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Suzanne Scurlock-Durana, CMT, CST-D has taught internationally about conscious awareness and its relationship to the healing process. For over 25 years, Suzanne has masterfully taught her step-by-step practice of present moment awareness. The more fully you inhabit all aspects of yourself, the more capable you are of listening to that quiet voice within.
The practices of Full Body Presence give you the ability to accomplish this and to help you find a deeper awareness in the moment, even in the midst of chaos, family and work demands, or the pressure to perform. This deeper awareness also brings a fuller sense of trust and confidence in yourself, and in the world.
Visit Suzanne at www.FullBodyPresence.com
Full Body Presence is available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Borders, and a bookstore near you!
Years after losing his lower right leg in a motorcycle crash, Robert Kull traveled to a remote island in Patagonia’s coastal wilderness with equipment and supplies to live alone for a year. He sought to explore the effects of deep solitude on the body and mind and to find the spiritual answers he’d been seeking all his life.
With only a cat and his thoughts as companions, he wrestled with inner storms while the wild forces of nature raged around him. The physical challenges were immense, but the struggles of mind and spirit pushed him even further. Chronicling a life distilled to its essence — the fundamental mechanics of daily survival — “Solitude” is also a philosophical meditation on the tensions between nature and technology, isolation and society. With humor and brutal honesty, Kull explores the pain and longing we typically avoid in our frantically busy lives as well as the peace and wonder that arise once we strip away our distractions. He describes the enormous Patagonia wilderness with poetic attention, transporting the reader directly into both his inner and outer experiences.
Kull went into solitude fishing for enlightenment, seeking The Answer, but came back empty-handed. Wilderness, he found, is a place to clearly see the insanity of denying that the world is as it is. He discovered that life itself teaches us all we need to know — once we pause to really listen.
Solitude is available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and bookstores everywhere. You can find Bob Kull at www.BobKull.org.
Thomas Matus has dedicated years to the search for analogies of experience between Tantric yogis and Christian mystics. He has traveled widely in India and made frequent retreats at the Ashram of Shantivanam, where Bede Griffiths taught. Aside from meditation and some sacred rites, Matus’ spiritual practice is threefold: At all times and in all things: Give thanks; Judge not; Love enemies. Says Matus, “my teacher is the wounded surgeon, with healing in his hands. He sends us the public defender, with comfort for our hearts. She keeps me mindful of my practice, and when I am not, she reminds me (most often through others). Matus lives in the hills above Berkeley, California, in a modest, low-profile monastery called “Incarnation.”
CNBC named Nance Rosen, “America’s Top Job Coach.” Investor’s Business Daily features her in their Managing for Success column. She’s a former marketing executive with The Coca-Cola Company, the number one most recognized brand in the world. She teaches business development and presentation skills on campus at UCLA. She speaks around the world to business audiences on the topic of Personal Branding.
Currently, she’s the Executive Publisher at PegasusMediaWorld, publishing gurus and manages the career trajectory of up-and-coming thought leaders.
She leads a mentoring program for young managers, called the Do-It-Together Club because “success is not a DIY, do-it-yourself” project. Find out more at DITclub.com. Visit www.NanceSpeaks.com for more about Nance’s topics.
Read her blog at NanceRosenBlog.com or follow her on Twitter @nancerosen. Nance’s new book is Speak Up! & Succeed: How to get everything you want in meetings, presentations and conversations.
Drawn from the extraordinary true story of a family’s survival of Siberian exile comes One Life to Give: A Path to Finding Yourself by Helping Others
In the winter of 1939, five-year-old Andrew Bienkowski was exiled to Siberia with his family. The two years of struggle that followed—especially his grandfather’s amazing act of sacrifice during their first long, cold winter—have informed the rest of Andrew’s life. Thanks to his devoted mother, his quick-witted grandmother, and the unexpected kindness of strangers, Andrew established an approach to life that emphasizes helping others as the essential path to finding our greatest human fulfillment. Andrew is a veteran of the U.S. Air Force who served in the Korean War. He has worked as a psychologist for 40 years, designing and implementing mental-health programs and working directly with patients. Co-author Mary Akers is also the author of a short story collection titled “Women Up On Blocks.” Her fiction, poetry and non-fiction have appeared in many journals and anthologies.
Available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Borders, and a bookstore near you
David Kundtz
Considered an inspirational nutritionist, David Kundtz provides soulful insights that remind us what matters most.
David has enjoyed several careers, including 18 years in religious ministry and 20 years in the practice of psychotherapy, public speaking on stress and emotional health, and writing.
Born in Cleveland, Ohio, and schooled in Washington, Baltimore, and Berkeley, David holds graduate degrees in both psychology and theology and a doctorate in pastoral psychology.
He also spent several years in Idaho and Cali, Columbia, finally settling between Kensington, California and Vancouver, British Columbia. He is also an adjunct professor at the Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley and is a member of the Board of Directors of GroundSpark.
David offers reflections, stories, and wise guidance that remind us to live in a state of awareness about the reality that always exists in front of our faces, under our noses, or just below the surface of every moment. He can be reached through his website: Stopping.com.
Check out Bob’s interview with Oprah Network author John St. Augustine on Gregoire Today from January 14, 2010.
Bob’s Take Away
This book is a great wake-up call if it’s time for you to stop going through the motions of an unexamined life. Each story reminds us that the answers to life’s questions exist inside us and we can actually hear them if we’ll just slow down long enough to listen! Through the safety of someone else’s life experiences, I found myself riding a roller-coaster range of emotions as I experienced the highs and lows from John’s life and the lessons learned from each of them.
I was repeatedly reminded me of just how much impact our words and actions have on others – even complete strangers- whether we realize it or not at the time. Experiencing John’s life moments alongside him was a very spiritual ride through the lifetime of a non-religious person. A joy to read!
About John St. Augustine
Called the new voice of America, author of the new book Every Moment Matters, John St. Augustine takes us on a journey of self examination, but more importantly a journey of self re-examination. how often have we gone through the process of evaluating our position and making our course corrections, only to fail to take in the moments that lead up to and from that position? St. Augustine’s new book is the perfect wake up call stop and remember that every moment matters. From the publisher: While running in the rat race, we all have the tendency to keep running, moving forward, go go going without any thought toward the moments wedged between. We focus our energy on how society measures our accomplishments with the acquisition of things, lots and lots of things all the while diverting our attention from what truly matters. John offers Every Moment Matters as the antidote for a way out of the maze of materialism, media influence, and monetary madness by teaching us to notice ordinary moments, to remember them, to relive them, and to live in the present while creating future moments that have depth, meaning, and purpose. Join me for this very special program where I have the special opportunity to meet and talk to John St. Augustine about his new book Every Moment Matters and his “relentless quest to squeeze as much out of being alive as possible.”(Dr. Mehmet Oz)
