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Restoring your body, mind, and spirit amid change is an act of courage, empowerment, and hope. This warm, powerful guide will help you honor the changes and spaces in your life with purposeful rest and reflection.If you’re trying to push your way through endings, beginnings, and places of uncertainty, only to find yourself more confused, disconnected, tired, and uncertain, this book will hold and fortify you. Yoga teacher and activist Octavia Raheem offers us the motivation and guidance we need to restore ourselves in the midst of all sorts of change. Change in our lives–whether it be welcome, joyful, challenging, or more subtle—presents us with the opportunity to pause and gather our energy to work with whatever lies ahead. Drawing wisdom from yoga philosophy and her many years of teaching experience, Raheem offers us the motivation and guidance we need to restore ourselves in the midst of all types of change. She gives us three simple restorative yoga poses (savasana, side lying pose, and child’s pose), and offers short teachings, reflections, and practices to see us through times of ending, beginning, and liminal/transitional space. She shows us how slowing down, stillness, and deeper connection to our own transitions empower us to move through collective shifts with more grace–and what it means to navigate shifts and change with presence and courage. From the Publisher From Octavia F. Raheem “I created Pause, Rest, Be to meet you in the places that shape, redefine, and sometimes undo us: endings, liminal space, and beginnings. The places of falling aparts and mergings. Of letting go and coming together. Union. This book contains my personal reflections on endings, the place in between, and beginnings. It is also a book of inquiry and practice. Each section ends with a prayer that crosses faiths to reach all hearts.” Slow down, embrace stillness, and forge a deeper connection to your transitions. Restorative Yoga Poses to Support Our Transitions Corpse Pose | Savasana A Pose for Endings Side-Lying Pose | Parsva Savasana A Pose for the Space In Between Child’s Pose | Balasana A Pose for Beginnings Publisher : Shambhala (February 1, 2022) Language : English Paperback : 160 pages ISBN-10 : 1611809851 ISBN-13 : 978-1611809855 Item Weight : 6.4 ounces Dimensions : 5.23 x 0.46 x 7.97 inches
