Dear reviewers, fans, colleagues, & friends,

With the blooms of Spring here to stay, we grow accustomed to the warm glow of the sun and the overall feeling of renewal that marks sweet summertime.

The Summer 2013 Frontlist from Sounds True includes a variety of amazing titles from renowned authors and musicians, all of whom aim to provide valuable content and lifelong methods for bettering your mind, body and soul.

How to Meditate by Pema Chödrön—MAY 1ST
Preeminent teacher Pema Chödrön presents her first in-depth book for creating a lifelong meditation practice.
Secrets of Your Cells by Sondra Barrett, PhD—MAY 1ST
A biochemist and mind-body teacher presents a practical guide for applying cutting-edge biology to our spiritual lives.
Red Hot and Holy by Sera Beak—JULY 1ST
A spiritual rebel and modern mystic offers a heart-blazing account of her journey toward awakening—a bold, unconventional, and radically honest spiritual memoir.
Emotional Intimacy by Robert Augustus Masters—AUGUST 1ST
An experience-centered guide for safely welcoming and integrating the full gifts of our emotions—dark or light, subtle or fierce.
Polishing the Mirror by Ram Dass —AUGUST 1ST
A spiritual luminary and inspiration for millions presents his essential primer on the practices that have benefited him the most.
The Subtle Body Practice Manual by Cyndi Dale —AUGUST 1ST
An indispensable how-to manual on the many forms of energy healing, featuring practical guidance for professionals and laypersons alike.

Follow this link to view our Summer 2013 lineup. If you’d like to be on our paper catalog mailing list, please send us your address so we can update our records.

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Wendy, Tucker, and Megan
publicity@soundstrue.com
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Summer 2013 New Book Releases 

Secrets of Your Cells
Discovering Your Body’s Inner Intelligence

A guiding principle of the spiritual journey is to “look within.” Biochemist Dr. Sondra Barrett has done just that—and discovered that our cells offer us invaluable wisdom for inspiration, transformation and healing. With Secrets of Your Cells, this scientist and mind-body teacher takes readers on a provocative journey into our inner universe. Each chapter explores a specific aspect of the cell’s astonishing architecture, intelligence, and ability to work in harmony—offering practical exercises to help readers apply the lessons our cells have to offer. Join Dr. Barrett to learn more about:

• Wisdom for incorporating biological principles of balance, fluidity, identity, and cooperation into our everyday lives
• How your cells listen to your beliefs and thoughts—and practices for sending life-affirming messages to your body
• Rituals for making direct contact with the “soul of the cell”
• How cells reflect sacred art, as revealed by Dr. Barrett’s intriguing color photographs of the inner world

“Our cells are more than just fortuitous arrangements of chemicals,” teaches Sondra Barrett. “They are a community of trillions of sentient entities working together to create a sanctuary for the human soul.” Drawing on the insights of indigenous practitioners, energy medicine, and the powerful wisdom of our body’s fundamental building blocks, Dr. Barrett offers readers a thoroughly-researched and accessible resource for putting cutting-edge biology into action with Secrets of Your Cells.

Presskit Page: http://bit.ly/12CqitM

Sondra Barrett, PhD
Release Date: May 1^st, 2013
Paperback Book / 304 pages / BK02251
ISBN-13: 978-1-60407-626-4
UPC: 600835-225182 / $17.95
Spirituality, Science
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Sondra Barrett, PhD, earned her degree in biochemistry from the University of Illinois Medical School, and completed her post-doctoral training in immunology and hematology at the University of California Medical School. She teaches and lectures about the science and practice of mind-body medicine.

“In Secrets of Your Cells, biochemist Sondra Barrett… translates the small-scale life of cells into large-scale lessons for living. This is the work of someone with a genuine reverence for the sacredness of life.”
—Larry Dossey, MD Author of Healing Words

How to Meditate
A Practical Guide to Making Friends with Your Mind

When we look for a meditation teacher, we want someone who has an intimate knowledge of the path. That’s why so many have turned to Pema Chödrön, whose gentle yet straightforward guidance has been a lifesaver for both first-time and experienced meditators. With How to Meditate, the American-born Tibetan Buddhist nun presents her first book that explores in-depth what she considers the essentials for an evolving practice that helps you live in a wholehearted way. More and more people are beginning to recognize a profound inner longing for authenticity, connection, compassion, and aliveness. Meditation, Pema explains, gives us a golden key to address this yearning. This comprehensive guide shows readers how to honestly meet and openly relate with the mind to embrace the fullness of our experience as we discover:

• The basics of meditation, from getting settled and the six points of posture to working with your breath and cultivating an attitude of unconditional friendliness
• The Seven Delights—how moments of difficulty can become doorways to awakening and love
• Shamatha (or calm abiding), the art of stabilizing the mind to remain present with whatever arises
• Thoughts and emotions as “sheer delight”—instead of obstacles—in meditation

Here is an indispensable book from the meditation teacher who remains a first choice for students the world over.

Presskit Page: http://bit.ly/ZEykkA

Pema Chödrön
Release Date: May 1^st, 2013
Hardcover Book / 184 pages / BK02895 1
ISBN-13: 978-1-60407-933-3
UPC: 600835-289580 / U.S. $19.95
Spirituality, Buddhism
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Pema Chödrön is the author of many spiritual classics
including When Things Fall Apart  (Shambhala, 2000) The Places That Scare You (Shambhala, 2001), and Taking the Leap (Shambhala, 2009). She serves as resident teacher at Gampo Abbey Monastery in Nova Scotia and is a student of Dzigar Kongtrül Rinpoche and the late Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche.

“Chödrön’s voice is gently humorous, always kind, and seemingly infinitely wise.” —The Los Angeles Times

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Red Hot and Holy
A Heretic’s Love Story

When one person dares to speak her truth, it gives us all permission to live our own. Through riveting personal narrative and illuminating self-help suggestions, author Sera Beak offers us a startlingly intimate and provocative view of what it means to fall madly in love with the divine as a modern woman, inspiring us all to live our own spiritual love affair, out loud and on purpose.

With a rare combination of audacious wit, critical insight, radical transparency and tender vulnerability—masterfully mixed with red wine, rock songs, tattoos, and sex, as well as academic research, psychological theory, and mythology—Sera candidly chronicles the highs and lows of her mystical journey in a refreshingly contemporary style.

From the innocence of her childhood crush on God; through a whirlwind of torrid liaisons and bitter break-ups with Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism, Sufism, and the New Age; and finally into committed monogamy with a Red Hot and Holy Goddess—Sera reveals the perils and ecstasies of what it takes to discover one’s true Self.

Sera Beak’s luscious writing and renegade spiritual wisdom made her debut book The Red Book (Jossey-Bass, 2006) a breakout success. Now, with Red Hot and Holy, she brings readers a far more personal book—a raucous, uncomfortable, hilarious, and above all utterly honest portrait of the heart-wrenching process of mystical realization and human embodiment.

Presskit Page: http://bit.ly/14K4PCK

Sera Beak
Release Date: June 1st, 2013
Hardcover Book / 316 pages / BK03689
ISBN-13: 978-1-62203-053-8
UPC: 600835-368988 /  U.S. $22.95
Memoir, Spirituality
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Sera Beak is a Harvard-trained scholar of comparative
world religions who spent  years traveling the world studying spirituality with Sufi dervishes, Tibetan monks, Croatian mystics, shamans, and more. She is the author of The Red Book: A Deliciously Unorthodox Approach to Igniting Your Divine Spark, and has appeared in The New York Times, People, and Publisher’s Weekly, and on NPR, The Dr. Oz Show, and Oprah and Friends. She lives in San Francisco.

“Sera Beak is the brightest light in the next generation of red-hot spiritual activists. She breaks rules and smashes stigmas in order to wake up and ignite the deepest part of our Divine selves.” —Kris Carr, Author of Crazy Sexy Cancer

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Emotional Intimacy
Your Untapped Source of Strength, Freedom, and Connection

Emotions link our bodies, our thoughts, and our experiences at the deepest level. And the capacity to be intimate with our emotions, teaches Robert Augustus Masters, is the core skill for creating fulfilling relationships and living with awareness, love, and integrity. With Emotional Intimacy, this respected therapist and author invites us to explore:

• How to create a safe space for working with our emotions
• The ways that we numb our unwanted feelings, and how to revive them and welcome them back
• How to identify our emotions and experience them skillfully
• Resolving and healing from old emotional wounds
• Steps for bringing greater intimacy into our relationships
• In-depth guidance for those facing depression and loneliness
• Why “blowing steam” can often make us feel worse, and healthier options for emotional catharsis
• Navigating activity and stimulus overload, a collective
emotional pandemic of our times
• Individual chapters for engaging with fear, joy, jealousy,
shame, grief, awe, and the full spectrum of our emotions

There are no negative or unwholesome emotions—only harmful things we do with them. Through real life examples, exercises, and many useful insights, Masters provides here a lucid guide for reclaiming our emotions, holding them skillfully, and allowing them to resonate in ourselves and with others more deeply and richly.

Presskit Page: http://bit.ly/YH3zs7

Robert Augustus Masters
Release Date: August 1st, 2013
Paperback Book / 400 pages / BK02902
ISBN-13: 978-1-60407-939-5
UPC: 600835-290289 / U.S. $18.95
Psychology, Relationship
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Robert Augustus masters, PhD, is an integral psychotherapist,
relationship expert, spiritual teacher, and the author of 14 books, including Spiritual Bypassing (North Atlantic, 2010). His work blends the psychological and physical with the spiritual, emphasizing embodiment, emotional literacy, shadow work, spiritual deepening, and the development of relational maturity. He works in Ashland, Oregon with his wife, Diane.

“Robert joins a growing number of wise teachers who understand that the personal and the universal must be combined to bring true and genuine spiritual awakening.”
—Jack Kornfield, Author of A Path with Heart

 “An extraordinarily poetic writer with great insights.”
—Ram Dass Author of Be Here Now

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The Subtle Body Practice Manual
A Comprehensive Guide to Energy Healing

With over 50,000 copies sold, Cyndi Dale’s The Subtle Body (Sounds True, 2009) has become the go-to resource for anyone who wants to learn about the many varieties of energy healing. Now with The Subtle Body Practice Manual, Dale offers an equally valuable book: a practical instruction guide for putting energy healing into action. Filled with lucid information, step-by-step instruction, diagrams, and key insights, here is an expansive how-to reference that covers practices from a vast range of holistic healing and energy medicine traditions. Readers will learn about: 

• The six core energy techniques that every healer should know
• Guidance for finding an energy healer who suits your needs
• Self-diagnosis practices to determine which kind of modality will be most effective for specific health issues
• Dozens of practices for healing through the chakras, the meridians, chi, breath work, auric fields, sacred geometry, acupressure, music, and much more

 The use of energy medicine is on the rise—both as a complementary form of treatment for health care professionals and for individuals seeking new tools for taking care of their own well-being. Presented with Cyndi Dale’s thorough scholarship and clear writing style, The Subtle Body Practice Manual provides professionals and laypersons alike with an indispensible resource on the many varieties and applications of energetic care—so you can learn which practices are right for you.

Presskit Page: http://bit.ly/ZEGCch

Cyndi Dale
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Paperback Book / 384 pages / BK02819
ISBN-13: 978-1-60407-879-4
UPC: 600835-281980 / U.S. $27.95
Energy Medicine
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Cyndi Dale of Minneapolis, MN, is an internationally
respected author and spiritual scholar, whose books include the Gold Nautilus award-winning The Subtle Body (Sounds True, 2009) and New Chakra Healing (reissued as The Complete Book of Chakra Healing, Llewellyn, 2002). She is president of Life Systems Services and has conducted training across Europe, Asia, and the Americas.

“The Subtle Body is truly an encyclopedia that covers the field far more comprehensively than anything I have seen.”
—C. Norman Shealy, MD, PhD, Author of The Creation of Health

“An extraordinary body of work. The Subtle Body belongs in the library of every truly conscious person on the planet.”
—Christiane Northrup, MD, Author of Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom

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Polishing the Mirror
How to Live from Your Soul

Moments of boundless love and realization do occur spontaneously, reflects Ram Dass, but it is our daily life practice that clarifies the mind and heart—and makes these experiences an abiding part of who we are. For over five decades, Ram Dass has ventured across the globe, into the depths of consciousness, and along the path of service to others. With Polishing the Mirror, he gathers together his most essential practice-based guidance for living fully in the here and now. Readers will find within these pages a rich combination of perennial wisdom, humor, teaching stories, and detailed “nuts-and-bolts” instruction on Ram Dass’ most valued spiritual practices, including:

• Bhakti Yoga—opening our hearts to universal love
• Practices for living, aging, dying, and embracing the natural flow of life
• Karma Yoga—how humility and service profoundly transform us
• Working with fear and suffering as a path to grace and freedom
• Step-by-step guidance in devotional chant, mantra and mala practices, and much more

For those both familiar and new to Ram Dass’ teachings, here is this vanguard spiritual explorer’s complete guide for polishing the mirror of the soul, discovering who we are and why we are here, and reflecting fully the light of our true nature.

Presskit Page: http://bit.ly/ZgVKx5

Ram Dass
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Hardcover Book / 224 pages / BK03066
ISBN-13: 978-1-60407-967-8
UPC: 600835-306683 / U.S. $21.95
Spirituality
Sounds True Product Page

Ram Dass means “Servant of God.” Born Richard Alpert,
Ram Dass is the founder of the Love Serve Remember Project and co-founder of the Seva Foundation and the Prison Ashram Project. He is the author of the worldwide spiritual classic Be Here Now (Crown, 1971), and many other books.

“Ram Dass is a superb writer. His example of gentleness and loving compassion is infused with profound wisdom of the heart and mind, a welcome sense of humor and a savvy effectiveness in the real world.”
—The San Francisco Chronicle

“Ram Dass continues to share his ongoing journey with us, to our great benefit.”
—Jon Kabat-Zinn, Author of Mindfulness for Beginners 

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Dear reviewers, fans, colleagues, & friends,

As we finish 2012 and reflect on all that this year has meant to each of us, we find ourselves in the middle of also looking forward, towards a bright future and a new year.

The Spring 2013 Frontlist for Sounds True is filled with talented authors & artists that have pushed themselves and their work for many years in order to engage and reward audiences across the world.

Energy Healing, by Ann Marie Chiasson, MD, JANUARY 1st
A respected physician and energy medicine teacher offers a comprehensive guide for enhancing your energetic health and vitality with medically sound, easy-to-use self-care techniques.

Awakening Shakti, by Sally Kempton, FEBRUARY 1st A regular contributor to Yoga Journal Magazine’s Wisdom column, Sally offers a practical guide for activating the sacred feminine energy within us through the goddesses of yoga.

Brainspotting, by David Grand, APRIL 1st The first book on a breakthrough method of brain-based therapy that can help us address issues at their neurological source-and greatly accelerate our ability to heal.

Mothering & Daughtering, by Sil & Eliza Reynolds, APRIL 1st
Modern relationships of mothers & daughters? This is actually two lifesaving books in one. Revolutionary tools and insights for mothers – turn the book over for powerful teachings for teen daughters.

Read on for details about these great books as well as upcoming 2013 music releases. Request your review copies, excerpts, or author interviews for any of our products at publicity@soundstrue.com.

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Warm regards,

Coming January  2013…

 Energy Healing
The Essentials of Self-Care

True wellness begins at the energetic level. As traditional healers have known for thousands of years-and as modern medicine is affirming today-we have a subtle energy field that is as important to our well-being as our physical body is. With Energy Healing,integrative physician Ann Marie Chiasson offers a complete guidebook of easy-to-use energy practices to enhance our health and vitality. Drawing from the material she teaches at Dr. Andrew Weil’s Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine, Dr. Chiasson explores:

• Our subtle anatomy-understanding the chakras, meridians, and the key principles of energy medicine
• Self-diagnosis techniques for sensing the movement of energy in our bodies
• Practices for daily self-care and specific techniques to address energy blocks often seen in common illnesses and health issues
• Stories about how energy moves in and around us for healing – and why these stories themselves can enable us to heal
• Why our energy wanes as we age, and how we can replenish our vitality from sources in the world around us

Dr. Chiasson has studied the latest research on energy medicine and healing traditions from around the world, and through her experience in her own practice, she has selected techniques that are accessible, effective, and show great long-term benefit. With Energy Healing, she presents an indispensible guide for expanding our understanding of the energetic dimension of our well-being and essential tools to help us take charge of our own health.

Presskit page: http://bit.ly/TxKaXO

Chiasson, Ann Marie
January 1, 2013
Paperback / 328 pages / BK02685
ISBN: 978-1-60407-892-3
UPC: 600835-268585 / US $16.95
Health and Healing, Energy Medicine
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Ann Marie Chiasson, MD has a private integrative practice in Tucson, Arizona where she offers consultations, treatments, seminars, and retreats. She teaches at the Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona and facilitates spirituality and healing conferences. Dr. Chiasson has extensively studied and practiced energy medicine and alternative modalities.

“Dr. Chiasson skillfully combines her knowledge as a medical doctor with her passion for energy medicine and indigenous healing practices.” – Andrew Weil, MD – Author of Spontaneous Healing

Coming February 2013…

Awakening  Shakti

Transformative Power of the Goddesses of Yoga

“This is the path where even suffering transforms into pleasure, where poison becomes nectar, where the world itself becomes the abode of liberation.”
Utapaladera  Tenth-century Kashmiri sage

What do you do when you yearn to have it all-radical joy as well as spiritual depth, abundance along with deeper love? How do you bear witness to the suffering and darkness of the world, yet passionately celebrate life’s sweetness? The sages of tantra have known for centuries that when you follow the path of Shakti-the sacred feminine principle personified by the goddesses of yoga-these gifts manifest spontaneously. Yet most of us, women as well as men, have yet to experience the full potential of the inner feminine energies. When you know these powers for what they are, they heighten your capacity to show up for every aspect of your life. They let you open spiritually, love more deeply and fearlessly, create with more skill, and, above all, find the kernel of ecstasy at the heart of even the most painful times. In Awakening Shakti, Sally Kempton shows readers how to recognize and invite:

* Kali, bringer of strength, fierce love, and untamed freedom
* Lakshmi, who confers prosperity and beauty
* Saraswati, for clarity of communication and intuition
* Radha, who carries the divine energy of spiritual longing
* Bhuvaneshvari, who creates the space for sacred transformation
* Parvati, to awaken creativity and the capacity to love

With a wealth of meditations, visualizations, mantras, teachings, and beautifully told stories, this book provides a practical guide for activating the currents of the divine feminine in every aspect of your life.

Presskit page: http://bit.ly/TDsEEn

Kempton, Sally
February 1, 2013
Paperback / 376 pages / BK02556
ISBN: 978-1-60407-891-6
UPC: 600835-255684 / US $19.95
Spirituality

Sally Kempton writes the popular Yoga Journal column “Wisdom” and teaches workshops, retreats, and online courses internationally. She is the author of Meditation for the Love of It (Sounds True, 2011) and resides in Carmel Valley, California. For more on Sally, visit sallykempton.com.

Coming April 2013…

 Mothering & Daughtering

Keeping Your Bond Strong Through the Teen Years

What if teenage daughters could see their mothers as a great ally as they grew up and became independent? What if mothers could create safety for a teen daughter’s experience of herself, consciously guiding her to be who she was born to be? Sil and Eliza Reynolds are leading a revolution, smashing conventional wisdom on mothers and teenage daughters. With Mothering and Daughtering, they offer two breakthrough guides in one. For moms, Sil addresses the central task of stopping the cycle of separation and anxiety that plagues so many, drawing on her clinical expertise to nurture the skills of listening, boundary setting, “mirroring,” and more. For daughters, Eliza shares empowering advice to teens looking to keep it real with Mom while also finding strength in their own intuition, friendships, and dreams.

“What Sil and Eliza Reynolds teach mothers and their teenage daughters is profound, essential and revolutionary.” Geneen Roth # 1 New York Times bestselling author of Women, Food and God

“If these challenges [between mother and daughter] are a generational thing, Sil has surely broken the pattern with her own daughter.” Jane Fonda, actor and author of My Life So Far

“Sil and Eliza Reynolds’ work offers a huge opportunity for mothers and daughters who wantto heal and honor soul in their relationship.” Marion Woodman, Jungian analyst and author of Addiction to Perfection

Presskit page: http://bit.ly/UksIau

Reynolds, Sil, and Reynolds, Eliza
April 1, 2013
Paperback / 328 pages / BK02864
ISBN: 978-1-60407-885-1
UPC: 600835-286480 / US $24.95
Parenting, Self-Help

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Sil Reynolds, RN is a therapist in private practice specializing in family medicine, women’s health, and eating disorders. A graduate of Brown University and Pace University Graduate School of Nursing, Sil did postgraduate work with the renownedJungian analyst and author Marion Woodman and completed Woodman’s three-year BodySoul Rhythms© Leadership Training. Sil has brought her expertise to theWomen’s Institute at Omega, where she has been an advisor and a workshop leader in the annual Women and Power conferences.

Eliza Reynolds currently attends Brown University, where she is studying developmental and social psychology, gender studies, political science, dance, and nonfiction writing. Along with a small and diverse group of teenage girls, Eliza recently served as an advisor to Eve Ensler‘s I Am An Emotional Creature: The Secret Lives of Girls Around the World (Villard, 2010). Eliza was a peer-counselor throughout high school and an S.O.S. trained educator for Planned Parenthood. She continued to use these skills working in Providence city schools as a sexual health educator. For more about Sil and Eliza, please visit motheringanddaughtering.com.

Brainspotting

The Revolutionary New Therapy for Rapid and Effective Change

“Brainspotting is based on the profound attunement of the therapist with the patient, finding a somatic cue and extinguishing it by down-regulating the amygdala. It isn’t just PNS (Parasympathetic Nervous System) activation that is facilitated, it is homeostasis.”

– Robert Scaer, MD, “The Trauma Spectrum“

Brain-based therapy is the fastest-growing area in the field of psychological health because it has proven that it can immediately address issues that talk therapy can take years to heal. Now Dr. David Grand presents the next leap forward in psychological care-combining the strengths of brain-based and talk therapies into a powerful technique he calls Brainspotting. In Brainspotting, Dr. Grand reveals the key insight that allowed him to develop this revolutionary therapeutic tool: that where we look reveals critical information about what’s going on in our brains. Join him to learn about:

* The history of Brainspotting-how it evolved from EMDR practice as a more versatile tool for brain-based therapy
* Brainspotting in action-case studies and evidence for the effectiveness of the technique
* An overview of the different aspects of Brainspotting and how to use them
* How Brainspotting can be used to treat PTSD, anxiety, depression, addiction, chronic pain, and much more

“Brainspotting lets the therapist and client participate together in the healing process,” explains Dr. Grand. “It allows us to harness the brain’s natural ability for self-scanning, so we can activate, locate, and process the sources of trauma and distress in the body.” With Brainspotting, this pioneering researcher introduces an invaluable tool that can support virtually any form of therapeutic practice-and greatly accelerate our ability to heal.

Presskit page: http://bit.ly/WDZm6R

Grand, David
April 1, 2013
Paperback / 256 pages / BK02551
ISBN: 978-1-60407-890-1
UPC: 600835-255189 / US $17.95
Psychology

David Grand, PhD, is a licensed clinical social worker with a private psychotherapy practice in Manhattan. His clients include survivors of traumas such as 9/11, Katrina, and active combat, as well as professional performers, athletes, and business leaders. He is the author of Emotional Healing at Warp Speed (Random House, 2001), and he has appeared on CNN and NBC and in The New York Times.

Spring 2013 Music from Sounds True…

The Tibetan Healing Music of Nawang Khechog

Over the past 25 years, flutist Nawang Khechog has been hailed as the global ambassador of Tibetan meditation music, with a Grammy® nomination and several million CDs sold. WithThe Tibetan Healing Music of Nawang Khechog, he offers two hand-picked CDs of his finest compositions. Nawang has arranged this music to support meditation and the healing arts, combining the serenity of the Tibetan flute with the recurring use of a powerful chant for universal compassion led by His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Filled with timeless favorites and featuring three new tracks, here is an essential collection from a master of Tibetan meditation music.

Khechog, Nawang

January 1, 2013

Music / 2CDs / MM02884D / UPC: 600835-288422 / $21.98

New Age, Yoga

Digital Download: MM02884W / UPC: 600835-288477 /  $15.39

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Deva Premal’s Healing Mantras

Experience the Power of 17 Sacred Chants 

Peace. Abundance. Compassion. Long life. These are just some of the universal aspirations we can usher into our lives through dedicated mantra practice. At once a serene listening experience and a powerful tool for transformation, Deva Premal’s Healing Mantras presents 17 Hindu and Tibetan Buddhist chants, each repeated 108 times in keeping with sacred tradition. Selected by Deva herself for use as part of a daily practice or to permeate any space with healing energy, these inspirational recordings feature Gyuto Monks Sonam Dorjee, Passang Gyamtso, Gelek Gonpo, and Tenzin Jigme.

Premal, Deva, and Gyuto Monks of Tibet, The
January 1, 2013
Music  / 2 CDs / MM02892D / UPC: 600835-289221 / $24.98
New Age, Chant
Digital Download: MM02892W / UPC: 600835-289276 /  $17.49

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Shamans Dream

Prana Pulse: Music for Yoga, Love & Ecstatic Dance

The practice of yoga is fueled and guided by the flow of prana-life energy. The latest record from Shamans Dream invites us to let go and lose ourselves in this infinite rhythm. In their first-time collaboration, Craig Kohland and electronic music producer Bluetech arrange a beautiful flowing soundscape that traces the progress of a 70-minute yoga session. Prana Pulse builds slowly, hits a groovy peak, and gently subsides. This album is also an amazing soundtrack for dancers, workout warriors, and anyone in “passionate” spirits!

Shamans Dream Project by: Kohland, Craig and Bluetech
March 1, 2013
Music  / 1 CD / MM02703D / UPC: 600835-270328 / $16.98
World, Yoga Groove
Digital Download: MM02703W / UPC: 600835-270373 /  $11.98

Music Medicine by Christine Stevens

An internationally acclaimed music therapist presents scientific evidence and practical tools for harnessing the healing power of music.

Why are we able to recognize melodies before we are born? Why does making music actually switch off the genes that signal stress? It is because music is part of who we are at the deepest level–and we don’t need any special talent or training to harness its power to enhance our lives. With Music Medicine, music therapist Christine Stevens presents an information-packed resource, filled with scientifically based practices for accessing and attuning to the natural healing properties of music. Drawing from a wealth of research and her own pioneering healing work in some of the most challenging places around the world, Stevens invites readers to discover:

• Accessing the four elements of music–rhythm as medicine for the body, melody for the heart, harmony for the soul, and silence for the mind
• Why making music accelerates our ability to heal and change
• Healing playlists–each chapter features valuable download recommendations and links for selecting healing music
• The drum massage, creating your power song, full-body listening, and other effective and enjoyable practices

See Christine Stevens’ Drumming for  Healing video here:

Free Your Voice by Silvia Nakkach and Valerie Carpenter

A comprehensive, contemplative approach to personal transformation through singing and other vocal practices.

Science is beginning to prove what ancient cultures fully embraced: your voice can become one of the most powerful agents of transformation in every facet of your life. Free Your Voice offers readers the liberating insights and personal instruction of sound healing legend Silvia Nakkach, whose four-decade immersion in the use of the voice as a creative force makes her a uniquely qualified teacher and guide. With coauthor Valerie Carpenter, Silvia shows how to reclaim the healing potential of your voice (regardless of training or experience) through more than 100 enjoyable exercises that are steeped in spiritual tradition and classical vocal technique and backed by the latest science.

Free Your Voice invites us to “savor a banquet of our own divine sounds” as we explore breathwork, chant, and other yogic practices for emotional release, opening to insight, and much more. Required reading for the thousands of people in Silvia’s training programs, here is a definitive resource for using the voice as an instrument of healing and fulfillment. Instruction includes guided practices available as downloadable audio. Foreword by Mitchell Gaynor, MD.

by Marshall Rosenberg, PhD.

Readers learn how to use renowned peacemaker Marshall Rosenberg’s legendary process in six key areas with this practical “NVC field guide” to conflict resolution, raising children, and more.

“Marshall Rosenberg’s dynamic communication techniques transform potential conflicts into peaceful dialogues. You’ll learn simple tools to defuse arguments and create compassionate connections with your family, friends, and other acquaintances.”
—JOHN GRAY, author of Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus

Watch Dr. Rosenberg explain the components of Nonviolent Communication:

Belonging Here: A Guide for the Spiritually Sensitive Person

by Judith Blackstone, Phd.

A heartfelt book for overcoming the unique challenges of the spiritually sensitive person.

“I am excited by the clarity and power of Judith Blackstone’s approach to embodied meditation. This book offers practical wisdom that will be of great value to anyone with a spiritual practice. Highly recommended.”
—Sally Kempton, author of Meditation for the Love of It

A comprehensive guide to cultivating happiness based on time-tested wisdom and the latest science–combining Eastern and Western thought.

“A Unified Theory of Happiness is an engaging, warm-hearted, and essential book for anyone looking for sincere ways to find inner peace in modern times shares specific skills that make happiness much less elusive and much more possible. Practical and well-written, it shares specific skills that make happiness much less elusive and much more possible, so that we can address the real-life difficulties we all face balancing our pursuits with serenity.”

— Hope Edelman, author of Motherless Daughters and The Possibility of Everything

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