Kirtan Angels

Reawaken to divine feminine wisdom through the female Archangels and discover how to connect and work with their energy for healing, love, joy and balance. The archangels have long been known as our strong, masculine guardians; protecting us, directing us, defending us. And now, with the rise in the Divine feminine, our angelic connections have expanded to fit the need. In this book, Claire Stone introduces you to 11 female archangels who are stepping forwards to help us. Each offers simple yet effective ways of aligning your life through self-discovery, practices and meditations, all designed to help you to unlock your intuition. Learn how to communicate with the female archangels and allow them to help you: · transcend temptation and release any judgement · mend broken bonds and guide you through shadow work · speak your truth and heighten your creativity · honour the divinity within you and develop your light body These angelic teachers have arrived because you are now ready to uncover their lost teachings. All you need to do is ask for their help.

Embodying Transnational Yoga is a refreshingly original, multi-sited ethnography of transnational yoga that obliges us to look beyond postural practice (āsana) in modern yoga research. The book introduces readers to three alternative, understudied categories of transnational yoga practice which include food, music, and breathing. Studying these categories of embodied practice using interdisciplinary methods reveals transformative “engaged alchemies” that have been extensively deployed by contemporary disseminators of yoga. Readers will encounter how South Asian dietary regimens, musical practices, and breathing techniques have been adapted into contemporaneous worlds of yoga practice both within, but also beyond, the Indian Ocean rim. The book brings the field of Modern Yoga Studies into productive dialogue with the fields of Indian Ocean Studies, Embodiment Studies, Food Studies, Ethnomusicology, and Pollution Studies. It will also be a valuable resource for both scholarly work and for teaching in the fields of Religious Studies, Anthropology, and South Asian Religions.

This volume explores the reception, development and construction of Eastern practices in the Nordic countries. The focus is on spirituality, medicine and healing from a lived religion perspective. Besides a geographical focus on the Nordic countries and their characteristics, this collection examines the embodied practices aligned with different expressions of religiosity, alternative medicine, spirituality and healing practices. By addressing questions about how so-called Eastern practices are embodied, spread and materialized, the contributors shed light on a cultural change in Nordic societies regarding religious, spiritual and alternative health practices, that are sometimes at odds with the dominant medical discourse about life-threatening diseases and other types of conditions.

This fiction is the cross-section of the Adivasi( Indigenous Tribes) in the Dooars region of West Bengal. The main character in this fiction, Darley was brought up in the church compound but she was backslidden to worldly pleasures. This fiction depicts the human tendency to slip into carnal desires and finally, it's very difficult to come back to normalcy. Darley was brought up in the mission compound like Pastor Stephen's daughter. when she has grown up, people consider her as a servant or slave. Darley realizes this reality very late. When Darley died no one was there to take care of her baby Deborah, the love of Jesus prompted Hephzibah again to take care of the baby.

When he asks what kind of work I do, I tell him I am a poet. ‘Poetry will break your heart,’ he says. ‘Or, perhaps it is the only thing that won’t,’ I say. Where I Slept is the story of a young woman’s devastating and inspirational search for a life of artistic integrity. Leaving a seedy boarding house in a provincial town in the 1990s, she travels to Melbourne—to all the possibilities of the city. She lives in bohemian share houses with painters, activists, addicts and petty criminals, on the couches of friends and not-so-accommodating acquaintances and, for a time, in the streets, parks and railway stations of a city both richly gratifying and callously indifferent. Libby Angel’s work of autofiction is an unforgettable portrait of a life on the fringes, peppered with dark humour and moments of elation—a poem of longing and desire. Libby Angel is an Australian poet and novelist. She won the 2018 Barbara Jefferis Award for her debut novel, The Trapeze Act. Her poetry has appeared in a number of Australian journals. Where I Slept, a work of autofiction, is her second novel.

Kirtan has recently arrived in the West, carried by brilliant singers and musicians, creating a new musical movement that has turned yogic chanting into a cultural phenomenon. This book interviews eight of America's top Kirtan singers, Krishna Das, Deva Premal, Bhagavan Das, Snatam Kaur, Ragani, Jai Uttal, Dave Stringer, and, Wah.