The Postpartum Path of Yoga: A Program for Restoration of Body, Mind, Voice, & Spirit

This book guides the mother toward enhancing her sense of self in light of the physical and emotional stressors of pregnancy, delivery, and motherhood. Melissa Hurt guides her through a yoga-based program in which she studies and enriches herself through breath work, mindful movement, voice and speech practices, meditations, and journal prompts framed by yoga's guidelines for living with integrity. Over sixteen weeks, she restores herself through a balance of mind, stability in movement, strength in voice, and conviction in spirit. Mothers can explore the methods Melissa Hurt shares weekly sequentially or one practice at a time for more time-constrained mothers.

Mothers will increase energy and personal clarity due to the range of practices focused on self-study, personal faith in oneself, and creating a wellness discipline, they can do in twenty to thirty minutes daily.

What they’re saying:

• I’m literally crying as I write this. Finally, someone has written a book for mothers to help them feel seen in all the things that feel so foreign, shameful, and isolating. — Aimee B.

I Am the Jungle: A Yoga Adventure, a yoga picture book published by Sounds True Publishing. Readers will embody the animals and elements of the Amazonian Jungle through an intelligent yoga sequence that adults and kids will enjoy alike! I include Sanskrit names, anatomical and physiological benefits for all of the poses in the back of the book. This is a fabulous resource for any teacher of kids age preschool to age 10 (yoga teacher or primary teacher) as well as a fun addition to your at-home reading library. Released August 11, 2020.

Illustrated by Katy Tanis

What they’re saying:

• My husband saw me sitting and reading the book for the first time. He said to me “Isn’t that book amazing?!” Yes! It is! We read a lot to our children so for us both to be taken by a book means it’s something special.— Jenna

• WOW! This is an absolutely gorgeous book in calming colors. The writing is perfect - intelligent and understandable for children.— Amy

• This book is so fun and beautiful! I love the array of cultures represented throughout the story. My kids loved finding fun ways to move their bodies in the book.— R.

Arthur Lessac’s Embodied Actor Training (Routledge, 2016) situates the work of renowned voice and movement trainer Arthur Lessac in the context of contemporary actor training.

Supported by the work of Constantin Stanislavsky and Maurice Merleau-Ponty's theories of embodiment, the book explores Lessac's practice in terms of embodied acting, a key subject in contemporary performance. In doing so, the author explains how the actor can come to experience both skill and expression as a subjective whole through active meditation and spatial attunement.

As well as feeding this psychophysical approach into a wider discussion of embodiment, the book provides concrete examples of how the practice can be put into effect. Using insights gleaned from interviews conducted with Lessac and his Master Teachers, the author enlightens our own understanding of Lessac’s practices.