Shambhala imprint: 827 books
Mind at Ease
Self-Liberation through Mahamudra Meditation
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2004
"In this uniquely insightful overview and practice guide, Traleg Kyabgon presents a thorough introduction to the Kagyu lineage's Mahamudra tradition. The author's approach is straightforward—he presents the Mahamudra teachings as a means of seeing things in, as he says, "a positive and...
Mindful Learning
Mindfulness-Based Techniques for Educators and Parents to Help Students
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
Mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR), as pioneered by Jon Kabat-Zinn and others, is now being successfully applied in myriad areas of human activity—and most recently, in education. It’s no surprise that psychologists and educators have found that mindfulness-based practices improve attention...
The Heart Is Noble
Changing the World from the Inside Out
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013
If you are inspired to take up his challenge, the Karmapa offers a path for participating in a global community that is based on compassion. In these chapters, he shares his vision for bringing social action into daily life, on a scale we can realistically manage through the choices we make every...
Hooked!
Buddhist Writings on Greed, Desire, and the Urge to Consume
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2005
At one time or another, most of us have experienced an all-consuming desire for a material object, a desire so strong that it seems like we couldn't possibly be happy without buying this thing. Yet, when we give in to this impulse, we often find ourselves feeling frustrated and empty. Advertisers,...
Mindfully Green
A Personal and Spiritual Guide to Whole Earth Thinking
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2008
With all the attention on living sustainably, the one thing missing from the conversation is how to find a personal connection with green living that will sustain us on our green path. While practical approaches to an eco-responsible lifestyle offer important first steps, it is critical that we ground...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2000
A comprehensive collection of classic texts, contemporary interpretations, guidelines for activists, issue-specific information, and materials for environmentally-oriented religious practice. Sources and contributors include Basho, the Dalai Lama, Thich Nhat Hanh, Gary Snyder, Chögyam Trungpa, Gretel Ehrlich, Peter Mathiessen, Helen Tworkov (editor of Tricycle), and Philip Glass.
The Inner Tradition of Yoga
A Guide to Yoga Philosophy for the Contemporary Practitioner
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
A wise, accesible guide that makes the spiritual and ethical teachings of the yogic tradition immediately relatable to our practice on the mat--and in our everyday relationships and activities. Now revised and updated.
“There is no daily practice without some formal training; and there is...
Teaching Yoga
Exploring the Teacher-Student Relationship
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Drawing on decades of experience in training yoga teachers, Donna Farhi offers the first book to set professional standards for yoga teachers. Teaching Yoga explores with depth and compassion a variety of topics both practical and philosophical, including how to create healthy boundaries; the student-teacher...
Yogabody
Anatomy, Kinesiology, and Asana
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016
In Yogabody, author Judith Hanson Lasater writes, "You can’t fully understand the dynamic movement of asana without first understanding the basic structure of the human body." Drawing on almost forty years of experience as a yoga teacher and physical therapist, she focuses here on macroanatomy...
The Everyday Ayurveda Cookbook
A Seasonal Guide to Eating and Living Well
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
Keeping digestion on track is the key to health in Ayurveda, and eating natural, homemade foods in accordance with personal constitution and changes in environment is often all that we need to find balance. In The Everyday Ayurveda Cookbook, Kate O’Donnell inspires you to get into the kitchen and...
Everyday Ayurveda Cooking for a Calm, Clear Mind
100 Simple Sattvic Recipes
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
Eat your way to increased energy, balanced emotions, and an overall state of calm and relaxation.
In Ayurvedic medicine there are said to be three main energies that affect our mind:
• sattva, the state of contentment and calm;
• rajas, the state of reactivity and excitability;...
The Zen of You and Me
A Guide to Getting Along with Just About Anyone
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
How to deal with interpersonal conflict--from a Zen perspective.
The people who get under your skin the most can in fact be your greatest teachers. It’s not a matter of overlooking differences, as is often taught, but of regarding those difficult aspects of the relationship with curiosity...
Sword and Brush
The Spirit of the Martial Arts
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 1995
This moment of perfect clarity that is the force behind all the traditional Japanese arts—from archery to flower arranging—is celebrated here in Dave Lowry's exploration of the common principles shared by calligraphy and the martial arts.
Forty-two examples of Lowry's calligraphy, accompanied...
Zen Essence
The Science of Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2000
Drawn from the records of Chinese Zen masters of the Tang and Song dynasties, this collection may surprise some readers. In contrast to the popular image of Zen as an authoritarian, monastic tradition deeply rooted in Asian culture, these passages portray Zen as remarkably flexible, adaptive to contemporary...