An experiential journey through the secret teachings and self-realization practices of the Kashmiri yogini tradition * Shares vivid, experiential descriptions of the author's sessions with master Lalita Devi wherein she imparted the essential principles of the Mahamudra to him physically, verbally, and energetically * Presents new translations of the most significant sacred books, including the Shiva Sutras, the Pratybhijna Hrdayam Sutra, and the Spandakarika, each presented in language that preserves their spontaneous mystic flow * Pairs the author's intellectual study of the sacred texts with direct transmissions from his teacher, with each perspective shedding light on the other In 1975, in an isolated Himalayan forest, Daniel Odier met Lalita Devi, a tantric yogini who took him on a mystical journey beyond the limits of sexual experience to transcend the ego, recognize the true self, and rediscover the Divine nature of absolute love. Now, Odier shares the secret teachings and self-realization practices of the Kashmiri Mahamudra (meditation on the mind itself) and the Pratyabhijna (the School of Sudden Recognition). The author offers vivid descriptions of his sessions with Lalita Devi wherein she imparted the essential principles of the Mahamudra and the yoga of emotions to him physically, verbally, and energetically. Lalita Devi knew the principal texts of Kashmiri Shaivism by heart. New translations of the most significant sacred books, including the Shiva Sutras, the Pratyabhijnahrdayam, and the Spandakarika, are provided by Odier along with chants and poems from the yogini tradition. Presented in language that preserves their spontaneous mystic flow and restores their original ancient female origins, Crazy Wisdom of the Yogini offers a profound inside look at authentic tantric teachings.

An ode to the life-changing magic of the simple act of walking. 'I've discovered that going for a daily walk has become as essential to me feeling good for the rest of the day as that first cup of tea. But I would argue that all I am doing is responding to a natural need we all have. Humans have always been migrants, the physiological urge to be nomadic is deep-rooted in all of us and perhaps because of that our brains are stimulated by walking. I solve all sorts of problems, formulate ideas, work things out to that gentle rhythm of self-propelled movement.' - Kate Humble Thinking on My Feet tells the story of Kate's walking year - shining a light on the benefits of this simple activity. Kate's inspiring narrative not only records her walks (and runs) throughout a single year, but also charts her feelings and impressions throughout - capturing the perspectives that only a journey on foot allows - and shares the outcomes: a problem solved, a mood lifted, an idea or opportunity borne. As she explores the reasons why we walk, whether for creative energy, challenge and pleasure, or therapeutic benefits, Kate's reflections and insights will encourage, motivate and spur readers into action. Also featured are Kate's walks with others who have discovered the magical, soothing effect of putting one foot in front of the other - the artist who walks to find inspiration for his next painting; the man who takes people battling with addiction to climb mountains; the woman who walked every footpath in Wales (3,700 miles) when she discovered she had cancer. This book will inspire you to change your perspective by applying walking to your daily endeavours.

Discover the art of silence

In our day-to-day lives, most of us are absolutely bombarded by sound and visual stimuli. We lurch from one activity to the next feeling stressed and overwhelmed. Messages from media, advertising and popular culture tell us that having more will help us find happiness, yet instead we feel overloaded and burnt out.

The Art of Silence offers us an antidote.

It explores how we can use silence as a strategy for living well; a guiding principle to help us reign in our chaotic lifestyles and redress the balance of this crazy, noisy world that we live in. It can give us the space we need to allow our bodies and minds to relax and become the healthy, wholesome individuals we want to be.

The Art of Silence explores three ways that we can harness the power of silence and bring more of it into our lives. It considers how we can take practical steps to quiet our environments and timetables; how we can cultivate peaceful relationships; and how we can work with the mind to nurture an inner peace, regardless of the circumstances.

LOVED THE POWER OF NOW? Take Eckhart Tolle's wisdom wherever you go with this pocket collection of nearly 200 life-changing and inspirational passages FROM THE NO. 1 BESTSELLER AND INTERNATIONAL PHENOMENON 'My No. 1 guru will always be Eckhart Tolle' CHRIS EVANS 'Essential spiritual teaching. One of the most valuable books I've ever read' OPRAH WINFREY ________ This portable collection of the very best inspiring quotes and passages from A New Earth is the perfect companion for navigating the stresses of modern life. It is for dipping into and reflecting upon whenever you are in need of wisdom, solace or motivation. It will help you on your path towards inner transformation and living in the moment. It is your personal guide to inner peace and wisdom. Take Oneness with All Life everywhere and discover a new you. ________ 'An otherworldly genius' Chris Evans 'A thought-provoking, inspirational companion to your inner journey. Dip in and find more space in your life for being' Health & Fitness

Papus s Elementary Treatise of Occult Science was one of the most influential books in the modern history of occultism. Never before published in English, this work explores a fascinating interpretation of the history of the world and develops a powerful approach to decoding esoteric symbolism, a crucial skill for contemporary occultists. Papus also provides a stunning analysis of ancient mysteries, including Hermeticism, Kabbalah, theurgy, magic, alchemy, theosophy, sacred geometry, the tetragrammaton, the pyramids, and much more. This premium hardcover edition will open the contemporary occultist s eyes to the ideas of one of history s most profound magical thinkers.

The Little Book of Sleep has all the information you need to enhance your life with a good night's sleep. How much sleep is normal? What might be preventing you from sleeping well? This trusty tome deals with both of these questions and more. The Little Book of Sleep shows which foods are over-stimulating and which are calming, looks at dreams and what they mean, provides advice on surviving long plane journeys and avoiding the dreaded jetlag, and ends with a few sleepy myths that will have you nodding off in no time. Top Tips to Ease the Stress There are some ways to make shift work more bearable. 1. When you are working, make sure the light is bright, and when you are meant to be sleeping, make sure the room is dark. 2. Don't wait until the night you start your shift to change sleeping patterns. Try to go to bed a little later each night in order to anticipate the change it will make to your wake-sleep patterns. 3. Eat proper meals and don't resort to convenience food and alcohol to help you wind down. You will cope better if you eat nourishing food.

Embrace your innate warrior skills--knowledge, balance, and wisdom--and amp up your personal power. This helpful handbook is chock-full of protection witchery and psychic self-defense techniques you can use to keep yourself and your home strong, secure, and protected. With her trademark humor and candor, best-selling author Ellen Dugan teaches how to weave safe and sensible protection magick into your Craft practice and daily life. This unique practical guide reveals how to pinpoint your psychic strengths, set boundaries, diagnose a problem with divination, and maintain health on physical, psychic, and magickal levels. You'll also find precise and potent spells, rituals, and warding techniques to defend against psychic attacks, emotional and psychic vampires, hexes, unwanted ghosts, and other forms of negativity threatening your home and your well-being.

This is a story of a magical life. A young girl with introductions to the elite of the ballet world discovers who she is through romantic encounters in Monte Carlo, Florence, London New York City and many more glamorous locations. She leaves the world of dance and becomes a Fashion Editor at one of the top fashion magazines in the world. But her jet set celebrity filled world of fashion does not provide her the happiness she seeks. Through a series of mystical and mysterious events, she awakens to a deeper calling and her true adventure begins. With twists and turns as sharp as any romance novel, this memoir is part fairy tale, part spiritual primer. Every reader will discover something new about life and about themselves. This is a book to be shared and enjoyed by those seeking the true meaning of their lives. Along the way they will participate in the exciting adventure of unpredictable events taking place in exotic locations across the globe.

For any country that has a large and diverse migrant population, it is a struggle to connect these people to the country’s institutions, including the healthcare system, which can be overwhelming in its complexity. Cultural and language barriers often make it difficult for doctors to fully understand the symptoms of their migrant patients, reach accurate diagnoses, or properly treat their suffering. Thus, medical practitioners must attempt new, innovative practices in order to reach patients where they are and convince them to accept treatment from doctors they don’t totally understand. In France, Serge Bouznah and Catherine Lewertowski have pioneered one such practice—that of transcultural mediation.    Drawn from two decades of their experience with transcultural mediation, Spirits in the Consulting Room tells the stories of eight patients—mainly migrants—and their families. Each chapter focuses on a different patient, and Christelle, Djibril, Moncef, Alhassane, Jacinthe, Amy, Cyril, Alice, and Pierre leap off the page as distinct people with unique situations. Together, these chapters reveal how patients’ comprehension of their symptoms is shaped by their cultural background, while recounting the challenges of translating that into terms the doctors can grasp.    The book shows how trained transcultural mediators can help to redress the power imbalance between doctors and the migrants they treat, providing patients with advocates who respect the authority of their background and experiences and don’t just take the side of the medical professionals. The groundbreaking insights modeled in this book can be applied to any medical situation where doctors and patients find themselves speaking different languages.   

A revised and updated, approachable and down-to-earth guide to understanding the chakras and their energy in the body.

A clairvoyant can see seven energy vortexes radiating like multi-colored suns along the axis of the human spine. These whorls of spinning energy are known as "chakras," the Sanskrit word for "wheel." Today the ancient awareness of chakras is recognized as a legitimate model for health and illness, providing us with a rich, complex method of organizing the holistic mind-body-spirit connection. This concise introduction to the chakras addresses what they are, where they are located, how they function, how they open and close, and how their energy can be changed. In a time when spirituality is preferred over religion, all you need to know about chakras is right here!

Plato and the Greeks called it 'daimon', the Romans 'genius', the Christians 'Guardian Angel' - and today we use terms such as 'heart', 'spirit' and 'soul'. For James Hillman it is the central and guiding force of his utterly unique and compelling 'acorn theory' which proposes that each life is formed by a particular image, an image that is the essence of that life and calls it to a destiny, just as the mighty oak's destiny is written in the tiny acorn. Highly accessible and imaginative, The Soul's Code offers a liberating vision of childhood troubles and an exciting approach to themes such as freedom, and, most of all, calling - that invisible mystery at the centre of every life that voices the fundamental question, 'What is in my heart that I must do, be and have? And why?'

The White Eagle teaching encourages kindness through the cultivation of tolerance, understanding, listening with the heart, comforting, bringing balance, trusting, seeing the best in others and smiling. We are shown ways in which we can cultivate this kindness within ourselves, and nurture it in others. The effects of this are personal growth and the development of a nurturing society. From a broader perspective White Eagle sees that, given the opportunity, little and great acts of kindness will manifest. This is something we have seen demonstrated a great deal over the past few years. The sayings in the calendar are accompanied by beautiful photos; many are flowers taken from a close-up angle - a reflection of the way White Eagle asks us to look out at the world, seeing through what is on the surface to the heart of others and responding to that with a spirit of kindness. The calendar is spiral-bound to be hung with a cardboard backing so it can also be placed on a desk or table.

Calm the hell down, live in the now, and get mindful as f*ck with these quick and snarky ways to live in the moment.

When the entire world seems on your ass about something, taking a second to chill out, collect your thoughts, and process your stress can help a lot. Mindful As F*ck shows you how to be present, centered, and positive so you can live in the now regardless of how you're feeling.

With straight-forward entries like "Slay Your Fear with Lion's Breath," "Set Your Intention Right Fucking Now," and "Write a Badass Haiku," this entertaining and effective book helps live your best life no matter what gets thrown your way.

In this little treasure, Thich Nhat Hanh offers us a Buddhist view of love along with techniques for manifesting it in our daily lives. In his characteristically direct, simple, and sweet style, he explores the four key aspects of love as described in the Buddhist tradition: lovingkindness, compassion, joy, and freedom. In "True Love", Thich Nhat Hanh explains that in order to love in a real way, we need to learn how to be fully present in our lives. Toward that end, he offers the technique of conscious breathing as a way of synchronizing the mind and the body and establishing the conditions for love. He goes on to offer a mantra practice for cultivating real love that consists of expressing four key statements or intentions in our relationships. In the concluding section of the book, Thich Nhat Hanh explains how we can bring love to bear on our own pain, fear, and negativity. He explains that we must not regard these things as bad and repress them. We must recognize them as part of us and allow them into our consciousness, where they can be cared for by the loving mother of mindfulness.

For women who've learned to be their own worst enemies, this in-your-face guide offers powerful tools to break free from the cultural messages that feed negative body image and stand in the way of becoming your most authentic and radiant self. Have you ever wondered what you could accomplish with the time you spend worrying about your body or appearance? In a society overwhelmed with messages of how women should be and appear, it's easy to internalize these ideas and become our own harshest critics. It's time for a change. It's time to stop squashing ourselves into painfully tight "should-be" boxes and celebrate our bodies for what they are-divine tools to reach our highest aspirations and experience the full fabulousness of life. In this book, you'll find a practical program for healing body image dissatisfaction using a unique blend of wisdom-from yoga to Buddhism and Taoism to shamanism and more. Weaving the author's own experiences with tools for putting lessons into action, this empowering book will help you examine your own thoughts and feelings about your body and learn how they affect the way you relate in and to the world. With this unflinchingly direct and honest book, you'll learn to release years of negative conditioning to see yourself as the fiercely authentic woman you really are. So, stop wasting time and energy hating your body and start moving toward a life that celebrates your body's unique strengths and capabilities for experiencing health, happiness and true radiance.