Books: For The Body, Spirit & Mind
Movement & Energy Healing
The following books are collections from key holistic health authors and renown well-being practitioners, who have been leading pioneers for bringing Eastern mysticism practices to the Western world. Much of the 'New Age' movement stems from studies in to Esoteric knowledge and the energy movement for physical health and mindful, spiritual development has grown in to a global phenomenon.
Each of the books talks about the importance of having alignment with nature, the universe, inner wisdom, using the breath and intention through will and surrender. Practicing to breath correctly with focus on the breath, is a fundamental process for accessing the mind states for personal development.
Once the breath has been dutifully observed and an observer meditative state has been reached, we can then progress through asana (Hatha yoga postures), to connect mind and body. The energetics of the body are harnessed from our movements, binded with the Prana (Qi), taken from the ions contained in air and via the alchemical processes formed from electro-magnetic frequency amplification by crystal structures throughout the body and focussed intention, can entrain to the frequencies for regeneration, communication and power.
The Healing Power Of The Breath
We are not taught to breathe and because our breathing is mostly autonomous, without being conscious of the breath, we can develop harmful breathing habits that restrict the breath. Breath is a simple but most fundamental aspect for living, for it is our life, and without breath considered, there is no quality of life.
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In The Healing Power of the Breath, Dr. Richard P. Brown and Dr. Patricia L. Gerbarg provide a different way to treat stress: breathing. Drawn from yoga, Buddhist meditation, the Chinese practice of qigong, and other sources, their science-backed methods activate communication pathways between the mind and body to positively impact the brain and calm the stress response. Their anecdotes and easy-to-follow exercises will show you how to apply breathing techniques to help relieve:
- Anxiety and depression
- Trauma-related emotions and behaviours
- Post-traumatic stress disorder
- Insomnia
- Addiction-related behaviors
The Healing Power of the breath - by Richard P Brown and Patricia Gerbarg can be purchased here
Bringing Yoga To Life
Donna Farhi teaches us the fundamental path of self-discovery through Yoga. An essential compliment to the following of correct practice in asana (postures), correct action of mind for awareness and a devoted live lived for revealing greater truths of who we are.
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Bringing Yoga to Life – Donna Farah can be purchased here
The Heart of Yoga
A devoted son reveals the wisdom bestowed upon him by his father. Desikachar reveals the right kinds of practice for for every yogi, to achieve their own goals from Yoga practice.
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The Heart of Yoga is the first book to present the teachings of revered yogi Sri Tirumalai Krishnamacharya (1888-1989) from the unique perspective of his son and principal student. Here, T.K.V. Desikachar shows how to use Krishnamacharya's system of viniyoga to develop a personal practice that is responsive to your own needs and adaptable to your age, health, and lifestyle. Krishnamacharya based his teachings on a number of scriptural sources, but of them all he placed the highest value on Pata-jali's Yoga Sutras. Heart of Yoga makes available for the first time in the West Desikachar's commentary on Pata-jali, as taught to him by his father.
The Heart of Yoga – T.K.V. Desikachar can be purchased here
30 Essential Yoga Poses
An essential bible for every Yoga teacher. Description and photos for 30 essential poses of Yoga, their benefits and adaptations.
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In 30 Essential Yoga Poses, Judith Lasater draws on her wealth of yoga practice and teaching experience, as well as her training as a physical therapist, to present this comprehensive guide for beginning students and their teachers. The author discusses yoga's ancient eightfold path and its relevance in today's world, and goes to the heart of yoga--the all-important student-teacher relationship. Thirty essential yoga poses (asana), their variations, and breathing practices (pranayama) are also provided, with guidance for the student practicing at home, and points for the classroom teacher. Sequences are presented with photographic charts for easy visual reference, and a "Mantra for Daily Practice" and glossary of anatomical terms and resources for further study are also included.
30 Essential yoga poses - Judith Hanson Lasater can be purchased here
Relax And Renew
Judith is a pioneer in bringing a form of Yoga to the West that focuses on relaxation. Understanding how the asana (postures) can activate the parasympathetic (rest and repair) nervous system, to better aid digestive, sleep, regeneration and procreation processes, provides the yoga teacher and practitioner the tools for navigating a high-stress environment.
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Experience the rest of your life with restorative yoga, the supported poses, and breathing practices that will help you heal the effects of chronic stress. In Relax and Renew, the first book exclusively devoted to this work, you'll find:
- In-depth guidance in Basic Relaxation Pose (Savasana), the heart of restorative practice, as well as the Centering Breath
- A general restorative sequence that explores backbends, an inverted posture, a twist, cooling forward bends, and a variation of Basic Relaxation Pose (Savasana)
- Sequences for busy days, including a fifteen-minute practice, yoga at your desk, and the Totally Invisible Relaxation
- Programs for back pain, headaches, insomnia, jet lag, and breathing problems
- A special section for women during menstruation, pregnancy, and menopause
- A guide to props: what they are, where they go, how to fold and roll blankets, and around-the-house alternatives
- Supplemental resources, such as where to find a yoga teacher, recommended books, magazines, newsletters, audio programs, props, yoga vacations, etc.
Relax and Renew - Judith Hanson Lasater
Move Your DNA
Movement is life. Without movement, the systems of our body do not get the necessary stresses placed on it, to activate the neural pathways for keeping the body and mind in balance. If the phrase 'use it or lose it', comes to mind, this book reinforces the hows and whys that movement – and more specifically, – the right movement, is key to life and for staying in the best shape to fully enjoy it.
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It’s often said that “movement is medicine,” but rarely is the “how” behind the power of movement explained. It’s not only our whole body that’s moving; our cells are being moved as our limbs push and pull to locomote us around, and each movement moves our cells uniquely.
Move your DNA – Katy Bowman
Heal Your Body
Disease and illness are but transitory states. Chronic illness and debilitating disease are the result of not addressing the causes. It is claimed that all disease is caused by a poisoning of the body, through pathogenic organisms, parasites, chemicals and radiation of the harmful frequencies of mostly man-made origins. Modern medicine can work wonders to bring pain relief, it can poison, burn or cut out the resulting diseased cells, it can medicate the pain and provide counselling, but without our consent to heal, the body and mind will only manifest the disease again after methods to remove the observable results, leave new areas to infect.
Louise teaches us that removing the causes of disease can be more traumatic and modern medicine completely ineffective for healing, if we don't first focus on emotional, generational family inherited trauma, self-depreciating thoughts and any negatively directed inner-focus. With self love, forgiveness and acceptance, comes the cure.
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Heal Your Body is a fresh and easy step-by-step guide. Just look up your specific health challenge and you will find the probable cause for this health issue and the information you need to overcome it by creating a new thought pattern.
Louise Hay, bestselling author, is an internationally known leader in the self-help field. Her key message: "If we are willing to do the mental work, almost anything can be healed." The author has a great deal of experience and firsthand information to share about healing—including how she cured herself after having been diagnosed with cancer.
Heal your Body – Louise Hay
Raise Your Vibration
This easy-to-read book has many bite-sized tips for leading a High Vibez life. We are the controllers of our life and we can change our outlook, up our energy and increase our output through wilful focus and belief in the outcome.
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Everything is comprised of energy, including you! You express energy in what you create, experience, and attract. Right now, the Universe is calling you to align your life to a higher energetic frequency, and at any given moment you have the opportunity to Raise Your Vibration. Let best-selling author Kyle Gray be your guide!
Raise your Vibration – Kyle Gray
Spiritual Guidance
The following books are guidebooks for the inner traveller. Our journey in life is to grow ourselves through experience and make the quest for the attainment of truth. The inner light guides us along this journey and through connection to the inner light can we better navigate a path to self-enlightenment.
Light Is The New Black
When we sit in silent meditation, when we listen to the higher self – that inner voice and spiritual guide, we can better connect to our true nature and life's path. If we stray from our path and choose not to follow the guidance, the decisions we make and the outcomes that manifest, may not be the ones we were here to experience. This book communicates how the path is taken – should we listen to and follow the light within, – to become the version of ourselves we were meant to be.
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Your inner light is your soul and it is guiding you every moment of every day. Light Is the New Black is for those who agreed to be here at this time in history to answer the call of their soul and work their light.
Rebecca Campbell had her first awakening when she was a teenager, but without anyone to guide her, she ignored her soul's callings and dimmed her light in order to fit in. Then, just before her 30th birthday, the life she had so consciously created began to crumble around her. It was as if the Universe had turned off all the lights, so she had no choice but to rediscover her own.
Light is the New Black – Rebecca Campbell
Tao Te Ching
The Tao or Dao is the natural order of things. Everything has its way and the way of the Daoist is illuminated for masters of understanding these ancient teachings of order that are observable in nature and to be found within as without, so above and below. Following the way, should be fluid and offer the least resistance. If we find there are barriers, often it is because the way is not clear, the time is not right or we are not ready. Stefan Setnudd presents the teachings in a beautiful way that is both easy to understand and a joy to follow.
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Tao Te Ching is the 2,500 years old source of Taoism, written by the legendary Taoist philosopher Lao Tzu. In 81 short chapters, he presented the world according to Tao, the Way, and how mankind should adapt to it. The book has become one of the foremost world classics of wisdom – maybe even more relevant today than it was to Lao Tzu’s contemporaries. This translation of the text focuses on the clarity and simplicity by which Lao Tzu expresses his fascinating cosmology and profound ethics. Each chapter is thoroughly explained, as well as how this old wisdom can be understood and applied today.
Tao Te Ching – Stefan Setnudd
A Year Of Living Your Yoga
Fundamental yoga practices for living a healthy life, with greater mobility, better mindfulness and noticeable results to transform our lives, to remove pain and restore wellbeing.
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Featuring one thought for each day of the year, along with a suggested practice, these brief, powerful insights reflect the author's knowledge of classic yoga philosophy and years of experience. Humorous, inspiring, and surprisingly down-to-earth, they guide seekers both on and off the yoga mat. These aphorisms address love, asana, fear, trust, expectations, pranayama, suffering, laughter, presence, the Yoga Sutra, and much more. They emphasise the experience of being present to one's self and to life's ups and downs day by day, breath by breath, moment by moment.
A Year of Living Your Yoga – Judith Hanson Lasater
Living Your Yoga Finding The Spiritual In Everyday Life
Taking yoga to a new level, this book helps us to embrace the full aspects of yoga to transform our lives in a number of beneficial ways.
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If you think that you have to retreat to a cave in the Himalayas to find the enlightenment that yoga promises, think again.
Using the time-honoured wisdom of the Yoga Sutra and the Bhagavad Gita to steer the course, Judisth serves up off-the-mat practices to guide you in deepening your relationships with yourself, your family and friends, and the world around you.
Inspiring and practical, she blends her heartfelt knowledge of an ancient tradition with her life experiences as a daughter, sister, partner, mother, friend, and yoga practitioner and teacher. The result: a new yoga that beckons you to find the spiritual in everyday life.
Living Your Yoga finding the spiritual in everyday Life – Judith Hanson Lasater
Spirit Hacking
Shaman Durek teaches us tools for greater connection to the hidden mystical realms where animal and spirit guides, healing plants and the deities that govern the other realms, can guide, inform and enrich us for greater empowerment and personal development.
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Shaman Durek's bold and sometimes controversial wisdom shakes loose our assumptions about ourselves and the world around us. He ultimately teaches us how to step fearlessly out of this Blackout (the age of darkness we are currently experiencing) and access a place of fierce empowerment by use of tools and techniques of timeless Shamanic tradition. This transformation is both personal and collective; as individuals step out of darkness and begin to experience the light, we bring our loved ones and communities out of the shadows as well.
Spirit Hacking – Shaman Durek
Becoming Supernatural
We are all super beings and just don't know it (yet). Our Focus, our imagination, will and our beliefs all form the powers for creating our reality. The power is in the now and embracing each moment for realising the future that awaits us.
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Becoming Supernatural draws on epigenetics, quantum physics & neuroscience research conducted at his advanced workshops since 2012 to explore how common people are doing the uncommon to transform their consciousness, mindset, and beliefs to heal and live SUPERNATURAL lives.
Becoming Supernatural – Dr Joe Dispenza
Poetry
The following books are a reminder of the beauty and deeper meaning found in carefully considered, beautifully constructed prose. Music, poetry and art are the highest forms of expression for understanding our reality beyond philosophical thought and mathematics. If architecture is the solidified form of geometric meaning and music the transitionary medium for inspiration of harmonious beauty, then poetry is the meaning in motion AND the beautified containment of form where our soul can be expressed, shared, observed and experienced.
All Along You Were Blooming
Beautiful prose and profound words to accompany the traveller, the dreamer, the adventurer and the romanticist.
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A celebration of hope. An encounter with grace. A restoration of the heart. A healing of wounds. An anthem of freedom. This illustrated collection of poetry and prose invites you to stumble into the sunlight and delight in the wild and boundless grace you've been given.
All along you were Blooming - Morgan Harper Nichols can be purchased here
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