Before he was one of the most well-known yoga teachers in North America and an international hip hop artist, MC YOGI was a juvenile delinquent who was kicked out of three schools, sent to live at a group home for at-risk youth, arrested for vandalism, and caught up in a world of drugs, chaos and carelessness. At eighteen, fate brought him to his first yoga class. After discovering yoga, MC YOGI devoted himself to the practice. From traveling to India to study with gurus to living and learning with many American yoga masters, MC YOGI soaked in the knowledge that would revolutionize his entire life and put him on the path to healing, wholeness, and peace. Through technicolor stories of graffiti and guns, mystics and musicians, love, loss, and finding his soul’s purpose, MC YOGI’s journey is saturated in spiritual wisdom, illuminating the potential for transformation within us all.

This book isnt all about me. My goodness! You are me silly! My image is yours and yours is mine. Who am I for? Im for all of me, and thats who Im going for every season. This journey is never ending. Soul, keep focus and alert, and yeah! I know it hurts dealing with these heated Emotions! Just know you and I are breathing the same air and walking above ground receiving an allowance I call peace for every work we do while wearing these clothes. Clothes? What clothes? What! you talking about these nice sneakers I have on? And this coat Im wearing? No Silly! Im talking about you! Well then lets talk about me? What I am saying is that you are not flesh? Then what am I? You are spirit. This body of flesh is sort a like for example a car. You know when you get into a nice car. Eyes only see how beautiful and how clean it is on the outside right? Right? I tell you when the driver of that car gets out wearing filthy visible clothes. Those minds that were once in awe of the car are now really, really stunned because that person is covered in dirt coming out of a brand new car.

Engaging with the growing popular and academic interest in the "spiritual but not religious," Andrea R. Jain explores the connections between the practices of global spirituality and aspects of neoliberal capitalism in Peace Love Yoga. "Personal growth," "self-care," and "transformation" are all tropes in the narrative of the spiritual identity Jain is concerned with. This "spirituality" is usually depicted as firmly countercultural: the term "alternative" (alternative health, alternative medicine, alternative spiritualities) is omnipresent. To the contrary, Jain argues, spiritual commodities, entrepreneurs, and consumers are quite mainstream and sometimes even conservative and nationalistic. Ranging from the transnational to the economic to the activist, Jain refuses the single narrative focus of most works on the SBNR; human phenomena that can be analyzed through a single lens or narrative are few and far between, and existing research in this area too often yields a suspiciously tidy story. The heart of the book includes sophisticated analyses of: two politically divergent but equally entrepreneurial and global-capitalist yoga gurus; "athleisure apparel" corporations, such as lululemon, that successfully market consumer goods as a purchased commitment to social justice; and therapeutically-focused applications of spirituality that concentrate on healing the broken person rather than undermining the system that broke that person in the first place. Many spiritual commodities, corporations, and entrepreneurs, Jain suggests, do actually acknowledge the problems of neoliberal capitalism and in fact subvert them; but they subvert them through mere gestures. From provocative taglines printed across t-shirts or packaging to calls for "conscious capitalism," commodification serves as a strategy through which subversion itself is colonized.

This guided journal will take you on a journey of the mind and spirit to help you discover your inner joy, hone your gratitude, and help manifest your dreams. What you can visualize in your mind, you can hold in your hands. Manifest Your Dreams is a journal designed to help you become more optimistic, able to see more possibilities, and become more enthusiastic about your life. Thoughtful writing prompts will lead you to seeing success and opportunity in perceived failure. The purpose of this process is to make you believe that you can achieve anything you want. By committing to interacting with this journal, you have committed yourself to improving your life. The only thing from stopping you from manifesting your dreams is you. So, get to work! You have manifesting to do! The Everyday Inspiration Journals series has a guided journal for every self-improvement journey. Whatever your personal goal, whether it is to incorporate more positivity into your life, or to slow down and find calm, or to hone your spell-building craft, or something else, you will find in this series an elegant journal in which you can record your thoughts, aspirations, and progress. With a simple, easy-to-follow structure, each journal is filled with powerful prompts and helpful trackers to illuminate your way. Also available from the series: Finding Gratitude: A Journal, Spellcraft, Be Happy: A Journal, Everyday Calm: A Journal, Find Your Mantra Journal, Self Care Journal, Healing Burnout, Astrological Self Care Journal, and Complete Dream Journal.

Laurel always had a thing for sexy, good-looking Gil, and he wanted her, but the time was never right. Now he’s missing and presumed dead. Laurel tries to contact his spirit and succeeds—but she discovers he isn’t a ghost. Instead, he’s a wizard who’s cursed and imprisoned on the astral plane. Communicating with Laurel through his diary, Gil persuades her to recite a spell to restore him to the material plane. Lust ignites between them, and they satisfy the desire they’d once denied. Their time together is limited, though, for the spell’s effects won’t last. If Laurel braves the dangers of magic to save him, she can only hope their passion will survive the ordeal and grow into love.

From massive raves sprouting around the London orbital at the turn of the 1990s to events operated under the control of corporate empires, EDM (Electronic Dance Music) festivals have developed into cross-genre, multi-city, transnational mega-events. From free party teknivals proliferating across Europe since the mid-1990s to colossal corporate attractions like Tomorrowland Electric Daisy Carnival and Stereosonic, and from transformational and participatory events like Burning Man and events in the UK outdoor psytrance circuit, to such digital arts and new media showcases as Barcelona's Sónar Festival and Montreal's MUTEK, dance festivals are platforms for a variety of arts, lifestyles, industries and policies. Growing ubiquitous in contemporary social life, and providing participants with independent sources of belonging, these festivals and their event-cultures are diverse in organization, intent and outcome. From ethically-charged and “boutique” events with commitments to local regions to subsidiaries of entertainment conglomerates touring multiple nations, EDM festivals are expressions of “freedoms” revolutionary and recreational. Centres of “EDM pop”, critical vectors in tourism industries, fields of racial distinction, or experiments in harm reduction, gifting culture, and co-created art, as this volume demonstrates, diversity is evident across management styles, performance legacies and modes of participation. Weekend Societies is a timely interdisciplinary volume from the emergent field of EDM festival and event-culture studies. Echoing an industry trend in world dance music culture from raves and clubs towards festivals, Weekend Societies features contributions from scholars of EDM festivals showcasing a diversity of methodological approaches, theoretical perspectives and representational styles. Organised in four sections: Dance Empires; Underground Networks; Urban Experiments; Global Flows, Weekend Societies illustrates how a complex array of regional, economic, social, cultural and political factors combine to determine the fate of EDM festivals that transpire at the intersections of the local and global.

JAMAICA JOURNAL: IN THE LAND OF NO WORRIES EVERYTHING AINT IRIE is a raw eye view of a woman traveler who is daring and brave enough to take on the entire Island of Jamaica Parish by Parish solo. With Divine courage and faith. April E. Diggs opens up the eyes of her readers to see the real experiences, good and bad, of taking on such a feat. The author engages you with an array of emotions, so the reader can feel the essence of Jamaica through foreign eyes. The book encompasses the true heartbeat of Jamaica, with vivid images and the Patois language native to Jamaica. The intention of this book from the author is to educate as well as inspire in search of the deeper meaning of Roots and Culture. The intention of this book is also meant to provide more resources to the community, as a grand bulk of this book's proceeds will be utilized to pay it forward and assist in the economic growth of the characters in this book and the overall well-being of Jamaica and its beautiful citizens".