1. CREATING CALM IN YOUR LIFE: A Guided Meditation & Stress Reduction CD (w/free display) (CD) by Simmons, Rivka ISBN: 9991486534 Retail: $14.95 Publisher: Rivka Simmons  

These four guided, easy-to-do, 15-minute meditations - two mindfulness meditations, a progressive muscle relaxation and a body scan meditation - are ideal for busy people and a perfect introduction for beginners. Rivka Simmons is meditation teacher and psychotherapist who's been practicing meditation since 1987.

Award-Winning Stress-Relief: BEST AUDIOS-PW, BESTSELLER-New Leaf, BESTSELLER-Amazon. Slow down, sit back...just let go. National stress-relief expert Susie Mantell's warm narration carries you into soft, effortless relaxation, soothing layer-after-layer of Stress & Sleeplessness, Pain, Depression, PTSD. With a voice described as liquid, a uniquely soothing experience. Gentle path to a quiet place. 

This is one of our most popular guided meditations. When you hear Kelly's calming voice ( just ask us to play any of the demos in the store) you will know why so many find this CD a great introduction to meditation.

"I found Bodhipaksa's CD to be a breath of fresh air," says one listener. "His soft, clear voice is perfect to lead meditations." Let Bodhipaksa lead you through the Mindfulness of Breathing, Development of Loving kindness, and Walking Meditation practices. These three meditations from the Buddhist tradition will help you develop greater depths of calmness and self-awareness, and will help you to develop greater appreciation for yourself and loving kindness for others. Ideal for beginners to meditation.

This recording by sound healing pioneer Steven Halpern and Emmet E. Miller MD will guide you in simple, powerful methods for effectively managing the stresses of your life. Dr. Miller's soothing voice combined with Halpern's beautiful music will teach you the relaxation response, deep muscle relaxation and breathing techniques.  

Now Teens can learn to manage stress, anger and anxiety while increasing self-esteem and self-awareness. Teens explore relaxation/meditation techniques while receiving guided instructions on the techniques of breathing, visualizations, muscular relaxation and affirmations. This straight forward, easy to follow approach empowers teens to become active participants in creating their own healthy, heart driven, peaceful lives. "Indigo Teen Dreams" offers four techniques accompanied by relaxing and uplifting/motivating music.  Indigo Teen Dreams is the third CD in the Indigo Dreams Series which includes "Indigo Ocean Dreams" ISBN 0970863365 and "Indigo Dreams" 0970863349.

Each meditation on this CD takes kids on a journey into a place of innocence and wonder, accompanied by enchanting music and followed by a life-enhancing message. Meet the King of the Gnomes in the enchanted forest. Travel with the Mermaids to their magical realm on the ocean floor. Ride a sunray to the sun, where a golden King shows you his kingdom. Take a ride on a cloud with your Guardian Angel. Then relax the body as silence falls.

Psychotherapist Belleruth Naparstek, LSIW, is a nationally recognized innovator in the field of guided imagery and intuition, and the author of Staying Well with Guided Imagery and Your Sixth Sense. Her highly acclaimed Health Journeys guided imagery series is used in over 1,500 hospitals and clinics. Composer Steven Mark Kohn has written and arranged music for stage, radio and television, as well as the Health Journeys series.

Can one realize the Self through meditation? Whether you are new to meditation or have been a long time meditator, this talk can change the form of any meditation practice into a meditation without form. Learn the key ways to go beyond formal meditation. Then, with or without the use of practices or methods, realize and live who you are at the deepest level. Life itself then becomes a meditation.

Indigo Dreams: Garden of Wellness contains stories and techniques designed to entertain your child while empowering them to live a life of wellness. Practical, easy to follow techniques are presented in each purposeful story. Three additional wellness practice sessions are provided and accompanied by relaxing, uplifting music. Children learn how food choices and amounts affect mind and body with Caterpillar Choices. Affirmations support this message while building self-esteem and confidence. The difficult issue of bullying is addressed in The Perfect Club. Any child that has encountered being teased or excluded by their peers will benefit from the techniques presented in this heartwarming story of acceptance. Various stress-management, coping strategies provide wellness benefits for any child. Ideal for ages 5-10.

This CD offers skills for reducing stress and enhancing wellbeing. In the body scan Bodhipaksa invites you to reconnect with the body, relaxing each muscle and gently bringing the mind back to the present. The overall effect is of gentle acceptance, relaxation, and calmness. The second meditation asks you to see troubling thoughts as an unhappy friend who has landed on your doorstep. Ideally you would invite your friend in and listen to and comfort them. In this way you invite yourself back into your own life, helping you to heal through acceptance. Bodhipaksa does not employ any new age music, or sounds. Instead, he uses his calm and soothing voice to lead you through the various meditations, allowing sufficient time in silence to act on each suggestion.

15. YOGA NIDRA MEDITATION: Extreme Relaxation Of Conscious Deep Sleep (Be Still...) (CD)      Jnaneshvara Bharati            0972471901    $19.99

"Yoga Nidra" - "Yogic Sleep" - is a deep relaxation that leaves the waking state, goes past the dreaming state, and enters the dreamless sleep state, while remaining fully awake and alert. This is extremely beneficial for releasing stress and for subtler spiritual explorations. The narrator will guide you to explore your physical body, then 61 specific points within the body, and then to practice ascending breath awareness along the body and spine, taking you deep beyond the activities of mind." 

16. EASE OF BEING (CD) by Maddux, Mary & Richard ISBN: 9991468366 Retail: $15.95

What started out as a recording at the request of students in Mary Maddux's classes, has now become a CD which has sold thousands of copies worldwide. The Ease of Being CD restores a centered state of awareness and supports healing. The meditations encourage trust in the natural flow of life, leading to greater physical, mental and emotional ease. One reviewer wrote: "The Ease of Being is full of quiet, simple and clean meditations that get right to the heart of the matter... The background music is extremely soothing, and, combined with the voice of the narrator, creates a complete healing space to sink into." (S.B. Wells, Musician and Reiki Master) Tracks include Silence: A Centering Meditation, Allowing: A Healing Meditation, and Flowing Freely: An Emotional Healing Meditation.

18. WHITE LIGHT MEDITATION (CD) by Sutphen, Dick ISBN: 0875546439 Retail: $20.00

19. GUIDED MINDFULNESS MEDITATION (4 CD)            Kabat-Zinn, Jon            1591793599    $29.95

"We are not trying to actively achieve a state of deep relaxation - or any other state for that matter - while practicing mindfulness,"" says the author of Wherever You Go, There You Are and Coming to Our Senses. ""But interestingly, by opening to an awareness of how things actually are in the present moment, we often taste very deep states of relaxation and well-being - of both body and mind."" This four-part home training course offers the definitive mindfulness meditation practice on CD." 

20. INDIGO DREAMS: Adult Relaxation, Guided Meditation/Relaxation Techniques With Calming Music (CD) by ISBN: 0970863330 Retail: $19.99

Created for real people, in the real world, feeling real anxiety and stress. Experience four straight forward, no-nonsense, stress-management/meditation techniques that are accepted and used by both the traditional medical and holistic communities. You will not find any philosophies, theories or fluff presented here because frankly, we do not have time for that and chances are. neither do you. Enjoy and learn four stress-management techniques; breathing, affirmations, visualizations and muscular relaxation accompanied by soothing, uplifting music to further enhance your relaxation experience. Now you can watch your whole family manage stress and anxiety! Indigo Dreams: Adult Relaxation is a compliment to the three other CDs in this series: Indigo Dreams ISBN 0970863349, Indigo Ocean Dreams ISBN 0970863365 and Indigo Teen Dreams ISBN 097086339X  

21.  ESSENTIAL GUIDE FOR HEALERS (4 CD)       Myss, Caroline  159179157X    $29.95

"The choice to be a healer comes with serious spiritual and energetic demands, Dr. Myss explains - as well as the potential to spark your own ""inner alchemy of transfiguration"" as you aid others. Drawing on her experience as a medical intuitive, the best-selling author of Sacred Contracts has created this eye-opening learning program especially for health care professionals, counselors, therapists, bodyworkers, and anyone drawn to help other people either professionally or personally."