An understanding of some of the tools and techniques of yoga in rhythm and rhyme... While completing my Yoga Teacher Training, I decided to record my understanding of the practice. What emerged were twenty-five poems about the practice of yoga. Many are centered on Patanjali's Eight Limbs, but also include Kirtan and teaching. I've included lined pages so instructors and students can make their own notes regarding the practice. My intention is to ignite inspiration and insight for practitioners.

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.

"Published by the Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery on the occasion of the exhibition Yoga: The Art of Transformation, October 19, 2013 - January 26, 2014. Organized by the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, the exhibition travels to the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, February 22-May 18, 2014, and the Cleveland Museum of Art, June 22-September 7, 2014."

A deadly virus threatens the galaxy. Can two total strangers save millions and discover love is the best medicine? Kiersten Landiser wants nothing to do with her arranged marriage to someone she’s never even seen. Focused on combating a terrifying sickness wiping out colonies, the determined princess takes her starship where no sane merch will go to deliver a lifesaving drug. But when she receives information about her imprisoned brother, she sets off on a daring rescue mission across space. Aiden Tranlish strives every day to be the heir his people need. And though he’s consented to betrothal to secure his planet’s safety, the loyal young man yearns to take action against the fiend plaguing the Alliance worlds with a sinister disease. So when his intended postpones the matrimony, he sets out on a hunt for the rare vaccine... and ends up entangled in a prisonbreak engineered by a fiery redheaded beauty. With her sibling free and certain she knows the location of the next attack, Kierston admires her new partner’s dedication to her cause. And though Aiden remains committed to his forthcoming union, he secretly hopes his bride-to-be proves as strong-willed and alluring as the captain of the rogue ship. As a devious intergalactic plot unfolds, can the fearless pair survive to spread the cure and nurse a burgeoning desire? Of Stars and Secrets is the suspenseful first book in the Stars science fiction romance series. If you like stubborn but bighearted heroines, edge-of-your-seat thrill rides, and eye-opening twists, then you’ll adore Michele Venné’s spirited adventure. Buy Of Stars and Secrets to hit love at lightspeed today!

What if you kept waking up from a dream right before you died? She experiences nightmares... or are they her reincarnations? She has kept track of these unusual nighttime events in her dream journal. Maybe it holds the answers, or maybe she should question the man who appears moments before she wakes up.

They’re long-time friends, but could their relationship end in a bloody mystery? As a computer guru, Jenna White is offered a lucrative position at a new firm in California. On the day she leaves Arizona, her best friend makes a move that has Jenna questioning her feelings and her future. Former soldier Heath Fairchild, now security expert, can’t forget that special and unexpected moment on the day his closest friend relocates. But when he visits Jenna, he finds her apartment door open and her cat hiding under the bed. As Heath searches for Jenna, time counts down on an illegal auction. Can Jenna find a way to get a message to Heath? With the team at West Coast Security hitting dead ends, will the clues help them in a rescue or have them arriving too late?