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How to Live When a Loved One Dies
Healing Meditations for Grief and Loss
View this bookIn this book that offers relief to anyone moving though intense grief and loss, Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh shares accessible, comforting words of wisdom on how to transform our...
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Happy Teachers Change the World
A Guide for Cultivating Mindfulness in Education
View this bookHappy Teachers Change the World is the first official, authoritative guide to the Thich Nhat Hanh/Plum Village approach to mindfulness in education. Spanning the whole range of schools and grade levels,...
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Planting Seeds
Practicing Mindfulness with Children
View this bookPlanting Seeds: Practicing Mindfulness with Children is the fruit of decades of development and innovation in the Plum Village community's collective practice with children. Based on Thich Nhat Hanh's thirty...
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Awakening Joy for Kids
A Hands-on Guide for Grown-ups to Nourish Themselves and Raise Mindful, Happy Children
View this book2016 Nautilus Book Award – Gold Medal, Parenting & Family Spirit Rock founder, author, and teacher James Baraz’s Awakening Joy offers his large and devoted readership a program to gain...
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Basket of Plums Songbook
Music in the Tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh
View this bookThis songbook shares the songs of Plum Village, Thich Nhat Hanh's Community of Mindful Living in France. With traditional hymns and many of Thich Nhat Hanh's well-know poems set to...
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Girls Rising
A Guide to Nurturing a Confident and Soulful Adolescent
View this bookThis guide for adults working with adolescent girls will help them explore and develop their emotional, social, and spiritual selves. Young people are hungry and capable of engaging in meaningful...
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Where Is the Buddha?
View this bookA new story for children from Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh: a young boy named Minh goes on a journey to find the Buddha, only to discover the Buddha is in each one of us.
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Teach, Breathe, Learn
Mindfulness in and out of the Classroom
View this bookIn Teach, Breathe, Learn, Meena Srinivasan highlights how mindfulness can be an effective tool in the classroom. What makes this book truly unique is her perspective as a classroom teacher,...
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The Mindful Family Guidebook
Reconnect with Spirit, Nature, and the People You Love
View this bookTurn off screentime and come back to earth with this family mindfulness guidebook from Chippewa clinical psychologist Renda Dionne Madrigal, who reconnects her family with time-honored indigenous circle practice and...
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Mindful Arts in the Classroom
Stories and Creative Activities for Social and Emotional Learning
View this bookWritten especially for the teacher or camp director who wants to bring mindfulness, social and emotional learning (SEL), and the arts into their busy day through storytelling and fun games,...
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Under the Rose Apple Tree
View this bookIn this sequel to A Pebble for Your Pocket, Zen teacher and poet Thich Nhat Hanh looks deeply at the issues that confront young people in today's society. Applying his...
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Awake at 3 a.m.
Yoga Therapy for Anxiety and Depression in Pregnancy and Early Motherhood
View this bookPregnancy and new motherhood are often thought of as the most joyful, exciting, and blissful times in your life—but they can also be difficult and overwhelming. Yoga therapy offers practical...
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Mop Rides the Waves of Change
A Mop Rides Story: Save the Ocean with Mindfulness, Surfing, and a Band
View this bookWhen surfer kid Mop sees plastic in the ocean, he gets mad. But with mindfulness, he realizes anger won't save the waves, and he turns his difficult feelings into a...
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Parenting in the Present Moment
How to Stay Focused on What Really Matters
View this bookThis generation of parents is overwhelmed with parenting advice; Carla Naumburg sets out to remind them that they have everything they need to raise healthy, happy children. Mindful parenting is...
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I Am Home
Portraits of Immigrant Teenagers
View this bookMeet the faces and voices behind the conversations around immigration. These portraits and stories of teenagers who are recent immigrants to the US from all over the world show the...
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Child’s Mind
Mindfulness Practices to Help Our Children Be More Focused, Calm, and Relaxed
View this bookThe interest in teaching children meditation is growing rapidly, as a number of recent stories in the mainstream media have documented, including NPR, The New York Times, and London Telegraph....
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Everybody Present
Mindfulness in Education
View this bookEverybody Present illustrates the transformative effects of mindfulness on educators, students, and their classrooms. Using concrete examples, Didde and Nikolaj Flor Rotne present a mode of classroom engagement that reduces...
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Strange Beauty
A Portrait of My Son
View this bookA unique and hopeful story of how one woman and her family were transformed by her child's multiple disabilities and inability to talk and how she, in turn, transformed a community.
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A Rose for Your Pocket
View this bookA Rose for Your Pocket is a beautiful prose poem on motherhood by Vietnamese Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh. He reminds us of the qualities embodied by our mother and...
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Where Did Poppy Go?
Available November 1, 2022.A Story about Loss, Grief, and Renewal
View this bookAfter a grandfather dies, a father and son journey forward through seasons and time, discovering how our loved ones remain with us even after they pass on.
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We Are All Flowers
Available June 7, 2022.A Story of Appreciating Others
View this bookA rhyming, charming exploration of "flower-watering"—the art of appreciating others—for kids. We are all flowers! We all need to be seen and genuinely appreciated to be our best selves, just...