Ajahn Jagaro was born John Cianciosi in 1948, in Italy, and migrated with his parents to Australia at the age of ten. After completing a Diploma in Applied Chemistry and working for a short time, he took leave of his home to travel in Asia. With no clear aim in mind, his travels eventually took him to a Buddhist monastery in Bangkok, where a casual interest in meditation developed into a decisi…
Introduces the whole family to the enjoyment of the effects of yoga, removing the misconception that yoga is only for the elderly and the sick
Book details a simple exercise routine. From the back cover: As well as looking fantastic, a flat stomach improves your flexibility, improves posture and helps keep the body in good working order. Strengthening the stomach muscles can even help lower the risk of heart disease, high blood pressure and diabetes. This book can help you achieve a toned tum without working flat-out!
My Yoga Guru provides the reader with the ultimate in practical instruction by combining the benefits of a fully-illustrated book with a free instructional app. The book provides core illustrated theory and step-by-step guides to yoga positions and exercises. All the exercises are heavily illustrated, making it easy for you to follow along at home, and the book provides in-depth instruction tha…
World-famous fitness guru shows you how his easy plan can help you develop the well-toned, rock-hard body you always desired. A fitness guru with a proven method for building hard, lean muscle, John Basedow is a charismatic motivator who has changed the bodies and lives of hundreds of thousands of people. Now, for the first time, he offers you his step-by-step secrets in a comprehensive book, f…
A complete and friendly guide to technical writing! Let's face it, a lot of technical documentation reads as if it had been translated into English from Venutian by a native speaker of gibberish. Which is annoying for you and expensive for the manufacturer who pays with alienated customers and soaring technical support costs. That's why good technical writers are in such big demand worldwide…
This book brings an army man's expertise on physical fitness to the realm of the layman. It is not a fast tract route to washboard abs. It goes much deeper and addresses the whys and how's of fitness. It addresses the basic problems faced by every fitness aspirant, right breathing, right regimen, right food, right rest and most of all, the will to continue. It shows that fitness is not all abou…
How healthy is your diet? Do you know what type of food you should have at your age? Get familiar with the foods you eat and learn about a balanced diet. The key to good nutrition is a varied diet that includes the right balance. This book provides useful guidance on how to plan a healthy diet, with the right balance of carbohydrates, fats, proteins, minerals and vitamins.
The scriptures revered by Hindus are enormously varied, and R. C. Zaehner's anthology has long been considered invaluable for its breadth and diversity. Now Dominic Goodall expands Zaehner's work with three fresh translations, including one work that appears for the first time in English. Spanning more than two thousand years, the range of selections in this book include arcane hymns of the anc…
The seven lectures collected in this book were given by His Holiness Maharishi Mahesh Yogi from July 9 to 16, 1985, with the exception of the lecture on education, which dates from May of the same year. All are published here for the first time. Other than the news conference, which was conducted by telephone, all the lectures were videotape reccorded for the World Assembly on Vedic Science at…