Maureen Garth's popular meditations for children were born out of the author's desire to help her three-year-old daughter sleep soundly. Developing 'the gentle art of going within', her delightful stories helped her child - and many others around the world - to feel secure and to sleep peacefully. In Moonbeam, Garth invites her readers to accompany her on journeys into an imaginative world of animals, people and places. She shows parents how to use these imaginings with their children, hel...

From the author of Starbright and Moonbeam--guided meditations to help adults and children find their spiritual depths and discover serenity and creativity in our stressful world.A collection of guided meditations to help adults and children find their spiritual depths, and discover serenity and creativity in our stressful world.

Countless parents, teachers, and other carers for children have discovered the benefits of Maureen Garth''s unique approach to meditation. Her simple but imaginative stories lead children into magical worlds in which they are released from fears, discover peacefulness and stillness, and experience wonder-filled adventures.Maureen was a pioneer in the use of creative visualisation for children. She first developed and refined her techniques with her young daughter, Eleanor, and the ...

this "Book of Healing" provides an extensive presentation of Maureen Garth's innovative method of meditation and an exploration of the nature of healing. the heart of the book is a collection of thirty visualisations that will fire the imagination, bring peace and healing to the body, and comfort the soul.While the focus of these new visualisations is healing, this is applied to a wide range of circumstances: the diseased body, the discomforted spirit, the grieving parent or friend, the wo...

Over 200 of the best haiku poems from Japanese literature, translated by one of America’s premier poet-translators and now in one giftable volumeThe haiku is one of the most popular and widely recognized poetic forms in the world. In just three lines a great haiku presents a crystalline moment of image, emotion, and awareness. This illustrated collection includes haiku by the great masters from the seventeenth to the early twentieth century, including works by Bash...

Mark Nepo is emerging as one of the truly significant writers and thinkers of today. Nepo has a singular way of distilling great truths down to their essence. Moreover, during his cancer journey, Nepo relied on the power of expression and the writing process to keep him tethered to life. In Reduced to Joy, Mark Nepo explores the places where pain and joy are stitched to resilience, uncovering them with deep wisdom, poetic passages and personal revelations. Nepo reminds us all of the secret...

Source of all blessings, you bless us with dreams-dreams while we sleep and dreams in our most wakeful moments. May I be responsive to both forms of dreams and pass these blessings on by living a life that is faithful to their guidance.From beloved author Brother David Steindl-Rast comes this beautiful collection of original blessings meant to guide readers through each day with wisdom and spirit.This gift book of ninety-nine personal and original blessings from Br...

By any measure, Gary Snyder is one of the greatest poets in America in the last century. From his first book of poems to his latest collection of essays, his work and his example, standing between Tu Fu and Thoreau, have been influential all over the world. Riprap, his first book of poems, was published in Japan in 1959 by Origin Press, and it is the fiftieth anniversary of that groundbreaking book we celebrate with this edition. A small press reprint of that book included Snyder'...

Feng Shui Your Life In Just Five Minutes Per RoomIf you thought Feng Shui was complicated, think again! Five Minute Feng Shui cuts through the mysticism and the long winded history and gets quickly to the point.This easy-to-follow guide will show you how you can get instant benefits from Feng Shui, including:● Feel happier and healthier, 24/7.● Sleep like a baby every night, wake up refreshed and fizzing with energy every morning.● H...

Home Remembers Me: Medicine Poems from em claireis a collection of over ninety, awe-inspiring poems selected specifically for anyone in need of comfort, courage, and most of all: hope. Aimed at facilitating deep healing, the poetry offers companionship in times of crisis, taking us by the hand and, poem by poem, leading us out of the darkness and into the light.Silently read or memorized and used as mantra; written down and carried as a personal talisman; given as a gift, or shared aloud, ...

Step into a series of dazzling, funny, melancholy, and joyous moments with this collection of haiku masterworks. Translators Peter Beilenson and Harry Behn approached this volume with the twofold goal of crafting a book of haiku accessible to anyone and rendering their best guess at what the poets would have written in English. Their translations preserve the sublime spirit of each verse, conjuring vivid visual and emotional impressions in spare words.Haiku icon Basho is represented amply her...

The title, Regarding Wave, reflects "a half-buried series of word origins dating back through the Indo-European language: intersections of energy, woman, song and 'Gone Beyond Wisdom.'""Wild nature as the ultimate ground of human affairs"––the beautiful, precarious balance among forces and species forms a unifying theme for the new poems in this collection. The title, Regarding Wave, reflects "a half-buried series of word origins dating back through the Indo-Europe...