Rolf Gates

Renowned yoga teacher Stephanie Spence, known as The Traveling Yogini, delivers an inspiring and transformative guide to unlocking our truest selves through the deep wisdom of yoga. In her journey as a writer, mother, and PTSD survivor, Spence has discovered that healing—of the heart, soul, and body —is not just essential, but an innate part of our lives. Through intimate teachings from 85 revered yogis, including celebrated figures like Kathryn Budig, Seane Corn, and Sri Dharma Mittra, Healing the Heart, Soul and Body offers readers a guide to holistic healing. Together, these yogis illuminate how yoga strengthens our bodies, relieves mental stress, and connects us to our highest potential, enabling us to live with authenticity and gratitude no matter life’s circumstances. In every chapter, readers will uncover heartwarming stories, timeless wisdom, and actionable insights from these inspiring leaders—empowering them with the tools to ignite balance, embrace courage, and cultivate joy in their lives. Healing the Heart, Soul, and Body is a roadmap for anyone seeking greater peace and deeper healing.

Deeply personal essays and daily prompts for self-reflection while healing from addiction and walking the road of recovery from the author of Meditations from the Mat and Meditations on Intention and Being. You are a process that has called forth a teaching for this day. This teaching will not be new to you; rather it will be reminding you of what you already know. Reminding you of who you already are. Rolf Gates, author of Meditations from the Mat, has walked the walk of the 12-step method of recovery while traveling down the Buddhist eightfold way and practicing the Eight Limbs of Classical Yoga. His integrated approach has been the key to his understanding of sobriety for over 25 years. In his series of 365 essays, Gates explores the lessons and experiences from his own practice and study, classical teachings, and his career as a teacher and coach. Each eloquent and brief essay is accompanied by a self-reflection prompt to help guide you on your journey of introspection and change. As the co-founder of the Yoga + Recovery Conference at Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health and Esalen Institute, Gates has made a significant contribution to understanding the role that yoga can play in recovery from addiction. With his personalized approach to both the modern and classic teachings and by embedding it within the space of the human heart and everyday life, Gates is a solid guide to finding and living the freedom that lives within each of us.

Time to Buddy Up for Movement, Cooperation, and Imaginative Play A sailboat skimming across the waves, A feathery owl, A tree stretching from earth to sky. Together, what do we want to become today? From the creators of Good Night Yoga and Good Morning Yoga comes a beautifully illustrated city adventure that introduces children to the delights and benefits of partner yoga. Perfect for teaming up with a friend, sibling, parent, or caregiver, each easy practice shows how cooperation helps us to imagine, move, and have fun in a whole new way. Includes a back-page guide for parents and caregivers, showing how to do each pose and how to connect them into an easy-to-follow flow.

Yoga has never been more popular. Throughout the United States, people are turning to this ancient practice as a response to the pressures of today's hectic world. In Meditations on Intention and Being, acclaimed yoga teacher Rolf Gates draws on twenty years of teaching experience to explore and explain how to take the mindfulness of yoga off the mat and integrate it into every aspect of life. Presented in the form of 365 inspirational daily reflections, Gates helps readers--from experienced yogis to novices seeking a little tranquility--to fundamentally reconsider their relationships with their minds, bodies, and the universe around them through self-reflection. Over the course of seven chapters, he explores Effortlessness, Nonviolence, The Spirit of Practice, Mindfulness, Compassion and Loving-kindness, Equanimity and Joy, and Intention and Being, giving readers the tools they need to effect positive changes in their lives.

An inspirational guide for yoga practitioners presents 365 meditations, from a wide variety of sources, designed to be incorporated into one's everyday yoga regimen. Original. 50,000 first printing.