L'Ayurveda è il più antico metodo di autoguarigione orientale, un sistema completo di filosofia, medicina e salute spirituale che affonda le sue radici nell'India di 5000 anni fa. È uno degli strumenti più utilizzati per il benessere di corpo, mente e anima, migliora e mantiene il benessere grazie a particolari trattamenti naturali e a pratiche quotidiane. Questo manuale è pensato per aiutarti a costruire una base per la tua pratica dell'Ayurveda nella vita quotidiana, utilizzando terapie naturali al 100%. Le tecniche presenti in questo libro sono adattate a ogni individuo; l'ideale per riscoprire uno stile di vita basato sull'equilibrio interiore.

In questo libro hai una guida pratica e operativa che ti insegna a usare il Reiki come forza vitale, come azione spirituale e come capacità di cura naturale e imparerai come applicare l'energia che ti è data per il benessere tuo e quello degli altri. Il Reiki è infatti un sistema di guarigione naturale che ci è dato dall'Universo. Ci permette di entrare in connessione diretta con l'energia di guarigione, applicabile alla dimensione fisica, a quella mentale e a quella spirituale e con questo libro ti imbarcherai lungo la Via del perfezionamento dell'anima. Inizierai un viaggio che ti porterà a esplorare i tre livelli del Reiki. Con questo libro conoscerai la storia, le posizioni, le tecniche di base, il potere dei simboli e ti fornirà tutti quegli strumenti che ti consentono di vivere una vita più centrata, più connessa, più spirituale.

II metodo Brain Yoga ha come scopo quello di portare lo yoga della mente, lo yoga supremo, a tutte le persone, qualunque sia l'esperienza che hanno (o non hanno) con lo yoga. Questo libro è utile a chi pratica qualunque tipo o stile di yoga, a qualunque livello sia, qui può trovare approfondimenti, sviluppi e prospettive inedite e complementari al suo yoga. È utile anche a chi insegna yoga, perché può integrare liberamente nel suo insegnamento qualunque cosa riterrà utile. Infine, questo libro è rivolto in modo particolare anche a chi non pratica yoga ma sta cercando tecniche semplici, utili (e serie) per esplorare le potenzialità della sua mente ed esplorare la dimensione spirituale della sua vita. Ogni capitolo del libro si focalizza su specifici argomenti dello yoga e li analizza nel modo più semplice e chiaro possibile. Questo libro ti permette di sperimentare direttamente, con tecniche alla portata di tutti, come utilizzare lo yoga della mente per la tua vita reale e per la tua concreta evoluzione spirituale. Questo libro ti propone 10 tecniche essenziali, sviluppate in un programma pratico e progressivo. Apprenderai le tecniche grazie al supporto audio. Di ogni tecnica hai infatti la guida in audio passo per passo (per un totale di oltre 11 ore di audio guidati), che puoi ascoltare in streaming con i relativi link e QR code, da qualsiasi tuo dispositivo, in qualsiasi momento tu voglia grazie al download ín formato mp3 dei singoli file. Hai anche a disposizione tanto altro materiale integrativo: i link ti permettono di scaricare in formato PDF le immagini esplicative d

A brilliant combination of poetry and visual artwork by Matthea Harvey, whose vision is “nothing short of blazingly original” (Time Out New York)

She didn’t even know she had a name until one day she heard the human explaining to another one, “Oh that’s just the backyard mermaid.” “Backyard Mermaid,” she murmured, as if in prayer. On days when there’s no sprinkler to comb through her curls, no rain pouring in glorious torrents from the gutters, no dew in the grass for her to nuzzle with her nose, not even a mud puddle in the kiddie pool, she wonders how much longer she can bear this life. The front yard thud of the newspaper every morning. Singing songs to the unresponsive push mower in the garage. Wriggling under fence after fence to reach the house four down which has an aquarium in the back window. She wants to get lost in that sad glowing square of blue. Don’t you?
—from “The Backyard Mermaid”

Prose poems introduce deeply untraditional mermaids alongside mer-tool silhouettes. A text by Ray Bradbury is erased into a melancholy meeting with a Martian. The Michelin Man is possessed by William Shakespeare. Antonio Meucci’s invention of the telephone is chronicled next to embroidered images of his real and imagined patents. If the Tabloids Are True What Are You? combines Matthea Harvey’s award-winning poetry with her fascinating visual artwork into a true hybrid book, an amazing and beautiful work by one of our most ingenious creative artists.

The Occupy Wall Street movement and protest movements around the world are evidence of a new era of intergenerational activists seeking deeper spiritual meaning in their quest for peace and justice.

This book is a call to action for a new era of spirituality-infused activism. Authors Adam Bucko and Matthew Fox encourage us to use our talents in service of compassion and justice and to move beyond our broken systems--economic, political, educational, and religious--discovering a spirituality that not only helps us to get along, but also encourages us to reevaluate our traditions, transforming them and in the process building a more sacred and just world.

Incorporating the words of young activist leaders culled from interviews and surveys, the book provides a framework that is deliberately interfaith and speaks to our profound yearning for a life with spiritual purpose and for a better world. Each chapter is construed as a dialogue between Fox, a 72-year-old theologian, and Bucko, a 37-year-old spiritual activist and mentor to homeless youth. As we listen in on these familiar yet profound conversations, we learn about Fox and Bucko's own spiritual journeys and discover a radical spirituality that is inclusive, democratic, and relevant to the world we live in today.

Table of Contents
Foreword by Mona Eltahawy
Foreword by Andrew Harvey
Introduction: Invitation to Occupy Your Conscience
1. Is It Time to Replace the God of Religion with the God of Life?
2. Radical Spirituality for a Radical Generation
3. Adam's Story
4. Matthew's Story
5. What's Your Calling? Are You Living in Service of Compassion and Justice?
6. Spiritual Practice: Touch Life and Be Changed by It
7. No Generation Has All the Answers: Elders and Youth Working Together
8. Birthing New Economics, New Communities, and New Monasticism
Conclusion: Occupy Generation and the Practice of Spiritual Democracy
Afterword by Lama Surya Das

Silver, a workshop leader and consultant who co-developed a professional development initiative to make students as important as standards, et al. identify six research-based strategies to help teachers of all grades respond to the demands of the Common Core State Standards, particularly the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts & Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects: reading for meaning, to help develop reading skills; compare and contrast, to teach students comparative analysis; inductive learning, to help them find patterns and structures in content; circle of knowledge, a framework for planning and conducting discussions that engage students in deeper thinking and communication; write to learn, to develop writing skills in the key text types; and a vocabulary strategy to improve their ability to retain and use terms. Each strategy includes information on reasons for using it, the research behind it, a checklist for classroom implementation, sample lessons, and planning considerations. They do not discuss what the standards cover or how they are organized. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Sharing from his wealth of personal experience and illustrating from history, Harvey explores biblical principles and revealing questions to help prospective pastors discern their calling.

In rhyming, bouncy text, young readers are invited to venture to the grocery store with a father-daughter duo on a very lively shopping trip; as their cart swings down the aisles, the pair wreak minor havoc left and right, in a book that teaches an important lesson about accidents and responsibility, all with a healthy dose of humor. Reprint.

A little girl and her father have a wonderful time in the grocery store until she nearly knocks over a display, then while trying her best to be good she lets out a big sneeze that results in chaos.

The Strategic Teacher offers a repertoire of strategies designed and proven to meet today's high standards and reach diverse learners. Twenty reliable, flexible strategies (along with dozens of variations) are organized into these groups of instruction:

 

·        mastery style to emphasize the development of student memory;

·        understanding style to expand students' capacities to reason and explain;

·        self-expressive style to stimulate and nourish students' imaginations and creativity;

·        interpersonal style to help students find meaning in the relationships they forge as partners and team members, united in the act of learning; and

·        four-style strategies that integrate all four styles.

 

To guide teachers in delivering content to students, the authors started with the best research-based teaching and learning strategies and created a tool called the Strategic Dashboard. The dashboard provides information about each teaching strategy in a concise, visual profile; it is also designed to document how one incorporates current, highly respected research into instructional plans.

For each strategy, the book offers the following information:

• a brief introduction to the strategy;
• an example of a teacher using the strategy in a classroom;
• the research base supporting the strategy and how the strategy benefits students;
• how to implement the strategy using a list of clear steps;
• guidance through the planning process, providing steps, examples, and suggestions for designing superior lessons; and
• additional tools, strategies, and resources for adapting and expanding the use of each strategy.

 

The authors have combined their years of research and practice to deliver reliable, high-impact, flexible teaching and learning strategies grounded in current, highly regarded research to teachers at all levels of experience.

This lively introduction to computer science and computer programming in Scheme is for non-computer science majors with a strong interest in the subject and for computer science majors who lack prior programming experience. The text allows the student to experience the computer as a tool for expressing ideas, not as a frustrating set of mathematical obstacles. This goal is supported by the use of Scheme, a modern dialect of Lisp, designed to emphasize symbolic programming.