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What if scientists discovered a way to calm and clarify the mind, transform fatigue into energy, and even improve your health - all at the same time? They have; it's called meditation. With this program, you can start meditating in just one hour.

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.

"Your body temple," teaches Michael Bernard Beckwith, "was given to you as the instrument through which you fulfill your life's purpose. It is the temple that houses the living energy of the divine." With Your Place of Power, this inspirational author offers insights and practices for honoring the body temple to become healthier, happier, and prepared to embrace the highest vision of our life.

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. 

They delight us, comfort us, make us laugh, and give us their unreserved love, so it breaks our hearts when we have to say goodbye to the animals in our lives. How to Survive the Loss of a Pet offers guidance for anyone struggling with the passing of a beloved animal companion. The bond we share with the animals in our lives is pure, uncomplicated, and powerful - which can leave us unprepared for how intense our feelings of grief are when they pass. In these original audio sessions, Richardson helps you take each step of the grieving process at a pace that’s right for you.

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.

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.

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"?

The "zone" is an altered state of consciousness - a state of perfect focus, relaxation, and peak performance that top athletes enter in their finest moments. For most, being "in the zone" is a rare occurrence, but with the techniques of meditation expert Shinzen Young, you can learn to enter it every time you work out. Meditation in the Zone teaches you how to combine simple mindfulness practices with your current exercise routine and prepare yourself mentally for a workout.

Power is fundamental in our lives—we express it in every conversation, relationship, and choice we make. All too often, we equate force and domination with power, while gentleness and compassion are considered “soft” or “weak.” The destructive nature of this skewed perspective has never been more obvious, yet there is reason to hope. With Gentle Power, Dr. Emilia Elisabet Lahti shares an illuminating guide to an emerging shift in the way we define true strength.

Be yourself. Simple advice - or is it? What does it mean to be oneself fully? How do we discover and live the truth of who we are in our essence? In The Self in Full Bloom, Mukti presents six sessions of deep inquiry and guided meditation intended to support embodied awakening - or the pure expression of both our human and our divine natures.

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.

Wealth advisors and spiritual practitioners Spencer Sherman and Brent Kessel offer three guided meditations for healing your relationship with money. The Money Breath will help you anytime you need to clear compulsive thoughts. The Emotional Awareness meditation is designed to help you recognize challenging emotions. Finally, the Financial Tigers meditation offers a way to work with unconscious fears around money.

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.

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...

In every moment, you are receiving divine messages to help you align with your soul’s path—a path of spiritual evolution, soulful meaning, and universal love. These messages originate from the vast metaphysical library of your entire soul journey known as the Akashic Records. With The Line, Ashley Wood, along with her creative collaborator Ben Wood, shares a new way of accessing your Akashic Records—one that is updated for the rapidly changing times we live in.

We know that "time heals all wounds", but according to Cyndi Dale, that doesn't mean we have to simply wait for the years to pass. With Healing Across Time and Space, this renowned psychic and intuitive healer presents a unique series of guided exercises that allow you to reach beyond the present for the power to transform your life.

Writing is a lifeline, teaches Christina Baldwin. It can guide you through life's transitions, reveal parts of your self yearning to be expressed, and even transmit the essence of who you are in order to inspire future generations. On Lifelines, the visionary who started the personal writing movement shows you how to save your life in all these ways and more with only a pen and paper.