In Sweat Your Prayers, internationally acclaimed movement and theater artist Gabrielle Roth translates to the printed page the insights of her nearly forty years of teaching personal and spiritual development. Her workshops, attended by thousands around the world, teach us to realize our potential for ecstasy as we experience movement and ritual-theater techniques.

The book is a journey through five universal rhythms—flowing, staccato, chaos, lyrical, and stillness. These rhythms can free the body and spirit from ordinary consciousness and catalyze motion deep in the psyche. Complete with personal stories and interactive exercises, Sweat Your Prayers reveals an ancient and contemporary method for unleashing a natural sense of movement, resulting in both personal power and presence of the soul.

Eric Muller has been trying to hack the girlfriend problem for half his life. As a teenage geek, he discovered his gift for programming computers-but his attempts to understand women only confirm that he's better at writing code than connecting with human beings. Brilliant, neurotic, and lonely, Eric spends high school in the solitary glow of a screen.
By his early twenties, Eric's talent has made him a Silicon Valley millionaire. He can coax girls into bed with ironic remarks and carefully timed intimacies, but hiding behind wit and empathy gets lonely, and he fears that love will always be out of reach.
So when Eric falls for the beautiful, fiercely opinionated Maya Marcom, and she miraculously falls for him too, he's in new territory. But the more he learns about his perfect girlfriend's unresolved past, the further Eric's obsessive mind spirals into confusion and doubt. Can he reconcile his need for order and logic with the mystery and chaos of love?
This brilliant debut ushers Eric Muller-flawed, funny, irresistibly endearing-into the pantheon of unlikely heroes. With an unblinking eye for the absurdities and horrors of contemporary life, Gabriel Roth gives us a hilarious and heartbreaking meditation on self consciousness, memory, and love.

Imagine David Nicholls's One Day as retold by Woody Allen and you'll get a pretty good idea of what to expect with Gabriel Roth's The Unknowns. It's not easy to pursue the most alluring woman in North America when you're a misfiring circuit of over-analytical self-doubt and she has a way with a killer line and a perfectly raised eyebrow. Even, that is, when you've survived your teen years as an outcast in the school computer room to become a dot com millionaire. But as Eric Muller refines his email technique, his date patter, and his ability to shut up after sex, he finds there's more to Maya Marcom than meets the eye. Will our hero be driven to uncover the whole truth about his lover - or will they continue in bliss and wonder? Welcome to the hilarious, neurotic, and peculiarly perceptive world of The Unknowns.

Seit Bekanntwerden der vielen Falle sexueller Gewalt und emotionalen Missbrauchs in padagogischen Institutionen steht die Padagogik vor der Herausforderung, die Distanz- und Naheverhaltnisse padagogischer Beziehungen neu zu thematisieren. Dabei geht es auf der Beziehungsebene um die Klarung missverstandlicher Semantiken und Strukturen, die eine Uberschreitung gebotener Grenzen begunstigen. Auf der sachlichen Ebene padagogischer Beziehungen sind Distanzen im Blick auf Inhalten zu uberbrucken, die die Heranwachsenden vor allem im Kontext der Schule nicht ohne Hilfe verstehen konnen. Das Buch befasst sich mit Begriffen, Strukturen und Kontexten padagogischer Beziehungen und gibt Antworten darauf, wie viel "Nahe" beim Erziehen und Unterrichten notig ist, damit Kinder auf dem Weg zum Erwachsenwerden ausreichend Wissen und Konnen erwerben und soziale Zuwendung bzw. Unterstutzung erfahren konnen. Ebenso steht die Reflexion der gebotenen "Distanz" in Erziehungsverhaltnissen an, ohne die Heranwachsende die wunschenswerte Selbstandigkeit nicht erreichen konnen.