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Big Gal Yoga: Exercises, Affirmations, and Poses to Help You Find Self-Acceptance and Empowerment

Instagram star Valerie Sagun is a powerful voice in the body-positive movement: With 120,000 followers on Instagram and constant traffic on her Tumblr site, readers love her for her fearless message and insights on the benefits of yoga for all bodies.

Rejecting the idea that all yogis have to be skinny white women in fancy Lululemon gear, Valerie—size 22, mixed race, and tattooed—offers readers all of the inspiration and guidance they need to become yogis at any size.

Yoga has long been one of the most popular fitness trends in the U.S., and the body positivity community is now bigger than ever. The success of TLC’s My Big Fat Fabulous Life and model Tess Holliday prove that there’s a growing audience of women longing to see themselves represented on the screen and in the pages of books.

Big Gal Yoga is perfect for everyone, from yoga novices to more experienced yogis. And while Valerie provides plenty of tips for plus-size yogis, anyone can follow her yoga instruction. Her message of body positivity is also a universal one-no matter the insecurity, Valerie’s honest advice and encouragement can help anyone find self-love through yoga.

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Yoga 365: Daily Wisdom for Life, On and Off the Mat

Yoga 365 presents a year’s worth of daily readings that invite yoga lovers of every skill level to bring the inspiration they experience on their mats into their everyday lives. Each entry explores a mind-body theme such as balance, strength, and resilience in a short, illuminating paragraph that can be enjoyed in the morning or at bedtime, incorporated into a yoga session, or read on the go. Featuring a serenely beautiful hardcover and a spacious, color-washed interior, the package is as calming in the hand as the readings are to the eye. Yogis will find it to be a motivating tool for personal growth and a lighthearted, gift-worthy way to share the joys of their practice with others.

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Mindfulness:: 100+ Amazing Mindfulness Tips, Exercises & Resources. Bonus: 200+ Mindfulness Quotes to Live By! (Mindfulness for Beginner’s, … Yoga & Mindfulness, Anxiety & Mindfulness)

Want To Learn to Live In The Present?

Discover How You Can Be More Mindful In Your Daily Life

Many of you may be asking, “What the heck is mindfulness in the first place”. I know that was my initial reaction when I first introduced to the concept a few years back. Well, this isn’t some new idea. The concept of mindfulness has been around for over a thousand years.

Being mindful means living in each moment and experiencing it fully. It teaches you how to become fully aware of yourself and your surroundings, while also improving focus and attentiveness. Mindfulness has been scientifically proven to help improve symptoms of insomnia, depression, anxiety, along with aiding in stress relief and better general well being.

Mindfulness can teach you how to stop worrying over your future and start living in the present. It’ll help you focus your energy and passion into living a happier and more productive life. I’ve found that once I started practicing mindfulness in my daily life I was able to increase my productivity at work, and still have plenty of time to spend experiencing life with my friends and family.

Inside this book you’ll find a ton of tips, strategies and exercises you can begin using to live in the moment and start reaping all the benefits of a more mindful life.

Inside You Will Learn:

An Introduction to Mindfulness

The Benefits Of Mindfulness

How to Begin On The Path to Mindfulness

11 Mindfulness Exercises to Get You Started!

Yoga & Mindfulness

Meditation & Mindfulness

Anxiety & Mindfulness

55+ Mindfulness Tips for Beginner’s

15 Mindfulness Apps & Resources to Improve Your Life!

Plus Bonus: 200+ Mindfulness Quotes to Live Your Life By!

Much, Much More!!

The information in this book can help to transform your life in new and exciting ways!

>>Don’t Delay. Download This Book Now.

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Yoga & Life Empowerment: A Six-week, Self-study Practice Using Asana, Meditation & Diet to Achieve Happiness & Peace

Yoga & Life Empowerment is designed for beginners and advanced yoga practitioners alike. It is a personal, six-week guide for anyone seeking a positive change in their life by transcending negative thought patterns and finding both physical and spiritual strength. The program brings out the spiritual practice of Nahi Warrior Yoga, which encompasses asana, meditation, and self-discovery to allow the practice of yoga to lead into a deeper connection to spirit, release our fears, and discover that we are all connected in every way. This timeless manual provides yoga sequences and instructional pictures, nutritional recommendations on eating clean and pure foods, including a fruit feast, and offers interactive and dynamic self-practices to begin living the life you want to live.

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Kokoro Yoga: Maximize Your Human Potential and Develop the Spirit of a Warrior–the SEALfit Way

Kokoro Yoga, by New York Times bestselling author and former U.S. Navy SEAL Mark Divine, is an integrated physical, mental, and spiritual training, designed initially for the nation’s elite special-ops soldiers and now taught to anyone seeking to develop the heart and mind of a warrior. Kokoro, the Japanese concept of warrior spirit―or merging heart and mind into action―is the central focus of Divine’s new approach to teaching yoga.

Coach Divine’s yoga sequences are focused to adapt to all physical and mental capabilities, combining breathing, meditation, and visualization into both traditional poses as well as cross-training/combat-conditioning exercises. His decades of experience with amateur and professional athletes, active and aspiring Navy SEALs, and wounded warriors uniquely qualifies him as an expert motivator and teacher.

With Kokoro Yoga the practitioner will:

* Get an unbeatable full-body workout through body-weight functional movements that can be done at home or on the on go
* Increase flexibility while building long, lean muscle mass
* Improve physical and mental balance, focus, and control at all levels―including a special segment designed for those recovering from PTSD
* Find emotional, intuitional, and spiritual harmony to achieve peak performance

Coach Divine’s methods have been tested by the toughest warriors in the world. Use this book as a guide to experience the profound power of yoga as a developmental system that will allow you to break through any barriers holding you back.

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Yoga At Home: Inspiration for Creating Your Own Home Practice

The definitive guide to creating your own home yoga practice from the leading experts of Yoga Journal. Although yoga studios continue to proliferate, students are increasingly looking to enhance their studio experience with a personal home practice. Yoga at Home not only provides all the ingredients necessary, but this accessible how-to book also offers a visual feast of pose sequences and routines by top instructors and practitioners as photographed in their own homes. 
This accessible, photo-intensive, practice-oriented book provides everything needed to enrich a home yoga practice, including how to put together a well-rounded practice, how to expand on or vary that practice, and how-to sequences of poses and practices to follow at home. Along with exercises and advice from famous yoga teachers and practitioners such as Seane Corn, Rodney Yee, David Life and Sharon Gannon, Shiva Rea, and Elena Brower, the book features never-before-seen pose sequences showing these teachers practicing their favorite yoga poses in their homes and exploring the ways in which they use their personal spaces to complement their yoga routines. The practical tips, sequencing ideas, and inspiration found in the teachings of yoga—both ancient and contemporary—will resonate with both students and teachers at every level of practice.

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Soul to Soul: Poems, Prayers and Stories to End a Yoga Class

Yoga continues to be a growth industry with an estimated thirty million people in North America now practicing either privately or in most cases with a class. Though the yoga market is fractured by the great number of competing schools and philosophies, what they all have in common is the ending of the session with a period of relaxation coupled with inspiring readings.

Soul to Soul fills just this need with a beautiful collection of 150 inspiring perfect-length readings plus tens of quotes that are just right for ending a yoga class or private session. Honoring many spiritual traditions, it’s the perfect teaching tool or gift for yoga teachers and practitioners, or for anyone seeking uplifting messages for any occasion. Includes writing by Swami Kripalu, Thich Nhat Hanh, Deepak Chopra, Eckart Tolle, H.H the Dalai Lama, Don Miguel Ruiz, quotes from Rumi, Hafiz, Gandhi, Meister Eckart, Lao Tzu, as well as selections from the Bhagavad Gita, and the Yoga Sutras of Pantajali. Unlike most books intended for yoga teachers, Soul to Soul has strong appeal to teachers in nearly any tradition, and to a wider range of their students.

John Mundahl has been a yoga teacher and practitioner for over thirty-six years. He was a resident at the original Kripalu Yoga Ashram in Sumneytown, Pennsylvania, from 1977–1981, the four years of Swami Kripalu’s remarkable stay. He is the author of twelve books, including From the Heart of the Lotus, the Teaching Stories of Swami Kripalu. He lives in St. Peter, Minnesota.

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Musicians Yoga: A Guide To Practice Performance And Inspiration

(Berklee Press). Become a better musician through yoga. By integrating yoga into your practice routines, you will develop a more focused and concentrated mind for performance. You will be able to increase awareness of how you use your body to allow for proper posture and ease of movement while performing, helping you to avoid overuse injuries and play with greater expression. These concepts, exercises, and practice routines present yoga from the musicians’ perspective, focusing on the direct relationships between using yoga and creating music. You will learn to: * Practice meditation approaches, breathing techniques, and yoga postures that will help improve musicianship * Play using healthy posture and technique * Get more out of your practice through improved focus * Use your breath to improve your phrasing and also to ease performance anxiety * Play with deeper expression through inspiration.

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Yoga For Pregnancy: Poses, Meditations, and Inspiration for Expectant and New Mothers

The physical, emotional, and spiritual benefits of yoga are invaluable during the profound journey of pregnancy. From increased strength and balance to a deeper feeling of connection with the life growing inside you, prenatal yoga will help you feel your best during this sacred time.

Yoga for Pregnancy offers detailed, precise instruction for over a hundred yoga poses to support you during pregnancy, labor, and postpartum. Accompanying sequences focus on a range of applications, from quick daily practices to poses for common pregnancy ailments. Woven throughout the book, you’ll find resources to help prepare you for an empowered labor. Filled with modifications, tips, and abundant illustrations, this is an indispensable text for both beginners and advanced practitioners alike.

Going beyond physical posture practice, Yoga for Pregnancy also includes guidance on meditation, visualization, devotional chanting, nutrition, herbal remedies, and other tools to inspire and nourish you and your baby.