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One of the great pleasures of yoga is the relaxation session or shavasana traditionally offered at the end of a class. When taught skillfully, shavasana invokes the flow of energetic nectar down the spine to permeate the entire body with blissful energy. Now, with Drops of Nectar, yoga practitioners can experience this rejuvenating dimension of yoga at home and at their convenience.

We do our best when we're relaxed, confident, and capable. Teenagers and children are no different. Practices for Growing up Mindful offers parents, educators, counselors, and caregivers a series of exercises and meditations for cultivating the skills and attitudes that will empower us - and our children - to handle the increasing stress of modern life in wise and healthy ways.

What is Yoga Trance Dance? Yoga and dance are two great rivers that lead us back into our bodies and rejuvenate us with prana, the vital energy of life. Yoga awakens the breath, fluidity of the spine, and inner power. Free-form trance dance cultivates natural movement, intuition, and creativity. Now, with Yoga Trance Dance you can experience the benefits of both these traditions in one energized workout.

In countless moments, opportunities arise for us to either judge or support ourselves, to envy another's joy or to celebrate with them, to turn away from others or to connect. Embracing Your Boundless Heart opens the way for us to amplify love in ourselves and with our families, coworkers, communities, and even those we struggle with the most.

The transcendental, humming pulse of consciousness can be heard in the center of the fourth chakra: the human body's heart center. As this chakra is balanced and energized, faith, devotion, and harmony in our relationships unfold. Now, world-renowned drummer and author Layne Redmond offers Heart Chakra Meditations, two sessions specially recorded to purify the heart chakra and fine-tune our receptivity for love at the core of our entire being.

Learn how to retrain your relationship to pain naturally with meditation. Drawing from over 20 years of results in the field, Shinzen Young offers the essential drug-free methods that have proven effective at pain-management centers around the country. With step-by-step guidance, you'll learn how to overcome internal resistance - the key to transforming physical pain into a flow of pure energy.

Anger. Fear. Sadness. Dr. Judith Orloff sees people every day who are struggling with these overwhelming emotions. To help us find relief, she has created Emotional Freedom Practices. This audio toolkit expands on the insights from her recently released New York Times best seller Emotional Freedom, featured in a new public television special. Listeners will discover how to turn away from negativity, react constructively, and seize command of any life situation.

David Ison developed a musical system to help those people who have stress-induced insomnia finally get to the cause of their sleeplessness.

With Pain Relief, Shinzen Young teaches listeners how to step outside of pain through traditional meditation practices. Drawing from 20 years of results in the field, this widely respected teacher offers a practical program to address both chronic and short-term pain, possibly reducing the need for drugs or surgery. Step-by-step techniques taught in plain language show how to overcome internal resistance, the key to transforming physical pain into a flow of pure energy.

"When you stop hallucinating and ask who is really behind the wheel, you embark on the journey toward incurable sanity." teaches Arjuna Ardagh. Here, the author of The Translucent Revolution offer a profound self-inquiry practice to help you reveal the deep, hidden convictions that obscure your true identity, and help release their grip on you. The result; effortless joy, serenity, and awakened insight.

Dr. Jeffrey Thompson's clinically proven audio system relaxes your body, eases your mind, and renews your spirit. Peaceful sounds of ocean waves and the Amazon rainforest embedded with Alpha Brainwave Pulses surround you with irresistable peace and tranquility.

The path to freedom from depression is well-traveled - and filled with unexpected rewards. Dr. James Gordon challenges the common medical model of depression as a strictly physical disease that is best treated with drugs - instead, he sees it as a wake-up call that our lives are out of balance. This guided visualization establishes two healing resources: Helping you create your safe place and introducing you to your inner wisdom guide.

Wealth advisors and spiritual practitioners Spencer Sherman and Brent Kessel take us on a journey to discover what they call radical sufficiency. When we learn to approach our lives with a genuine sense of "enoughness", we begin to naturally appreciate who and what we are and are freed from the fear and disappointment that have driven our lives previously.

Your breathing reflects your mind: when it's shallow and irregular, your mind will be scattered: when it finds it natural rhythm, your mind and emotions settle down. Use this breathing session whenever you need to get centered and grounded.

The true source of healing from depression comes from within - not from doctors or medications. Yet when depression drains away our vitality and will, how can we find the energy to help ourselves? With Freedom from Depression, Dr. James S. Gordon reveals a new and empowering approach for dealing with this misunderstood condition - a way out of the darkness that helps you restore balance and joy to your life.

Is it possible to experience - and sustain - a state of being in which all of our desires and needs are realized? Can we all taste "perfect wisdom"? On Realizing Unconditioned Awareness, we join Peter Fenner to begin to discover, rest in, and enjoy what he calls our "ultimate nature", a space of contentless awareness in which nothing needs to be done and nothing needs to be thought about or understood.

In states of deep meditation your brainwave patterns change to slow frequency "Theta" waves. Dr. Jeffrey Thompson has developed unique methods for embedding these Theta pulses into multilayered, 3-dimensional nature sound recordings. After a few minutes of listening, your own brainwaves naturally "lock" onto the Theta pulses and lead you easily into states of deep meditation.

The Dzochen teachings of Tibetan spirituality affirm that we are all by nature infinitely open, luminous, compassionate, wise and free. Join Lama Surya Das in this guided session to experience the effortless, sky-like nature of the "primordial mind" through two practices: rushen (seeing clearly through the illusion) and Natural Meditation (resting in the effortless spaciousness).

In this series of informal talks given at his studio, Richard Freeman, the director of The Yoga Workshop in Boulder, Colorado, shares his knowledge on a wide range of the more subtle aspects of yoga.

Old age is not a time of death: it is a phase of life. On The Spiritual Elder, you will gain a new understanding of old age, based on Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi's joy-filled work at the Spiritual Eldering Project. His work reveals that the final period of life can be just as pleasurable - just as full of significant moments - as every other stage of our mortal journey. Old age, he teaches, is an opportunity to find satisfaction that we will never again experience.