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Realizing the Power of Now: An In-Depth Retreat with Eckhart Tolle

With his international bestseller The Power of Now nearing one million copies in print, the humble man known as Eckhart Tolle is fast becoming America’s most popular spiritual teacher. Recognized for his unique ability to draw listeners into the awakened state he calls “presence,” Tolle continues to top bestseller lists and fill auditoriums with men and women seeking a deeper sense of connection with life. Now, in a momentous publishing event, Realizing the Power of Now invites listeners to immerse themselves in a full-length audio retreat with Eckhart Tolle.

Recorded at a rare five-day gathering led by Eckhart Tolle, here is a special opportunity for those familiar with his work — or hearing it for the first time — to transcend the finite world of fluctuating thoughts, ambitions, and fears, and touch their true essence. This all-new program includes insights into: entering the Now through the portal called “allow”, how to use the “inner body” and sense perceptions to find a peace that exists independent of conditions, expanding the space between thoughts for a deeper experience of the Now, and much more.

Spoken simply, with his hallmark warmth, humor, and compassion, here is Eckhart Tolle’s full presentation of a beautiful way to live that arises through Realizing the Power of Now.

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Long Weekend: Guidance and Inspiration for Creating Your Own Personal Retreat

With simple mindfulness activities, healthy recipes, and suggested itineraries to recharge, build community, and inspire creativity, this beautiful photo book is full of ideas that will inspire anyone seeking relaxation and reconnection. A great gift for all the busy people in your life…. and yourself.

Here is your guide and inspiration for a weekend retreat to inspire renewal. Whether you sneak away with some friends or just turn off your devices and hide the to do list at home, Long Weekend is full of ideas to spend a creative, artistic, technology-free weekend filled with exercises and resources that will leave you feeling refreshed and rejuvenated. Includes basic itineraries for how to shape the time in addition to rituals of renewal provided by experienced retreat leaders Richelle Donigan and Rachel Neumann. Beautiful photographs by lifestyle photographer Ericka McConnell will transport you, so that reading the book feels like a retreat in itself. Great for armchair travelers as well as those looking for help planning a weekend away.

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Meditate Your Weight: A 21-Day Retreat to Optimize Your Metabolism and Feel Great

THE MIND MAKEOVER THAT MAKES OVER YOUR METABOLISM
Hundreds of medical studies have shown the spectacular health benefits of meditation.  Now Tiffany Cruikshank, founder of Yoga Medicine, puts that scientific research to good, practical use by incorporating easy-to-use, targeted meditations into a unique weight-loss program. This 21-day plan optimizes health as well as body image by tapping the hidden strength of the mind.  We learn a whole new way to lose weight; and it takes just a few relaxing and energizing minutes a day.  Learn:
• How to get started: advice for new meditators (no weird positions or chants required)
• 3, 5, 7, and 10 minute meditations that bust cravings, break self-defeating habits, stress-proof the body, and reboot the brain
• What to eat—and the top 5 foods to consider avoiding
• How to continue your success after your 21-day retreat
• Bonus:  10 stress-relieving, cardio-revving yoga exercises to complement the plan
 
 Each day of the plan in Meditate Your Weight helps you explore and release what’s weighing you down physically, emotionally, and mentally—the mental blocks, thoughts, habits, and behaviors that stand in your way—to make it easier to think more clearly, make better choices, and maximize metabolism.   As you lighten up on the inside, you’ll lighten up on the outside.
 
Less stress=less belly fat.  More calm + more balance = a healthier you.

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The Heart of Bravery: A Retreat with Sakyong Mipham and Pema Chodron

Two of the world’s most beloved spiritual teachers and leading figures in the Shambhala tradition of Buddhism discuss the core principles and practices of the tradition and how personal meditation practice can forge an enlightened society.

Best-selling authors Pema Chödrön and Sakyong Mipham get to the heart of Shambhala practice in this recorded retreat on the ways that inner peace and bravery can help us cultivate compassionate action and positive societal change. They offer insight on the inherent strength and goodness of humanity and on how each of us can tap into that strength through meditation practice. Sakyong Mipham provides guided practices on core Shambhala meditations for developing courage, love for others, and respect for others’ basic human dignity; Pema Chödrön teaches extensively on how personal spiritual practice relates to community betterment; and a compelling panel discussion with Shambhala teacher Adam Lobel and Episcopal Rev. Marc Handley Andrus reviews how the retreat’s teachings can be brought to bear in today’s interconnected global society.

Running time: 4 hours, 45 minutes

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Giving Our Best: A Retreat with Pema Chodron on Practicing the Way of the Bodhisattva

The best-selling author and beloved Buddhist teacher shares her insights on the practice of compassion and enlightened mind (bodhichitta).

Teachings on bodhichitta and the bodhisattva path have been at the heart of the Mahayana Buddhist tradition for centuries. Drawing on the beloved classic The Way of the Bodhisattva by Shantideva and many years of personal practice, Pema Chödrön leads this retreat on cultivating practical wisdom and selfless compassion that will inspire both the experienced practitioner and the curious novice.
     Run time: 4 hours.

This recorded retreat with beloved author and Buddhist nun Pema Chödrön focuses on the subject of bodhichitta. Often translated as “enlightened mind” or “enlightened heart,” bodhichitta is central in Mahayana Buddhist practice, which includes many popular Buddhist forms and traditions such as Zen and Tibetan Vajrayana. Chödrön’s teachings in this retreat are based especially upon the beloved classic The Way of the Bodhisattva by Shantideva, an eighth-century treatise on the way to live as an enlightened being and the subject of her 2007 book No Time to Lose (now an audiobook as well). They show us how to become open to both our own suffering and the suffering of our troubled world–and, through this practice, the way to reach out and help with serenity, bravery, and wisdom. Blending traditional scriptural teachings with personal anecdotes and contemporary commentary, Chödrön orients the experienced practitioner and the curious novice alike to the essentials of the Buddhist path.