On The Seasoned Gardener

of beautiful plants. We can mix things up, allow self-seeding plants to pop up in places in the garden where there is space, and experiment, and break the rules. She has also taught me, by example, how healing gardening can be. Her preferred time is early in the morning as the sun rises and the world slowly wakes up. Some days when her energy is low, she simply observes and potters, and other days she gently completes tasks like sowing and planting, weeding and composting.

I am a task-oriented person and think gardening requires time and energy and that I must make time to do it. Liz has taught me to just

THE SEASONED GARDENER by Liz Zorab go out in any season without a fixed agenda and simply be present. This has both deepened my appreciation of the rhythm of the changing seasons, and the cycles of Nature and our year. It has also shown me how to garden more effortlessly. By not setting a goal that I treat like a deadline, I free myself. Some days I just observe, admire, and gently tend a few plants. At other times when I feel energised I find myself planting a whole bed or pruning a tree that needs attention. And some days I need to just sit and enter a garden reverie.

The key is to give myself a daily rhythm of being outside, even for a short time, without expectations, a time for myself that is attuned to both to my own needs and personal rhythm, and the season. This has become a daily meditation, a time of inner reflection, and connection to the pulse of the greater mystery of Mother Earth, the incredible planet on which we are so lucky to live. And wonderfully, the garden has never been so productive and well-tended or I so connected with it. I’d like to encourage you to try it. Give yourself this gift of daily practice, without expectations.

Liz Zorab has taken a barren piece of land in Monmouthshire and transformed it into a spectacular garden, with an emphasis on fruit and vegetables, but full of a gorgeous collection of other plants and flowers. Liz is a proponent of permaculture and uses its 12 principles to help her create a beautiful, cohesive and functional environment that minimises any negative impact on the land and the natural world, and this is her guide to help us do the same. The book, illustrated with some stunning photos taken by the author, is designed to share the rhythm and patterns of her gardening year, and unusually starts in the autumn, the season of gathering, and the season she enjoys most.

224pp, 245 x 189 mm, Paperback, 2023, RRP £20.00

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The Breathable Body

by Robert Litman

Most of us are born with the ability to breathe freely and naturally, but as the years go by, our breathing can become laboured - compromised by fear, disappointment, trauma, and pollutants. We start to contract our breathing body and create ways that feel protective of our vulnerable selves but actually constrict the oxygen intake and thus the nourishment our body receives. The author, a renowned breathing expert, offers a guide to conscious breathing with techniques for loosening these patterns of constriction. In his warm and approachable book, he shows us how by breathing better we can alleviate symptoms of asthma, snoring, sleep apnea, insomnia, anxiety, panic attacks, digestive difficulties, and fatigue, giving us exercises to try and insights into the science of breathing that really make you want to give this a go.

304pp, 228 x 151 mm, Paperback, 2023, RRP £12.99

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Chakras And The Vagus Nerve

by C. J. Llewelyn

Following on from the extremely popular Simple Exercises To Stimulate The Vagus Nerve in the last Review, this newly published book reveals how we can heal ourselves from trauma by understanding the powers of the vagus nerve together with the chakras, because as the author says “your body holds over three-quarters of what you need to know about yourself in order to heal old wounds”. She explains in detail how the vagus nerve works and how it matches the etheric energies of your chakras, and using this knowledge, how, by recognising physical cues, you can assist your spiritual and psychological growth. Including over 45 exercises and prompts used successfully by the author in her role as a trauma therapist, this book provides an exceptional guide to a new form of healing that we can all use especially in these days of trauma and anxiety.

240pp, 202 x 135 mm, Paperback, 2023, RRP £16.99

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Healing Breath And Mudras

by Christine Burke

Again this book is from Cico, so it’s beautiful to look at, easy to use and very good value. There are colour illustrations throughout which both illustrate the mudras and other exercises and which enhance the look of the book. Basically then it’s all about practical yoga apart from the hatha yoga exercises on the mat that people are familiar with. It’s a lovely combination of breathing exercises, which are very popular right now because they get straight to the heart of anxiety and wellbeing issues, and mudras – or hand positions – which are more esoteric but potentially as effective. The book has two main sections - Breathing and Mudras for the Body and Breathing and Mudras for the Soul - and within those sections, there are listed various conditions with a breathwork and mudra suggestion for each.

144pp, 235 x 190 mm, Paperback, 2023, RRP £14.99

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ENERGY RULES by Alla Svirinskaya

This is an very comprehensive guide to energy healing from the world renowned healer, Alla Svirinskaya, who is based in London. Her reputation has gone before her and she has a lot of big name clients, but she also writes clearly and gives us not only an insight into how our energy works but also how to manage it and keep it “well”. She also advises on specific health issues. Her book gives us a broad set of tools to use, with explanations of how they work and how we should apply them to ourselves and our own energy fields. She lays out how to live a non-toxic energy lifestyle, scan for energy blockages, charge ourselves to provide an energy self-defence, and so much more. These techniques are all designed to be used alongside other complementary therapies and the promise of leading a healthier life is very alluring. This is a new edition of her previous book Own Your Energy.

304pp, 215 x 135 mm, Paperback, 2023, RRP £14.99

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Mindfulness And Me

by Kira M. Markoff

The author was inspired to create this book after reading that psychological research shows that just 8 weeks of daily mindful meditation practices significantly lowers the activity in the stress centre of the brain. She could see that while 8 weeks doesn’t sound long, it would be much easier to do if supported by a guide - and this is it. There are topics for each week, each with relevant activities and daily practices. So week 1 is about Presence where you are invited to think about paying attention to sound, sight, smell, taste, touch etc. each with a practice to try, from “meditating through sound’” to “connecting through touch”. It’s an agnostic approach, and the practices integrate Buddhist, yoga, and Christian philosophy, mental health treatment, modern psychology, and much more. It’s a clever idea, which is well executed.

200pp, 216 x 140 mm, Paperback, 2023, RRP £13.99

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Maximize Your Healing Power

by Sharon E. Martin

We are spoiled for energy titles this season. Here is another good one to go with Confident Empath. Sharon is in a very strong position, being both a shaman and a board-certified internal medicine physician. She is an expert in both fields and has a high profile through her two radio shows on the Transformation Talk Radio network. The author gives clear instructions on attaining mastery over your own health using many stories from her own work as well as exercises and visualisations. These techniques are not just for use when we are ill but we can also use them to boost our vitality and life force. The text reads very easily and the author comes across as warm and friendly. When you know that she is also a highly qualified doctor, it also gives you confidence in what she teaches and in uncovering your own power.

288pp, 228 x 152 mm, Paperback, 2023, RRP £14.99

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Meeting The Shadow On The Spiritual Path

by Connie Zweig

This looks at a tricky subject for many of us who are on this path. It’s such an exciting and inspiring one but there is so much potential for disenchantment, dependency, abuse and rejection. How can we be fully committed and make the most of all the transformational potential, while never abandoning a keen awareness of the dangers on that path?

Connie, who also wrote The Inner Work of Age, is brave and experienced enough to give us this primer on the subject. The book is deep but not academic or difficult. It is divided into two parts: Before the Fall and After the Fall. It both helps us to be aware and wary of what might go wrong and gives us tools to start again after a disillusionment. It’s so hard when you are let down by someone and you don’t know if you can ever “believe” again. Well, this book shows you that you can.

304pp, 229 x 142 mm, Paperback, 2023, RRP £16.99

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LET’S TALK ABOUT LONELINESS

by Simone Heng

This is a timely book, not because loneliness is a new thing, but because there have been two big recent developments in society. For the young it’s been the tendency to connect more online than off, and for the older, it’s the effects of Covid and the new working from home revolution. Loneliness is not just about not meeting people of course, it’s about making connections, it’s about touch; it can also be about disconnection and losing your own sense of self-worth. The author is a renowned public speaker who suffered intense loneliness for a long time, but has rebuilt her connections and here shares her story and the techniques she used to turn her life around. She presents everything with context, either her own experience or an analysis of causes and effects, so her book is both supportive and constructive.

272pp, 216 x 135 mm, Paperback, 2023, RRP £12.99

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Heal Your Ancestral Roots

by Anuradha Dayal-Gulati

There haven’t been many books on this fascinating subject. It’s one that needs to be explored because you can imagine that previous patterns within a family can easily be repeated from one generation into the next. Anuradha gives us many exercises such as journalling, visualisation and mind-mapping, and she also gives many suggestions based on her training in flower essences. The book is also full of real-life examples including many stories from her own family’s life. The author used to work in academia and finance and it’s uplifting to know she wanted to give up lucrative employment to do this work instead. Life is hard enough as it is so it’s helpful to be able to avoid repeating old patterns through financial troubles, divorce and breakup and family arguments that aren’t even conscious.

288pp, 216 x 140 mm, Paperback, 2023, RRP £14.99

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A SPELL A DAY by Tree Carr

Tree Carr, an expert in the realms of dreams, divination and esoteric magic, has brought together 365 simple rituals, spells and enchantments to enrich our lives and help us to discover new powers. The spells combine the arts of potions, rituals, lucid dreams, herb magic, candle magic, planetary magic, crystal magic, incantations, ceremonies, divinations, tarot readings and so much more, making this the first book of its kind to bring together multiple realms of magic for the everyday into one place. Gorgeously illustrated throughout, the spells within this book are easy to do, inexpensive, practical and offer profound insight and power. A lot of them are pretty simple but I have the feeling you could treat this like a book of days where the spells get you into a holistic and magical way of being and even shift your life on to a different set of tracks.

336pp, 185 x 130 mm, Hardback, 2023, RRP £16.99

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Behind The Wall Of Illusion

by Sean MacLeod

Something for Beatles fans, spiritualists, social historians and followers of Rudolf Steiner all in one fascinating volume! This is a Beatles anthology with a difference, bringing together several compelling strands. It’s a study of the influences that formed the Beatles’ music, from spiritual movements, religious groups, esoteric philosophies and mystical teachings; a look at the famous “hidden” clues in the album covers; an investigation into the strange rumours that pursued them; and an analysis of the horror of the assassination of John Lennon – all within the context of the grey postwar world. You only have to hear some of the lyrics, listen to the music or look at the covers to know how much the band absorbed from all corners of the spiritual world, and which, because of their popularity, they brought to so many other people.

284pp, 234 x 155 mm, Paperback, 2023, RRP £14.99

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LETTING GLOW by Phill Webster

This is Phill Webster’s first book, and it feels fresh and positive. It’s very personal, part investigation, part guide and part diary, written over the year after his mother’s death. He uses his own experiences and psychic senses to examine how to find solace and hope by connecting with intuition. He shares with us that simple changes in thinking as well as shifting our perspectives on everyday reality can help us transform our lives. His narrative and analysis are both interesting and compelling and it’s good to see he also includes a variety of meditation exercises to try. Letting Glow is also an adventure into mediumship and takes a deeper look at how we experience time, consciousness, and our relationship with our higher self. This book is a useful beginner’s title for anyone embarking on their pathway to spiritual enlightenment.

160pp, 216 x 140 mm, Paperback, 2023, RRP £14.99

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