Resources
Wellness resources in Vermont
Emily Garrett is a yoga instructor whose drop-in Kripalu yoga classes and workshops utilize postures, bandhas, breathwork, sound, and meditation.
Evolution Physical Therapy and Yoga
Profiles physical therapy and Yoga services, class schedule and descriptions, teacher profiles, newsletter, and workshops and events.
The purpose of the Burlington Shambhala Center is to offer meditation practices that serve as a path to discovering the gentleness, sanity and wisdom inherent in every human being, and to build a community based on human goodness and dignity.
Karma Choling – Shambhala Meditation Center
Karma Choling offers meditation retreats, Buddhist study seminars, training in contemplative arts and body practices a variety of programs to enrich body, mind and heart.
Friends
Bibliography
Repacking Your Bags: Lighten Your Load for the Rest of Your Life
Richard J. Leider & David A. Shapir
Full of the right questions rather than the wrong answers, Repacking Your Bags will help you figure out where you want to go in your life and what you really need for the journey.
Awakening at Midlife: A Guide to Reviving Your Spirit, Recreating Your Life, and Returning to Your Truest Self
Kathleen A. Brehony
A unique guide to reviving our enthusiasm for life, it offers stories, strategies, and exercises that can transform and enrich our ongoing search for wholeness.
Claiming Your Place at the Fire: Living the Second Half of Your Life on Purpose
Richard J. Leider & David A. Shapiro
If you’re in, or about to enter, the second half of life, this practical guide will show you how to claim your rightful place among the new elders; men and women who use the second half of life as an empty canvas, a blank page, a hunk of clay to be crafted on purpose.
Additional Books with Tips for Awakening to Your Wisdom
Start Where You Are
Pema Chodron
An indispensable handbook for cultivating fearlessness and awakening a compassionate heart. The book presents a down-to-earth guidance on how to make friends with ourselves and how to make compassion towards others. The author shows us how we can “start where we are,” embracing rather than denying the painful aspects of our lives.
Wherever You Go, There You Are
Jon Kabat-Zinn
Meditation is the art of paying attention, of listening to your heart. Rather than withdrawing from the world, meditation can help you enjoy it more fully, more effectively, and more peacefully.
Awakening Joy: 10 Steps That Will Put Youon the Road to Real Happiness
James Baraz & Shoshana Alexander
This book helps you discover the path of happiness that’s right in front of you, offering a step-by-step program that will reorient your mind away from dissatisfaction and distraction and toward the contentment and delight that is abundantly available in our everyday lives.
