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While mainstream yoga culture explodes, the teachings have often strayed far from yoga’s traditional roots. The result is a watered-down, often inaccurate or incomplete practice that doesn’t responsibly reflect the rich and powerful tradition. Susanna Barkataki invites yoga practitioners to become stewards of the tradition—bold and effective trailblazers for embodying the roots of yoga. Barkataki gives practitioners the knowledge, tools, and language to delve deeply into the tradition, authentically, responsibly, and with appreciation.

One of the great pleasures of yoga is the relaxation session or shavasana traditionally offered at the end of a class. When taught skillfully, shavasana invokes the flow of energetic nectar down the spine to permeate the entire body with blissful energy. Now, with Drops of Nectar, yoga...

This is the inspiring autobiography of one man’s quest for a more peaceful, spiritual approach to life. Spanning the years from his childhood in a remote village in India to his current role as spiritual head of the Himalayan Institute, this vivid account reveals his experiences and encounters with numerous teachers, sages, and his mentor, Swami Rama. Touched by Fire is a heartfelt book offering many valuable lessons.

The Yoga Effect helps listeners overcome the de-energising effects of depression and move into a state of calm and focus. Based on the program developed through three NIH-funded studies at Boston University School of Medicine, these sequences are medically proven to trigger a physical and mental release of fear and worry.   

50 Things to Know About Yoga, by Sushmita Choudhury, offers the answers to the most burning questions in yoga. Based on firsthand knowledge earned from teaching yoga to hundreds of students, this audiobook will provide the much-needed guidance to yoga beginners. You'll discover actionable advice that will help you to make better, more informed decisions in each step of your yoga journey.

This book was written during the 2020 coronavirus pandemic. For the first time in many of our lifetimes, the entire world is fighting an unseen enemy, and the biggest losers are Americans. Why? Why are Americans suffering and dying at more than double the percentage of other countries? The answers can probably be found in your refrigerator or pantry.

Hatha Yoga Volume 2 provides a 65-minute general level audio yoga class. This class is suitable for anyone that is familiar with basic yoga postures and techniques. The class offers an alternative practise to Hatha Yoga Volume 1. It is a complete yoga practice devised to bring physical and emotional balance by including postures and techniques that increase strength, improve agility, enhance relaxation, and encourage mindfulness.

This wonderfully fresh and revelatory book invites you to create a personal yoga practice that seamlessly melds health and well-being with spiritual insight, Earth stewardship, and cultural transformation. Wilderness guide and yoga instructor Rebecca Wildbear came to yoga after a life-threatening encounter with cancer in her twenties. Over years of teaching and healing, she devised the unique and user-friendly practice she presents in Wild Yoga. In this book, she guides you in connecting to the natural world and living from your soul while also addressing environmental activism.

In the fugue of deep meditation, Jaya Devi tumbles outdoors into a muggy south Florida dawn. Sliding on a pair of orange flip-flops, she cuts across a dirt path skirting the ashram lawn. She glances down as a fat black snake slithers up her bare leg, wrapping itself tight. Astonished, she pauses, exemplifying the yogi’s art of non-reaction, breathing and assessing. Here, we enter into the wild wisdom-experience of a modern yogi who uses each moment as fuel for personal transformation.

Psychotherapist and yoga teacher Sasha Bates demystifies both yoga and psychotherapy, exploring the links between them and showing how each can be transformational. This sits alongside personal stories from members of the Fierce Calm yoga community—people who have experienced all manner of difficulties, whether due to neglect, addiction, abuse, anxiety, depression, stress or any of the other myriad ways in which we all struggle with modern life. 

Yoga is a spiritual discipline based on an extremely subtle science which focuses on bringing harmony between mind and body. It is the art and science of healthy living. The word "yoga" derives from the Sanskrit root "yuj", meaning to join or to yoke or unite. Yoga is a systematic practice of physical exercise, breath control, relaxation, diet control, positive thinking, and meditation to develop harmony in the body, mind, and environment.

Popularly known as the hot yoga style, Bikram yoga has had its share of both accolades and controversies. But if you could just turn a blind eye towards all the controversies and just take a look at the basics of the Bikram Yoga, you will realize that this hot yoga style has much to offer. Bikram Yoga gets its name from its founder, Bikram Choudhury, who began practicing yoga at the age of four and continues to practice it every day for 4-6 hours.

Our core muscles respond very well to slow, controlled movements, making yoga the perfect way to strengthen them. By strengthening the core muscles, we are able to move with greater efficiency, increase stability, and improve posture, all of which bring many benefits. Introduction to Core Yoga is an easy-to-follow 25-minute class using simple and effective yoga postures to strengthen the deep muscles of the lumbar spine, pelvis, and abdominal areas.

A Yin yoga practice brings so many benefits to both body and mind. It is soothing and nurturing and releases deep set tension to help improve range of movement and agility. It provides a time and space to help clear and focus the mind. Each class includes a different selection of Yin yoga postures. The body is gently moved while your attention is directed towards a slow steady flow of breath to deeply relax and help eliminate stress and tension from both body and mind.

Whether you want to, (1) increase your strength and flexibility, (2) relieve pain and prevent injury, or, (3) reduce stress and become happier, then keep listening to discover how to easily do this with the best yoga positions of all time! Enjoy the many benefits of all the major yoga poses. Yoga is well known for increasing flexibility, but it goes far beyond giving your muscles a good stretch.

Now you have no more excuses! Regain your calm, self-confidence, vitality, and purpose. In just four minutes a day. Meditate while your coffee brews. Meditate while you wait your turn for the bathroom. Meditate (twice!) while your partner hits snooze once. Who doesn't have 4 minutes...to change your life?! No excuses! Just do it.

> Cardio Yoga, Volume 1, uses flowing yoga vinyasa techniques to raise your heart rate to an aerobic level. It allows you to enjoy the combined benefits of a top-quality yoga practice and an aerobic training session in one easy to follow class. The class, which is suitable for those with previous yoga experience, is devised and instructed by Sue Fuller, a leading yoga teacher and the resident yoga expert for Natural Health magazine.

Discover the transformative power of prenatal yoga in this essential guide for expectant mothers. Whether you're a first-time mom or adding to your family, this audiobook offers a sanctuary of knowledge and support throughout your pregnancy journey.

Discover a gentle yet powerful path to wellness with Chair Yoga for Seniors—a supportive guide to feeling energized, strong, and peaceful at every stage of life. Listen now and begin your journey to a revitalized, balanced life. Because you deserve to feel amazing—strong, centered, and full of joy—at every age.

Join popular teacher and blogger Ally Hamilton as she explores the eight limbs of yoga practice that are integral to the healing process. Facing yourself and doing the work to heal takes bravery and strength, but it's absolutely possible. Yoga's Healing Power shows you how to overcome patterns that aren't serving you and find sustained peace.