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This collection of beautifully illustrated affirmations from artist Tarn Ellis is a love letter to the soul, inspiring and empowering women of all ages to blossom into their full potential.You Are Home is a love letter to your soul, inspiring and empowering you to blossom into your full potential. The breathtaking illustrations and words of wisdom from artist Tarn Ellis will uplift and energize you, moving you to live a more loving, peaceful, and connected life. Read it cover to cover, flip to any page for instant inspiration, or display it on a coffee table or altar, open to your favorite affirmation. This beautiful book will teach you how to work your magic. To manifest your dreams. To bloom. INSPIRING: Brimming with beautiful, full-color illustrations, this book makes the perfect gift for Mother’s Day, graduations, birthdays, promotions, or any meaningful occasion. INCLUSIVE: Tarn’s evocative illustrations depict women of all colors, shapes, and sizes. INVENTIVE: Can be read cover to cover, flipped to any page for instant inspiration, or displayed on a coffee table or altar, open to a favorite affirmation. EMPOWERING: Gives readers permission to be who they already are, but also encourages them to blossom into their full potential, through messages of reassurance, acceptance, and loving kindness. RESONANT: Themes include appreciating the small things, finding comfort in community, receiving the wisdom of the natural world, cultivating self-care, and manifesting dreams.

Turn your pain into power. Part inspirational memoir, part practical guide, Hiking Your Feelings offers a toolkit to unpack your “trauma pack” and step into the best version of yourself.Join wellness advocate and wilderness guide Sydney Williams as she shares her healing journey from eating and drinking her feelings to hiking her feelings. When Sydney unexpectedly found herself diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, while grappling with grief and unresolved trauma built up over a decade, she set out on a quest to turn her pain into power. Two hikes across Catalina Island and eighty miles later, she learned to disconnect from distractions and reconnect with herself, all through the power of nature. Now, she’s encouraging others to get outside and blaze their own trail to self-love, turning buried traumas into healthy coping mechanisms. With affirmations, prompts, and reflection exercises throughout—all presented from Sydney’s supportive and self-effacing perspective—Hiking Your Feelings offers a toolkit to unpack your “trauma pack” and step into the best version of yourself. INSPIRATIONAL & INSIGHTFUL: Follow Sydney as she reflects on her own journey from buried traumas and poor body image to acceptance, healthy coping mechanisms, and self-love. RELATABLE & UNIVERSAL: Touches on themes and problems that many struggle with, including grief and loss, sexual assault, poor body image, career stress, and the stigma of diabetes, all presented from Sydney’s supportive and self-effacing perspective. HEALING POWER OF NATURE: Discover how getting outside—even just for a walk around the block—can help you tune into your body better. HIKE YOUR OWN HIKE: Learn to love yourself as you are now. Go from eating, drinking, working, or spending your feelings to hiking your feelings. UNPACK YOUR TRAUMA PACK: Identify new activities and rituals that will allow you to choose love over fear and lift the invisible weight from your shoulders. PROMPTS, ACTIVITIES & EXERCISES: Apply the lessons Sydney has learned to your own life, through thoughtful tasks at the end of each chapter.

In this in-depth, engaging guide to the Mahabharata, Hindu Studies scholar Nicholas Sutton explores the central messages of the work's core narratives and passages of instruction, demonstrating how the questions the text poses are as relevant today as they were to those who composed this mighty treatise on human existence.

The Hindu Temple and Its Sacred Landscape explores Hinduism as it was practised in temples across the Indian subcontinent throughout history, highlighting the temple’s significance as a marker of cultural identity.The Hindu Temple and Its Sacred Landscape illustrates how careful attention to the Hindu temple, its social history, and cultural landscape allows us to better appreciate how Hinduism has been practised and lived throughout history. The Hindu temple was not merely a place of worship or a static indicator of royal generosity but an institution that involved the active participation of the community for its establishment, maintenance, and survival. Rather than studying temples as isolated structures, The Hindu Temple and Its Sacred Landscape thus suggests that we need to examine them in the context of their social base and the sacred microcosms of which they form a part. Through a combination of textual study, archaeological evidence, and insights from contemporary anthropology, the book explores the diverse ways in which devotees, patrons, and visitors have engaged with temples, shrines, and their wider surroundings. Drawing attention to the vibrancy of the Hindu temple in different locales, The Hindu Temple and Its Sacred Landscape traces the ways in which Hindu notions of sanctity and sacredness were defined and redefined throughout history through the diversity of temple audiences, deities, and rituals. The book thus allows us to form a more accurate picture of Hindu religious life in the past and the central role the temple has played in consolidating Hindu identity. EXPERT ANALYSIS: Author Himanshu Prabha Ray provides authoritative analysis of the Hindu temple, drawing on her expertise as an award-winning Sanskrit scholar, historian, and archeologist. SUPPLEMENTAL STUDY: The Hindu Temple and Its Sacred Landscape provides a breadth of educational knowledge as a supplement to both academic coursework and the independent study of Hinduism. With the integration of discussion questions, suggested further reading, a glossary of key terms, and images throughout, The Hindu Temple and Its Sacred Landscape offers an accessible introduction to studying the history and significance of Hindu temples. EXPLORE THE SERIES: The Hindu Temple and Its Sacred Landscape expands the collection of academic texts developed by the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies. The Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies Publishing Series offers authoritative yet accessible introductions to a wide range of subjects in Hindu Studies. Each book in the series aims to present its subject matter in a form that is engaging and readily comprehensible to persons of all backgrounds – academic or otherwise – without compromising scholarly rigour. The series thus bridges the divide between academic and popular writing by preserving and utilising the best elements of both. Women in the Hindu World and The Bhagavad Gita: A New Translation and Study Guide are also available in the series.

This collection of sublime discourses delivered between 1997 and 2000 in the US, Europe and India encapsulate insightful analogies and lucid commentary on the essence of the divine teachings of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu and the saints of ancient India. Compelling topics include: the words of Vamsi das Babaji; a humorous description of Krishna's illusory potency; the questions between Yamaraj and Yudhistira Maharaj in the Mahabharata; new insights into the Bhagavad Gita; the holy life of Ambarisha Maharaj and an unforgettable explanation of the inner meaning of Janmastami.

The second book in the Gopal trilogy, Miraculous Gopal sets the stage for some amazing adventures. When the village of Vrindavan is inundated with torrential rains sent by Indra, the furious King of Heaven, Gopal displays his divinity by lifting Govardhan Hill and saving the cows and all of the inhabitants of Vrindavan.