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An Introduction to Yoga Philosophy An Annotated Translation of the Yoga Sutras

An Introduction to Yoga Philosophy An Annotated Translation of the Yoga Sutras

With its promise of personal improvement physical well-being and spiritual enrichment yoga is enjoying a resurgence in popularity at the turn of the third millennium. To unravel the mystery of the discipline its philosophies and relevance in contemporary life the original text of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali must be explored. This book offers the first accessible translation and commentary on Patanjali's Yoga Sutras. An introductory section examines the multidimensional aspects of yoga as philosophy psychology science and religion as well as exploring popular versions of yoga in the West. The core of the book offers a new translation of the entire text of the Yoga Sutras in a language that is clear and comprehensible to students. Commentaries are presented to highlight the meaning of various statements (sutras) and key themes are outlined via sectional summaries. A full glossary of key words and names is also provided. Concluding chapters look at yoga in contemporary life revealing the popularity of yoga in the 21st century through Star Wars and exploring yoga's connection to health and science contrasting yoga's holistic view of healing with that of the limited view of present day medical science. Sample physical breathing and meditation exercises are provided. An Introduction to Yoga Philosophy offers a comprehensive introduction to the Yoga Sutras text of Patanjali to all students and interested readers of Indian philosophy and religion world religions east-west psychology and mysticism. | An Introduction to Yoga Philosophy An Annotated Translation of the Yoga Sutras

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Teaching Contemporary Yoga Physical Philosophy and Critical Issues

Teaching Contemporary Yoga Physical Philosophy and Critical Issues

Teaching Contemporary Yoga provides a novel look at how modern yoga is understood practiced and taught globally. Utilising perspectives from several academic disciplines the authors offer an analysis of the current state of modern yoga and the possibilities for future experimentation and innovation. The authors draw on anthropological performance and embodiment theories to understand yoga practice as a potentially powerful ritual of transformation as well as a cultural product steeped in the process of meaning making. They craft a unique analysis that contrasts asana with the largely unexamined philosophy underlying the practice of vinyasa while imagining a vibrant future for the evolution of yoga through excellence in teaching. Unlike other writings about yoga the authors offer a critique of the current practice of yoga as both diminished and utilitarian while providing a path to reinvigorating the discipline based on current scientific knowledge and methods for teaching and practice. Along with these theoretical perspectives and the analysis of contemporary yoga in the West the authors offer practical applications to address the challenges of teaching yoga in a society where individualism and materialism are core values. Open-ended exercises in reflection and experimentation offer opportunities for readers to apply what they have learned to their teaching and personal practice. This is a vital guide for any yoga-oriented scholar teacher or practitioner and is an essential companion for contemporary teacher training. | Teaching Contemporary Yoga Physical Philosophy and Critical Issues

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Routledge Handbook of Yoga and Meditation Studies

Routledge Handbook of Yoga and Meditation Studies

The Routledge Handbook of Yoga and Meditation Studies is a comprehensive and interdisciplinary resource which frames and contextualises the rapidly expanding fields that explore yoga and meditative techniques. The book analyses yoga and meditation studies in a variety of religious historical and geographical settings. The chapters authored by an international set of experts are laid out across five sections: Introduction to yoga and meditation studies History of yoga and meditation in South Asia Doctrinal perspectives: technique and praxis Global and regional transmissions Disciplinary framings In addition to up-to-date explorations of the history of yoga and meditation in the Indian subcontinent new contexts include a case study of yoga and meditation in the contemporary Tibetan diaspora and unique summaries of historical developments in Japan and Latin America as well as an introduction to the growing academic study of yoga in Korea. Underpinned by critical and theoretical engagement the volume provides an in-depth guide to the history of yoga and meditation studies and combines the best of established research with attention to emerging directions for future investigation. This handbook will be of interest to multidisciplinary academic audiences from across the humanities social sciences and sciences. Chapters 1 4 9 12 and 27 of this book are freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www. taylorfrancis. com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4. 0 license.

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Yoga for Trauma Recovery Theory Philosophy and Practice

Yoga for Trauma Recovery Theory Philosophy and Practice

Yoga for Trauma Recovery outlines best practices for the growing body of professionals trained in both yoga and psychotherapy and addresses the theoretical foundations that tie the two fields. Chapters show how understanding the safe and effective integration of trauma-informed yoga and somatic psychotherapy is essential to providing informed effective treatment. Uniting recent developments in our understanding of trauma recovery with ancient tenets of yoga philosophy and practice this foundational text is a must read for those interested in the healing capacities of each modality. Readers will come away from the book with a strong sense of how to apply theory philosophy and research to the real-life complexities of clients and students. | Yoga for Trauma Recovery Theory Philosophy and Practice

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Yoga in Modern Hinduism Hariharānanda Āraṇya and Sāṃkhyayoga

Yoga in Modern Hinduism Hariharānanda Āraṇya and Sāṃkhyayoga

The Sāṃkhyayoga institution of Kāpil Maṭh is a religious organisation with a small tradition of followers which emerged in the last decade of the nineteenth century and the first decades of the twentieth century in Bengal in India around the renunciant and yogin Hariharānanda Āraṇya. This tradition developed during the same period in which modern yoga was born and forms a chapter in the expansion of yoga traditions in modern Hinduism. The book analyses the yoga teaching of Hariharānanda Āraṇya (1869-1947) and the Kāpil Maṭh tradition its origin history and contemporary manifestations and this tradition’s connection to the expansion of yoga and the Yogasūtra in modern Hinduism. The Sāṃkhyayoga of the Kāpil Maṭh tradition is based on the Pātañjalayogaśāstra on a number of texts in Sanskrit and Bengali written by their gurus and on the lifestyle of the renunciant yogin living isolated in a cave. The book investigates Hariharānanda Āraṇya’s connection to pre-modern yoga traditions and the impact of modern production and transmission of knowledge on his interpretations of yoga. The book connects the Kāpil Maṭh tradition to the nineteenth century transformations of Bengali religious culture of the educated upper class that led to the production of a new type of yogin. The book analyses Sāṃkhyayoga as a living tradition its current teachings and practices and looks at what Sāṃkhyayogins do and what Sāṃkhyayoga is as a yoga practice. A valuable contribution to recent and ongoing debates this book will be of interest to academics in the fields of Religious Studies Anthropology Asian Studies Indology Indian philosophy Hindu Studies and Yoga Studies. | Yoga in Modern Hinduism Hariharānanda Āraṇya and Sāṃkhyayoga

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Is This Yoga? Concepts Histories and the Complexities of Modern Practice

Is This Yoga? Concepts Histories and the Complexities of Modern Practice

This book provides a rigorously researched critically comparative introduction to yoga. Is This Yoga? Concepts Histories and the Complexities of Contemporary Practice recognizes the importance of contemporary understandings of yoga and at the same time provides historical context and complexity to modern and pre-modern definitions of yogic ideas and practices. Approaching yoga as a vast web of concepts traditions social interests and embodied practices it raises questions of knowledge identity and power across time and space including the dynamics of East and West. The text is divided into three main sections: thematic concepts; histories; and topics in modern practice. This accessible guide is essential reading for undergraduate students approaching the topic for the first time as well as yoga teachers teacher training programs casual and devoted practitioners and interested non-practitioners. | Is This Yoga? Concepts Histories and the Complexities of Modern Practice

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Understanding Yoga Therapy Applied Philosophy and Science for Health and Well-Being

Understanding Yoga Therapy Applied Philosophy and Science for Health and Well-Being

Understanding Yoga Therapy offers a comprehensive and accessible perspective on yoga therapy as a complementary integrative route to promoting whole-person well-being. Readers will come away from the book understanding how the philosophy texts and teachings of yoga benefit a wide range of health conditions. The book is split into three helpful sections: Part I discusses foundational texts and their interpretations; Part II outlines the biopsychosocial-spiritual and neurophysiological model of integrative health pertinent to yoga therapy; and Part III focuses on practical applications separate from the more familiar diagnosis-driven models. Experiential activities and case studies throughout the text illuminate how yogic practices can be incorporated for optimal health. Bridging the ancient and modern philosophical and scientific Understanding Yoga Therapy offers a clear explanatory framework for yoga therapists physicians allied and complementary healthcare providers and their patients and students. | Understanding Yoga Therapy Applied Philosophy and Science for Health and Well-Being

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Hinduism Its Meaning for the Liberation of the Spirit

Hinduism Its Meaning for the Liberation of the Spirit

First Published in 1959 Hinduism written specifically for the modern readers describes and interprets one of the world’s chief religions. For thousands of years Indian sages have speculated on man creation and the universe. One result has been an astonishing amount of myth and ritual of art asceticism and philosophy. Swami Nikhilananda provides a brief account of Hinduism in both its theoretical and its practical aspects. It is written mainly from the point of view of non-dualism which the author argues is the highest achievement of India’s mystical insights and philosophical speculation and her real contribution to world culture. The volume deals with themes like Hindu Ethics; Karma-Yoga; Bhakti-Yoga; Jnana- Yoga; Raja-Yoga; and Tantra. This complete survey of Hindu beliefs and customs is indispensable for scholars and researchers of Hinduism religion Indian philosophy Indian culture and heritage. | Hinduism Its Meaning for the Liberation of the Spirit

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Hinduism in America An Introduction

Hinduism in America An Introduction

Hinduism in America: An Introduction is a concise introduction to the long history of religion in the encounter between America and India. It is not a book that will tell you what Hinduism is; rather it is an introduction to the variety of ways in which Hinduism has been represented constructed and practiced in the United States. Americans have been interested in the religions of India since the colonial period and by the late nineteenth century the first Hindu teachers arrived in the United States. Throughout the twentieth century interest in Hinduism and yoga grew even as anti-Asian and anti-immigrant politics and policies in America intensified. When the Cold War led to changes in U. S. immigration policy in 1965 new immigrant communities arrived in the United States and built new Hindu institutions. Hinduism in America is an accessible introduction to these developments of Hinduism in the United States. Each chapter uses a key theoretical term in the study of religion to explore a variety of historical topics including: American missionary encounters with India; representations of Hindu religions in American literature; world religions and Hinduism; Vedanta; yoga; Hinduism in the American counterculture of the 1960s; and immigrant Hindu communities in the United States. Hinduism in America provides an overview of the multifaceted history of Hinduism in America. Ideal for students and scholars approaching the topic for the first time the book includes sections in each chapter that provide useful theoretical terms for understanding that history. | Hinduism in America An Introduction

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Introduction to Complementary Medicine

Introduction to Complementary Medicine

* What is complementary medicine?* What evidence is there to support its use?* What can orthodox medicine learn from holistic practices? Providing a sound introduction to the range of treatments and philosophies usually termed 'complementary and alternative medicine' this book offers a systematic explanation of the philosophies and practices that underpin contemporary complementary medicine. Introduction to Complementary Medicine examines the rise in popularity of complementary medicine and discusses the challenges of developing a more integrated system of health care. Drawing on recent research this book explores the development application evidence contraindications and appropriateness of a wide range of traditional systems of medicine and healing modalities including Herbal Medicine Massage Osteopathy Traditional Chinese Medicine Aromatherapy Chiropractic Ayurveda Yoga and Meditation. Written by leading academics researchers and experienced practitioners Introduction to Complementary Medicine is designed to be used as a reference for students and practitioners in a range of health professions. With a foreword by Dr Joseph Pizzorno ND

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Neuroscience and Psychology of Meditation in Everyday Life Searching for the Essence of Mind

Neuroscience and Psychology of Meditation in Everyday Life Searching for the Essence of Mind

Neuroscience and Psychology of Meditation in Everyday Life addresses essential and timely questions about the research and practice of meditation as a path to realization of human potential for health and well-being. Balancing practical content and scientific theory the book discusses long-term effects of six meditation practices: mindfulness compassion visualization-based meditation techniques dream yoga insight-based meditation and abiding in the existential ground of experience. Each chapter provides advice on how to embed these techniques into everyday activities together with considerations about underlying changes in the mind and brain based on latest research evidence. This book is essential reading for professionals applying meditation-based techniques in their work and researchers in the emerging field of contemplative science. The book will also be of value to practitioners of meditation seeking to further their practice and understand associated changes in the mind and brain. | Neuroscience and Psychology of Meditation in Everyday Life Searching for the Essence of Mind

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Handbook of Mindfulness-Based Programmes Mindfulness Interventions from Education to Health and Therapy

Handbook of Mindfulness-Based Programmes Mindfulness Interventions from Education to Health and Therapy

Handbook of Mindfulness-Based Programmes: Mindfulness Interventions from Education to Health and Therapy offers the first comprehensive guide to all prominent evidence-based mindfulness programmes available in the West. The rapid growth of mindfulness in the Western world has given rise to an unprecedented wave of creative mindfulness programmes offering tailor-made mindfulness practices for school teachers students parents nurses yoga teachers athletes pregnant women therapists care-takers coaches organisational leaders and lawyers. This book offers an in-depth engagement with these different programmes emphasising not only the theory and research but also the practice. Exercises and activities are provided to enable the reader to first understand the programme and then experience its unique approach and benefits. Handbook of Mindfulness-Based Programmes will enrich your knowledge and experience of mindfulness practice whether you are a practitioner researcher or simply interested in the application of mindfulness. | Handbook of Mindfulness-Based Programmes Mindfulness Interventions from Education to Health and Therapy

GBP 56.99
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Awakening An Introduction to the History of Eastern Thought

Awakening An Introduction to the History of Eastern Thought

Awakening: An Introduction to the History of Eastern Thought provides the reader with a thorough and valuable overview of the historical development of the major Eastern religious and philosophical traditions primarily in India China and Japan. The book is written in an engaging style that contains a variety of anecdotes analogies definitions and supporting quotes from primary and secondary sources. Awakening helps the reader to recognize the interrelationships that exist among the various traditions to appreciate the relevance of these traditions to the concerns of modern times and to understand the major issues of interpretation regarding these traditions. The primary focus of Awakening is Hinduism and Buddhism and they serve as the broad umbrellas that include a number of specific schools each of which is treated individually. Other schools–such as Confucianism Daoism and Shinto–are included at the appropriate place. Awakening is for all students and interested readers whether new to the study of Eastern thought or not. New to the Seventh Edition:- A new Introduction- A clearer definition and explanation of Yoga (throughout Part 1)- A rewrite of the Aryan Migration section in Chapter 1 bringing it in line with current research- An added sub-chapter to Chapter 6 dealing with Kundalini Yoga- Further clarification of the meaning of Anatman in Chapter 10- Emphasis on the contribution of Daoism to Chan Buddhism- Clearer presentation of the Life of Buddha (Legend vs. Reality)- Updated Study Questions- Two new videos added to the companion website Key Features:- An historical overview that attempts to show the development of Eastern philosophies both within the individual traditions as well as within a broad but loosely unified system of thought- Abundantly uses stories in chapter overviews to engage student readers and to better explain Eastern thought- No background in Asian studies philosophy or religious studies is presumed allowing any student to greatly benefit from reading this book- A functional visually attractive web site www. patrickbresnan. com with author-produced videos on the content of the book scores of pictures and a comprehensive section on meditation | Awakening An Introduction to the History of Eastern Thought

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Everyday SEL in Middle School Integrating Social Emotional Learning and Mindfulness Into Your Classroom

Everyday SEL in Middle School Integrating Social Emotional Learning and Mindfulness Into Your Classroom

With this bestselling book from educational consultant Carla Tantillo Philibert you’ll gain practical strategies for teaching Social Emotional Learning (SEL) mindfulness and well-being to help improve the human connection between you and your students. You’ll find out how to lead students through mindfulness activities simple yoga poses and breath-work techniques. Topics include mindful practices well-being strategies to combat stress and anxiety giving your students the space to understand their emotions and strengthen peer-to-peer communication developing the foremost and essential SEL competencies and engaging in experiential activities to strengthen SEL skills. The new edition reflects the latest CASEL guidelines and includes updated activities as well as a brand-new directory of terms and an intentional focus on educators’ and students’ socio-emotional well-being. Perfect for middle school educators at any level of experience the book will help you develop positive youth identity and promote connectedness so students can deal successfully with life’s stressors beyond school doors. | Everyday SEL in Middle School Integrating Social Emotional Learning and Mindfulness Into Your Classroom

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Everyday SEL in Elementary School Integrating Social Emotional Learning and Mindfulness Into Your Classroom

Everyday SEL in Elementary School Integrating Social Emotional Learning and Mindfulness Into Your Classroom

With this bestselling book from educational consultant Carla Tantillo Philibert you’ll gain practical strategies for teaching Social Emotional Learning (SEL) mindfulness and well-being to help improve the human connection between you and your students. You’ll find out how to lead students through mindfulness activities simple yoga poses and breath-work techniques. Topics include mindful practices well-being strategies to combat stress and anxiety giving your students the space to understand their emotions and strengthen peer-to-peer communication developing the foremost and essential SEL competencies and engaging in experiential activities to strengthen SEL skills. The new edition reflects the latest CASEL guidelines and includes updated activities as well as a brand-new directory of terms and an intentional focus on educators’ and students’ socio-emotional well-being. Perfect for elementary school educators at any level of experience the book will help you develop positive youth identity and promote connectedness so students can deal successfully with life’s stressors beyond school doors. | Everyday SEL in Elementary School Integrating Social Emotional Learning and Mindfulness Into Your Classroom

GBP 28.99
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Everyday SEL in High School Integrating Social Emotional Learning and Mindfulness Into Your Classroom

Everyday SEL in High School Integrating Social Emotional Learning and Mindfulness Into Your Classroom

With this bestselling book from educational consultant Carla Tantillo Philibert you’ll gain practical strategies for teaching Social Emotional Learning (SEL) mindfulness and well-being to help improve the human connection between you and your students. You’ll find out how to lead students through mindfulness activities simple yoga poses and breath-work techniques. Topics include mindful practices well-being strategies to combat stress and anxiety giving your students the space to understand their emotions and strengthen peer-to-peer communication developing the foremost and essential SEL competencies and engaging in experiential activities to strengthen SEL skills. The new edition reflects the latest CASEL guidelines and includes updated activities as well as a brand-new directory of terms and an intentional focus on educators’ and students’ socio-emotional well-being. Perfect for high school educators at any level of experience the book will help you develop positive youth identity and promote connectedness so students can deal successfully with life’s stressors beyond school doors. | Everyday SEL in High School Integrating Social Emotional Learning and Mindfulness Into Your Classroom

GBP 28.99
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Everyday SEL in Early Childhood Integrating Social Emotional Learning and Mindfulness Into Your Classroom

Everyday SEL in Early Childhood Integrating Social Emotional Learning and Mindfulness Into Your Classroom

With this bestselling book from educational consultant Carla Tantillo Philibert you’ll gain practical strategies for teaching Social Emotional Learning (SEL) mindfulness and well-being to help improve the human connection between you and your students. You’ll find out how to lead students through mindfulness activities simple yoga poses and breath-work techniques. Topics include mindful practices well-being strategies to combat stress and anxiety giving your students the space to understand their emotions and strengthen peer-to-peer communication developing the foremost and essential SEL competencies and engaging in experiential activities to strengthen SEL skills. The new edition reflects the latest CASEL guidelines and includes updated activities as well as a brand-new directory of terms and an intentional focus on educators’ and students’ socio-emotional well-being. Perfect for early childhood educators at any level of experience the book will help you develop positive youth identity and promote connectedness so students can deal successfully with life’s stressors beyond school doors. | Everyday SEL in Early Childhood Integrating Social Emotional Learning and Mindfulness Into Your Classroom

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The Routledge Companion to Cultural Property

The Routledge Companion to Cultural Property

The Routledge Companion to Cultural Property contains new contributions from scholars working at the cutting edge of cultural property studies bringing together diverse academic and professional perspectives to develop a coherent overview of this field of enquiry. The global range of authors use international case studies to encourage a comparative understanding of how cultural property has emerged in different parts of the world and continues to frame vital issues of national sovereignty the free market international law and cultural heritage. Sections explore how cultural property is scaled to the state and the market; cultural property as law; cultural property and cultural rights; and emerging forms of cultural property from yoga to the national archive. By bringing together disciplinary perspectives from anthropology archaeology law Indigenous studies history folklore studies and policy this volume facilitates fresh debate and broadens our understanding of this issue of growing importance. This comprehensive and coherent statement of cultural property issues will be of great interest to cultural sector professionals and policy makers as well as students and academic researchers engaged with cultural property in a variety of disciplines.

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Rhythms of Recovery Trauma Nature and the Body

Rhythms of Recovery Trauma Nature and the Body

The classic edition of Rhythms of Recovery sheds light on rhythm one of the most important components of our survival and well-being. It governs the patterns of our sleep and respiration and is profoundly tied to our relationships with friends and family. But what happens when these rhythms are disrupted by traumatic events? Can balance be restored and if so how? What insights do eastern natural and modern western healing traditions have to offer and how can practitioners put these lessons to use? Is it possible to do this in a way that’s culturally sensitive multidisciplinary and grounded in research? Rhythms of Recovery examines and answers these questions and provides clinicians with effective time-tested tools for alleviating the destabilizing effects of traumatic events. It also explores integrative medicine East/West medicine herbal medicine psychedelic medicine complex trauma yoga and somatic and feminist therapies. For practitioners and students interested in integrating the insights of complementary/alternative medicine and 21st-century science this deeply appealing book is an ideal guide. | Rhythms of Recovery Trauma Nature and the Body

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Indian Ethics Classical Traditions and Contemporary Challenges: Volume I

Indian Ethics Classical Traditions and Contemporary Challenges: Volume I

Indian ethics is one of the great traditions of moral thought in world philosophy whose insights have influenced thinkers in early Greece Europe Asia and the New World. This is the first such systematic study of the spectrum of moral reflections from India engaging a critical cross-cultural perspective and attending to modern secular sensibilities. The volume explores the scope and limits of Indian ethical thinking reflecting on the interpretation and application of its teachings and practices in the comparative and contemporary contexts. The chapters chart orthodox and heterodox debates from early classical Hindu texts to Buddhist Jaina Yoga and Gandhian ethics. The range of issues includes: life-values and virtues karma and dharma evil and suffering renunciation and enlightenment; and extends to questions of human rights and justice ecology and animal ethics nonviolence and democracy. Ramifications for rethinking ethics in a postmodern and global era are also explored. Indian Ethics offers an invaluable resource for students of philosophy religion human sciences and cultural studies and to those interested in South Asian responses to moral dilemmas in the ostcolonial era. | Indian Ethics Classical Traditions and Contemporary Challenges: Volume I

GBP 46.99
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Play in Philosophy and Social Thought

Play in Philosophy and Social Thought

To understand play we need a bottom-up phenomenology of play. This phenomenology highlights the paradox that it is the players who play the game but it is also the game which makes us players. Yet what is it that plays us when we play? Do we play the game or does the game play us? These questions concern the relation between the playing subject and play as something larger than the individual – play as craft play as rhythm play between normality and otherness even play as religion as a sense of spiritual play between self and other. This goes deeper than the welfare-political or educational intention to make people play or play more or to advise individuals to play in a correct and useful way. Exploring topics such as identity otherness and disability as well as activities including skiing yoga dance and street sport this interdisciplinary study continues the work of the late Henning Eichberg and sheds new light on the questions that play at the borders of philosophy anthropology and the sociology of sport and leisure. Play in Philosophy and Social Thought is a fascinating resource for students of philosophy of sport cultural studies sport sciences and anthropological studies. It is also a thought-provoking read for sport and play philosophers sociologists anthropologists cultural studies scholars and practitioners working with play.

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Rhythms of Recovery Integrative Medicine for PTSD and Complex Trauma

Rhythms of Recovery Integrative Medicine for PTSD and Complex Trauma

Rhythm is one of the most important components of our survival and well-being. It governs our moods sleep respiration and digestion and is profoundly tied to our relationships with friends and family. But what happens when these rhythms are disrupted by traumatic events? How can balance be restored in ways that integrate the complex needs of mind body and spirit? What insights do eastern natural and modern western healing traditions have to offer and how can practitioners put these lessons to use? Clients walk through the door with chronic physical and mental health problems as a result of complex traumatic events—how can clinicians make a quick and skillful connection with their clients’ needs and offer integrative mind/body methods they can rely upon? Rhythms of Recovery answers these questions and provides clinicians with effective time-tested tools for alleviating the destabilizing effects of traumatic events. In the new edition readers will find practical methods illuminated by clinical vignettes for integrating psychotherapies with somatics and bodywork yoga nutrition herbs psychedelic medicines and more. The new edition also draws out the ways in which culture social justice and feminism intersect with the integrative medicine revolution in mental health. For mental health practitioners and students interested in integrating the art and science of complementary and integrative health this deeply appealing book provides a comprehensive guide. | Rhythms of Recovery Integrative Medicine for PTSD and Complex Trauma

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Goddess Traditions in Tantric Hinduism History Practice and Doctrine

Goddess Traditions in Tantric Hinduism History Practice and Doctrine

Hinduism cannot be understood without the Great Goddess and the goddess-orientated Śākta traditions. The Goddess pervades Hinduism at all levels from aniconic village deities to high-caste pan-Hindu goddesses to esoteric tantric goddesses. Nevertheless the highly influential tantric forms of South Asian goddess worship have only recently begun to draw scholarly attention. This book addresses the increasing interest in the Great Goddess and the tantric traditions of India by exploring the history doctrine and practices of the Śākta tantric traditions. The highly influential tantric forms of South Asian goddess worship form a major part of what is known as ‘Śāktism’ and is often considered one of the major branches of Hinduism next to Śaivism Vaiṣṇavism and Smārtism. Śāktism is however less clearly defined than the other major branches and the book looks at the texts of the Śākta traditions that constitute the primary sources for gaining insights into the Śākta religious imaginative ritual practices and history. It provides an historical exploration of distinctive Indian ways of imagining God as Goddess and surveys the important origins and developments within Śākta history practice and doctrine in its diversity. Bringing together contributions from some of the foremost scholars in the field of tantric studies the book provides a platform for the continued research into Hindu goddesses yoga and tantra for those interested in understanding the religion and culture in South Asia. | Goddess Traditions in Tantric Hinduism History Practice and Doctrine

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The Routledge Companion to Health Humanities

The Routledge Companion to Health Humanities

The health humanities is a rapidly rising field advancing an inclusive democratizing activist applied critical and culturally diverse approach to delivering health and well-being through the arts and humanities. It has generated new kinds of interdisciplinary research knowledge and communities of practice globally. It has also acted to bring greater coherence and political force to contributions across a range of related disciplines and traditions. In this volume a formidable set of authors explore the history current state and future of the health humanities in particular how its vision of the arts and humanities:Promotes creative public health. Opens new routes to health and well-being. Informs and drives better health care. Interrogates relationships between ill health and social equality. Develops humanist theory in relation to health and social care practice. Foregrounds cultural difference as a resource for positive change in society. Tests the humanity of an increasingly globalized health-care system. Looks to overcome structural and process obstacles to cross-disciplinary ventures. Champions co-construction co-design and mutuality in solving health and well-being challenges. Showcases less familiar prominent or celebrated creative practices. Includes multiple perspectives on the value and health benefits of the arts and humanities not limited to or dominated by medicine. Divided into two main sections the Companion looks at Reflections and Critical Perspectives offering current thinking and definitions within health humanities and Applications comprising a wide selection of applied arts and humanities practices from comedy writing and dancing to yoga cooking and horticultural display. | The Routledge Companion to Health Humanities

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