Bestselling Author of Deeper Days: 365 Yoga-spirations for Inner Calm Amidst Chaos, No Matter How Dark The Stain: Poems and Inspiration for the Woman in Pain and Stillness in the Storm: A Conscious Daily Journal of Yoga & Spiritual Healing
Deeper Days: 365 Yoga-spirations for Inner Calm Amidst Chaos
In a world full of war and unrest and everyone voicing their discontent as loud as they can while just trying to keep up with the impossibly fast pace, being able to stop and take a breath is more important than ever to help keep us from completely losing our mind.
Deeper Days is a lovingly crafted book to get you moving through the world with love, to help you take a moment to breathe, and find stillness in daily reflection. It guides you along your yogic path to realizing your divine potential. It’s a guide to yoga, but not in the way you might think: no downward-facing dogs or pigeon poses here. Instead, the book takes you back to what yoga is really about: yes, physical postures but also the mental and spiritual practices—including meditation—that will help you find inner peace.
Structured around the eight limbs of yoga as described in Patañjali’s Yoga Sutras, Deeper Days provides a set of 365 short messages for daily reflections for women. Each comes with a phrase at the end—a mantra of sorts— that summarizes the core message of the day and that you can use throughout the day as a reminder of what to focus on.
But you don’t have to complete yoga teacher training or be an adherent of Hinduism or Zen Buddhism or any other philosophy to find value in Deeper Days: this daily reflection book is also a practical guide to how you can incorporate the concepts it describes into your daily life so that you can find inner calm amidst chaos. You can see it as a travel guide for your journey around the Sun, helping you find your personal path leading you to your magnificent heart.
No Matter How Dark The Stain: Poems and Inspiration for the Woman in Pain
Healing can happen in an instant. Opening this book is like opening your awareness. It’s the first step in the direction of love, of listening to your heart.
You are not defined by what happened to you. You are what you do in this moment.
No Matter how Dark the Stain acknowledges the innocence of the heart and child within us all. Essentially a collection of love poems for anxious people, it meets people in their darkest space and gives a breath of life to the pain and feelings that haunt us and keep bad patterns recurring. It offers a light, it sends love and comfort, affirmations, and strength to keep pushing through pain and through that door, which is within, revealing the love and light of awareness and expanding the mind and heart to new possibilities beyond the painful experiences.
These poems will shine light on darkness to invoke rising closer to our full, loving nature and potential.
No Matter How Dark the Stain is presented in three sections:
- Poems of love, innocence, and poems of hope from the time before loss, grief, and trauma
- Grieving poems for the loss of a child, and poetry about abuse and trauma
- Poems of getting over grief, healing poems, poems of hope and gratitude, poems of love, especially self-love.
♥ Where there is light, there can be no darkness. Love is like a switch that heals our darkness. ♥
You’ve opened your heart. Felt the pieces falling apart. Poet Andrea L. Wehlann has glued her pieces together, on her knees. She tells her yoga students: “That’s the thing about the heart. It breaks.”
Wehlann’s book of poetry for women holds space for your pain. Her words can be your light. Your body wants to heal. Close your eyes, breathe these poems in, into that space we are all open, free, and interconnected.
“You are not alone. You can do this—as I have. You’re a star. It’s never too late to shine.
Stillness in the Storm: A Conscious Daily Journal of Yoga & Spiritual Healing
Unlock the transformative power of Stillness in the Storm: A Conscious Daily Journal of Yoga and Spiritual Healing. This empowering journal celebrates the harmonious blend of mind, body, and spirit, guiding you to that serene intersection.
Within its pages, you will find more than just blank spaces to fill. Stillness in the Storm provides gentle prompts that inspire the creation of sacred space in your heart. It encourages love, kindness, and compassion to flow freely within you.
Immerse yourself in the wisdom of Hatha yoga through step-by-step sequences to guide your physical practice and also help you integrate the eight limbs of yoga into your daily life. Listen to the whispers of your heart and perform these sequences whenever the moment calls, whether as a standalone practice or as part of your reflective routine.
Embrace the yogic lifestyle and embark on a profound exploration of self-discovery. Stillness in the Storm empowers you to become the best version of yourself.
Author Interview with Andrea L. Wehlann
Describe your writing process. Do you outline, plot, and plan, or is your writing more organic?
My writing is very organic, yet cultivated. I have learned to make create space in my mind and lifestyle that allows for the organic flow of my writing. It is not forced; it is felt, captured, as often as I can.
Describe the book or series in 10 words or less for people just learning about it.
For people just learning about my book Deeper Days: 365 Yoga-spirations for Inner Calm Amidst Chaos, with a simple daily practice, you can become calm amidst chaos.
My book, No Matter How Dark the Stain, Poems and Inspiration for the Woman in Pain, the second section title is my favorite: ‘that’s the thing about the heart, it breaks.”
My book Stillness in the Storm: A Conscious Daily Journal of Yoga and Spiritual Healing, embraces the yogic lifestyle and offers a profound exploration of self-discovery. Stillness in the Storm empowers you to become the best version of yourself with Hatha yoga, gentle prompts and space for journaling.
Is there anything you would like people to take away from your book?
I want people to take away from No Matter How Dark the Stain, Poems and Inspiration for the Woman in Pain, that you are not what happened to you, no matter how dark. You are destiny. The dark parts and the light parts of your life are both love.
What has been the toughest criticism you have received as an author? What has been the best compliment?
The best compliment about No Matter How Dark the Stain was ‘I don’t think I have ever been loved like that”. A Father bought it for his daughter sensing something happened to her. They came to a book signing, she was holding her copy. She said “I didn’t know there were words to describe what happened to me’.
What do you like to do when you’re not writing?
When I am not writing I am lovingly raising my children, teaching yoga and meditation at my yoga studio, Ganga Moon Yoga & Reiki Skool. I exercise, work hard to achieve my dreams by following my heart. I read, spend time in nature, create community yoga events/retreats and I love to write in my journals.
Have you ever experienced writer’s block? How did you deal with it?
I have experienced writer’s block and it is an awful, self-deprecating experience. To overcome it I need to create space, connect with nature, retreat and change my surroundings. Things like a weekend getaway, spending time with my friends and or going to write in a coffee shop.
About the Author
Andrea L. Wehlann is a certified Hatha Yoga teacher, CEO & Founder of Ganga Moon Yoga Studio and Reiki Skool in Beamsville, Ontario, Canada. With a BA in psychology from Brock University and a social services diploma from Niagara College, Andrea’s work in the social services field, as well as a Reiki Master, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, Chi Kung, Feng Shui, and meditation practitioner round out her experience.
She’s the author of three books: Deeper Days: 365 Yoga-spirations for Inner Calm Amidst Chaos is her second, which follows the full-length poetry collection, No Matter How Dark The Stain: Poems and Inspiration for the Woman in Pain (Ingenium Books, 2021) and bestseller in the category of yoga, Stillness In The Storm: A Conscious Daily Journal of Yoga and Spiritual Healing (Ingenium Books, 2023)
Her dedication to spiritual healing comes from overcoming childhood, mental, physical, and emotional abuse, surviving rape and sexual assault, miscarriages and infant loss—personal experiences that make her an effective healer today.
Andrea has received the Editor’s Choice Award for Outstanding Achievement in Poetry by The National Library of Poetry (Canada), Honourable Mention from Iliad Press, and a Poet of Merit Award. Her poetry has been published in The Brock Press Literary Supplement, The 1996 Blue Ribbon Collection, Portraits of Life published by the National Library of Poetry and the International Society of Poets, and Another Nobody: A Tribute to the Homeless by Niagara’s Poets. Andrea was a distinguished member of the International Society of Poets for more than seven years and has in the past been a member of The Canadian Theosophical Society. She’s been featured in publications like Niagara Life Magazine.
Deeper Days: 365 Yoga-spirations for Inner Calm Amidst Chaos, Andrea’s second book became bestseller in the category of yoga; won two Firebird book awards in the category of mind, body, soul and the inspiration category. Deeper Days also won the Pinnacle book achievement award.
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