Women's Health Guides
A Few Thoughts about Suffering An excerpt from Peace from Anxiety As you can see from the discussion of trauma, suffering comes in many flavors. It can be rooted in personal, interpersonal, or systemic issues. Some suffering is inevitable—things like death, illness, and loss touch everyone in their lifetime. Some of us are protected from [...]
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Welcoming Yoga Nidra An excerpt from Radiant Rest One of the first things I became aware of, as I began to practice and then share deep relaxation, was that it’s difficult for most of us to “let go.” Yoga teachers often give this instruction without the slightest consideration for how it will be received in a [...]
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The material in Peace from Anxiety can be much more impactful when approached in an interactive and exploratory way. It is especially powerful when you can engage with the material with others. This is your guide to working with the concepts in this book with a small, trusted group of people. There are many ways [...]
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5 Free Tools to Release Stress and Anxiety ENTER YOUR EMAIL TO RECEIVE FIVE FREE TOOLS FROM PEACE FROM ANXIETY. Reclaim your capacity to heal and learn to regulate your nervous system with practices and reflections from therapist and yoga teacher Hala Khouri, author of Peace from Anxiety. Draw a body map, learn to feel [...]
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Breath From Still Running On a cool spring morning, a Zen teacher and his student are going for a walk. The last traces of snow have melted from the ground, and tiny buds are beginning to show on the tips of the cherry branches. Bundled in their robes, master and disciple walk easily as the [...]
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What Life in the Country Taught Me about Ayurveda and Self-Care
By Cara Brostrom You don’t have to travel to the countryside or a wild, remote place to connect with nature; these Ayurvedic self-care routines will connect you to the nature within yourself. I used to think of time spent in nature as a way to escape from the pace of modern life; the ultimate self-care. [...]
The Everyday Ayurveda Guide to Self-Care Rhythms, Routines, and Home Remedies for Natural Healing Discover the best way to care for yourself with a free self-care download from The Everyday Ayurveda Guide to Self-Care by Kate O’Donnell. Embrace Ayurveda to become a more integrated, whole, and healthy version of yourself. With this offering you will learn basic Ayurvedic [...]
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Natural Woman ENTER YOUR EMAIL TO RECEIVE YOUR 5 FREE HERBAL REMEDIES FROM NATURAL WOMAN. Plant medicines are a woman’s ally to achieve optimal health; they bring balance and nourishment to daily life and can reduce or eliminate symptoms of physical and emotional distress. Download 5 free herbal remedies and start 2020 off with a [...]
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Herbal Remedies for Radiant Health at Every Age and Stage of Life Leslie Korn Answers Our Top 10 Questions About Plant Medicine and Natural Woman Leslie Korn, PhD, MPH, is a licensed clinician specializing in mental health nutrition, herbal medicine, and integrative medicine for mental health and the physical symptoms of traumatic stress. Her book, [...]
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The Fourth Trimester Cards ENTER YOUR EMAIL TO RECEIVE YOUR 10 FREE CARDS FROM THE FOURTH TRIMESTER CARD DECK. Help new mothers thrive with The Fourth Trimester Cards! The postpartum time can be one of bonding, restoration, and health, yet many new mothers feel isolated and lonely as they learn to care for a new [...]
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Sutra 5 An Excerpt from The Mama Sutra I’m speeding down Sir Francis Drake Boulevard on a glorious fall day, running through yellow lights, completely stressed out, trying to get to the meditation hall on time. I’m teaching the daily yoga classes at a women’s meditation retreat at Spirit Rock, a Buddhist retreat center in [...]
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Three Practices for Eating | An Excerpt from Mindful Eating on the Go
Bettering Our Relationship with Food Trying a New Fruit The Exercise Find a fruit you have never eaten. An Asian food market is a good place to look. Star fruit, lychee, kiwano, rambutan, papaya, custard apple, mangosteen, and dragon fruit are some possibilities. At a Mexican market look for mamey, guanabana, sapote, chico, or pitahaya. [...]
Building Compassion from the Outside In | An Excerpt from Befriending Your Body
A Way to Self-Compassion One in All All in One— If only this is realized, No more worry about your not being perfect! —Sosan Ganchi Zenji, Shin Jin Mei I needed someone to help me grab hold of compassion and bring it a little closer every day. —Eleanor This chapter offers ways to build [...]
The Competitive Yoga Trap | An Excerpt from Hip-Healthy Asana
A Challenge to Yoga Practitioners Comparing Our Practice If I had to pick one thing that challenges Western yoga practitioners more than any other, it would be the urge to compete. Because I haven’t spent more than a few months living in other cultures, I don’t know this for a fact, but I suspect that [...]
Cultivating the Right Attitude bhava-pratyayo videha-prakrti-layanam (1:19) Samadhi is a natural state for someone who is enlightened. shraddha-virya-smrti-samadhi-prajna-purvakah itaresham (1:20) For the rest of us, we must use faith, passion, mindfulness, quiet, and good judgment to support our journey toward samadhi. Our life is a reflection of our attitude, the energy of our mind. When [...]
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We Won’t Last Forever | An Excerpt from Let the Whole Thundering World Come Home
Death A Long Distance Call On a Wednesday morning, sitting in my old blue Volvo in a parking lot after just getting a facial—my cheeks redolent with cream, all pores clean—I called the Cancer Center in Santa Fe, persuaded an oncologist to look up my chart. The oncologist I was assigned to was on vacation, [...]
A Mother’s Five Necessities | A Printable Excerpt from The Fourth Trimester
Remembering to care for yourself as a mother can sometimes be the most difficult thing about your postpartum time. Kimberly Ann Johnson, author of The Fourth Trimester, has compiled a list of the five basic necessities every mother needs in order to be healthy, happy, and ready to care for a new child. Below you [...]
by Nina Zolotow, author of Yoga for Healthy Aging Asana works to steady the mind through a focus on physical sensation, breath, or drishti (gaze). If we can bring that same focus into our Accessible Yoga practice, we quickly realize that the outward appearance of a pose is not a sign of whether or not [...]
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We have excerpted the chapter “Busy Days” from Relax and Renew by Judith Hanson Lasater. This chapter describes three series that bring restorative yoga into your busy life. The first one you can practice at home or on vacation; the second is for the office; the third is for when you’re on the go. Click [...]
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John Spalding & Kimberly Ann Johnson What made you to decide to write The Fourth Trimester? I didn’t set out to write a book, but I have been a harbinger of a message that is to speak about the unspeakable, and I realized that this information had to become common knowledge. When I was a [...]
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