North Atlantic Books imprint: 461 books
by Robert Powell
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2011
*Wisdom is to reject conventional wisdom about almost everything.*Thus begins Robert Powell's inquiry into the nature of Totality and the unreality of all else. This small but profound book is divided into three parts. In the first, Reflections, Robert Powell comments on some of humankind's most timeless...
Transforming the Nature of Health
A Holistic Vision of Healing That Honors Our Connection to the Earth, Others, and Ourselves
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
A provocative blend of personal memoir, new science, and philosophical treatise, this book presents a fresh model for healing by rethinking our relationships with one another, the natural world, our bodies, and our innermost selves. Dr. Marcey Shapiro focuses on eliminating us/them or friend/enemy...
The Haumana Hula Handbook for Students of Hawaiian Dance
A Manual for the Student of Hawaiian Dance
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
A great resource for students of traditional Hawaiian dance, this beautiful handbook filled with archival photographs covers the origins, language, etiquette, ceremonies, and the spiritual culture of hula. Hula, the indigenous dance of Hawai'i, preserves significant aspects of Native Hawaiian culture...
Messages from the Afterlife
A Bereaved Father's Journey in the World of Spirit Visitations, Psychic-Mediums, and Synchronicity
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2013
A father watches his teenage son step out the door on a hiking trip, not knowing that this is the last time he would see him.... A journal of grief, despair, and ultimately, hope, this book tells the story of every parent's nightmare--the sudden death of a child--and a father's search for meaning...
Sacred Motherhood
An Inspirational Guide and Journal for Mindfully Mothering Children of All Ages
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
Written for mothers seeking to fulfill their soul’s work while simultaneously raising future generations, Sacred Motherhood offers women on the path of motherhood a guide back to themselves. It will help you embrace the reality that this is your spiritual life—every moment of every day, whether...
The Eight Crystal Alliances
The Influence of Stones on the Personality
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2012
Despite the diversity of theories of human psychology, the majority shares a view of the personality as a collection of traits, ways of thinking and acting, that allow the observer to define, recognize, and understand people and their motivations. The Eight Crystal Alliances takes a more inclusive,...
Heart Yoga
The Sacred Marriage of Yoga and Mysticism
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
***WINNER, 2010 Spirituality & Practice Best Spiritual Book Award – Yoga
In Heart Yoga, renowned spiritual writer and Sacred Activist Andrew Harvey and longtime yoga teacher Karuna Erickson present a vision of hatha yoga practice that links ancient spiritual traditions to contemporary...
Creative Yoga for Children
Inspiring the Whole Child through Yoga, Songs, Literature, and Games
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
Creative Yoga for Children offers a simple, ready-to-teach Montessori-based yoga program for children age twelve and under. Following age-appropriate classroom themes, the book's forty detailed, one-hour lessons are designed to supplement any learning environment and are accessible to parents and...
Saving the White Lions
One Woman's Battle for Africa's Most Sacred Animal
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
In this captivating, suspenseful memoir, white lion conservationist Linda Tucker describes her perilous struggle to protect the sacred white lion from the merciless and mafia-like trophy-hunting industry, armed only with her indomitable spirit and total devotion.
Her story begins in 1991 with a...
Love in the Age of Ecological Apocalypse
Cultivating the Relationships We Need to Thrive
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
Given the daunting, dire predicament in which we find ourselves on this planet, what is described by social critic James Howard Kunstler as a "Long Emergency" may in fact become a "Last Emergency" for humanity. Whether we encounter a "long" or a "last" emergency,...
The Wisdom of the Overself
The Path to Self-Realization and Philosophic Insight, Volume 2
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
Inspired by Paul Brunton's years spent with sages in Asia, *The Wisdom of the Overself *and its companion volume The Hidden Teaching Beyond Yoga were written at the request of these remarkable teachers, who recognized that Brunton had a significant role to play in the transmission of traditional...
Die Wise
A Manifesto for Sanity and Soul
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
Die Wise does not offer seven steps for coping with death. It does not suggest ways to make dying easier. It pours no honey to make the medicine go down. Instead, with lyrical prose, deep wisdom, and stories from his two decades of working with dying people and their families, Stephen Jenkinson places...
Functional Anatomy of the Pilates Core
An Illustrated Guide to a Safe and Effective Core Training Program
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
This book is the first to illustrate the essential connection between the functional anatomy of the body’s core and its application during Pilates’ fundamental core exercises. Focusing on the inherent potential of the human body to stabilize and move, Dr. Evan Osar and Marylee Bussard combine...
Ideokinesis
A Creative Approach to Human Movement and Body Alignment
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
Mabel Elsworth Todd pioneered ideokinesis in the 1920s. Her book, The Thinking Body, described new ways to use all the senses as well as inner feeling and imagination to retrain the body to move with ease and balance. The system became an invaluable tool for generations of dancers, actors, and performance...