Art Yoga

Thousands of yoga lovers take teacher training courses each year, hoping to share what they learn with others. Many want to make yoga teaching their full-time career, but most training programs fall short in covering business acumen, and they may not equip graduates with the entrepreneurial skills and savvy they need to make a go of it. This indispensable and inspiring book guides both new and established professionals toward maximizing their impact as teachers and achieving their career goals.

Yoga nidra is the master key to initiating shifts in conscious sleep states where change happens outside of doing. In yoga nidra, you enter a state of non-doing in which transformation happens from beyond the mind rather than through the mind. This comprehensive guidebook explores the core of Yogic philosophy and modern applications of yoga nidra backed by scientific research - affirming what Yogis have known for thousands of years.

The Art of Vinyasa takes a unique look at Ashtanga yoga as meditation in motion that produces profound inner change. Two of the most well-respected teachers of the Ashtanga style of yoga, Richard Freeman and Mary Taylor, explore this rigorous practice not as a gymnastic feat but as a meditative form.

We’re all living under circumstances we have never gone through before, so it goes without saying that high levels of stress and anxiety are common factors in everyone's lives right now. You might be getting headaches, fatigue, depression, tight shoulders, bad posture, stiff neck, digestive and heart problems, you name it. But did you know that you can practice yin yoga for stress relief and eliminate all of these unwanted symptoms?

Aleister Crowley was born 12 October 1875. He was an English occultist, ceremonial magician, poet, painter, novelist, and mountaineer. He founded the religion of Thelema, identifying himself as the prophet entrusted with guiding humanity into the Æon of Horus in the early 20th century. A prolific writer, he published widely over the course of his life.

We are living in a time of constant technological advancement. While improving our lives in many ways, technological progress also makes us accessible and so easily distractible and interruptible throughout the day.

A beginners guide to yoga.

The word yoga takes us back to the ancient times and brings to mind a plethora of images of extraordinary postures that seem impossible to attempt, let alone master. Yoga is much more than mastering the various postures or increasing your flexibility. It is an ancient practice that involves various physical stances as well as several mental and breathing exercises that cleanse our mind, body, and soul.

Yoga wirkt sich nachweislich positiv sowohl auf die physische als auch auf die psychische Gesundheit aus. Yoga kann zu einer Linderung verschiedenster krankheitsbedingter Beschwerden, wie z.B. Schlafstörungen, Durchblutungsstörungen, Angstzuständen, Depression, chronischen Kopfschmerzen und Rückenschmerzen führen. Die Aktivierung der Muskeln, Sehnen, Bänder und Blut- und Lymphgefäße führt zu einer verbesserten Durchblutung.

Rückenschmerzen, Verspannung, Müdigkeit oder Kopfschmerzen? Viele Menschen leiden, oft bedingt durch den Job und mangelnden Bewegungsausgleich, an Verspannungen und den damit resultierenden Einschränkungen in der Lebensqualität. Anstatt dann zu Schmerztabletten zu greifen, können bestimmte Übungen ein besseres und effektiveres Mittel sein, um beschwerdefrei zu werden und zu bleiben.

Das Gesichtsyoga trainiert die Gesichtsmuskeln, kräftigt und entspannt zugleich die Muskeln und das Gewebe. Es bewirkt dadurch eine nachhaltige Hautstraffung und somit einen Anti-Aging-Effekt. Die gezielten Übungen können den sichtbaren Alterungsprozess der Haut verzögern lassen, indem sie Augen- und Stirnfältchen glätten, Tränensäcke verhindern oder verringern und das Gesicht entspannter und strahlender aussehen lassen. Gesichtsyoga ist nicht nur eine angenehme Alternative zu Botox-Behandlungen und kosmetischer Chirurgie.

Yoga-Kühe zum Hören? Warum nicht. Aber eigentlich ist dieses kuhle Hörbuch eine höchst unterhaltsame Mischung aus mit Musik untermalten ernsthaften Yoga-Übungen verschiedener Schwierigkeitsgrade und witzigem Yoga-Kühe-Poster zum Ausklappen.

The Gita Vali, a collection of songs, is a Braja rendering of the Ramayana in song or verse. All the verses are set to ragas of classical music and are suitable for singing. It consists of 328 songs divided into seven Kands or books. Many episodes of the Ramayana are elaborated, while many others are abridged.

Since the first whiff of information came from Japan that there might still be traditional Japanese Reiki practitioners in Japan, we became intrigued with the system of Reiki's Japanese past. We travelled to Japan (with our two year old in tow) to see if we could find out anything else about it. In Japan we met with teachers who taught a mixture of both traditional styles of Reiki and its more modern versions.

In Growing with Grace, Simone explores the power of self-care, resilience, bravery and positivity. She also shares the skills she has learned as a qualified yoga instructor–skills that have transformed her physically and emotionally. Growing with Grace uncovers the holistic relationship between yogic wisdom, inner peace, nature, and spiritual wellbeing. This book offers meditation and breathing techniques, hour-long yoga sequences and tips for healthy, conscious living.

The secret to living mindfully. Just don't breathe a word of it.... You breathe 22,000 times every day. How many are you really aware of? International best-selling and award-winning author Dr. Danny Penman provides a concise guide to letting go and finding peace in a messy world, simply by taking the time to breathe. Known side effects: you will start to smile more. You will worry less. Life won't bother you so much.

After decades of helping others make radical transformations in health and fitness, fitness guru Diamond Dallas Page knows what is really holding you back from profound life change. He has watched countless people take ownership of their lives, physically, mentally, and emotionally - and he has witnessed, time and again, the precise instant when a real and massive shift occurs in a person’s attitude. In Positively Unstoppable, he brings his understanding of what really moves people to change and own their lives.

There's a lot you probably don't know about the Buddha. For one, the real Buddha was thin. And before he became the "Enlightened One", he was a pampered prince named Siddhartha. He tried starving himself in his quest for inner peace, but found that extremes brought him no closer to enlightenment. Instead, he sought a "middle way" between unhealthy overindulgence and unrealistic abstinence. The instructions he gave his monks about eating, more than 2,500 years ago, were surprisingly simple.

In Move, Connect, Play, founder of AcroYoga International Jason Nemer shares the core principles of AcroYoga for athletic performance and for life, as well as 10 key areas of training (strength, flexibility, technique, balance, breath, gravity, relationships, mental, emotional, and sustainability). He also offers specific exercises and routines for how to train safely and effectively in each area.

We live in a world where smart fridges are more articulate than most politicians, where the leaders of two nuclear powers engage in a battle of elementary school wits, and where every fact can be dismissed as fake news. Sometimes it seems like the only humor left is tinged with bitterness and despair. Robert Isenberg doesn’t believe that’s true. He knows it’s possible to find humor - true humor - everywhere.