"Just reading this book, gives such a profound feeling of inner peace."-Kathy Brownlee

This is a new category of yoga book that takes yoga beyond the mat and into your life. Everyone can have more peace and happiness, but in a complicated world, to live a 'less stressed life', you need more than just a wish for peace. You need both the practices and the wisdom of the yoga tradition.

Discover how to:
*Simplify your life.

*Get in touch with what really matters to you.
*Incorporate peace into each and every day.
*Calm your mind and focus your energy.
*Realize: you are free to be happy; right here, right now.

With grace, humor and insight, Neal reveals the secrets of a tradition that stretches back to the dawn of civilization. Here you have the wisdom that has enlightened people for centuries. So take this book, put yourself on the right path, and make the most out of your life and your right to be happy.

The book comes with a free CD which includes:
*A 25 minute yoga class: simple poses for a healthier body and to increase your energy and vitality- illustrated in book.
*A 20 minute meditation workshop, with full instructions, plus tips on the authentic, time-tested methods for calming the mind.
*20 minutes of smoothing music to enjoy as you read the section: The Wisdom of Yoga for Everyday Life

• How to adjust or assist someone who is performing a yoga posture
• How to perform the yoga adjustments using effective body mechanics and leverage
• Multiple variations for adjusting a posture
• How to use yoga props
• Verbal cues to help your yoga student or partner
• Ways to accommodate different body types
• How to safely take your students deeper into the yoga postures

The book also features a thought provoking section on how to navigate the physical, mental, and emotional challenges of being a yoga teacher or yoga student. It candidly discusses topics such as:

• Dealing with difficult emotions before, during, or after class
• Coping with thoughts that can surface during yoga class or home practice
• Managing expectations and judgments about ourselves, our teachers, and our students
• Dealing with unusual situations in the classroom
• Handling competitiveness, jealousy, nervousness

The international yoga community will greatly benefit from this book.

_______THIS BOOK IS ALSO AVAILABLE IN SPANISH - SE PUEDE COMPRAR EN ESPAÑOL_______

Este libro es la primera guía extensa y comprensible para instructores y estudiantes de yoga, que provee todos los detalles de como ajustar y asistir a alguien mientras realiza una postura de yoga. Con la reciente popularidad que el Yoga ha adquirido, este libro es invaluable para millones de personas que enseñan o practican esta disciplina. Las claras instrucciones y la generosa cantidad de fotos facilitan a los instructores el aprendizaje y comprensión de como asistir a sus estudiantes. Los mismos estudiantes pueden utilizar esta guía para profundizar en su práctica personal, aplicando los principios en parejas. En el libro se demuestran y explican las técnicas de ajuste y asistencia para más de 65 posturas ilustrándolas con alrededor de 200 fotos.

Usted puede aprender:

• Como ajustar y asistir a alguien mientras realiza una postura de yoga
• Como ejecutar ajustes utilizando mecánicas corporales efectivas
• Múltiples variantes de como ajustar en una postura
• Frases que pueden ayudar a sus estudiantes o parejas/compañeros de yoga
• Maneras de acomodar diferentes tipos de cuerpos
• Como ayudar a sus estudiantes a profundizar en las posturas de manera segura

La comunidad internacional de yoga se beneficiará enormemente con este libro.

Mountain climbing, (as all of life), can be viewed as a process, as compared to purely goal orientation, allowing the climber to absorb more from the action and assessment, less from achieving the objective of a climb.

A mountain trip is a compressed learning experience; in the crucible of fear and fatigue, self-concepts, personality, and emotions are all tested. Each climb is like a different life experience. The author's adventures are often influenced by the local cultures in Nepal, India, and Greece. And in the peaks of western Canada and the United States the climbers he admired or otherwise provided lessons for a searching mind.

The Yoga Sutras were compiled about 2,000 years ago by the sage Patanjali from an oral tradition reaching back into unknowable antiquity. He gives us the essential wisdom for the practice of yoga and meditation to know, first hand, the essence of our true Self-the conscious indweller that enlivens this body. Experiencing the fully conscious state shows us the essential transcendent nature of the universe to bring us a state of undisturbed joyous tranquillity. Traditionally, this wisdom has been handed down from master to student as a transmission of the means to liberation. Patanjali tells us that the pure blissful inner Self is already attained and all that is required is to lose interest in that which is not the Self. This is pretty straight forward, and we learn all we need to know in the first three sutras. Presuming we will not get it the first time, he goes on to detail the nature of the Self, the practices that will awaken us, the attainments that arise from the practices and then explains about the state of final liberation. Throughout the book we are reminded of two fundamental practices that lead to the final state, kaivalya. One practice is vairagya (dispassion, non-attachment) and the other is viveka (discrimination). In the practice of viveka, we learn to discriminate between the mind and the watcher of the mind (consciousness itself). When we can rest in the state of consciousness knowing itself; we answer the question, "Who am I?"

Also available from this author: The Inner Yoga of Happiness

The Yoga Sutras were compiled about 2,000 years ago by the sage Patanjali from an oral tradition reaching back into unknowable antiquity. He gives us the essential wisdom for the practice of yoga and meditation to know, first hand, the essence of our true Self-the conscious indweller that enlivens this body. Experiencing the fully conscious state shows us the essential transcendent nature of the universe to bring us a state of undisturbed joyous tranquillity. Traditionally, this wisdom has been handed down from master to student as a transmission of the means to liberation. Patanjali tells us that the pure blissful inner Self is already attained and all that is required is to lose interest in that which is not the Self. This is pretty straight forward, and we learn all we need to know in the first three sutras. Presuming we will not get it the first time, he goes on to detail the nature of the Self, the practices that will awaken us, the attainments that arise from the practices and then explains about the state of final liberation. Throughout the book we are reminded of two fundamental practices that lead to the final state, kaivalya. One practice is vairagya (dispassion, non-attachment) and the other is viveka (discrimination). In the practice of viveka, we learn to discriminate between the mind and the watcher of the mind (consciousness itself). When we can rest in the state of consciousness knowing itself; we answer the question, "Who am I?"

Also available from this author: The Inner Yoga of Happiness

This unique book by Swami Muktibodhananda is a different kind of yoga book. It helps you integrate your spiritual life with your worldly life. The book provides methods that will enable you to experience your mind, body and soul consciousness as a complete being.

Yoga does not interfere with your religious life. When you realise the expression of soul in every cell of your body, you can experience true joyousness. Swami Muktibodhananda has encorporated a western understanding into her very broad knowledge of the fundamentals and traditions of yoga. This is a practical book with clear photographic illustrations of yoga postures, breathing and meditation as a well as very human advice on finding your path to true joyousness.

An essential guide to some of the many practices of Yoga, this book casts a spotlight on the basics, meant to ignite the fire of yoga in your heartmind. A Vibrant Life is especially for people who might be intimidated by yoga classes, who have limitations, or who think they are not young or flexible enough to learn yoga. If you're reading this page, and breathing, you can practice yoga!

You will find introductions to the foundations of yoga (including breathing and meditation practices) which delight your mind, and invite you to explore further the rich mine of freedom and vibrant living that awaits you.

A unique feature is the "three levels of practice". Each level contains many of the same poses in different variations. The first level is right for someone who is relatively healthy, in reasonably good condition and who has no major limitations.

The second level is adapted for someone with some physical limitations who needs to avoid further injury or discomfort. It is also ideal for people who are a bit out-of-shape and need to begin with a gentler practice.

The third level is with a chair for those whose physical strength or abilities invite a more supported practice. Using a chair-assistant brings the benefits of yoga while honoring the need for safe support.

Choose the appropriate pose from any of three levels, mixing them as you respond to each day's needs. This allows you to create your personal practice each day. Enjoy!

What's the Yoga of Wealth? What's Yoga? What's real happiness? What's love? What's spirituality?

Being born we experience ourselves as a separate nervous system. Evolutionary defaults are understandably geared for survival and protection of this separate nervous system. Everyone is destined to die, for our separate nervous system experience to terminate.

The Yoga of Wealth takes you on a journey of understanding and integration. Understanding the structure, experience and importance of separation. Integrating this experience within the teachings of possibility, we can also compellingly know the core essence of ourselves as the source and totality of the universe. This 'radikal freedom' balances all action, thought and feeling with the experiential view of the great totality.

The Yoga of Wealth leads from the inherent tensions of separation to the ease and freedom of a deep sense of connection. This process, by means of a wealth of teachings and an abundance of experiential practices, leads one to this realisation of 'radikal freedom'.

The Yoga of Wealth honours process, celebrates desire and assists the reader to work effectively and playfully with these powerful forces. The Yoga of Wealth teaches the path to this transcendent experiential view of reality as inclusion and immanence. Immanence is engagement with the fullness of our experience within the form and structures of the world as it is, here and now. What is Yoga? What is real happiness? What is love? What is spirituality? What is real wealth? What is it to be free? Read the Yoga of Wealth.

The Distracted Centipede is about awakening to the unified sense of your whole being — body, mind, spirit — through the practice of Yoga and Mindfulness. It is about listening and tuning in to your body, gradually realising that wholeness can only be retrieved by identifying and letting go of unnecessary holding on. If you can stop straining you might discover that inside that tense, unbalanced body there is a 'sensible body' which can be effortlessly at ease, with the energy flowing freely and the mind becoming calm. In the midst of the mental storm there is stillness where we can experience our presence.

Who is this book for?
It is for everybody, regardless of age, physical condition, sex, or religious beliefs. It is based on the common sense that our mental, physical and spiritual health depends on our being able to take on the management of our inner world . . . by entering the journey of becoming aware, letting go of our restrictive conditioning and opening our heart to love. It is never too early and never too late to start and continue!

Dr Leon Redler MD writes: "There are many books on Yoga available today which address our desire for health and fitness, lower s’ress levels, feeling well and looking good. This book delivers all that . . . and more. Moreover, it does so in a way that is fresh and timely, while faithful to the source roots of ancient practice.

It is profoundly relevant to how we live our ordinary, everyday lives, and opens the possibility of transforming and uplifting the ordinary to the extraordinary without special techniques and without jumping on the bandwagon of yet another and latest healing fad, regimen or guru.

There's an implicit assertion here, namely, that the ordinary is truly extraordinary and would be realised as such if only we, in the form of our habitual, distracted selves, could keep out of the way of that realisation. 'The Distracted Centipede' shows a way to find all that is needed just as we are, acknowledging our relationship to the forces at play through and around us . . . and, in the course of that, being on course for relationships of greater ease, authenticity and responsibility with others."

Igor Charkowsky - Russian water birth pioneer - writes:
"This book will have a very important influence." "It is different from other books on the subject where Yoga postures are practised with a physical emphasis and without creating space for feeling the deep, subtle mechanisms that lie behind the postures and movements."

Andrew Feldmár, R. Psych., writes: When Mina sent me the manuscript of her book 'The Distracted Centipede' I was reminded that I've known the authorless ditty, from which she borrowed, for many years, but until now I didn't realise its essential message:

The centipede was happy quite
Until a toad in fun
Said, 'Pray, which leg comes after which?'
This raised her mind to such a pitch
She lay distracted in a ditch
Considering how to run.

Every midwife, obstetrician, birth coach, all the experts who want to help women to give birth might do well to meditate upon these few lines of wise poetry. The martial arts, yoga, meditation, music, dance, and singing - all teach, transmit the same wisdom: GET OUT OF THE WAY!

Life knows how to bring new life into this world. Life knows how to protect itself. Life lives us. We are not surviving because of our cleverness and heroic efforts; we survive in spite of them. Faith is surrender to that which lives us. Life knows how to walk the centipede; the self-conscious centipede doesn't. Toad's question became a debilitating distraction.

Andrew Feldmár, R. Psych., is a psychologist practising psychotherapy in Vancouver, Canada, for the past 35 years now. He studied and worked with R. D. Laing from 1974 until Laing's death in 1989. He writes and teaches internationally.

Mina Semyon writes:
This book is about how I got to 'here' from 'there'. 'Here' is where I got smart — figured out that the present moment is the only place where guilt and blame, pride and shame, fear and hate have no breeding ground. 'There' is where I lay, 'Distracted in a ditch, considering how to live', in the grip of early painful memories - from which there seemed to be no escape.

Once Upon a Pose will provide parents and teachers with all they need to know to practice yoga with kids. This one-of-a-kind guide shows you step-by-step:

• how to teach yoga to kids ages 3-12,
• pose descriptions with cheerful models,
• breathing exercises with suggestions for asthmatics,
• relaxation techniques with easy to implement five minute guided imagery sessions.

Once Upon a Pose will provide parents and teachers with all they need to know to practice yoga with kids. This one-of-a-kind guide shows you step-by-step:

• how to teach yoga to kids ages 3-12,
• pose descriptions with cheerful models,
• breathing exercises with suggestions for asthmatics,
• relaxation techniques with easy to implement five minute guided imagery sessions.