Serenity to Go: Calming Techniques for Your Hectic Life

Serenity to Go is a refreshing antidote for overbooked lives that can help you transform the frustrations of your busy day into calming mini-breaks. Yoga instructor and long-time busy New Yorker Mina Hamilton presents a set of techniques that take from two to five minutes and can fit into any jam-packed schedule. Designed to span a range of activities throughout the day, each of her easy-to-learn exercises is keyed to a specific locale: a traffic jam, an elevator ride, a bank line, a commuter train, and many more. Learn how to breathe more effectively, stretch in safe and inconspicuous ways, develop calming attitudes that increase compassion and gratitude, and enjoy light-hearted diversions for waiting out a don't-walk sign or taking a stroll to the water cooler.

The author prescribes an array of easy-to-learn techniques that turn stressed out moments into opportunities for relaxation. Readers learn how to stretch inconspicuously, breathe more deeply, enjoy lighthearted diversions, and develop calming attitudes--strategies that ultimately boost health and happiness.

Mina Hamilton lives in Brooklyn, NY, where she has been teaching stress reduction and yoga for nine years at her own studio and as a faculty member of the Spoke the Hub Re:Creation Center. A charismatic public speaker and a widely published author, she has written over thirty articles on environmental topics for various magazines including USA Today, Mother Jones, The Nation, The Progressive, and The Village Voice.