{"product_id":"awake-where-you-are-the-art-of-embodied-awareness-paperback","title":"Awake Where You Are: The Art of Embodied Awareness - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMartin Aylward\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe body is of course integral to meditation, but there are only a few books that focus this specifically on the body and the meditative experience. \u003ci\u003eAwake Where You Are\u003c\/i\u003e addresses that need, and additionally integrates psychological concepts, which provides a more familiar entry point for people less familiar with Buddhism.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Embodied awareness is the way back home--intimacy with where and how we are right now, with what is happening and how we are meeting it.\u003c\/b\u003e My intention is to lead you into the heart of your life. Inside your body, where everything happens--within a quality of listening rather than knowledge, of feeling rather than reaction. This meditative practice is radically transformative.\"\u003cbr\u003e --Martin Aylward \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003ePulled around by desires and distractions, we're so easily disconnected from ourselves.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Life is happening right in front of us, and within us--but still, we manage to miss so much of it. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eAwake Where You Are\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e provides the antidote, inviting us to go deep into our own bodies, to inhabit our sensory experience carefully; to learn the art of living from the inside out, and in the process to find ease, clarity, and an authentic, unshakeable freedom. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The practices in the book literally bring us back into our skin, where we can reconnect with a more rich, meaningful, and peaceful life. Aylward writes with sophisticated subtlety, as well as the heart-opening simplicity and clarity born of deep experience. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e And this book is more than a meditation guide--it's a guide to living an embodied life. You'll learn about the following areas and practices: \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e- \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eUnderstanding and liberating our primal human drives.\u003c\/b\u003e Aylward explains how the three primary drives--survival, sexual, and social--function within us, and how we can engage their energy to explore, understand, and liberate them.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e- \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eIntegrating psychological understanding with meditative practice.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eAwake Where You Are\u003c\/i\u003e goes beyond the broad brushstrokes of Buddhist psychology, inviting the reader into an exploration of their own particular psychological history and conditioning.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e- \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eInvestigating the nuances of love.\u003c\/b\u003e Readers will learn to see the classical Buddhist heart qualities, or brahmaviharas (loving-kindness, compassion, appreciative joy, and equanimity) as distinct flavors of love, and as the natural resting places of a free heart. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Martin is a marvelous teacher and offers us the refreshing wisdom of an embodied life.\"\u003cbr\u003e --\u003cb\u003eJack Kornfield\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eNo Time Like the Present\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter experiencing strong intimations of the spiritual as a teenager, Martin Aylward traveled to India at the age of nineteen to explore meditation. He spent most of the next five years in monasteries, ashrams, and meditation centers in India and Thailand, including two years in a hermitage in the Himalayas with one of his teachers. As well as having the good fortune to learn from and practice with many different teachers, both Asian and Western, Martin has spent much time in solitude with his real guru, Nature--and his teaching often emphasizes contact with Nature as a resource for Awakening. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In 1995 he co-founded the Tapovan Dharma Community in the French Pyrenees with his wife Gail. Gradually, the number of visitors increased beyond the capacity of the place, and in 2005--just ten years after opening--they relocated to Le Moulin (Moulin de Chaves), a former Zen monastery in the Dordogne, Southwest France, where Martin and Gail continue to live with their two children. In addition to guiding Dharma practice at Le Moulin as resident teacher, Martin has been invited to teach Dharma around the world since 1999. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e His approach draws on extensive practice in the Buddhist Theravada tradition, as well as the influence of Non-dual teachings and the Diamond Approach.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 232\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 02, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51767891362080,"sku":"9781614297222","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/16e2ea00fc17dd55d6df3799d6665d82.webp?v=1780319642","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/awake-where-you-are-the-art-of-embodied-awareness-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}