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By Mira Manek

Prajna is the Sanskrit word for wisdom, and this book brings the ancient wisdom of Ayurveda into your life by guiding you through simple practices for every day and every occasion.

Ayurveda is one of the world’s oldest healing systems, rooted in the principle of a mind-body-spirit connection that is more relevant than ever to our busy modern lives. This book extracts the essence of this Indian philosophy and provides a wealth of timeless rituals to effect positive change.

Prajna offers rituals and routines for the entire day, from the moment you wake up and need the energy and positive mindset to help you start the morning, to night-time practices that allow you to wind down, relax and get the most benefit from the healing power of sleep.

In between there are numerous breathing exercises, mindfulness techniques, yoga stretches and simple recipes to enjoy, all to help you destress and reset, bringing you back to yourself and to lasting peace and happiness.

52 Beautiful Cards of Comforting Quotes and Uplifting Affirmations

A calm thought a day keeps your worries away. Words have power; they can soothe a worried mind and provide comfort in times of need. This deck of 52 cards, which can be displayed using the wooden stand, contains kind thoughts and mindful mantras to ease daily stresses and bring a sense of calm to every day.

This box is The School of Life’s guide to the rest of a life together, containing twenty beautiful cards which lay out the central ideas on how to make a relationship work over the decades beyond the wedding day.

It is filled with artful suggestions on coping with what even the most loving couple will face as they build a life together. This set of cards is both a celebration of marriage and a rich source of insights into the skills it demands.

• 20 cards in a premium gift box
• 220 x 158 x 25mm

Optimist or Pessimist? Contrasting ways to look at the same reality.

• 2 x Clear glasses in each box, with black print
• Dishwasher Safe
• Volume: 360ml
• Height: 90mm Diameter: 84mm

A Tool for Making Wiser Choices

The Decision Dice invites us to think through an issue from six distinct angles: our Enemy, our Gut, Death, Caution, Courage and our Parents. As we try out, juggle with and then synthesise these perspectives, we will feel our sense of possibility expand, and a tolerable way forward will gradually emerge from our present confusion.

• Wooden dice and printed booklet in a gift box | Beech Wood FSC | 100 x 90 x 60mm

There are few questions harder or lonelier than: ‘What should I do with the rest of my working life?’

We are often simply meant to know the answer - and a lot of people might be invested in us continuing along the safe and predictable path. This box contains a series of prompts, questions and essays designed to help us systematically understand more about our working identities and to guide us towards the kind of jobs that will honour our talents and allow us to thrive.

• 20 cards with exercises

By Lucy Lucas

A comprehensive guide to yoga, its history, philosophy and how to incorporate the practice into your everyday life.

Expert yoga practitioner Lucy Lucas offers fresh insight into the history, philosophy and science of yoga, helping you to truly understand its ancient wisdom.

Includes more than 50 step-by-step sequences.

By Lauren D'Silva

A comprehensive guide to crystals: their history, powers and how to incorporate them into your day-to-day life.

Crystals expert Lauren D'Silva provides practical insight into choosing the right crystals for you and how their many healing properties can enhance your daily life. Alongside information on attuning with your crystals and energy safety, there is also a comprehensive crystal directory detailing common names, suggestions for use and handling instructions.

Includes a directory of over 100 crystals.

By Max La Manna

Max La Manna, low waste chef and climate activist, bridges the gap between vegan food and waste-free cooking – inviting us to channel the MORE PLANTS LESS WASTE mindset and discover a stronger purpose in the kitchen and in our daily routines.

Through his viral recipe videos and work with BBC Earth and beyond, Max has inspired hundreds of thousands of people across the world to rethink their approach to food consumption and made it his mission to breathe new life into our leftovers that are typically destined for the bin. In his first cookbook he shares 80 of his tastiest, healthy recipes that are bursting with flavour, will help you save money, food and ensure you eat well – from Sumptuous Spag Bol and Vegan Shepherd’s Pie to Pumpkin Pasta, Crunchy Cauliflower Curry or Leftover Veggie Nachos in a Hurry.

• Simple, accessible ingredients that celebrate the power of vegetables and wholefoods at their best
• Breakfasts, lunches, dinners, soups, stews and salads – plus sweet treats
• All-natural home hacks from DIY deodorant to Citrus Bomb House Cleanser
• The life tools you need to add value to what you already own and set you on the path to living more sustainably
• A 21-day zero waste challenge

This lovely 1000-piece Galison puzzle illustrated by Frances Penwill is the ultimate snapshot of the plant-obsessed home dweller, chock-full of houseplants, books, and all the knickknacks that make a home a home. Galison puzzles are packaged in matte-finish sturdy boxes, perfect for gifting, reuse, and storage. 

A collection of tips, tricks and activities for when you just can't get to sleep

In this handy little book you'll find a whole range of tips, tricks and relaxing activities to help you switch off and unwind. From dot-to-dots and coloring in to meditations and yoga poses, you'll find all you need to wind down at the end of a stressful day and relax in preparation for a restful night's sleep.

Keep this book by your bedside as the ultimate aid for nodding off in no time.

Don’t let anxiety define who you are

In a world where we are constantly comparing our looks, our lifestyles, our jobs and our relationships with others, it can be easy to let worries get the better of us. The truth is, whether you’re sociable or solitary, extroverted or introverted, anxiety will affect us all at some point in our lives.

This pocket-sized guide will help you recognize and understand the way you feel and offers practical advice for looking after your mental and physical well-being. From challenging the way you think to make positive lifestyle changes, this book is your starting point for a more carefree, content, and confident you.

Author: Claire Chamberlain

From the common stinging nettle to exotic adaptogens, the plant world is the most incredible medicine cabinet.

In Healing with Plants: The Chelsea Physic Garden Herbal, discover how to make your own simple herbal remedies, ideas for how to create a healing herb garden, and how to forage for herbs in the wild.

A history of healing and fascinating stories are told, including a guide to which ailments each herb can treat and how to use them, from healing trauma with St John's Wort to soothing a sore throat with an infusion of thyme and honey. 

Author: Chelsea Physic Garden

85 recipes to leave your skin and hair glowing

Nourish your hair and skin with recipes to bring out the very best in you, inside and out. Enjoy healthy recipes for breakfast, filling main meals, juices, smoothies and even delicious desserts and decadant cocktails - all carefully chosen to bring you the perfect blend of natural superfoods that boost beauty from the inside. Beauty Food also includes a Beautypedia, telling you which ingredients contain just the right oils, minerals, vitamins and acids to help with common beauty ailments.

Author: Maria Ahlgren

In this candid, refreshing guide for young women to take with us as we run the world, Emilie Aries shows you how to own your power, know your worth, and design your career and life accordingly.

Learn about different kinds of fortune-telling and its fascinating history as well as techniques for applying these skills to your life.

• Learn about your character by studying your palm
• Dowse with a pendulum to seek answers to your most pressing questions
• Decipher the symbols in a crystal ball to guide you to success
• Explore your past, present, and future by reading tea leaves

60 prompt cards designed to help you find perspective on life’s sorrows and regrets.

These Calm Prompt Cards contain ideas and observations to help us handle these frustrations. Through ironic humour, consoling cultural references, and a small amount of pessimistic wisdom, they help to summon up our best and calmest selves.

An elegant hourglass sand timer which measures 15 minutes precisely from the start of each turn.

This hourglass sand timer reminds us to carve out 15 minutes a day for what truly counts. It demarcates a very modest and manageable period to dedicate to the important things we so often let slide - finally writing that letter to an old friend, rationally analysing our career ambitions, or playing in a concentrated way with a child.

By Jennifer Sodini; Illustrated by Natalee Miller

By Ocean Robbins; Foreward by Joel Fuhrman

Heal Your Body, Feel Great, and Transform Your World

By Michael Gienger

This unique book examines the basic principles underpinning the fascinating art of crystal healing.

Presented in a simple, easy-to-read style, it is a classic, key piece of writing for anyone seeking to unlock the powerful healing properties of more than 120 crystals.

The result of twelve years’ research and personal study, author Michael Gienger presents here an exhaustative examination of the therapeutic and healing properties of crystals for all our spiritual, mental and physical needs. Containing a wealth of stunning colour photography and detailed descriptions of crystals and their application, this ground-breaking work provides the first ever comprehensive survey of the art of crystal healing.

By Jennifer Iserloh

Transform Nature's Most Powerful Ingredients into Nourishing Meals and Healing Remedies

By Sally Coulthard

In this beautifully illustrated guide, best-selling author Sally Coulthard demonstrates how to transform your living and working spaces into places that put you in touch with nature.

Eight inspiring chapters cover key elements for the ‘biophilic home’, including materials, views, colour and natural light. Each section explores the links between home, health and happiness, drawing on environmental research and neuroscience while making practical suggestions for bringing the natural world into your home.

Bring nature indoors with flowers and plants, rediscover the innate pleasure of real fires and fresh air, and learn how to improve your mood and sleep patterns with dynamic light. Create a space filled with natural elements, patterns, nature’s colours, fabrics and textures that lift your mood; find out why natural sounds and water are soothing; and learn how to make small changes that will inspire, invigorate and enrich your relationship with the natural world.

• Hardcover format

By Laurie Wolf, Bruce Wolf, Mary Wolf

From author Laurie Wolf, the "Martha Stewart of marijuana edibles"(New Yorker), comes a beautifully packaged and informative guide to living a holistic CBD and marijuana lifestyle. The Cannabis Apothecary will teach readers the best ways to buy, prepare, and safely use THC and CBD for maximum benefits to your body, mind, home, and spirit.

Featuring recipes for brownies and body balms, mushroom tarts and massage oils, The Cannabis Apothecary offers readers a guide to improving health and wellness by harnessing the natural powers of marijuana. From celebrated cookbook author Laurie Wolf, creator of "the absolute best cannabis brownie recipe of all time" (Leafly), The Cannabis Apothecary charts a path through the history of this amazing plant, from early cultivation to the latest in cutting edge research, showing readers how to maximize the benefits of living an immersive marijuana lifestyle.

• Hardcover format; 256 pages

By Linnea Dunne

Early-morning rituals for contentment, clarity and purpose.

In this inspirational guide, Linnea Dunne, bestselling author of Lagom: The Swedish Art of Balanced Living, shows how building a life-affirming ritual into your morning routine is an act of self-care that can benefit both your physical and mental health, enhance your productivity and positively influence your day.

Whether it's a dedicated yoga practice at sunrise, mindfulness meditation just after waking, journalling while you sip your morning coffee, or listening to birdsong in the back garden before you tackle your daily commute, a morning ritual can enhance your health and wellbeing, and bring increased contentment, clarity and purpose to your day.

With countless ideas for nourishing morning practices and invaluable advice on how to create a morning ritual that is unique to you and takes your individual needs, circumstances and time constraints into account, this book will help you to make the most of the peace and promise of the first moments of every day.

• Hardcover format