In 1982 Dorothy H. Jordan founded Camp Sunshine to provide children with cancer a safe, normal childhood experience, to show them that others share their challenges, and to help them find community and support. In 1983 approximately forty campers between the ages of seven and eighteen attended the first summer camp, held in the north Georgia mountains. Thirty-five years later, more than four hundred campers attended the 2018 summer camp, and several hundred more children and family members...

This book is about the marriage of wealth and wellness. If they are not operating in harmony in your life, this book addresses key ways to integrate and create a life you love. We all love to be with positive people, and when you have wealth and wellness, you increase your positive and powerful energy, which acts like a magnet to bring you even more positive and powerful connections, which ultimately leads to you experiencing more abundance.This book delivers the information needed ...

The Mat Companion series is designed to assist you in understanding the functional anatomy of yoga. Although all yoga poses are interrelated, for learning purposes we have subdivided them into categories according to their general form. This first book of the series shows how to combine Western scientific knowedge with the practice of Vinyasa Flow and the standing poses. In Vinyasa we repeat a foundational series of postures that encircle individual asanas from the other pose categories. T...

Now fully revised and updated with all new photographs and revised text, this essential step-by-step guide provides students with the information and guidance they need to learn Yoga safely and effectively.The American Yoga Association has set the standard for yoga instruction for more than thirty years. Its classic Beginner's Manual has sold close to 100,000 copies nationwide since its release in 1987. Now fully revised and updated with all new photographs and rev...

Practicing yoga is not necessarily the path of least resistance. And although the Sanskrit word asana translates to mean “a comfortable, easy position,” most yoga poses are neither comfortable nor easy. Working with them, however, makes daily life more comfortable and easy. So why integrate Western science into the ancient art of Hatha Yoga? Because scientific techniques enable you to intelligently design your practice and give you confidence in your teaching. Hatha Yoga works with the bod...

Writer and editor Bruce Black began studying yoga five years ago, when his knees could no longer stand the stress of running. After taking classes for a few years, he started keeping a journal to explore his experiences on the mat. Out of his journal and his devotion to Anusara Yoga has emerged a book that delves into the nexus of yoga, writing, and life.In Writing Yoga, Bruce begins by sharing tips he has learned along the way: the benefits of keeping a practice journal, ...

The Mat Companion series provides a methodical approach for using science to balance and connect the body and mind in yoga. The fourth book concludes the series with arm balances and inversions—two pose categories that clearly integrate opposites within the body. In our bipedal form, the hips and lower extremities are the weight-bearing construct. The more mobile shoulders and upper extremities allow us to interact with the world. In arm balances, we invert this construct, thereby strength...

Yoga for Busy People takes the complex and sometimes enigmatic practice of yoga and breaks it down into three simple steps — all of which can be completed in the time it takes to have a coffee break. In just minutes a day you can: alleviate stress, conserve and replenish your energy, increase your concentration, and better prepare yourself to face the demands of a busy schedule. Practical and inspiring, Yoga for Busy People shoes that yoga is for those of us who want to i...

Written by Barbara Currie, Britain’s number one name in yoga, this ebook is suitable for beginners through to experts. It allows every busy person to fit yoga into their day and see the benefits for perfect weight, perfect shape.Barbara Currie, the UK’s best-known yoga video star provides the perfect programme for busy people who want to get in shape after Christmas. Yoga is one of the best ways to hone muscles, get the perfect stomach, hips, thighs and arms, as well as grow in gra...

Meditation - Deep and Blissful comes with seven guided meditations as audio downloads — your free gift with purchase!  Details inside.  Newcomer or Seasoned Meditator?  This book is designed for both.  For the newcomer, it has practical guidelines with everything you need to know. For those who've tried meditation and found the experience disappointing — if you can't seem to settle down and...

Premodern and early modern yoga comprise techniques with a wide range of aims, from turning inward in quest of the true self, to turning outward for divine union, to channeling bodily energy in pursuit of sexual pleasure. Early modern yoga also encompassed countercultural beliefs and practices. In contrast, today, modern yoga aims at the enhancement of the mind-body complex but does so according to contemporary dominant metaphysical, health, and fitness paradigms. Consequently, yoga is now...

There are a lot of people who are crazy about yoga. The reason why most people do yoga is that it makes them feel better and in shape. The different poses and postures make their body healthy. Yoga for most is the best way to relax and unwind. If you want to keep your body in shape, this might be the best exercise for you.Did you know that yoga is good to fight certain illness that may come? There had been researches which proved that yoga helps you to control anxiety, reduces asth...