know and thrill to his sacred poetry. In concert with the tabla and sitar, his writing is part of a religious tradition that is believed to excite "spiritual heroism", embracing the holiness of love, lamentation, battle, and the longing for God.

Who is currently running your life? The answer—mostly unbeknownst to us—is that none of us operates from a single self. Instead, we unconsciously move between different personas or defender selves, formed in childhood to help protect us from perceived threats that tell us we’re not good enough. In many cases, the defender serves a useful purpose, but it can also be defensive and highly reactive to any experience of criticism. The Reckoning is a journey of awakening designed to surface the beliefs, habits, biases, fears, and rationalizations of our defenders that prevent us from being our best.

Buddhism teaches that the present moment contains the seeds of all poosibilites for out lives- freedom from suffering; true comapssion for other; and a calm, spacious mind that welcomes change.Originally recorded at a week-long retreat with Thich Nhat Hanh, The Present Moment shares the essential Buddhist practices designed to "touch the energy of mindfulness" that we carry within us...

When we seek to connect with the present moment, many of us end up going into our thoughts - and disconnecting from our bodies. Kim Eng teaches a different approach. Her practices all nourish an exquisite sense of inner harmony - through movement and Stillness, doing and allowing, mind and body, all working together to awaken us to the realization of our inherent wholeness. Now, with Sensing into Presence, this renowned teacher presents a compilation of her most effective meditations for bringing your complete self into a state of graceful Presence. 

In The Power of Slow, best-selling author Carl Honoré shows you how to lead a richer, more rewarding life by joining the "slow revolution" that is sweeping across the globe. Honoré traced the myriad ways the slow revolution is taking hold across the United States and beyond, from corporate culture to medicine to city planning. Now he invites you to experience the power of slow firsthand as you "put on the brakes" in order to learn.

Wealth advisors and spiritual practitioners Spencer Sherman and Brent Kessel show us how our earliest beliefs about money profoundly affect our lives today - and how we can radically transform these patterns. When we're able to consciously examine that which was previously unconscious in our relationship with money, we are no longer driven by the past but have the opportunity to create anew.

In Appetites, best-selling author Geneen Roth looks beyond her 15 years of pioneering work with women, food, and body image to ask the greatest of questions: What truly nourishes the human spirit? Through the lens of her own life experience, Roth examines the core of spirituality and the feelings and behaviors that can mask it. What happens when deep inner need is answered only with external "satisfaction"?

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.

If the world’s problems feel overwhelming and making a difference seems impossible, you’re not alone. So many of us wish we could be doing something good and purposeful, but we get stuck. We think that what we do won’t matter, or that we’ll do it wrong, or that we don’t have enough time or resources to begin with. In Love Without Reason, Gaston shares an inspiring and actionable guide to help us connect with our hearts, reawaken our innate desire to make a difference, and then make that difference in a way that not only helps others, but also nourishes our own joy.

In speed skating, a hard pivot is an aggressive shift of direction that requires courage, practice, and split-second timing. For Apolo Ohno, the most frightening hard pivot of his life didn’t happen on the ice—but rather, when he had to hang up his skates for good. “After my final Olympics, I felt confused, vulnerable, and adrift without purpose,” he says.

According to early yogic teachings, your breath is a direct means of unifying and purifying your consciousness. In Chakra Breathing Meditations, world-acclaimed frame drummer Layne Redmond shows you how to tap in to this ancient technology through simple breathing practices combined with movement and syncopated music.

Are you preparing for a major surgery? Recent medical research indicates that guided imagery is an effective way to maximize the body's healing resources and take the worry out of surgery. Martin L. Rossman, MD, presents Preparing for Surgery, a series of simple imagery techniques proven to benefit patients with quicker recoveries, fewer complications, less pain, and less bleeding after operations.

What’s keeping you from feeling better? Current research shows that a remarkable amount of pain and illness is actually caused by our attempts to get rid of it. With Healing Through Mindfulness, pioneering mind-body psychologist Dr. Ronald Siegel provides an important complement to other treatments, sharing evidence-based mindfulness techniques to resolve a wide range of disorders maintained by psychological stress and other blocks to healing. Go beyond symptom management and begin to really heal.

The new science of embodiment tells us that “body sense,” or interoceptive awareness, is a crucial factor for our wellbeing across the span of our lives. In this eye-opening and wide-ranging book, body image expert Dr. Susan Sands unpacks the research to make a bold call to aging women to find safe harbor from the ravages of age right where they strike the deepest—in the body.

In The Meditation Summit: Volume II, Sounds True publisher and founder Tami Simon speaks with 10 leading meditation teachers about their personal understanding of this practice - each with a complete guided meditation. Practitioners of all levels will benefit from the abundance of insight and guidance provided by these diverse voices.

For more than 30 years, groundbreaking teachers at Naropa University such as Ginsberg and his colleagues Anne Waldman, William S. Burroughs, and Diane di Prima have inspired emerging poets and prose writers to express themselves with unfettered honesty and immediacy. Now, with First Thought, Best Thought, the first landmark release from Naropa University's treasured audio archives, you are invited to meet and learn with these literary mentors face-to-face as they share the secrets of their craft.

We've been conditioned to repress our unwanted emotions, teaches Kim Eng. In "The Emotional Body," Kim leads us in a guided practice that helps us let go of our ideas about emotions and invites us to feel the natural flow of emotional energy, even as we contemplate the awareness in which all emotions arise and dissipate.

Dr. Woolger received his training in psychology and comparative religions at Oxford and London Universities and is a graduate of the C. G. Jung Institute at Zurich. In this daring session, he reveals a series of events that builds to a startling theory: that Carl Jung's work with the collective unconscious provides a basis for interpreting "past-life episodes". With clinical detail, Dr. Woolger describes many examples of past-life episodes in America and Europe over the past 20 years.

Shamanism does not require you to adhere to any one set of beliefs. It is a results-oriented practice in which you are called upon to be your own spiritual authority. Through your intention, commitment, and interaction with the spirit world, you will forge the path that is right for you - a path that allows you to develop your gifts and answer your highest calling. With The Power of Shamanism online summit, we gathered top teachers from around the world who are dedicated to sharing their practices and wisdom on “the path of direct revelation.”