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Histoires pour s'endormir, histoires pour rêver, et aussi voyage au cœur de la tradition et de la culture populaire de tradition orale : cette sélection de contes des peuples du monde ravira petits et grands. Leur sagesse intemporelle et leur exotisme plein d'humour nous parviennent bien vivants du passé, grâce à l'interprétation de Nicolas de Coulonges qui les présente pour la première fois en livre audio.

Histoires pour s'endormir, histoires pour rêver, et aussi voyage au cœur de la tradition : cette sélection de contes des racines de l'Inde ravira petits et grands. Leur sagesse intemporelle et leur exotisme plein d'humour nous parviennent bien vivants du passé, grâce à l'interprétation de Nicolas de Coulonges qui les présente pour la première fois en livre audio. Ces contes et légendes choisis parmi les plus beaux du folklore indien feront rêver tous les amateurs de voyages immobiles et de profondeur.

La tradition orale recèle des trésors que l'on se passe de génération en génération au travers des contes et légendes. La transmission continue aujourd'hui avec les plus beaux contes d'origine allemande sous forme de livre audio, narrés en français par Nicolas de Coulonges dans une interprétation fidèle. Ces histoires ont été sélectionnées parmi les plus belles et les plus authentiques des racines allemandes.

Cette collection de contes populaires emmènera petits et grands dans un voyage au cœur de l'âme africaine, avec une sélection d'histoires venues de la tradition orale sénégalaise, gambienne et guinéenne. Les animaux qui parlent, pleins de malice, sont les moyens les plus vivants de transmettre perles de sagesse ancestrale et un poétique aperçu du quotidien d'une Afrique sans âge, en faisant le tour des préoccupations et pensées transmises de génération en génération.

Histoires pour s'endormir, histoires pour rêver, et aussi voyage au cœur de la tradition et de la culture populaire de tradition orale d'Afrique, d'Asie et d'Europe : cette sélection de contes des peuples du monde ravira petits et grands. Leur sagesse intemporelle et leur exotisme plein d'humour nous parviennent bien vivants du passé, grâce à l'interprétation de Nicolas de Coulonges qui les présente pour la première fois en livre audio.

Plongez au cœur de la culture malgache avec cette anthologie de contes traditionnels, préservés par la transmission orale et disponibles pour la première fois en livre audio. Ces contes et légendes rassemblent les éléments fondamentaux des cultures des différentes ethnies de Madagascar : récits moraux et d'aventure, sages et pleins d'humour, que l'interprétation de Nicolas de Coulonges nous présente bien vivants pour le plus grand plaisir des petits et des grands.

Treize histoires de la culture traditionnelle et populaire réunies en un livre audio pour sentir battre le cœur de l'Afrique du Sud, à travers l'interprétation de Nicolas de Coulonges. Ces contes africains sages et naïfs, profonds et pleins d'humour, emmèneront petits et grands à la découverte d'une culture féérique à travers une sélection des plus beaux textes transmis par la tradition orale : "L'éléphant et la grenouille", "L'origine des blancs et des nègres", "Pourquoi le crocodile ne mange pas la poule", etc.

Every professional has to maintain a healthy balance between work efficiency and self-protection. The ability to set clear boundaries and to maintain a relaxed focus even under pressure can make all the difference between creative productivity and burnout. This series of exercises will introduce you to simple yet powerful techniques, to decrease stress caused by work commitments, kick-start your day in the right state of mind with a short morning relaxation, stay focused and relaxed under client pressure, and create for yourself a peaceful place that will enable you to maintain your energy while showing the right amount of empathy and solve problems.

Meditation has been scientifically proven to help alleviate pain, increase willpower and efficiency, and generally enhance satisfaction by bringing clarity and focus into everyday decisions. Long before that, it was agreed that its techniques were the basis for living a more empowered and enlightened life: the more consciousness one achieves, the easier it is to free oneself from the unconscious influences that can shape our behavior against our will.

Anxiety takes a heavy toll; the lack of adequate support and techniques can make recovery longer than necessary. These relaxation exercises will teach you proven and efficient methods to relieve anxiety, ward off panic attacks or alleviate chronic stress. This guided practice provides you with techniques you can come back to whenever you feel the need, so that you can achieve relief on your own in any circumstance. The guided imagery techniques will lead you to become more playful, learn to stretch and achieve deep relaxation, and improve your visualization skills for better concentration and control.

The concept of mindfulness has been an essential part of life in Oriental societies for centuries. It is a fundamental key to awakening and living one's own life in full conscience, as opposed to the pointless suffering one can experience through the hectic pace of Western ways of life. This series of mindfulness exercises will introduce you to the simplest and powerful techniques. They are essential for beginning one's work in mindfulness, and will benefit more advanced practitioners by enhancing one's powers of concentration, visualization, and general awareness.

This series of exercises is specially designed to help you boost your confidence and improve your self-esteem. A positive self-image is an essential part of our survival. Without it, we are at risk of self-defeating behavior or unhealthily negative feelings; it is necessary to build a positive self-image prior to achieving success and to get rid of self-defeating thoughts. Through guided visualization and relaxation techniques, these exercises will help you improve your confidence by learning to cope with rejection, teach you to relax under pressure, and alleviate anxiety to help you defeat self-harm, heal or enjoy a stress-free life.

Are you fed up with being tired all day long and then wondering why it's still so hard to fall asleep? These relaxation exercises are specially designed to help you overcome insomnia by teaching you how to unwind your mind and guiding you into a state of deep relaxation. Listen to them whenever you feel you will need help to fall asleep easily for a short nap, or as part as a nightly practice to overcome sleep pattern problems. You will awaken fully refreshed and free of any tension, while having improved your concentration and visualization skills.

Procrastination leads to feelings of guilt, the stress of missing deadlines and general anxiety. It has no connection whatsoever with laziness, but the accusation can lead sufferers to higher levels of tension; yet, procrastination is a direct consequence of difficulties in managing environmental pressure. To overcome procrastination, one has to learn effective techniques of relaxation and apply them when the needs arise.

Panic attacks can be debilitating, and the fear of getting one can often lead to a full-fledged attack. Guided relaxation techniques are one extremely efficient way of calming the mind and focusing the attention while making the physical symptoms recede. These exercises are short enough to be kept handy in case of need. You will learn simple and proven techniques to bring yourself to a safe place, to break free from obsessive thoughts, and concentrate on your body to dispel the anxiety attack in a safe way.

The power of visualization is the most sought-after skill in meditation and relaxation techniques. It is key to a successful life, as a clear visualization of your goals boosts the possibility of attaining them in a quick and easy way; it enhances your active imagination, for a more colorful inner life and vastly enhanced memorization skills. It is also the most effective relaxation tool, to relieve yourself of stress and anxiety and avoid the toll they can take on your health.

The stress of exams takes its toll on students every year, and the most thorough preparation can fail if you get there tense and anxious. The fight-or-flight mode due to stress can effectively prevent memorization or in-depth reasoning at the time you most need it. This is a series of simple and efficient relaxation techniques, easy to learn and quick to apply. They are designed to provide you with a range of proven techniques to help you prepare for an exam in the most efficient way possible, so as to overcome anxiety before and during the exam for maximum results.

Relaxation at work is the most effective tool to decrease tension and maintain productivity while preventing stress from taking its toll, health- and environment-wise. While it may not be possible to back off from a work commitment, you can easily learn to alleviate tension and keep a healthy level of energy with these simple and effective techniques.

Napping has been proven to improve alertness, vigilance and overall performance even in short bursts, but it is not always easy to wind down and take a nap in the hectic pace of modern life. This series of relaxation exercises has been specially designed to let you fall asleep and emerge fully revigorated after a short time. You will learn optimization techniques for falling asleep quicker, naturally improve your visualization skills and achieve deep relaxation with flexible and essential techniques.

Mornings set the whole day's beat: it is up to you to seize the opportunity of living a more relaxed and enjoyable life. This series of exercises are designed to take part in your personal morning routine, one or more at a time, as healthy habits to shape your way to success. Increase your self-esteem, become more relaxed and playful, learn mindfulness and improve your visualization skills through a journey of the senses, gain focus and presence through your whole day with proven and efficient techniques that will lead you to a more enlightened life.