'Inner Spark is a book that will help you move through difficult times, and remind you of your own greatness.' - Deepak Chopra
'Where psychological insight meets day-to-day wellbeing' Stylist
Kristin Vikjord presents a practical toolkit of exercises to help find, regain and nurture your inner spark. Drawing on her experiences as a Clinical Psychologist and yoga and mindfulness facilitator, Kristin combines these complementary, integrative therapies for a book that has the scientific mind of a psychologist and the heart and soul of yoga teacher.
In Inner Spark, Kristin offers practical activities that match up to the three sections of the book and explains how pathways in the brain work, showing how, and crucially why, it's important for anyone navigating a difficult time, physically or mentally, to have a toolkit for reconnection. Kristin Vikjord has effectively harnessed the long Scandinavian winters to stoke her own inner spark and created this guide that will help readers embrace the challenges of modern life, from burnout to navigating new parenthood.
Kristin Vikjord lives in Bodo, Norway, with her husband and two sons. She works as a clinical psychologist, and teaches healthcare professionals the application of yoga and mindfulness as complementary to conventional therapy. As co-founder of Delight Yoga, the Arctic Yoga Conference and the Inner Peace conference in Amsterdam and New York, she hosts a wealth of international speakers in locations around the world. When not travelling, Kristin and her family divide their time between the nature in Norway and city life in Amsterdam. Inner Spark is Kristin's first book.
Title: Inner Spark: Finding Calm in a Stressful World
Author: Vikjord, Kristin
ISBN: 9781529043587
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Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Publication Date: 2020-09-17
Number of Pages: 256
Weight: 0.3401 kg
Inner Spark is a book that will help you move through difficult times, and remind you of your own greatness. -- Deepak Chopra, MD
Where psychological insight meets day-to-day wellbeing * Stylist *
Kristin Vikjord's book bursts from the mind of a psychologist and the soul of a powerful teacher, as deep as the Nordic waters. Kristin has a unique, healing, and important voice. I highly recommend it. -- Max Strom, author of There is No App for Happiness
Kristin Vikjord has a very readable, relatable and lively writing style. The reader is skillfully guided how to re-ignite their 'Inner Spark' through easy to adopt changes and techniques. -- Shirley Telles, Director of the Patanjali Research Foundation, India
Kristin Vikjord's book is here to help you intelligently reveal your own inner spark and experience more luminosity in every area of your life. -- Elena Brower, bestselling author of Practice You, A Journal
Kristin elegantly weaves contemporary psychology with essential teachings of mindfulness, into a beautiful and practical guidance book. Kristin is a leading voice in contemporary spirituality -- Lea Loncar, founder of Zenit and Samvid Yoga and University of Trondheim Lecturer
Chock full of practical wisdom that can help us not only survive, but to flourish during difficult times. -- Ronald D. Siegel, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Harvard Medical School
Down to earth, and heart opening this book full of personal stories and practical methods, will revive that flickering spark within you. A precious gem to carry with you always. -- Lama Tsultrim Allione
This book makes the radical but liberating suggestion that cultivating psychological health might be less a war we need to wage with ourselves, in this case to make suffering stop, and more about making peace with our embodied experience right now as it is. -- David Emerson, author of Trauma-Sensitive Yoga in Therapy