Here is a small sampling of books offered at Moondrop Herbals in the genre of Ayurveda, Chakra work, and Yoga practice. Whether you’re a student, teacher, or health & wellness practitioner, you’ll find knowledge to deepen your understanding of this ancient, vast, and intriguing spiritual and healing modality.
Body Mandala: Posture, Perception & Presence
by Mary Bond $24.99
Integrating movement theory, philosophy, neuroscience, fascia research, polyvagal theory, and personal story, Mary Bond teaches you to unlock your body’s somatic wisdom. She reveals how the human body organizes and expresses movement through perception, looking in depth at the role of the fascial system as the preeminent organ of the mind-body connection. She also explains the process of internal perception, or “interoception,” the body-mind’s ability to identify, access, understand, and respond appropriately to its internal signals.
Body Mandala invites you to awaken to the grace and wisdom of your body as a personal mandala that is always available for meditative focus, the author shows how conscious embodiment can help us not only improve our posture but also become more perceptive and more humane beings.
- Presents more than 50 physical self-explorations that invite you to transform your sensory experience, expand your awareness, and practice embodied presence
- Integrates movement theory, neuroscience, fascia research, and personal story to examine the structural foundation of the human body in motion and in stillness
- Includes streaming audio and video links for each practice
Chakra Yoga
by Anodea Judith PhD $31.99
As the architecture of the soul, the chakra system is the yoke of yoga—the means whereby mind and body, heaven and earth, and spirit and matter are joined together in the divine union that is the true meaning of yoga.
With acclaimed chakra expert Anodea Judith, you will learn how to use yoga’s principles and practices to awaken the subtle body of energy and connect with your highest source. Using seven vital keys to unlock your inner temple, you will be guided through practices that open and activate each chakra through postures, bioenergetic exercises, breathing practices, mantras, guided meditation, and yoga philosophy. With beautiful step-by-step photographs for each of the poses, along with guidelines for deeper alignment and activation of the energy body, this book is a valuable resource for teachers and students alike.
Ethics In Energy Medicine:
Guidelines for Intuitive and Energetic Practices by Heidi Light $16.95
Heidi Light, a family counselor and certified hypnotherapist, asserts that we are in desperate need of guidance and standards so that we can approach the world of intuition, energy, and mysticism from a healthy and respectful place.
Drawing from her more than forty years as a medical intuitive empath, and energy tracker, as well as twenty years as a counselor in private, clinical, and institutional settings, Light offers practical, simple solutions to the alarming lack of boundaries in the fields of intuition and energy medicine.
From massage therapists who just throw in a little extra energy work, to psychics who read your sister instead of you, or to practitioners who tell you to take your clothes off, Light shares case studies and vignettes of ethical boundaries mistakenly being crossed.
This book explains the traditional psychological model of ethics that counselors and psychologists are taught and outlines an ethical energetics model as a framework for moving through the process of accessing intuitive information and working with energy. Experience energy workers, those new to the field and just opening to their intuition, and those who come to them for services need to know these ethical guidelines of boundaries and consent.
Plant Spirit Reiki:
Energy Healing with the Elements of Nature by Fay Johnstone $16.99
Enrich your Reiki practice by connecting with the healing spirit of plants and the natural world.
- Explores a new way of channeling Reiki energy for both personal healing and professional practice by intuitively connecting with plants and the natural world
- Provides simple exercises, meditations, and Reiki practices to help the reader intuitively work in partnership with plants as part of their Reiki practice
- Emphasizes healing exchange with plants and the self-practice of Reiki in partnership with the spirit of plants to heal our essential nature
- Explains how to raise the vibration of your community and the world by connecting with green spaces, nature beings, and habitats under threat
In this practical workbook, Fay Johnstone demonstrates how energy healers and Reiki practitioners can partner with plant spirit allies and the forces of nature for powerful healing for themselves, others, and our planet. She explains how to include plants and nature in your Reiki practice, both the spiritual/etheric components of plants and the physical plants themselves. She offers many practical exercises, techniques, and meditations as well as case studies and personal experiences to show how best to harness the power of plants on all levels, along with other energy flows, to support the healing process in much the same way that crystals are used as energetic healing aids. She explains how plants connect with the Reiki principles and explores plant spirit allies, chakra work, and healing with the elements of nature. She details how to enhance self-healing and Reiki treatments for others through “bringing the outside in,” creating a healing space, use of plant preparations, and other sacred forms of plant medicine.
Sacred Sound:
Discovering the Myth and Meaning of Mantra and Kirtan
by Alanna Kaivalya $16.95
In yoga practice, mantra and kirtan (call-and-response devotional chanting) get short shrift in the West because they are not well understood, though they are an integral part of almost every Eastern spiritual practice. They are designed to provide access into the psyche while their underlying mythology helps us understand how our psychology affects daily life. Sacred Sound shares the myths behind the mantras and kirtans, illuminating their meaning and putting their power and practicality within reach of every reader.
Each of the twenty-one mantras and kirtans presented includes the Sanskrit version, the transliteration, the translation, suggestions for chanting, the underlying myth, and its modern-day implications. Based on the author’s years of teaching and studying the myths and sacred texts, this book offers a way into one of the most life-changing aspects of yoga practice.
Shakti Mantras: How to be Still
Tapping into the Great Goddess Energy Within
by Thomas Ashley-Farrand $17.00
Tap into the Great Goddess Energy Within
- Enhance your spiritual gifts
- Lighten your karmic burden
- Improve your health and increase prosperity
- Live in harmony with the universe
By sharing enchanting Hindu myths and astonishing true stories from his own practice, Ashley-Farrand helps us to understand the real power that this age-old art awakens in those who perform it. Through dozens of actual mantras–each one presented with phonetic spelling for easy pronunciation and recommendations for specific applications–he enables us to increase our “shakti” (power) and use it to solve problems, ensure abundance, create health and well-being, summon protection, and invoke personal and universal peace.
Subtle Energy Work
Meditative Exercises for Healing, Self-Care, and Inner Balance
by Synthia Andrews $22.95
Learning to consciously interact in the domain of subtle energy is the next step in personal and planetary transformation. Subtle Energy Work is a unique guide to principles, practices, and exercises to help you access your energy awareness and live a more empowered life.
In the book are 13 meditations that activate patterns of light within your energy body to awaken specific abilities and levels of awareness. Each meditation includes benefits and purpose, step-by-step written directions augmented with line drawings, and an interpretive illustration of the completed energy pattern. There are also daily energy clearing and detoxification exercises.
Subtle Energy Work is a guide to living with expanded consciousness. Included are techniques that build energy awareness and use this skill to deepen your spiritual path, intimacy in relationships, align with earth energy, clear space, create protection, manifest goals, facilitate healing, and more.
Previously published as The Path of Energy (ISBN 9781601631725), this edition contains updates, and a new chapter.
You Are the Universe:
Ram Dass Maps the Journey (Be Here Now; YA Graphic Novel; Meditation for Teens)
by Amy Buetens, Julie Weinstein $22.99
You Are the Universe is an impactful guidebook, chronicling the unconventional journey and self-discovery of Ram Dass, one of the world’s most beloved spiritual teachers.
Sourced from five decades of recordings, Ram Dass shares his life story and transformative teachings in his own words with honesty and humor. He offers teens and adults of all ages life-altering inspiration for understanding universal truths, navigating their unique paths with compassion and awareness, and living a meaningful life.
Vibrant hand-drawn and water-colored images illustrate Ram Dass’s captivating story of transformation. You Are the Universe offers an accessible perspective on our world through Ram Dass’s eyes, and explores timeless answers for today’s most urgent questions.