Author:Colin Dunsmuir,Colin Dunsmuir
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Keen to boost your mental and physical wellbeing, general health, or gain a supportive framework to help you to overcome difficult situations that you're facing in life?
Sitting in the Middle of Chaos is a therapeutic programme to help readers accept their flaws and discover a more fulfilling way of living, featuring a foreword by Cara Delevingne. Colin dispels the myth that yoga is just about movements, poses and wearing expensive leggings. Instead he explores how ancient yoga philosophy and teachings can easily be applied to and benefit all areas of our modern lives.
Whether you'd like to boost your mental and physical wellbeing, general health, or gain a supportive framework to help you to overcome difficult situations that you're facing in life, this book can help.
The book will take deep, spiritual yogic learnings and adapt them for a modern life and audience. Colin will provide you with accessible, easy-to-follow tips on:
· Breathing
· Meditation
· Movement
· Diet
· Connection with others
Each chapter will be inspired by a yoga sutra, contain a case study, a brief exploration of the yogic philosophy behind the story, and provide practical exercises for you to try at home.
© Colin Dunsmuir 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022
The mark of a good book is that it changes you. Sometimes a little, sometimes a lot. Nan Shepherd, Robin Wall Kimmerer and Jay Griffiths have all wielded that power over me, but I’ve rarely been so aware of an internal change being wrought, word by word, as I have these past days immersed in Kapka Kassabova’s alchemical prose. I fancy she had me under her spell from page one
—— Guardian, *Book of Day*Her ability to bring out the best in her subjects is born of a genuine horror at the unsustainability of the ways we live... But Elixir is not a lecture... Like the forests and fells it inhabits, it is by turns dark and mysterious and beautiful. Ecologically minded writing can often tell too much and show too little, but Kassabova sensibly lets the landscape and locals do the talking.
—— Financial TimesUplifting and beautifully written... Elixir provides a glorious cycle of stories and personal testimonies.
—— SpectatorSubtle prose that mingles empathy with perspective.
—— EconomistHumanity glitters under her gaze in all its facets. Her prose is spectacularly good and her storytelling is a joy.
—— Philip Marsden, author of Rising GroundA laudable attempt to record an endangered region and a disappearing way of life.
—— Times Literary SupplementExceptional.
—— BBC WildlifeThis is a book to make you feel.
—— ScotsmanIn her captivating latest, Kassabova transports us to the Mesta River in her native Bulgaria... Kassabova finds hope that this ancient knowledge still has the power to heal us.
—— Bookseller, *Editor's Choice*Extraordinary... She allows her book to grow and swell, like a symphony, expanding and deepening its themes until the traditional wisdom and life of the mountain envelopes you entirely. Rather like a spell, in fact.
—— Country LifeIt soars with the luminous prose and unflinching honesty we have come to expect from this brilliantly gifted writer. Elixir is an extraordinary, profoundly moving book... Her prose is breathtaking, the stories heartbreaking.
—— Feminism and ReligionA joyous celebration of the Pomak community in southern Bulgaria.
—— Spectator, *Books of the Year*Wonderfully well researched, and candidly honest, Hewitt openly discusses topics which are often shied away from… this book is thought provoking and compelling
—— Emily Coates , The Professional MountaineerIn her Nature reanimates the stories of the past to reveal, brilliantly, the conditions through which women so often have to battle in the present... [it] will make you want to run, and to experience something of the hard-won emotional and physical freedom that Hewitt's prose so movingly evokes
—— DAISY HAY, author of Dinner With Joseph JohnsonA powerful account of women's strengths and achievements in the mountains
—— ANNA FLEMING, author of Time on RockA life-affirming book about the thrill of exploring the great outdoors, asking why so many women are excluded from running, hiking and mountaineering. It confronts the obstacles we face every day, including violence, assault and the general assumption that we don't belong here; but In Her Nature proves we have a right to run free
—— NATASHA CARTHEW, author of UndercurrentAn urgent, beautifully written and fiercely important book
—— HELEN CASTOR, author of She-WolvesWith intimate attention and in beautiful prose, IN HER NATURE moves deftly between the inner life and the great outdoors. Rachel Hewitt shows that not only do women have a history as runners, climbers and adventurers; we also have a right to the outdoors that is as crucial - and fragile - today as it ever was
—— SARAH DITUMA vital feminist memoir of life outdoors, underpinned by the depth of historical knowledge that only a true scholar can bring
—— KATE MALTBYAn extraordinarily compelling book that left me seeing with fresh eyes. Blending expert historical storytelling with piercing memoir, Rachel Hewitt leads the reader over moors and mountains on a grand tour of grief, solitude, camaraderie, and women's long struggle to claim the freedom of the outdoors
—— OLIVER BURKEMAN, author of Four Thousand WeeksA spectacular achievement... It's beautiful, deeply researched and eye-opening
—— Critic