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...

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...

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...

Working with 12 common herbs, Amy Jirsa offers recipes and ideas to open your mind, strengthen your body, and nourish your spirit. In-depth profiles show you how to unlock the powerful properties of calendula, chamomile, cinnamon, dandelion, echinacea, elder, ginger, holy basil, lavender, nettle, rose, and turmeric through delicious teas and foods, luxurious salves, skin and hair care treatments, complementary yoga poses, and meditations. Discover the natural keys to radiant health and wel...

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...

Playful, simple, and beneficial yoga poses and mental exercises set in your real life to help alleviate pain and stress. No mat, big class, or huge time commitment required - just your commitment to feeling better and being happier!"Highly recommended as a way to create healthy habits for a more peaceful, happy life." -- New York Journal of BooksSold globally in Hong Kong, New Zealand, Canada and MoreTranslated and sold in RussiaAdvice from the book and author f...

Yoga is an important part of many lives today. Although it is considered a type of exercise, it has the potential to affect the emotional and psychological health of the individual, not just the physical state.Some people resist trying yoga. This may be because they believe it’s some kind of weird religious thing or that they must change their lifestyle completely.While yoga was indeed used in years past mostly by hippies, the practice has evolved into a more mainstream syste...