New Books in Spiritual Practice and M...

Interviews with Spiritual Practitioners about their New Books

Religion & Spirituality
Spirituality
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A Conversation with Seth Powell about Yogic Stu...
What is "Yogic Studies"?
86 min
152
A Conversation with Chris Chapple, Part II: Liv...
The ancient Indian philosophers conceptualized the universe as comprising 5 elements (Earth, Water, Fire, Air, Space), corresponding to the five human senses...
78 min
153
Keith Macpherson, "Making Sense of Mindfulness:...
Keith Macpherson offers an accessible, solid, five-step framework that demystifies the buzzword “mindfulness”...
47 min
154
Laurie Cameron, "The Mindful Day: Practical Way...
Cameron shows how to seamlessly weave mindfulness and compassion practices into your life...
47 min
155
Brian Greene, "Until the End of Time: Mind, Mat...
Greene offers the the reader a theory of everything...
117 min
156
Leslie M. Harris, "Slavery and the University: ...
How involved with slavery were American universities? And what does their involvement mean for us?
56 min
157
Shonda Moralis, "Breathe, Empower, Achieve: 5-M...
Shonda believes that when women empower themselves and create life balance, they unleash the capacity for incredible accomplishments...
46 min
158
Henry R. Carse, "Sinai: The Abundant Emptiness"...
Carse offers a meditation on the "abundant emptiness" of the desert...
45 min
159
Matt Cook, "Sleight of Mind: 75 Ingenious Parad...
According to Cook, a paradox paradox is a sophisticated kind of magic trick...
51 min
160
Yael Shy, "What Now? Meditation for Your Twenti...
Yael Shy shares mindfulness practices to help twentysomethings learn to identify and accept these feelings and respond—not react—to painful and powerful stimuli without pushing them away or getting lost in them...
46 min
161
Nicole Lovald, "Om Sweet Om: A Corporate Junkie...
"Om Sweet Om" is the inspiring story of how a stressed-out corporate junkie found her way to a yoga mat--and eventually, back to herself.
39 min
162
Phillipa Chong, “Inside the Critics’ Circle: Bo...
How does the world of book reviews work?
39 min
163
Stephanie Kaza, "Green Buddhism: Practice and C...
What is Green Buddhism? Find out...
62 min
164
Great Books: Glenn Wallis on Gibran's "The Prop...
Kahlil Gibran’s 1923 The Prophet is book that’s changed people’s lives...
63 min
165
Ronald Epstein, "Attending: Medicine, Mindfulne...
Epstein explores four foundations of mindfulness — Attending, Curiosity, Beginner's Mind, and Being Present — and shows how clinicians can grow their capacity to provide high-quality care...
37 min
166
K. Linder et al., "Going Alt-Ac: A Guide to Alt...
If you’re a grad student facing the ugly reality of finding a tenure-track job, you could easily be forgiven for thinking about a career change...
36 min
167
Vanessa Linsey, "Metta Mom: A Mindful Guide to ...
Linsey takes us on an uproarious journey of spirituality, humor, and humility...
50 min
168
Deborah Eden Tull, "Relational Mindfulness" (Wi...
"Relational Mindfulness" is a guidebook on how to embody compassionate awareness in all of our relationships...
40 min
169
Nir Eyal, "Indistractable: How to Control Your ...
"Indistractable" offers a theoretical framework for the powerful distractions each of us encounters every single day...
54 min
170
Kathryn Conrad on University Press Publishing
What do university presses do, and how do they do it?
37 min
171
J. Neuhaus, "Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for Intell...
The things that make people academics do not necessarily make them good teachers...
29 min
172
Logan Thompson, "Beyond the Content: Mindfulnes...
Mindfulness is widely embraced in the business and athletic communities as a valuable technique to optimize performance. Author Logan Thompson, an expert in both test prep and mindfulness, says that it's about time the test prep community embraces it as well...
50 min
173
Christopher Willard, "Raising Resilience, The W...
In every spiritual tradition, we find teachings on the virtues and qualities that we most want to pass on to our kids...
41 min
174
Candy Gunther Brown, "Debating Yoga and Mindful...
An expert witness in four legal challenges, Brown scrutinized unpublished trial records, informant interviews, and legal precedents, as well as insider documents, some revealing promoters of “Vedic victory” or “stealth Buddhism” for public-school children...
30 min
175
Ronald E. Purser, "McMindfulness: How Mindfulne...
Purser takes a hard look at the mindfulness movement that has taken society by storm...
88 min