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One womans inner journey, a motivating account to inspire you toward finding your own personal story through opening doors to your inner consciousness, where secrets live. Metaphysics and spirituality, combined with Bhakti yoga (yoga of the heart), and the long time guidance of a non-physical being, St. Germain, have been a source of inspiration, guidance and hope for me.
Shaping Ageing by Adriana Teodorescu,Dan Chiribucă Pdf
This volume examines the manifold, often contradictory, aspects of ageing, considering the ways in which contemporary social transformations affect the experience, conception, interpretation, and representation of ageing. Thematically arranged, it brings together the latest scholarly work from around the world to consider theories and narratives of ageing and the effects of space and place on identity and the experience of old age. Combining micro and macro perspectives, as well as theoretical and applied research, this interdisciplinary volume offers cross-cultural and comparative studies that resist overgeneralization and reductivism in an effort to shed fresh light on our experience, understanding, and response to ageing in the modern world. As such, it will appeal to scholars across the social sciences, particularly sociology, gerontology, demography, social policy, and cultural studies, with interests in ageing and later life.
OM Canada: An Intimate Glimpse at Yoga’s Firsts is a celebration of yoga's history in Canada. Here are profiles of sixty of the country's yoga innovators-the firsts to set up a practice in their area, -start a provincial association, launch a TV show, write a book, build an ashram, open a studio, etc. These are the passionate souls who ushered in the practice of yoga in a post-war era, when contemporaries still perceived them as loners and loons. Scattered across Canada, these yoga pioneers forged their practices for personal healing and spiritual fulfilment based on conviction and despite lasting skepticism. Their efforts ushered in an age of spiritual curiosity that set the stage for yoga and meditation's acceptance as the bona fide spiritual practices and healing modalities we know today.
Align your yoga practice to the natural world with a holistic approach to movement, breath, and meditation for winter, spring, summer, and fall. Incorporate the mindful practice of yoga into your daily life with ten-minute morning sequences, affirmations, and evening meditations. Learn how to awaken your body and how to give it the rest it needs with yoga sequences, meditations, and breathing exercises designed specifically for the different cadences of the year. Year of Yoga includes holistic practices for relieving daily stresses and tensions. For difficulty sleeping, find relief with a restorative yin yoga sequence. If mornings are hard for you, wake your body and focus your mind with grounding Hatha sequences. To lift your spirit, read one of the 80 affirmations that illuminate the beauty and possibility each of the four seasons presents. For anyone looking to quiet their busy mind, Year of Yoga is the book for you. 22 YOGA SEQUENCES: Each sequence includes step-by-step poses and descriptions, complete with photos 80 AFFIRMATIONS AND BREATHING EXERCISES: Calm your mind and restore your body with 20 affirmations and a breathing exercise for each season of the year VIDEO-GUIDED PRACTICES AND MEDITATIONS: All twenty-two yoga sequences and each of the evening meditations is accompanied by a QR code linking you to a video recording of author Kassandra Reinhardt guiding you through your practice or meditation CONNECT WITH NATURE: Fully immerse yourself to the rhythms of nature with daily, lunar, and seasonal rituals CREATE RITUALS: Add consistency and routine rituals to your daily life to help boost your mood, improve productivity, and increase happiness
Creative Yoga for Children by Adrienne Rawlinson Pdf
Creative Yoga for Children offers a simple, ready-to-teach Montessori-based yoga program for children age twelve and under. Following age-appropriate classroom themes, the book's forty detailed, one-hour lessons are designed to supplement any learning environment and are accessible to parents and teachers alike--no special training is required. In a recent study by California State University, Los Angeles, yoga was found to improve students' behavior, physical health, academic performance, and attitudes toward themselves. Research also shows that the benefits of yoga are particularly strong among children with special needs. This book demonstrates how yoga can become a fun daily practice inside or outside the school classroom. Enhanced with over 100 black and white photos, the book's themes, or lessons, are divided by age range (ages four to six, seven to nine, and ten to twelve) and explore topics based on the child's developmental level. For four- to six-year-olds there are twenty hour-long lessons on subjects ranging from colors and the holiday seasons to sounds and words. Ten hour-long lessons for seven- to nine-year-olds introduce such topics as the body, countries of the world, botany, zoology, and the universe. For ten- to twelve-year-olds, ten hour-long lessons cover the environment, geometry, the Earth, fractions, the food chain, and more. Following the structure of a classroom lesson plan, each lesson incorporates elements of yoga including poses, breath work, meditation, and mindfulness. A discussion of the theme and intention of the lesson is followed by a warm-up of yoga poses. The children then engage in a cooperative "connecting" activity designed to bring them together, and a fun and lively theme-oriented activity that involves movement and awareness. The class winds down with breath work, a craft, and often a story. Finally, there is relaxation time and a guided meditation. With this preset structure, the children feel safe while being challenged and inspired. Derived from the educational philosophy of Dr. Maria Montessori and the author's own experience in the classroom and yoga studio, Creative Yoga for Children allows children to move at their own pace and to be free to learn and grow within a non-competitive, nurturing setting. An essential resource for the 4,000 certified Montessori schools in the U.S., this book will appeal to yoga teachers, classroom teachers, parents, and anyone who works with children.
In the higher civilizations of ancient, Vedic India, the great spiritual teachers known as "rishis" created the Four Ashrams (or stages of life) as a way for people to instill their lives with deeper meaning. These four stages were designed to bring people more inner peace, happiness, and greater health and longevity. In this book, a Western yogini brings the Four Ashrams to life for the modern day. The Four Stages of Yoga highlights stories and conversations that encompass the journey yogis take from birth to the last moments of life. Though yoga philosophy has been around far longer than most realize, the deeper nuances of its effects on our own lives is revealed in this modern day expose. Here, we see how Vedic India's classic Four Ashrams of Life are experienced in the context of a yoga community in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Just as Vedic myths have been carried down through eons to entertain and enlighten us, the true stories and visions encompassed herein speak to the very heart of living yoga in an everyday world. The first stage includes stories of childbirth and how yogis can draw a spiritual soul into their family, to rites of passage for children, and how yogic schools for young adults help instill and deepen compassion. During the creation of a unique yoga college come stories of visits with the Dalai Lama at his home in McLeod Ganj, as well as experiences with yogis, rishis, and mystics throughout India. In the second stage of life we explore how householder relationships evolve; conscious work for those with monastic tendencies; how Vedic astrology can assist our lives as well as how yogis approach love, romance, and celibacy; and the mysticism that surrounds a yogic marriage ritual. In the third stage we are introduced to how yogic couples, singles, and monastics are living their lives in creative new ways. We read stories of how yogis develop devotion, personal experiences with great souls like Mother Teresa of Calcutta, and how married couples and singles can live more fulfilling lives. The fourth stage offers reports of those embracing the Vedic sannyas vows, and how they live their lives during this remarkable and powerful stage of surrender and transcendence. Conversations with rishis, yogic psychics, and those experiencing this cycle provide a lens that offers hope and satisfaction for the last stages of life, and the final preparation for death and the afterlife.
Around the World with Ayurveda and Yoga by Dr. Subhash Ranade,Dr. Sunanda Ranade Pdf
Book is about Author's travel around the World to spread the knowledge of Ayurveda and Yoga. Dr. Subhash Ranade and Dr. Mrs. Sunanda Ranade travelled about 77 countries.
Ginny Colburn can’t believe she’s been dumped by her wedding date. And everybody knows it. So when a cute, younger man serving champagne to the guests flirts with her, she decides to really give the guests something to really talk about...and flirts back. But the incredible one-night stand gives her more than just great memories. A few weeks later, Ginny now has a positive pregnancy test and the task of having to tell a guy half her age, “Congratulations, you’re a dad.” Only he’s not reacting quite the way she thought he would. Ginny’s definitely not looking for Mr. Right...but she might have found something even better.
An initiate’s guide to the healing practices, spiritual exercises, and secret rites of the Mother Mantra tradition • Explains the practice of the Mother Mantra, which allows us to overcome subconscious programming, release our fears, and awaken to the dream nature of reality • Includes instructions for the practice of the Egyptian mantra to attract wealth and abundance and the Mystical Marriage Mantra for transformation and rebirth • Presents five spiritual rituals that can be incorporated into daily life to reestablish the universal balance between humanity and the divine Hidden at the heart of nearly all spiritual and esoteric traditions lies the powerful teachings of the Mother Mantra. Its initiates have preserved its consciousness-expanding techniques for millennia. Originating in the ancient practice of shamanic yoga, this tradition allows us to perceive the full complexity of reality. It helps us see both the visible and the invisible, moving beyond the consciousness of duality that limits us to only the material world. Operating in this heightened state of non-ordinary consciousness, we can see beyond our subconscious programming and behavior patterns and understand our possibilities and powers. By removing all fear, it allows you to love yourself exactly as you are. In this spiritual and philosophical guide, initiate Selene Calloni Williams shares the healing practices and spiritual exercises of the Mother Mantra tradition. She explains how these practices bypass the thinking mind to access our higher spiritual consciousness, allowing us to awaken to the dream nature of reality and release us from all fear. She details the exercises and practices of the four-part Mother Mantra: The first series, which dissolves the constructs of the ego; the second, which invokes ancient spirits and deities for their aid in this endeavor; the third, where we experience a divine androgynous tantric union to transcend sexual identity and spiritually fuse with the divine; and the fourth, where the first three rituals are combined to unlock an expanded state of consciousness and a true seeing of the complexity of both the visible and invisible worlds. The author also describes the practice of the Egyptian mantra, a soul-making ceremony that unites the initiate with the Chthonian realms and attracts wealth and abundance, and the Mystical Marriage Mantra, which opens a path to authentic transformation and rebirth. Additionally, Williams presents five spiritual rituals, including yogic poses and exercises, that can be incorporated into daily life to allow divine communication through the chakras, awaken the mind and body from the aging process, and reestablish the universal balance between humanity and the divine.
For a person who has never attempted yoga before, it can seem downright daunting. Not anymore! No one is watching, so now is the perfect time to begin your at-home yoga practice. With full-color, step-by-step illustrations for the absolute beginner, The Idiot's Guide to Yoga teaches dozens of basic yoga poses. In these pages, you will see clearly see how every aspect of a pose is executed. You don't have to be the most flexible or coordinated person out there--this book eases you into poses with instructions on how to modify so it works for your ability. Poses are grouped in small sections, with a practice sequence at the end to show how to connect the poses into a flow (that's yoga talk for routine). This book grows with you: when you've mastered the basic poses and become more flexible, you can move on to more advanced techniques and more challenging modifications. Best of all, you'll also learn how to string together poses into full flows that target particular issues such as stress and flexibility. Features include: • Clear, comprehensive color step-by-step instructions for dozens of basic yoga poses. • Handy "Keeping It Easy" sidebars show ways to modify the poses for the less flexible. • Advanced techniques show you how to go further into poses after you have mastered them. • Illustrated flows found in yoga classes, each targeting a particular area (stress relief, flexibility, meditation, etc.).
From Ulrica Norberg, a renowned yoga teacher and author, comes 15-Minute Yoga, a guide to beneficial yoga poses and nutritional tips for practitioners of all levels. By integrating fifteen minutes of yoga into one’s schedule, those who yearn for a better quality of life will find balance and peace in each day. The foundation of all yoga is breathing exercises, body positions that both strengthen and soften, and visualization exercises. Depending on who you are and how much time you have available, Ulrica provides different ways to do poses and focus sessions for a truly rewarding daily yoga practice. She also provides options for advanced variations depending on the experience level of the practitioner. With clear photos in a beautiful setting, 15-Minute Yoga gives tips on how to combine poses to create your own effective fifteen-minute program. With both energizing and restorative exercises, readers can build strength, reduce stress, and increase circulation. The book also offers a brief introduction to the history of yoga, its aim, purpose, and meaning, and general advice on how to integrate more yoga into one’s life.
Do you want to know how to look better, feel better, treat your ailments, and stay healthy throughout your life? Whether you have a specific problem, just want to stay fit, or are looking for something more fulfilling, yoga provides a solution to the stresses and strains of our modern world.
On the surface it may appear that yoga is yoga is yoga, but take a closer look and you’ll discover myriad different yoga systems and lineages. There are dozens of yoga styles to choose from, and while yoga is for everyone, not every style is the perfect fit for every person. But how do you choose between mysterious-sounding names such as Ashtanga, Kundalini, Bikram, and Kripalu? As Meagan McCrary discovered when she began exploring different classes, finding the right style is essential for establishing a steady yoga practice. Pick Your Yoga Practice is the first book to describe the most prominent yoga styles in depth, including teaching methodology, elements of practice, philosophical and spiritual underpinnings, class structure, physical exertion, and personal attention. Those new to yoga will discover they have options and can confidently attend a class of their choosing, while experienced practitioners will expand their understanding of the vast world of modern yoga, and perhaps find themselves venturing into new territory.
"Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and to endure what cannot be cured." ~ BKS Iyengar Most of what people call "yoga" today is just a small piece of the ancient tradition's vast offering. Although the physical postures themselves offer abundant health benefits, the body is but an entry point into the inner peace and infinite joy that is the birthright of each human being - regardless of situation and circumstances. In these 34 short (and often humorous) essays, personal anecdotes, and insights, Eryn offers simple suggestions for empowering your life through the practise and philosophy of Yoga. I hope the essays and anecdotes in this book provided you with some practical ways to apply the timeless philosophy of yoga to your daily life. So much more than stretching, this ancient tradition offers each and every person, no matter your age, situation, or circumstance, a source of ineffable strength, inner peace, and joy. You now have the tools at your disposal. All you must do is use them - Eryn.
