Sayuri's Food for Yogis and Everyone


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Vegan raw food chef Sayuri Tanaka offers the experience of what it's really like to nourish your body and heart through her food. Being a yoga practitioner herself, she has been preparing food for thousands of yogis for many years and has finally put it all together. You'll enjoy the recipes that have world-wide reputations, such as Thai pumpkin coconut soup, Pad Thai noodles, Koran savory pancakes, tofu pizza, quinoa salad, tofu dips and carrot dips, baked spring rolls, tempeh burgers, unique pasta recipes, Indian meals, Chinese sweet and sour, Balinese tempeh sate, muffins, the most famous easy tofu chocolate pie and more! It also includes the essential techniques on nut milk, cooking grains and beans, kitchen staples, equipment and gadgets, as well as an introduction to raw recipes. The best part of her recipes is-they're all super simple. Anyone can create them. You are guaranteed to feel joy making these recipes, resulting in happiness for your body and your heart. As yoga transforms you, so does her food-guaranteed! She presents the recipes as a guideline for you to set yourself free and be creative and experimental in life. She demonstrates that preparing food is fun and enjoyable and a special way to make yourself happy, to make people around you happy and full, to make the world better, and to make our future beautiful! She wishes for readers to experience the real nourishment of making food for others, which has always been for herself. She is the author of the book, Sayuri's Raw Food Cafe and many more. The words from the world yogis... "When any action is born of the seed of pure intension, when it is carried out with clarity and love, the energy produced is potent and transformative. Light, clear, fresh, alive, pure radiant and joyful. These are words that describe both Sayuri and her cooking. Makes you smile in anticipation." - Dena Kingsburg, Ashtanga yoga teacher, Australia "Sayuri's food is some of our favorite around the world. Taste and health combines in her delicious dishes - we could eat it all day, all year!" - Kino Macgregor & Tim Feldman, Ashtanga yoga teacher, USA "I love Sayuri's food! She never stops improving and creating more amazing dishes and recipes. Many friends in the yoga and healthy food communities agree with me that she is our favorite chef by far. Yummy food, yummy vibe." - Clayton Horton, Ashtanga yoga teacher, Philippine"




Sayuri's Raw Food Cafe


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Experience the real nourishment by her Happy and energizing food! Vegan, raw food chef, Sayuri Tanaka shares full of eye-opening tips and tricks! Over 120 mouth-watering recipes from smoothies, breakfasts, soups, dips, salads and dressings, Sayuri's famous salad toppings, main course by the themes, Thai, Japanese, Mexican, Italian, Greek, Indian, B.




Sayuri's Raw Dream Sweets


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Welcome to the best raw food introduction! If you are new to raw food, or are already enticed by raw foods and want to introduce its wonderful benefits to your loved ones and family, yes, raw sweets are the perfect start because they are simply by far more delicious, healthy, nutritious, and charged full of enzymes and love Isn't it like a dream come true that all these fancy desserts are made without animal products, wheat, or white sugar and all the muffins and cookies are made without baking! Banana pancakes, muffins, crepes, banana bread, fig comport, jam, "cream cheese," "Nutella," vanilla whippy cream, delicate mousses and puddings, serious cakes and crumbles, tiramisu, doughnuts and frostings, a variety of cheesecakes with swirls, dreamy yummy pies, cookies and biscuits, chocolates and truffles, "snickers bars" and fudges, superfood power bliss balls, delicious ice creams and banana splits-all dairy-, wheat- and white-sugar free! It's almost too good to be true but these desserts do exist! This book is for all the sweets lovers who want to fully enjoy and indulge in desserts without worrying about gaining weight, (oops, depend how much you eat though: ) The words from the world yogis... To make delicious and nutritious raw food is a great skill. Sayuri, however, accomplishes this and takes it to another level-art. Everything she creates-including this book-she infuses with beauty, grace, and her infectious smile. If we can glean even a little of her joy in food, we will be smiling too. -by Daniel Aaron, director of Radiantly Alive Yoga Studio, Bali I still remember the excitement when I first tried her food. Not only beautiful, colorful presentation and creativity, her food always fills me with joy, contentment and deep love. Her food teaches me the importance of good nourishing food and the joy of eating & preparing. May more & more people be nourished their heart with her food! -by Aki Tsugawa, Ashtanga teacher, Japan Author bio Sayuri Tanaka Retreat chef and raw food trainer As a raw/vegan/macrobiotic chef and teacher, Sayuri offers an experience of what it's truly like for the body to be nourished and the heart to be opened through her food. As a teacher, she demonstrates the simplicity of physical and spiritual transformation through food. For a decade, this knowledge has taken her around the world to share with others. Being a yoga practitioner herself, Sayuri has catered for yoga retreats in India, Bali, Australia, North and South America, and Europe, and studied at some of the great academies and institutes of raw food and macrobiotics, giving her a greater understanding of preparing foods for yogis' individual needs. Sayuri encourages and promotes a healthy, sustainable, and highly conscious lifestyle for all of us, the earth, and the future through teaching about raw food and holding cooking workshops and training around the world, and by sharing the love and knowledge she has within. As yoga transforms you, so does her food-guaranteed!."




Mindful Movements


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Over the years, Thich Nhat Hanh and his monastic community in Plum Village, have developed more and more ways to integrate mindfulness practices into every aspect of their daily life. A few years back Thich Nhat Hanh began to develop gentle exercises based on Yoga and Tai Chi movements. Initially designed as mindful stretching breaks between long periods of sitting meditation, Mindful Movements became a popular tool to complement to sitting meditation extending Thich Nhat Hanh's trademark gentle approach to Buddhist teachings into a series of physical movements. These movements enjoy a growing popularity amongst his students and have become integral part of his retreats. These simple and effective practices are meant to reduce stress and tension to help the practitioner gain the serenity he needs to return to a state of mindfulness. When done as part of a full mediation practice, theses movements can address mental, emotional, and physical stress. Offered to the general public for the first time, the Mindful Movements have been lovingly illustrated by one of Thich Nhat Hanh's long-time practitioner, Wietske Vriezen. Drawn in a whimsical and immediately appealing style the booklet presents 10 routines that can be practiced by people of all ages and body types whether they are already familiar with mindfulness practices or not. The Mindful Movements are designed to be accessible to as many people as possible. Far from being another exercise program, Mindful Movements is for all those wanting to add a gentle but physical element to their meditation practice.They can be practiced before or after sitting meditation, at home, or at work - any time you have a few minutes to refresh your body and quiet your mind. For those new to meditation they are a great, non-threatening way to get acquainted with mindfulness as a complete and multi-faceted practice. For those who already have an established sitting practice Mindful Movements will come as a welcomed addition to their practice. With a foreword by Thich Nhat Hanh and Introduction by Jon Kabat-Zinn [TBC]




A Handful of Quiet


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A playful, illustrated guide to one of the best known and most innovative meditation practices for young children experiencing stress, difficulty focusing, and difficult emotions Developed by Thich Nhat Hanh as part of the Plum Village community’s practice with children, pebble meditation is a playful and fun activity that parents and educators can do with their children to introduce them to meditation. It is designed to involve children in a hands-on and creative way that touches on their interconnection with nature. Practicing pebble meditation can help relieve stress, increase concentration, nourish gratitude, and can help children deal with difficult emotions. A Handful of Quiet is a concrete activity that parents and educators can introduce to children in school settings, in their local communities or at home, in a way that is meaningful and inviting. Any adult wishing to plant seeds of peace, relaxation, and awareness in children will find this unique meditation guide helpful. Children can also enjoy doing pebble meditation on their own.




The Gargoyle


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An extraordinary debut novel of love that survives the fires of hell and transcends the boundaries of time. On a burn ward, a man lies between living and dying, so disfigured that no one from his past life would even recognize him. His only comfort comes from imagining various inventive ways to end his misery. Then a woman named Marianne Engel walks into his hospital room, a wild-haired, schizophrenic sculptress on the lam from the psych ward upstairs, who insists that she knows him – that she has known him, in fact, for seven hundred years. She remembers vividly when they met, in another hospital ward at a convent in medieval Germany, when she was a nun and he was a wounded mercenary left to die. If he has forgotten this, he is not to worry: she will prove it to him. And so Marianne Engel begins to tell him their story, carving away his disbelief and slowly drawing him into the orbit and power of a word he'd never uttered: love.




Apical Periodontitis in Root-Filled Teeth


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This book is a comprehensive guide to apical periodontitis in root-filled teeth that covers not only all aspects of diagnosis and management but also epidemiology, etiology, consequences, clinical decision-making, and prognosis. There is a particular focus on the available surgical and nonsurgical methods of retreatment designed to restore healthy periapical conditions. Alternatives to retreatment are also explored, including a conservative approach involving monitoring of the diseased tooth without intervention and the option of extraction and replacement with an implant or a fixed prosthesis. The goal of root canal treatment is to save the natural tooth even when tissue breakdown has resulted in pathological conditions of the pulp and periradicular tissue. However, population studies reveal that complete healing is often absent in root-filled teeth, and apical periodontitis is frequently observed in conjunction with root fillings of poor technical quality. Under these circumstances, questions arise as to how the apical periodontitis is impacting on the patient and how the condition should be tackled. Readers will find this well-illustrated book to be of great value in directing clinical practice.




Dover Solo


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Architects of Buddhist Leisure


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Buddhism, often described as an austere religion that condemns desire, promotes denial, and idealizes the contemplative life, actually has a thriving leisure culture in Asia. Creative religious improvisations designed by Buddhists have been produced both within and outside of monasteries across the region—in Nepal, Japan, Korea, Macau, Hong Kong, Singapore, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam. Justin McDaniel looks at the growth of Asia’s culture of Buddhist leisure—what he calls “socially disengaged Buddhism”—through a study of architects responsible for monuments, museums, amusement parks, and other sites. In conversation with noted theorists of material and visual culture and anthropologists of art, McDaniel argues that such sites highlight the importance of public, leisure, and spectacle culture from a Buddhist perspective and illustrate how “secular” and “religious,” “public” and “private,” are in many ways false binaries. Moreover, places like Lek Wiriyaphan’s Sanctuary of Truth in Thailand, Suối Tiên Amusement Park in Saigon, and Shi Fa Zhao’s multilevel museum/ritual space/tea house in Singapore reflect a growing Buddhist ecumenism built through repetitive affective encounters instead of didactic sermons and sectarian developments. They present different Buddhist traditions, images, and aesthetic expressions as united but not uniform, collected but not concise: Together they form a gathering, not a movement. Despite the ingenuity of lay and ordained visionaries like Wiriyaphan and Zhao and their colleagues Kenzo Tange, Chan-soo Park, Tadao Ando, and others discussed in this book, creators of Buddhist leisure sites often face problems along the way. Parks and museums are complex adaptive systems that are changed and influenced by budgets, available materials, local and global economic conditions, and visitors. Architects must often compromise and settle at local optima, and no matter what they intend, their buildings will develop lives of their own. Provocative and theoretically innovative, Architects of Buddhist Leisure asks readers to question the very category of “religious” architecture. It challenges current methodological approaches in religious studies and speaks to a broad audience interested in modern art, architecture, religion, anthropology, and material culture. An electronic version of this book is freely available thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched, a collaborative initiative designed to make high-quality books open access for the public good. The open-access version of this book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0), which means that the work may be freely downloaded and shared for non-commercial purposes, provided credit is given to the author. Derivative works and commercial uses require permission from the publisher.




Cultural Anthropology: 101


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This concise and accessible introduction establishes the relevance of cultural anthropology for the modern world through an integrated, ethnographically informed approach. The book develops readers’ understanding and engagement by addressing key issues such as: What it means to be human The key characteristics of culture as a concept Relocation and dislocation of peoples The conflict between political, social and ethnic boundaries The concept of economic anthropology Cultural Anthropology: 101 includes case studies from both classic and contemporary ethnography, as well as a comprehensive bibliography and index. It is an essential guide for students approaching this fascinating field for the first time.