Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Robert Butera, PhD and Jennifer Kreatsoulas, PhD, authors of the new Body Mindful Yoga. Hundreds of descriptive names exist for the eyes, nose, teeth, legs, feet, arms, ears, hips, stomach, and more. As kids, we are often given nicknames based on our physical features, usually the awkward or "imperfect" ones. Some of our childhood nicknames make us smile, and others sting. We could ask you to mentally name a few parts of your body that cause you embarrassment or a few of your "imperfect" features that have been nicknamed by others (or yourself). You can probably name them very quickly. We know we can name ours! Sometimes the labels we

Tarot Inspired Life by Jaymi Elford Jaymi Elford doesn’t just love tarot, she lives it and, in her new book Tarot Inspired Life, she teaches you how to weave tarot through your life and your life through tarot. This has two huge benefits. First, it helps you learn the cards, or to learn them more deeply, and, second, it enriches your life through practical application and experiential techniques. From every aspect of reading to arts and crafts to magical activities to spiritual practices, Jaymi covers all the bases. Any tarot lover will find tons of inspiration. One of my favorite activities she teaches is how to make a tarot pocket shrine. But the instructions are lengthy,

Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Vannoy Gentles Fite, author of the new Essential Oils for Emotional Wellbeing. Essential oils have been used throughout history in conjunction with sacred rituals and ceremonies. I feel I can't begin to fully embrace a ritual or practice until I have my diffuser going with a blend of spiritually enhancing aromas wafting throughout my room. When I get a hint of cedarwood in the air, my mind instantly turns to meditation. Using essential oils is as easy as knowing which oils work best for which practice. For meditation, I like to use either cedarwood, chamomile, clary sage, frankincense, helichrysum, hyssop, lavender, or vetiver. Using the

Tarot Correspondences by T. Susan Chang This is a book we’ve been looking for for quite a while now. It is far more than a collection of tables of correspondences. It is also a guide to getting the most out of using them. Chang explains in the introduction: Correspondences are friend to the imagination, not its enemy I believe correspondences don’t just reveal why we see the images we do in each card—they are also a fertile place to plant the seed of our own interpretations. ey are a language which blossoms in the presence of a rich and exible imagination. As tarot readers, we are the caretakers of a living language of pictures, one we use every day to help ourselves