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Breathing Space for New Mothers: Rest, Stretch, and Smile—One Yoga Minute at a Time is sponsored and published by the Society for the Study of Native Arts and Sciences (dba North Atlantic Books), an educational nonprofit based in Berkeley, California, that collaborates with partners to develop cross-cultural perspectives, nurture holistic views of art, science, the humanities, and healing, and seed personal and global transformation by publishing work on the relationship of body, spirit, and nature.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Rogers, Alison, 1952– author. | White, Erin O., author.

Title: Breathing space for new mothers : rest, stretch, and smile—one yoga

minute at a time / Alison Rogers with Erin O. White.

Description: Berkeley, California : North Atlantic Books, 2019.

Identifiers: LCCN 2019017337 (print) | LCCN 2019020366 (ebook) | ISBN

9781623173432 (E-Book) | ISBN 9781623173425 (paperback)

Subjects: LCSH: Motherhood. | Parenting. | Families. | Hatha yoga. |

Self-actualization (Psychology) | BISAC: FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS /

Parenting / Motherhood. | HEALTH & FITNESS / Yoga. | BODY, MIND & SPIRIT /

Meditation.

Classification: LCC HQ759 (ebook) | LCC HQ759 .R633 2019 (print) | DDC

306.874/3—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019017337

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