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We are very happy to share with you a look back at our 2023 books for those who practice in the Tibetan tradition.
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$21.95 - Paperback
A guide to self-remembrance with practices, meditations, and self-inquiry questions inspired by yoga and Tantra to help you connect with your inner wisdom, remember your wholeness, and live with clarity and compassion—by the best-selling author of Radiant Rest.
The Luminous Self shares teachings and practices that can help us connect with our true Self and reclaim our inherent power and wisdom—essential for living with purpose and grace in our turbulent world. In this book, Tracee Stanley shares teachings and practices in each chapter—including meditation, yoga nidra, breath work, dreaming rituals, community care practices, journaling, and more—that can help us remember and honor our deepest Self.
The book is a journey of inner exploration for anyone who desires to know themselves more deeply. Chapters introduce different paths to personal discernment—including facing obstacles to liberation, forgiveness, the power of memory, transitions as portals to wisdom and devotion, and nature as a teacher—and include stories from Stanley's life, teachings, and practice. Six audio practices accompany the book.
Yoga Inversions: Your Guide to Going Upside Down
By Kat Heagberg Rebar, foreword by Dianne Bondy
An approachable, user-friendly guide to inversions of all kinds for anyone who wants to try going upside down, featuring 85 practices that explore the physical, emotional, and spiritual aspects of yoga.
Learn to hop into a handstand, do a forearm stand with blocks—and even appreciate legs up the wall in new ways with this comprehensive and accessible guide to inversions in yoga.
Kat Heagberg Rebar offers an easy-to-follow guide with 175 beautiful color photos. For each pose Kat offers adaptations, challenging variations, and everything in between. She also shares options to prepare safely and practices to build strength. In addition to teaching the physical practice of inversions, Rebar addresses the mental, emotional, and spiritual aspects of this often-challenging practice.
Yoga Inversions offers a progressive, biomechanically sound, inclusive, step-by-step approach to anyone who wants to try being upside down, and includes:
- Downward dog and dolphin variations to set you up for success
- Innovative prop tips
- Handstand preps and drills
- Tips for stepping, jumping, hopping, and pressing into handstand
- Handstand against the wall and away from the wall
- Forearm stand, headstand, and shoulderstand variations
- Customizable practices to help you reach your goals
- And much more
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$19.95 - Paperback
2023 National Parenting Product Award Winner
Bring the wisdom of yoga into your parenting journey.
Mom and yoga teacher Sarah Ezrin offers 34 practices to find more presence, patience, and acceptance—with your child and with yourself.
“I can say without a doubt that the most advanced yoga I’ve ever done is raising a child,” writes Sarah Ezrin. While many people think of yoga as poses on a mat, The Yoga of Parenting supports people in bringing the spiritual principles of yoga into their lives—particularly their families. Ezrin, a longtime yoga teacher, supports readers and practitioners in slowing down, becoming present with our children and ourselves, and acting with more compassion.
Each chapter highlights a yogic posture and theme and explores how it relates to parenting, including presence, boundaries, balance, and nonattachment. Chapters include prompts such as intention setting, breathwork, and journaling. Ezrin also features the stories and insights of a wide range of yoga practitioner parents whose experiences include single parenting, grandparenting, and passing on intergenerational yoga traditions. In addition to the opening posture, each chapter includes:
- “Breath Breaks” invitations to mindfully breathe
- “On the Mat” practices to show us how we can apply the lessons on our yoga mat in a more general sense
- “Parenting in Practice” offerings and advice from parents in the US and abroad
- “Off the Mat and Into the Family” fun exercises to help us bring the work off the mat and into our homes
Practicing yoga can help us become kinder to ourselves, more aware of our thoughts and actions, and more present in our lives. What more important sphere to want to become kinder, more aware, and more present than with our families?
Paperback | Ebook
$24.95 - Paperback
Get Fit Where You Sit: A Guide to the Lakshmi Voelker Chair Yoga Method
By Lakshmi Voelker and Liz Oppedijk
Lakshmi Voelker’s Chair Yoga™ method upends the myth that yoga is only for the flexible, strong, balanced, thin, and conventionally able-bodied. Whether you need or want chair support, or you’d like to get in some yoga practice while you sit at your work desk, Lakshmi Voelker Chair Yoga offers 40 active and restorative poses, illustrated with 250 photos, along with breathing techniques and meditation practices—all adapted so that you don’t have to leave your chair.
Poses include:
- Tree Pose—for a flexible spine and to combat the “slump” we often get in our sedentary lifestyle
- Eagle Pose—for healthy joints
- Squat Pose—to relax the lower back
- Knee-to-Chest Pose—to support good digestion
- Coherent breathing—to bring the body’s systems into balance
- And much more
Lakshmi Voelker and Liz Oppedijk offer a powerful, inclusive practice that is appropriate for new students or longtime practitioners and can easily be adopted by yoga instructors, educators, medical professionals, exercise professionals, or caretakers for work with their clients.
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$29.95 - Paperback
The Essential Guide to Trauma Sensitive Yoga: How to Create Safer Spaces for All
By Lara Land, with a fireword by Michelle Cassandra Johnson
An essential manual for yoga teachers and students to create a trauma-sensitive practice that benefits and supports all.
People are turning to yoga for its stress-reducing practice and transformative philosophy. But for those who have a trauma history, the practice can be triggering. The Essential Guide to Trauma Sensitive Yoga offers an inclusive approach to yoga for teachers and students of all ages and abilities, especially those who have experienced trauma. Some of the themes covered include:
- How do the impacts of trauma show up in yoga spaces
- Suggested language for shifting power to the practitioner
- How to create an environment conducive to healing
- How to practice or teach poses in a way that includes all
- And much more
This book is beautifully illustrated with 260 photos of poses and sequences, modeled by trauma survivors who share stories of how yoga helps them heal. Land works with people of all ages, from young children to seniors, who are coping with a range of traumas including physical, emotional and sexual abuse, homelessness, genocide, and incarceration. She is a passionate advocate for making the benefits of yoga and mindfulness available to all.
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$24.95 - Paperback
Teach People, Not Poses: Lessons in Yoga Anatomy and Functional Movement to Unlock Body Intelligence
By Mary Richards, foreword by Judith Hanson Lasater
Honor your yoga students' unique practice with this essential guide to identifying and supporting healthy, safe movement for every body. Includes more than 80 exercises and 43 instructional drawings.
Teach People, Not Poses is the manual that yoga teachers and yoga therapists need to help their students step onto the mat on their own terms, comfortably and safely. Mary Richards, a yoga teacher, yoga therapist, and expert in kinesiology and anatomy, says that we leave too many people off the mat, due to overly aggressive pace, sequence, and ambition in asana. She offers advice, techniques, observations, practices, and sequences to give teachers and yoga therapists the tools they need to move beyond the popular ideas of “should” on the mat.
To safely guide others in asana, especially when people come to the mat for relief from residual effects of acute injuries, chronic pain, and repetitive strain, yoga teachers need to understand what is typical and atypical in terms of posture and movement. Richards offers teachers myriad exercises to address imbalances and strengthen, such as
- "Tighten the Corset" for deep core training
- "Forearm Chaturanga/Plank" to develop core strength and stability
- "Revolved Warrior I with Resistance Band" for core stabilization
- "Wall-supported Downward-facing Dog" to activate the abdominal muscles and support the lower back
- and much more
This unique book masterfully blends yoga philosophy with practical body knowledge and physical core stabilization skills, so that asana is truly an individualized expression—and what the Yoga Sutras describe as sthira sukham asanam, asana that is steady and comfortable.
Forthcoming in 2024
And we have even more books related to yoga and ayurveda coming out next year from the likes of Brian Hyman, Mary Taylor, Richard Freeman, Kate O'Donnell, Michelle Casandra Johnson, and more. So make sure you sign up for our emails so you do not miss them! Here is a sneak peek at our first 2024 release which you can pre-order now and take advantage of the discount.
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$21.95 - Paperback
Recovery with Yoga: Supportive Practices for Transcending Addiction
By Brian Hyman
Drawn from yoga philosophy and mindfulness, this collection of thirty potent, supportive tools will bolster, inspire, and assist those in addiction recovery.
This collection of yoga and mindfulness tools will help support those in recovery from addiction of all kinds. Thirty accessible, pointed teachings offer inspiration, comfort, and solidarity in the moment, helping us cultivate a powerful and purposeful life in recovery and to create a new design for living. Each chapter focuses on a quality—such as vigilance, acceptance, accountability, among others—and delves into how to manifest it in your recovery journey.
Brian Hyman, a yoga teacher and recovery activist, understands deeply what people need to maintain sobriety and strengthen recovery—and knows that those who struggle with addiction also often need support with other mental health challenges, like obsession, anxiety, depression.
The practices—which include inquiry questions, meditations, awareness exercises, breathing practices, yoga nidra, among others—will quiet the mind in difficult moments, support us as we establish meaningful relationships, and reinforce the power that recovery offers us. He offers resources and additional reading suggestions in the back matter. Hyman uses yogic philosophy, mindfulness teachings, personal anecdotes, and secular wisdom to illuminate each quality and the role it plays in helping us create the life we want.