Moving Medicine

A Walk in the Wood is both inspiring and instructive. Simple stories with clearly stated goals and easy-to-follow exercises provide all the tools you'll need to take the first step, or continue on your journey, toward a quieter and calmer way of living.

Dr. Faith G. Harper explains the emerging science of the gut-brain connection and the vagus nerve so that everyone can understand what’s going on in your body and how to make friends with it again, especially if you’ve experienced trauma or chronic stress. Filled with straight talk and practical exercises so you can reconnect with your physical needs and reactions, work through body shame, manage illness and disability, and implement small changes that make a huge difference in how you feel every day. You are a whole person, and it’s time to reconnect with yourself!

Why are people gaining weight faster than ever before? According to Alan Christianson, NMD, our bodies are under attack from all directions - an overabundance of processed food, a polluted world, and the pressures of daily life all take their toll. These attacks hit a little known but very important set of glands, the adrenals, particularly hard. One of the many jobs of the adrenals is to maintain a normal cortisol rhythm.

Connect with the present moment in each movement. Award-winning author, meditation leader, and mental health advocate Nita Sweeney shows listeners that fitness can be mindfulness. She teaches listeners how to bring meditation and mindfulness into any activity by incorporating centuries-old techniques. Studies show that both exercise and meditation reduce anxiety, stabilize blood pressure, improve mood and cognition, and lead to a deeper self-relationship and wisdom. Movement is medicine, and meditation is medicine. Let's combine the two with exercise as meditation.

Taking listeners on an in-depth exploration of movement and music, from early humans up until today, the authors show the proven benefits of dance for our heart, lungs, bones, nervous system, and brain. Listeners will come away with a wide range of dances to try and a scientific understanding of how dance benefits almost every aspect of our lives.

Reclaim your peace. Protecting My Peace: Embracing Inner Beauty and Ancestral Power focuses on transforming self-perception, recreating ancestral traditions, and channeling the spiritual power of the African feminine divine. Delve into transformative self-care practices. Find strategies to connect with ancestral roots, embrace spirituality, and foster personal growth. Prioritize your mental, emotional, and physical health with practical advice on African American home remedies, how to be healthy, and overcoming trauma.

In this enlightening audio program, Louise L. Hay discusses the difficulties you may encounter when you're going through a period of "change and transition". She assures you that anything new that you're learning can take time to get accustomed to, and that when you fall back into old patterns, you must "build yourself up" instead of "beat yourself up". Louise closes the lecture with a beautiful and empowering meditation.

The body’s innate capacity for feeling, intuition, and compassion can enable us to heal our physical and emotional wounds. In The Anatomy of Change, Richard Heckler draws on Aikido and Lomi Body Work to demonstrate how a set of practices can bring new awareness and choice into our daily life.

Heal from the past and embrace your future! These affirmations are highly effective and a quick way to create healing energy, help you let go of the past, help you create a positive, empowering mindset, and boost your confidence and self-worth. In this audiobook, six soothing nature sounds settings help your body and mind deeply relax so that you can get the most out of your positive affirmations.

Reap the health benefits of Ayurveda and optimize your seasonal routines with powerful, personalized self-care rituals to achieve sustainable weight loss, increased focus, and improved mental health. According to the ancient texts of Ayurveda, “All diseases begin at the junctions of the seasons.” When we push against the essence of each season - going to bed late in the winter, eating sweet, heavy foods in the spring, or neglecting our skincare in the summer - we fall out of sync with nature and optimal health.

In The 4 Pillar Plan, Dr Rangan Chatterjee presents us with an incredibly simple framework for taking control of our health. He divides health into four pillars: diet, rest, sleep and movement. By making small, easily achievable changes in each of these key areas, you can find and maintain good health - and avoid illness. You don't need to excel at any one pillar - what matters is the balance across all the things you do.

These meditations include philosophy, spirituality, and wellness narratives that will help you find your truth and fulfill your potential. Paula Rainer, who earned a PhD in counselor education and has dedicated her life to helping others overcome anxiety, depression, and other problems, explores the range of emotions we experience daily—some good and some bad. She also highlights how our DNA plays a part in how we navigate various encounters.

This audiobook takes a look into one of the four types of PCOS that exist, giving a in depth overview of your type of PCOS. It also contains detailed lifestyle options focused on the type 1 of PCOS: Insulin Resistance. Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is one of the most common hormonal conditions in women. It affects almost five million women worldwide concentrated in women of child bearing age. Symptoms can include severe facial hair, acne, irregular menstrual cycles, weight gain concentrated in the belly, and in worst case scenarios infertility.

Listen to this book if you would like to discover "focalizing", an evolutionary healing technique that transcends talk-therapy as we have known it. Focalizing is a no-shame, no-blame, right-here, right-now approach that is inspired from recent discoveries in the realms of energy psychology, somatic healing, and neuroscience. Focalizing guides us to connect with our bodies in a simple yet powerful approach to healing.

The Other Side of Bipolar offers hope and a new perspective of mental illness that can help millions of people. A unique combination of memoir and self-help book, it invites us to reexamine our definitions of mental illness as a debilitating disease and asks us to consider another possibility. It encourages us to go beyond any diagnosis or label to start exploring the uniqueness and beauty of individuality. Embedded throughout this poetic story are examples of tools and techniques you can apply immediately to begin to create a sense of peace and possibility in your life.

Restorative practices for Movement, Mindfulness, and Meditation—relax, release, and stretch your way to restored clarity and focus, improved joint health and mobility, and reduced stress and anxiety with this set of Yin Yoga sequences.

This audiobook contains an in-depth guide on how to understand PCOS and move forward within your life. This audiobook breaks down what PCOS is, how it works, and touches on the different types of PCOS. Polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) is not talked about enough, and widely effects a large population of women. This hormonal imbalance can effect your mood, weight, and even fertility. This audiobook was designed by someone with PCOS to help others who also have PCOS.

Feel relaxed and renewed, vital and free as you move through your day. Dump the no pain, no gain philosophy and reclaim the smooth, effortless movement you experienced in your youth. Brain research proves there is a fun, easy alternative to boring, arduous exercise and that movement can be delicious and easy no matter what your age.

Struggling with stiff, aching joints and yearning for relief? Dive into the holistic world of Ayurveda to reclaim your mobility and joy! Introducing "AyurPedia: Ayurvedic Pathways to Wellness - Easing Joints to Move Freely" by Dr. Raj Chopra.

This audiobook takes a look into one of the four types of PCOS that exist, giving an in-depth overview of your type of PCOS. It also contains detailed lifestyle options focused on the type four of PCOS: Adrenal. Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is one of the most common hormonal conditions in women. It affects almost five million women worldwide concentrated in women of child bearing age. Symptoms can include severe facial hair, acne, irregular menstrual cycles, weight gain concentrated in the belly, and in worst case scenarios, infertility.