YOGA MIND

Suzan Colon, former Senior Editor at O the Oprah Magazine and a yoga teacher, brings us a different kind of yoga book. The Yoga Tools digs deep into the spiritual philosphy behind yoga and distills 30 essential components to enrich your yoga practice and enhance your day-to-day life.

We live in an increasingly stressful world, and we’ve all heard about the hazardous effects stress can have on our health. We know we’re supposed to meditate and be more mindful, but these concepts can seem elusive, unattainable, and hard to fit into our busy days. The word yoga usually makes you think of bendy, twisty poses, but that’s actually Asana, the physical practice of Yoga. In its complete sense, Yoga is a collection of life lessons for wellness and wellbeing—a spiritual technology from ancient times that is now more relevant, and necessary, than ever.

The Yoga Tools by Suzan Colón is a different kind of Yoga book—one that gives you tools for mindfulness and maintaining balance to use throughout your day, in traffic or on the train, at your job and at home. The Yoga Tools outlines Yoga’s gentle, simple approaches to meditation, self-awareness, and inner balance. It shows us how to reduce stress and increase wellbeing and how we can change our lives one breath at a time. Yoga is a spiritual toolkit designed to cultivate resilience in challenging times, enrich our relationships with family, work, our bodies, and ourselves, and improve our own lives with the noble goal of bettering the world. These tools, rarely presented in typical Yoga classes or books, are put together in a 30-day program designed to create subtle yet powerful shifts in awareness and attitudes that lead to real, lasting change. It will revolutionize your life from the inside out, with each and every breath. The efficacy of these tools is told through the story of a year of weekly Yoga sessions with Francesco, Colon's quadriplegic student. If it can work for him, it can work for you!

The book includes breathing exercises to calm body and mind; a mental trick to unplug negative thinking; ways to tune in to your own “inner guru”; exercises to meet challenges with resilience and cultivate lasting happiness, and more. The lessons are presented in relatable, user-friendly ways, and come with “OMwork” assignments to show you how to live your Yoga. Whether you’re a hardcore Yoga fan or you think you can’t “do” Yoga, The Yoga Tools teaches that doing Yoga means uniting body, breath, mind, and heart to become your best self.

A former senior editor at O, the Oprah Magazine, Suzan Colón has written ten books, including the inspirational memoir Cherries in Winter: My Family’s Recipe for Hope in Hard Times (Doubleday 2009). Suzan has been practicing Yoga for nearly 25 years and teaching since 2002, with certificates in basic and intermediate Hatha Yoga, Therapeutic Yoga, and Yoga for Arthritis. Suzan’s writing has been featured in Good Housekeeping, USA Today’s Hispanic Living, Woman’s Day for Latinas, and Latina Magazines, as well as on The Huffington Post, Oprah.com, YogaCityNYC.com, and other websites. Suzan has appeared on The Today Show, The Early Show, National Public Radio, and other media outlets.