New Yoga Books!

The Book of Chakra Healing: is a comprehensive guide to the ancient Indian system of chakras. These centers of "spinning energy" in the body help maintain your physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual balance. This book offers practical ways to work on your chakras and shows you how to unblock and rebalance your energy.

Nine Designs for Inner Peace: Drawing or painting the nine designs known as yantras is an ancient practice of active meditation that releases positive healing and centering effects. From the basic elements of the square, the circle, and the triangle, the practitioner works clockwise from the outer elements inward toward the central point of stillness, the source of happiness within.

Healing Mantras: Mantras, or simple chants, are short phrases packed with energy and intention--specifically designed to generate powerful sound waves that promote healing, insight, creativity, and spiritual growth. Healing Mantras is the practical, how-to guide that makes the strengths and benefits of mantras available to everyone.

The Radiance Sutras: At once a beautiful love song and an encyclopedia of yogic techniques, the cherished text known as the Vijnana Bhairava Tantra shimmers with new effulgence in Lorin Roche's The Radiance Sutras. Lorin brings us his unique perspective on each of 112 Sanskrit teachings, along with his one-of-a-kind guidance in how to meditate with, embody, and practice them.

Eat.Taste.Heal: is a groundbreaking work within the field of holistic health and nutrition, written by a medical doctor, a patient, and an acclaimed chef. A complete guidebook and cookbook in one, Eat.Taste.Heal demystifies the ancient healing science of Ayurveda, humankind's most ancient system of healthy living.

Yoga for your Type: This is the first book that details how to choose Yoga asanas (Yoga poses) most appropriate for your unique body type according to the five thousand year old system of Ayurvedic medicine. These two systems of healing and energy management have long been regarded as effective methods of relieving stress.


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Who Am I? Yoga Book

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Who Am I? Exploring Yoga and Psychedelics!

Beyond alignment and the physical effects of yoga, there are the spiritual and metaphysical effects. One may experience a softening of boundaries, a greater sense of well-being, oneness with the universe, waves of gratitude and also find some tender spots that are hard to access and lead to fear, anxiety, and confusion. A rich full practice of yoga and meditation is likely to wake you up to aspects of life that you never experienced before. For better or worse, these experiences that we have on mat and zafu are in some ways comparable to what users of psychedelics go through. This was part of the appeal of yoga in the United States back when it started to catch on in the late 60's and early 70's. More recently, during the wide growth and acceptance of yoga this perhaps controversial aspect has been shelved as yoga's use as an antidote to stress and aid to physical fitness have been more widely promoted. This book brings new focus to this portion of the Western yoga tradition. In his book, Who Am I?, the author Allowah Lani, explores the history of the use of psychedelics among the ancient yogis and follows it to present day. He also takes us along with him on his very personal spiritual journey. Through research and interviews and his own life experience he weighs the pros and cons of using psychedelics to help navigate one's inner terrain. Thoughtful, heartfelt and informative, anyone who has an interest in this subject matter will love this book It is currently available at www.YogaBooksWholesale.com

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Buckets of Compassion Required

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"If we see that we have no mindfulness, that we rarely refrain, that we have little well-being, that is not confusion, that's the beginning of clarity." Pema Chodron from When Things Fall Apart

This is a central irony. To start cleaning up a mess you have to notice that you have made one. Just noticing the problem is the first step toward cleaning it up. While this may be deeply embarrassing when it happens, it happens to all of us, over and over again. That's why a sense of humor is also important ;--) and hopefully buckets of compassion from yourself and those around you.

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Suggested Reading:

When Things Fall Apart, Heart Advice for Difficult Times
by Pema Chodron.
The book is available for purchase here on the website: When Things Fall Apart

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