BOOKS
GOOD STRESS: THE HEALTH BENEFITS OF DOING HARD THINGS
10 PROTOCOLS TO EXTEND YOUR LIFESPAN AND YOUR HEALTHSPAN
Good Stress: The Health Benefits of Doing Hard Things invites you to reframe your understanding of stress. Humans evolved with paleolithic stressors that conferred health and resilience. Increasingly, modern life has been engineered for ease and convenience — with a serious cost. We are sick!
Drawing on personal experience, ancient wisdom, and cutting-edge science, author Jeff Krasno reveals how embracing life’s challenges can realign us with our design. To that end, this book prescribes 10 specific evidence-based “good stress” protocols to transform your physiological, psychological, and social well-being.
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FIND YOUR TRUE FORK
JOURNEYS IN HEALTHY, DELICIOUS, AND ETHICAL EATING
The foodie’s roadmap to making responsible, ethical decisions about food―you don’t have to be a yogi to try out these delicious, organic, and seasonal recipes. Wanderlust Find Your True Fork answers all the questions you have about eating a healthy, whole foods diet, explaining how to start an urban garden, providing composting techniques, and demystifying biodynamic agriculture. It’s the definitive guide to developing a closer connection to what you eat.
With the help of an all-star cast of chefs and wellness influencers that contribute expert advice, the book has yummy recipes for vegans, vegetarians, omnivores, and everything in between. Being conscious about what we put in our bodies is a cornerstone of living a balanced life, and with Wanderlust Find Your True Fork you can take that passion for healthy living off the mat and onto the plate.
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WANDERLUST
A MODERN YOGI'S GUIDE TO DISCOVERING YOUR BEST SELF
Like the wildly popular festivals Wanderlust is a road map for people engaged in cultivating their best selves. For everyone who grabs their yoga mats every week, this book provides a unique understanding of "yoga"―not just as something to do in practice, but as a broader principle for living. Wanderlust helps readers navigate their personal path and find their own true north, curating principles that embody the brand and lifestyle―authentic yoga practices, provocative thinking, music, art, good food, eco-friendly activities, and more.
Each chapter includes expert yoga instruction by renowned teachers; inspiring music playlists to motivate readers to practice; thought-provoking art; awesome recipes for delicious, healthy foods to sustain a yoga regimen; and fun, unexpected detours. This wide array of ideas and beautiful visuals is designed to be hyper-stimulating―whether a reader follows the arc of the book from beginning to end or dips into chapters at random, she is sure to find something pleasing to the eye, to feel motivated to practice, and to want to reach for her deepest desires and dreams. This book brings the Wanderlust festival experience into any reader's home.
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Communion
com·mun·ion: /kə'myoonyən/ noun: the sharing or exchanging of intimate thoughts and feelings, especially when the exchange is on a mental or spiritual level.
In mid-March, as the human ship anchored into Port Lockdown, my dearest friend and colleague, Jacob, urged me to begin writing a weekly essay for our burgeoning Commune community. Naively,I agreed. And these toiled-over Sunday screeds took on the playful, if slightly irritating, rubric Commusing.
The cocktail of pandemic, quarantine and social media induced a global drunkenness of anxiety and fear. By leveraging words as vessels for emotions, I hoped I could help people make a modicum of sober sense out of this confounding and uncertain time. Of course, when I penned the first missive in late March, I could not presage how tumultuous and indelible the year 2020 would be. Over time, these weekly exhortations dispatched to a million scattered souls across the globe became a sort of communion, a series of intimate spiritual conversations.
Through no premeditation, these articles took the form of biographical creative non-fiction, a genre of which I was completely unaware. Every week, I sharpened my pencil to lay my soul bare, swinging the door wide open into the madcap yarns of my family life with the hope that people might find their own stories within mine. Stories breed empathy, the donning of another’s emotional clothing, and forge connection in an increasingly atomized and lonely world.
This book is a compendium of these essays, a deep look into perennial spiritual riddles brought to the fore by an unforgettable year.
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