Finding Balance in Uncertain Times

By Nancy J. Sanks

Every new season in your life announces itself through difficulty, confusion, or a sense of being uprooted. To navigate this change, you must find your inner resource, an anchor that can be used to maintain connection to “self” while being fully present and available to what’s happening now. In Finding Balance in Uncertain Times, author Nancy Sanks, offers a resource—through the practice of yoga—for those struggling with uncertainty and change.

This guide reaches students who want to take their practice to the next level. It provides tools to create space around whatever it is you are facing and breathe new life and possibility into it. Using breath (pranayam), movement and poses (asanas), and mindfulness (meditation), she leads you to a path of physical, mental, and spiritual balance.

Exploring ways to move forward in the midst of turmoil and to help you find inner peace, Sanks makes the teachings of yoga available to anyone with a desire to embody lovingkindness and a healthy lifestyle.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Balboa Press
• Release date: Jul 31, 2020
• ISBN: 9781982251024

Nancy J. Sanks

Nancy Sanks founded Body Awareness Yoga in 1989. Located in San Diego, California, she has served the community for more than thirty years offering classes, retreats, workshops, and special guests. Sanks received advanced training from the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health, West Stockbridge, Massachusetts. She also has studied extensively with Angela Farmer and Rama Jyoti Vernon. She and her husband have four children and nine grandchildren. This is her first book.

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ISBN: 978-1-9822-5101-7 (sc)

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Library of Congress Control Number: 2020913057

Balboa Press rev. date:   07/31/2020

This book is dedicated to my students, family, friends and

all who are looking for balance in these uncertain times

CONTENTS

Introduction

Prologue

Chapter 1    Breath Awareness

Chapter 2    Body Awareness

Chapter 3    Mindfulness

Chapter 4    Your Inner Resource

Chapter 5    The I Am Presence

Chapter 6    Uncertain Times: COVID – 19

INTRODUCTION

E very new season in our life announces itself through difficulty, confusion, or a sense of being uprooted. To navigate this change we must find our inner resource, an anchor that can be used to maintain connection to self while being fully present and available to what is happening now .

Over the past four decades I have been involved in the wellness world, including Yoga and Ayurveda. These two life sciences have offered me ways to integrate family and daily life lessons into my spiritual practice. They are