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A fun introductory guide to yoga anatomy for new and experienced yoga teachers, practitioners, and enthusiasts Knowledge of anatomy is a crucial part of every effective yoga practice, but the subject can be dry and difficult. Yoga Anatomy Made Simple provides a fun solution--it's a go-to guide to functional yoga anatomy, written for yoga practitioners looking to jump in and start applying key concepts to their work. Here, longtime yoga teacher Stuart Girling pairs his expertise with real-life examples and colorful, jaunty illustrations to create a book that serves as a playful introduction and refresher course for yogis, teachers, and trainers. Yoga Anatomy Made Simple provides simple explanations of key yoga-anatomy concepts, like patterns, variety, breath, and strength. The illustrations are diverse, body-inclusive, joyful, and fun--and mirror the author's own accessible, unpretentious approach to practical yoga anatomy. Concepts are demonstrated on different body parts, as well as t

An introduction to a new science-based somatic psychotherapy that effectively relieves emotional difficulties, regulates behavior, and improves wellbeing. Integral Somatic Psychology (ISP) is an easy-to-learn therapeutic modality developed by author and psychologist Dr. Raja Selvam, who believes optimal mental health relies on our ability to fully embody our emotions. Drawing on neuroscience, body-psychotherapy, somatic psychology, and cognitive-behavioral therapy, Selvam describes how our bodies can be used as vehicles for affective processing, thereby alleviating mental suffering while regulating behavior and enhancing memory, language, and critical thinking. Clinicians will learn capacity-building skills to teach their clients, like how to tolerate all feelings (especially the uncomfortable ones) while navigating life's inevitable challenges. Selvam describes what he sees as four new categories of emotional embodiment work: - Situation, which links context to affect response.- Emoti

An Indigenous environmental scientist breaks down why western conservationism isn't working--and offers Indigenous models informed by case studies, personal stories, and family histories that center the voices of Latin American women and land protectors. Despite the undeniable fact that Indigenous communities are among the most affected by climate devastation, Indigenous science is nowhere to be found in mainstream environmental policy or discourse. And while holistic land, water, and forest management practices born from millennia of Indigenous knowledge systems have much to teach all of us, Indigenous science has long been ignored, otherized, or perceived as soft--the product of a systematic, centuries-long campaign of racism, colonialism, extractive capitalism, and delegitimization. Here, Jessica Hernandez--Maya Ch'orti' and Zapotec environmental scientist and founder of environmental agency Pi鎙 Soul--introduces and contextualizes Indigenous environmental knowledge and proposes a vi

For users of Inner Compass Cards and The Wild Unknown Animal Spirit Deck, a nature-based 52-card deck and guidebook for the modern seeker.Each of the Cantigee oracle deck’s 52 beautifully illustrated circular cards serves as a conduit for wisdom, creativity, and spiritual nourishment. Cantigee is the song the Earth sings. It’s the spell it weaves, the enchantment it whispers--an invitation to deepen into ourselves, come home to our place within the living Earth, and exist in right relationship with the natural world. Grounded in nature-based archetypes like The Self-Tending Fire, The Juniper Caduceus, and The Voice of the Moon, The Cantigee Oracle offers you a space to reattune, reflect, and reconnect: to your own inner world, to yearnings and inspirations, and to the Earth that sustains us all. Each card in this versatile deck can be used as:Part of a weekly year-round practicePrompts for spiritual practiceInspiration for ecological activismInspirational icons and creative se

For readers of Emergent Strategy and Dare to Lead, an activist’s roadmap to long-term social justice impact through four simple shifts.We need a fundamental shift in our values―a pivot in how we think