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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
The Yoga Path of Motherhood: Wisdom for Calmer, More Connected Parenting from Birth to Adulthood

The Yoga Path of Motherhood: Wisdom for Calmer, More Connected Parenting from Birth to Adulthood

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General Parenting

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ISBN10: 196343322X
ISBN13: 9781963433227
Publisher: Hohm Press
Pages: 175
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
What if motherhood itself could become your yoga practice?
Motherhood can bring extraordinary love and joy--and also exhaustion, self-doubt, frustration, guilt, and the relentless feeling that you should somehow be doing more. With so much conflicting advice about how to raise children, care for yourself, manage work and family, and be a good mother, it is easy to lose touch with the person at the center of it all: you.
The Yoga Path of Motherhood offers another way.
Drawing upon the timeless wisdom of Classical Yoga and her own experience as a mother, stepmother, grandmother, yoga teacher, and Yoga Therapist, Alice Bentley shows how the challenges of everyday mothering can become opportunities for greater peace, presence, compassion, and spiritual growth.
This is not another parenting manual telling you how to raise your children. Nor is it a book asking an already busy mother to squeeze more practices into her day. Instead, it reveals how motherhood itself can become the practice.
At the heart of the book is Karma Yoga--the Yoga of Action and Work--which teaches us to transform our everyday responsibilities into a path of self-understanding and inner growth. Through practical yogic wisdom, reflection exercises, real-life examples, and simple techniques that can be incorporated into even the busiest day, Bentley helps mothers recognize the beliefs and patterns that create unnecessary suffering and replace them with healthier, more compassionate ways of living.
Learn how to become less reactive and more present. Release unrealistic expectations and guilt. Establish healthier priorities and boundaries. Practice meaningful self-care without feeling selfish. Meet difficult emotions with greater understanding. Bring intention and purpose into ordinary family life. And discover how to offer your children one of the greatest gifts a parent can give: a mother who is increasingly centered, connected, and at peace within herself.
You do not have to become a perfect yogi--or a perfect mother.
Every sleepless night, difficult conversation, overflowing schedule, moment of frustration, and unexpected joy can become part of your path.
The Yoga Path of Motherhood is an invitation to stop adding more to motherhood and begin experiencing it differently--to transform the work you are already doing into a practice of love, awareness, self-compassion, and connection.
Let motherhood become the path that brings you home to yourself.

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