S-T-R-E-T-C-H, STRENGTHEN, AND MEDITATE—WITH YOUR BABYPracticing yoga with your baby—as you hold your baby, have your baby next to you, or have your baby leaning against your thighs or atop your belly—is a wonderful way to add joy to your first year together. Popular yoga teacher Jyothi Larson shares the specially adapted yoga poses she has taught to hundreds of moms and their “Buddha babies,” her term for the happy and calm babies in her classes.Whether yo...

***A NEW YORK TIMES HUMOR BESTSELLER*By theauthor of I Like You Just the Way I Am and a frequent Chelsea contributor, an outrageous collection of personal stories about motherhood, responsibility, and other potential disasters**Jenny Mollen is a writer and actress living in New York. Until two years ago, her lifewas exciting, sexy, a little eccentric, and one hundred percent impulsive. She had a husband who embraced her crazy—who understood her ne...

Here is a personal tribute to "the father of modern yoga" Sri Tirumalai Krishnamacharya (1888–1989), written by one of his longtime disciples. Krishnamacharya was a renowned Indian yoga master, Ayurvedic healer, and scholar who modernized yoga practice and whose students—including B. K. S. Iyengar, K. Pattabhi Jois, T. K. V. Desikachar, and Indra Devi—dramatically popularized yoga in the WestIn this book, the author, A. G. Mohan, a well-respected yoga teacher and yoga therapist, dr...

A CNQ Editors' Book of the YearA Dropped Threads-style anthology, assembling original and inspiring works by some of Canada's best younger female writers — such as Heather Birrell, Saleema Nawaz, Susan Olding, Diana Fitzgerald Bryden, Carrie Snyder, and Alison Pick — The M Word asks everyday women and writers, some of whom are on the unconventional side of motherhood, to share their emotions and tales of maternity.Whether they are stepmoth...

From Punky to parenting, Soleil Moon Frye shares insightful, realistic, in-the-trenches parenting advice, inspiration, and fun.Enthusiastic, spunky, and positive, Punky Brewster was the quintessential eighties kid. Nearly thirty years later, Soleil Moon Frye-the adorable girl who played her on TV-is all grown up. Now she's a married mom of two, an entrepreneur who parlayed her successful kids' clothing line into a partnership with Target, and a social media whiz wi...

Do You Want to Transform Your Daily Routine?Losing weight can be such a challenge, right? Hours on hours, day after day, month after month in the gym and obtaining minimal results. It can be incredibly boring, running on a treadmill? No thanks. Not to mention the low self-esteem as a result of the constant effort and no reward.So, what's the solution? Exercising consistently in short bursts, which, in turn, will produce results which will see you lose weigh...

Spilt Milk Yoga is a companion guide for mothers who want to experience the happiness, peace, and purpose available in each moment, and who want to be more present and connected to themselves and their children.Author Cathryn Monro combines personal experience, honesty, and humour to acknowledge the moments when motherhood stretches us to the edges of our tolerance, patience, anger, and exhaustion and asks*; “Will motherhood ruin my life?” “What happened to my body and my ...

Widely respected yoga teacher and author Richard Rosen draws on ancient yoga encyclopedias to explain how yoga was practiced before it became popular in the West. He compares the three main existing sources known to yoga scholars to describe how complex and rich the practice of yoga once was. It included systematic teachings on personal hygiene, good health, and good relationships, and other practices of yoga that went far beyond just the physical postures.Each section of the book ...

Fully illustrated with photos.Perfect for gift giving.Addresses the contemporary desire for physical as well as spiritual fitness.Not just another yoga book; this book has a vital resonance for the recovery community, making it a must-have for many wishing to freshen and deepen their practice of the Steps.

Red Lipstick and Clean UnderwearThis insightful book takes a humorous but accurate look at how women (baby boomers, plus those a few years this side of that generation) were taught to view and prepare for life as young girls, vs. the reality of being a woman and handling all that women do, every day, day in and day out. As adults, moms, wives, sisters, friends, lovers and professionals, we are expected to handle, juggle, balance, earn, nurture and be always-on-call...

David Moore draws on thirty years of teaching to bring fresh and practical insights into how the Alexander Technique can contribute to a safer and more effective yoga practice. With a wealth of illustrations that support the clear, precise explanations, this book offers comprehensive advice in modifying a yoga practice to take into account the huge variability in individual ranges of movement. Moore includes techniques to accommodate limitations imposed by injuries, structure, body type, s...

Whether you have been meaning to try yoga for years or you've already attended thousands of classes this is your go-to reference guide for all things yoga. Delivered in Kara-Leah's trademark accessible and conversational tone, reading this book is like sitting down for a cup of tea with a trusted and knowledgeable friend for personal advice on your yoga journey. Kara-Leah lays bare the excuses that prevent you from going to class and shares how to choose the best yoga path, style, teacher ...