US Watkins Spring 2016 Catalog

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SPRING 2016

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Founded in 1893 and with over 350 titles on our list, Watkins is a leading publisher of self-help, personal development and mind, body, spirit books. Working in partnership with outstanding authors, we produce authoritative, high-quality, cutting-edge titles, both illustrated and non-illustrated. Offering fresh interpretations on important subjects, old and new, Watkins is dedicated to inspiring and entertaining our readers and making a positive difference to the world.

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CONTENTS NEW TITLES THE AHA! FACTOR 4 THE MINDFULNESS KEY 5 COLORING FOR CONTEMPLATION 6 YOGA FOR YOU AND YOUR CHILD 8 I AM, YOU ARE 10 BUDDHIST MANDALA POCKET COLORING BOOK 12 CELTIC MANDALA POCKET COLORING BOOK 13 HEALING MANDALA POCKET COLORING BOOK 13 THE NOTE FROM HEAVEN 14 RADICAL AWAKENING 15 REFLEXOLOGY FOR FERTILITY 16 WAKE THE F**K UP 17 WAKE UP AND SOAR 18 THE CRYSTAL WISDOM HEALING ORACLE 19 THE MAGICAL YEAR 20 THE MAGICAL YEAR EBOOK SERIES 21 PLAY THE FOREST SCHOOL WAY 22 WHAT IS...? SERIES 24

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“A vastly inspiring yet completely practical approach to life—and to making your desires a reality!”

Sandra Anne Taylor, New York Times bestselling author of Quantum Success and Your Quantum Breakthrough Code

9781780288925 256pp PB 216 x 135mm $14.95 January 2016 Mind, Body, Spirit Available in eBook: 9781780288932

THE AHA! FACTOR

How to Use Your Intuition to Get What You Desire and Deserve Mariana M. Cooper You might also like:

9781780287553 The Simplicity of Stillness Method

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When Mariana Cooper hit up against the frustrations and heartbreak of dashed dreams, loss of loved ones and the complications that real life brings, she set out on a quest to discover the language in which we actually receive the answers to our desires. What she found is the Energetic Communication System that delivers the answers to our prayers–she calls it the Aha! Factor. In this groundbreaking book Mariana explains how to access your Aha! Factor and what an Aha! Moment actually is, showing how to have more of them throughout your day in order to make the best possible choices. She also shares how to incorporate your Aha! Factor easily into all aspects of your life, including money, love, career, health, handling toxic people, and bringing your biggest dreams to fruition.

Mariana M. Cooper is an internationally acclaimed intuitive life strategist and host of the Aha! Moments Radio Show and the Aha! Moments World Telesummits. She has an MBA and a degree in psychology. Mariana has helped thousands of clients through private mentorship and readings, dynamic workshops and a huge range of audio and video courses. www.TheAhaWay.com

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“This book has so much potential to help people and contribute to the flowering of greater wellbeing and sanity on this planet.”

Jon Kabat-Zinn

9781780288918 176pp PB 199 x 138mm $12.95 January 2016 Self-Help Available in eBook: 9781780289397

THE MINDFULNESS KEY

The Breakthrough Approach to Dealing with Stress, Anxiety and Depression Sarah Silverton; Foreword by Jon Kabat-Zinn You might also like:

9781780285818 Mindfulness in Motion

A practical beginner’s guide to using mindfulness to self-treat depression and chronic illness–offering support, healing and positive, long-lasting change. This book explains how to practise mindfulness, using step-by-step exercises to help the reader understand key techniques such as breathing, relaxation, body scanning and concentration building. Written by a team of practising therapists led

by Sarah Silverton, it includes chapters on using mindfulness to selftreat such specific problems as depression, stress, anxiety, chronic illness, and childcare and relationship issues.

Sarah Silverton is a meditation teacher working with the Centre for Mindfulness Research and Practice at Bangor University in Wales.

She was trained by Professor Mark Williams of Oxford University, and by the Center for Mindfulness in Massachusetts, established

by Jon Kabat-Zinn. A trained occupational therapist and counsellor, Sarah has 25 years’ experience of working with people with mental health issues and physical disabilities, including chronic fatigue.

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9781780289274 96pp Pocket edition 168 x 161mm 30 B&W Illustrations $7.95 January 2016 Craft Desk edition 9781780289250 $9.95

COLORING FOR CONTEMPLATION Pocket Edition Amber Hatch and Alex Ogg You might also like:

9781780289199 The Mindful Mandala Coloring Book

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Pick up your pens and pencils and begin your journey with this beautiful coloring book, which has been created to help you be mindful–to slow down and breathe and to give you the inspiration to live more fully in the present. Each illustration has been inspired by an accompanying quote to aid your contemplation of its message while you color. Divided into three parts, Mindfulness, Insight and Inspiration, this book takes you on a coloring journey. Dip in or work from beginning to end–Coloring for Contemplation is your calming companion.

Amber Hatch is a writer, teacher and childminder. She studied for an English Literature degree in Southampton and holds an MA in Creative Writing. She has been practising Buddhist meditation for six years, and regularly goes on retreat.

Alex Ogg is a freelance illustrator, musician, and childminder. He discovered the joy of creating coloring pictures whilst working in the children’s department at Waterstones bookstore in 2008, where he secretly used to leave hand-drawn coloring pictures on the activity table.

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9781780288758 144pp PB 235 x 191mm Full color $14.95 January 2016 Health & Fitness

YOGA FOR YOU & YOUR CHILD

The Step-By-Step Guide to Enjoying Yoga with Children of All Ages Mark Singleton You might also like:

9781844832415 Pilates for You

Improve your child’s health, agility, concentration, confidence and awareness through simple and enjoyable yoga practice. This practical and fun book by well-known yoga expert Mark Singleton contains everything you need to know to start practising yoga with your child. With the emphasis on safety and enjoyment, it shows how to make yoga sessions exciting, interactive and child-friendly by playing games, going on “yoga adventures” and imitating animal shapes, walks and noises. The instructions for postures and exercises are addressed to the children themselves, to make them as easy to follow as possible.

Mark Singleton is a qualified yoga instructor in the Iyengar and Satyananda traditions, with wide experience of teaching workshops and clubs for children. He trained in children’s yoga at the Alice Project in India, a program patronized by His Holiness the Dalai Lama. He has published extensively on modern yoga.

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9781780289472 224pp PB 90 x 90mm $7.95 February 2016 Gift Book

I AM, YOU ARE Rosemary Gallagher

Are you in need of a little self-love? Do you want to let someone else know how special you think they are? If so then this perfect little “pick me up” book is just what you need. The simple A–Z format provides inspiring and encouraging single words of wisdom–little words with big meanings. The words have been chosen to encourage self-love and acceptance, each one selected to be a friend and companion to help you to believe in who YOU ARE. Experience each word, practise using it, and believe. You don’t need lots of words to express who you are or how you feel–sometimes ONE is perfect.

Small, simple, powerful. The “I Am” side of the book is an affirmation of our internal journey, who we are to ourselves; the “You Are” side is a statement of intention to the world on your external journey, how we would like to the world to see us. They mirror each other in perfect symmetry–inner and outer meeting as one.

Rosemary Gallagher was born in Melbourne, Australia, but moved to London in 2000 where she began formal tarot studies at the College of Psychic Studies.

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THE MANDALA POCKET COLORING BOOK SERIES 26 Inspiring Designs for Mindful Meditation and Coloring Lisa Tenzin-Dolma

72pp PB 192 x 184mm 26 B&W illustrations $8.95 February 2016 Craft

Beautiful, intricate mandala outlines and gentle guided meditations to help you find inner peace and stillness through coloring and contemplation. Viewed as the key to self-knowledge and inner peace in Eastern traditions, a mandala is a symbolic spiritual image that, when meditated on, can bring about profound transformation.

Featuring imagery from a range of spiritual and religious traditions, as well as from the natural world, these wonderful books offer a superb collection of black and white mandala artworks for you to color in. In today’s unrelenting, fast-paced world, the need for this artistic time out has never been greater.

Lisa Tenzin-Dolma is an author and journalist who has written widely on natural history, meditation, herbalism, Eastern philosophy, and a vast range of other mind-body-spirit subjects. Her non-fiction books include Natural Mandalas: 30 New Meditations to Help You Find Peace and Awareness in the Beauty of Nature.

THE BUDDHIST MANDALA POCKET COLORING BOOK

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The Buddhist Mandala Pocket Coloring Book combines Buddhist wisdom with the power of mandalas–geometric designs that have been used for centuries, particularly in the East, to achieve serenity and focus the mind. While mandalas are traditionally considered to be highly complex maps of the cosmos, the beautiful examples included in this book are designed to be suitable for today’s Western practitioner, incorporating the most accessible and relevant Buddhist symbols and imagery.

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THE CELTIC MANDALA POCKET COLORING BOOK

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The beliefs and traditions of the Celts have been passed down to us through many legends, but are perhaps best preserved and depicted in symbolic artwork. Celtic designs and motifs can provide wonderful insight into Celtic spirituality. This book aims to make the deeply spiritual symbolism of Celtic artwork more accessible by presenting meaningful combinations of key Celtic patterns and motifs in 26 attractive and thought-provoking mandalas for you to color in. A short introduction gives you both deeper insight into ancient Celtic ways and will help you to get the most from the guided meditations given with the mandalas themselves.

THE HEALING MANDALA POCKET COLORING BOOK

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Viewed as the key to self-knowledge and inner peace in Eastern traditions, a mandala is a symbolic spiritual image which, when meditated on, can bring about profound inner transformation. This book offers a perfect way to combine contemplation with creativity, helping us to ease anxieties and insecurities, bring about change, and regain our personal balance–both through coloring in these mandalas and through meditating on them afterwards.

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9781780289359 272pp PB 216 x 135mm $15.95 March 2016 Health & Wellbeing Available in eBook: 9781780289205

THE NOTE FROM HEAVEN

How to Sing Yourself to Higher Consciousness Githa Ben-David You might also like:

9781780288017 The Freemind Experience

Githa Ben-David presents a method for liberating the natural voice using regressive cell singing–one of the most direct ways to get in contact with the subconscious mind. This liberation has a healing effect on body and soul and can be experienced by every speaking person. With inspiration from India, Githa has put together a program for self-study, along with a practice instruction plan that can be downloaded. Utilising this method you will sing yourself free from traumas that have their origin in this life, the womb or previous lifetimes. In regressive cell singing, the “note from heaven” is used as a tuning fork to retune cells to their former harmony. Any notes, sounds or outbursts that genuinely express The Note from Heaven can release blocked energy imprisoned in the singer’s body as trauma. The process starts a cell-dance, which reorganizes the body back to its original balanced matrix.

Githa Ben-David is a sound therapist, singer, composer and author.

Githa is the author of the only comprehensive work on sound therapy in three volumes, published in Danish. She is married to musician and writer Lars Muhl, with whom she created The Gilalai Institute for Energy and Consciousness.

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9781780289007 256pp PB 185 x 123mm $14.95 March 2016 Mind, Body, Spirit

RADICAL AWAKENING

Discovering the Radiance of Being in the Midst of Everyday Life Amoda Maa By the same author:

Contemporary, unique and utterly compelling–read this book and be empowered to become part of a revolution in consciousness that has the power to change your life and our wider world. To fulfil our potential we must see that everyone and everything is a manifestation of God (or Awakeness, Presence or Being)–that everyone and everything is one with the divine and at every moment we can make the choice of what we let ourselves feel. If we can learn to use this control in every area of our lives, we can change not just our own lives but also the world we live in.

9781780281247 Change Your Life, Change Your World

Amoda Maa is a contemporary spiritual teacher and author. Her life journey has taken her from the academic world of psychological research to the search for enlightenment. Today, she offers satsangs, retreats, and private meetings to a growing global community, and is a regular guest speaker at the Science and Nonduality conference in the USA.

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9781780289014 224pp HB  234 x 156mm $60.00 April 2016 Complementary Medicine Available in eBook: 9781780288765

REFLEXOLOGY FOR FERTILITY

A Practitioners’ Guide to Natural and Assisted Conception Barbara Scott You might also like:

This is the first book to be published on the treatment of the male and female reproductive conditions using reflexology. The book provides a step-by-step guide, providing practitioners with a structured format on how to gain the information they will need from their clients, how to interpret that information, how to plan treatment and what techniques they will need to use. This allows practitioners to work, not only with clients who are trying to conceive, but with a wide range of reproductive conditions.

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Barbara Scott mbra marr trained with Nicola Hall of the Bayley School of Reflexology and she is a member of The British Reflexology Association and now Chair of the Association of Reproductive Reflexologists. She has been in practice for over 20 years.

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9781780288963 192pp PB 216 x 135mm $14.95 April 2016 Self-help Available in eBook: 9781780288956

WAKE THE F#CK UP

Transform Your Life Into One Epic Adventure Brett Moran You might also like:

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Humorous and wise, gritty and real, Brett Moran is a spiritual gangsta who knows the score about transformation. In Wake the F#ck Up he shares the tools and techniques he’s learnt on his journey so you can do the same. Whether you’re looking to overhaul your energy, achieve your goals, or overcome negative behaviours and patterns, Wake the F#ck Up will show you how. Real-life stories throughout will inspire you to think big and achieve even bigger, while tough questions will help you overcome negative conditioning.

When you wake the f#ck up and start living the life you want, every day becomes an epic adventure.

A former drug dealer, crack addict and young offender, Brett Moran knows all about transformation. From prison inmate to life coach, his online products, workshops and community projects over the last decade have earned him a reputation as a powerful agent for change. Brett now coaches people all around the world. To find out more visit www.brett-moran.com

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9781780289144 224pp PB 200 x 145mm $14.95 May 2016 Self-help Available in eBook: 9781780289656

WAKE UP AND SOAR

How to Master Your Own Wellbeing Chris Nelson You might also like

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Our fundamental relationship is the one that we have with ourselves– master this and we master all else. Yet we live in a world where stress and chronic disease are spiralling out of control. Our greatest need today is to learn how to relax and this begins with the mind.

Wake Up and SOAR presents a clear and simple road map, which empowers you to create a relaxed supportive lifestyle providing a stable base from which to pursue your heartfelt desires. The core tool SOAR has its roots in ancient wisdom and is expressed as a modernday “practice” to help us move from our “normal” fear-based state of mind to our “natural” calm quality of mind. Using this tool we can learn to accept life as it is and flow with, rather than against, her.

Chris Nelson is a wellbeing entrepreneur. He is the founder of the Ashiyana Retreat Village, which embraces a holistic and personalized approach to wellbeing. Chris has constantly evolved what is offered at Ashiyana and it is now a globally recognized teacher training centre as well as a sought-after destination for its Ayuvedic centre, its detox retreats and its “emotional healing journeys”.

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9781780289403 96pp Kit Full color $19.95 May 2016 Divination

THE CRYSTAL WISDOM HEALING ORACLE 50 Oracle Cards for Healing, Self-Understanding and Divination Judy Hall You might also like:

9781780288420 Sacred Sites Oracle Cards

Crystals have been used for divination since ancient times. Their powerful intrinsic energies can serve as mirrors to reveal your true path and link you to that part of yourself that is all-seeing and all-knowing. Created by bestselling crystals expert Judy Hall, The Crystal Wisdom Healing Oracle will connect you to your higher, intuitive self and, in the process, give you amazing insights into your past, present and future.The kit consists of a fully illustrated book containing 50 crystal profiles and advice on using the Oracle, and a deck of 50 crystal divination cards.

Judy Hall is known around the world for her crystal work and a wide range of bestselling books, including The Crystal Bible and Earth Blessings. Working as a psychic, healer, broadcaster and international workshop leader for more than 40 years, she has three times appeared on the Watkins Bookshop Spiritual 100 List of the most spiritually influential living people of the 21st century.

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9781780288611 256pp PB 216 x 135mm $14.95 May 2016 Mind, Body, Spirit Available in eBook: 9781780288901

THE MAGICAL YEAR

Seasonal Celebrations to Honour Nature’s Ever-turning Wheel Danu Forest The Celtic seasonal wheel is based on eight festivals–Winter Solstice, Imbolc, Spring Equinox, Beltane, Summer Solstice, Lughnasadh, Autumn Equinox and Samhain. Together, these lead us through the cycle of the year, aligning our awareness with the seasonal pattern of the earth beneath our feet.

In this book on the solstices, equinoxes and the other key festivals within the sacred cycle, Danu Forest reveals the secrets of each festival in turn, skilfully reviving ancient traditions, and encouraging us to reconnect with nature, and ourselves, with a host of practical ideas and rituals. This cycle of conscious celebration helps us, year on year, to align with nature’s rhythms with greater wonder and insight. Based on sound extensive research, as well as many years of practical experience through both personal practice and teaching, the book will act as a guide for weaving a new, more soulful way of living into readers’ everyday existence.

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THE MAGICAL YEAR EBOOK SERIES Danu Forest

These succinct, soulful explorations of Celtic lore for the four key seasonal celebrations are full of simple, inspiring ideas and ceremonies for reconnecting with nature, the sacred earth and the simpler ways of the past and our ancestors.

Danu Forest has been a practising Druid, witch and Celtic shaman for over 20 years, as well as running a shamanic consultation and healing practice, and holding regular seasonal ceremonies in her local Glastonbury community and beyond. She has been published in all the key mind-body-spirit magazines, is a Druid-grade member of OBOD and a member of the Society for Shamanic Practitioners.

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9781780289298 160pp PB 200 x 145mm Line Drawings $16.95 June 2016 Children’s Activity Books Available in eBook: 9781780289168

PLAY THE FOREST SCHOOL WAY

Woodland Games, Crafts and Skills for Adventurous Kids Peter Houghton and Jane Worroll The rise of the Forest School movement in recent years is part of a groundswell of concern about the wellbeing of our children, with many media scare stories about child obesity, “nature-deficit disorder” and lack of exposure to risk. This beautifully illustrated woodland adventure book brings the activities and “learning through nature” ethos of Forest School to the parents of kindergarten and elementary school-age children. It celebrates the Forest School philosophy of encouraging self-esteem, confidence and social skills through engagement with nature. The charming illustrations create a magical feel and chime with the “back-tonature” content, inspiring parents and teachers to guide their children to really play the Forest School way!

Peter Houghton is a qualified Level 3 Forest School leader and, with Jane Worroll, offers Forest School sessions in a range of settings. At Kids Company, which provided support to vulnerable inner-city children and young people, he worked as an artist and a key worker.

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Jane Worroll has worked outdoors for the majority of her adult life, including 12 years as a Countryside Ranger. She has a degree in ecology and an MSc in environmental conservation.

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144pp

WHAT IS...? SERIES

PB 165 x 117mm $13.95

This new series of dynamic, entry-level self-development guides, each written by a practising expert in their respective field, offers thoughtprovoking explorations into a wide range of timely, life-enhancing topics. Each intriguing guide gives a practical behind-the-scenes tour of that field or phenomenon–whether sound healing, hypnosis, numerology, or near-death experiences–showing readers the immense power it can have to enhance their lives in all kinds of amazing ways.

June 2016

WHAT IS A NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCE? Dr Penny Sartori This title explores the fascinating phenomenon of neardeath experiences (NDEs), revealing not only how they can change our perspective on death, but also how they can empower us to live more meaningful, fulfilled lives.

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WHAT IS SOUND HEALING? Lyz Cooper This title explores the fascinating phenomenon of sound healing, revealing what this term really means, how and why sound affects us as it does, the many benefits of working with sound and the myriad ways in which it can transform our lives for the better.

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Coming September 2016

WHAT IS HYPNOSIS? Tom Fortes Mayer This title explores the fascinating science of hypnosis, debunking myths, revealing what the term really means and showing us how to tap into the power of the mind for positive transformation and all-round increased contentment.

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WHAT IS NUMEROLOGY? Sonia Ducie This title explores the fascinating science of numerology, revealing what the term means, providing an intriguing behind-the-scenes tour of the power of numbers, and showing how numbers can influence us at different levels in order to help us really make the most of life.

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