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Essential Psychic Healing: A Complete Guide to Healing Yourself, Healing Others, and Healing the Earth (Paperback)

Essential Psychic Healing: A Complete Guide to Healing Yourself, Healing Others, and Healing the Earth

Author and healer Diane Stein brings to the layperson psychic healing techniques once assumed to be too esoteric to use without highly specialized knowledge, years of training, and a paranormal gift. ESSENTIAL PSYCHIC HEALING helps us tap into the potent healing power of our own psychic energies. For the beginner, Diane offers theory and instruction in basic meditation, visualization, kundalini energy, chakras, and auras. Those at the intermediate level will learn to utilize spi (more…)

Haven: Cozy Hideaways and Dream Retreats (Hardcover)

Haven: Cozy Hideaways and Dream Retreats

Haven brings together unique homes in which the dream of retreat has been made a reality. Each of these twenty hideaways offers something for every taste—from a rustic barn to a desert oasis, from a modest tent cabin to an architecturally significant modern masterpiece. Throughout, the focus remains on communion with our natural surroundings and the peace it brings, on sanctuary from the noise and frantic pace of every day, on the sounds of nature and the gentle art of doing no (more…)

Meditations from the Mat: Daily Reflections on the Path of Yoga (Paperback)

Meditations from the Mat: Daily Reflections on the Path of Yoga

From Booklist

This is a wonderful book of instructive and encouraging daily meditations centered on the practice of yoga. Gates synthesizes his experiences as a yoga student and teacher, former army ranger, and recovering alcoholic, and explores the practice of yoga in a fresh, relevant manner perfect for American readers. Each day’s reflection begins with a thought-provoking quote and then explores one intriguing aspect of yoga philosophy. Gates weaves stories of his own remarka (more…)

YinSights: A Journey into the Philosophy & Practice of Yin Yoga (Paperback)

YinSights: A Journey into the Philosophy & Practice of Yin Yoga

Review

“Bernie Clark’s Yinsights is one of the best yoga resources now available, no matter what your preferred style of practice.” — Paul Grilley, author of Yin Yoga”A quick glance at the chapter headings gives a clue of the breath of what’s offered: Prana, Bio-Electronics, Chakras, Cognitive Therapy, Meridians, Bones and Cartilage … there is something interesting here for just about everyone…” — Sarah Powers, author of Insight Yoga”Yin Yoga is a practice much needed in t (more…)

The Essential Dalai Lama: His Important Teachings (Paperback)

The Essential Dalai Lama: His Important Teachings

Review

The Dalai Lama reaches out to a global following with a vision that is transforming, secular, and accessible to all. — Rajiv Mehrotra

Review

The Dalai Lama reaches out to a global following with a vision that is transforming, secular, and accessible to all. (Rajiv Mehrotra)

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Yoga for Transformation: Ancient Teachings and Practices for Healing the Body, Mind, and Heart (Compass) (Paperback)

Yoga for Transformation: Ancient Teachings and Practices for Healing the Body, Mind, and Heart (Compass)

Amazon.com Review

Yoga has millions of devotees in the Western world, but most contemporary yoga students center their practice on postures but not on the ancient teachings that are still relevant today. In Yoga for Transformation, author Gary Kraftsow leads the modern yoga student in combining posture practice with the rich and deep tradition of mind, heart, and spirit. He presents core postures (asanas), clearly illustrated by models of all ages, and describes how to incorporat (more…)

Live in a Better Way: Reflections on Truth, Love, and Happiness (Paperback)

Live in a Better Way: Reflections on Truth, Love, and Happiness

Amazon.com Review

Occasionally a book comes along that you want to take outside, shove into the hand of every passerby, and say, “Read this and be enlightened.” The Dalai Lama’s latest collection of lectures is like that. As you read, you begin to think what a wonderful world it would be if everybody thought like the Dalai Lama. Though the highest ranked leader of a world religion, the Dalai Lama insists that some of the most important aspects of Buddhist practice are nonre (more…)

In My Own Words by His Holiness the Dalai Lama: An Introduction to His Teachings and Philosophy (Hardcover)

In My Own Words by His Holiness the Dalai Lama: An Introduction to His Teachings and Philosophy

From Publishers Weekly

Mehrotra assembles a Buddhist primer in this small collection of the Dalai Lama’s thoughts on meditation, suffering, karma, enlightenment and other issues. Brevity is the book’s greatest strength and greatest weakness: it is accessible, certainly, but the tiny topical sections do little more than scratch the surface of complex issues. His Holiness dispatches with compassion, a foundation of Buddhist thought, in a mere five pages; karmic consequences merit j (more…)

Living Your Yoga: Finding the Spiritual in Everyday Life (Paperback)

Living Your Yoga: Finding the Spiritual in Everyday Life

Review

“. . . a book well worth keeping by your reading chair for inspiration and thoughtful contemplation.” — Yoga International, June-July 2000″. . . the real value in this book stems from the fact that its author is a yoga student . . .” — Yoga Journal, January-February 2000″With humorous and endearing anecdotes . . . , Judith shares openly how she deals with the everday situations we all face.” — Yoga Chicago, December 2000

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An Open Heart: Practicing Compassion in Everyday Life (Paperback)

An Open Heart: Practicing Compassion in Everyday Life

Amazon.com Review

In the summer of 1999, the Dalai Lama addressed an audience of over 40,000 in Central Park on how to live a better life. Open Heart is derived from this and other popular lectures given in New York. Here, the Dalai Lama progresses beyond his bestsellers The Art of Happiness and Ethics for the New Millennium by introducing specific practices that can engender happiness. Spiritual practice, according to the Dalai Lama, is a matter of taming unwanted emotions, (more…)