Japanese Wellness

From the author of Clean Green Eats, a Japanese-inspired guide to finding balance, joy, and good health—A Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up for wellness—that emphasizes a simple, streamlined method for cleaning up your eating habits and offers modern-day applications of ancient Japanese...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Transform Your Life in 30 Days with Ancient Japanese Wellness Secrets That Have Created the World's Longest-Living, Happiest People Are you exhausted by harsh fitness programs, restrictive diets, and overwhelming self-improvement strategies that promise...

Are you planning a trip to Asia? Or sharpening your skills for work? Just press play on this audiobook when you’re sleeping, meditating, or doing chores around the house.Learn new vocabulary while actively listening or passively while you’re doing other things. This audiobook contains more than 1,000 common Japanese words and phrases and all original music (composed and performed by South African DJ and producer Spirante Beat), specifically to relax your mind.

Japanese women live longer than anyone on earth. They stay healthier, sharper, and more physically capable for more of those years. And it has almost nothing to do with their genes. Jodie Sato has lived in Japan for over twenty-five years. She has watched her eighty-one-year-old neighbour garden every morning, walk to the market three times a week, and move through her days with a quality of aliveness that most forty-year-olds in the West would struggle to match. In Japan, this is not remarkable. It is simply what happens when a culture spends centuries doing the right things, consistently,...

In this fascinating half-memoir, half-parenting guide, Lisa Katayama shares her quest to raise her American kids using Japanese parenting principles—combining unconditional love with unwavering rules. While Bringing Up Bébé introduced readers to the French way of raising obedient children...

The Kokoro Clinic for the Soul reopens in this delightful follow-up to the award-winning, bestselling Japanese novel We'll Prescribe You a Cat. It’s time to revisit the Kokoro Clinic for the Soul. Though it’s a mysteriously located clinic with an uncertain address, it can always be found by...

What if the secret to a longer, healthier life was already known—and practiced every day on a small island in Japan? Okinawa is one of the world’s five “Blue Zones,” regions where people live far longer than average. But it’s not just about genetics. It’s about how they live, what they eat, and why they get up in the morning. In this quick but powerful exploration, you'll learn: The key foods of the Okinawan diet How elders in their 90s maintain purpose and community What hara hachi bu and ikigai really mean—and why they matter How lifestyle, mindset, and connection may matter...

'Silly, poignant, and utterly relatable' Mara Faye Letham 'A charming, delightful gem' Susan Coll 'A wry read perfect for anyone who's ever worked in a customer facing job' Mackenzie Reed Kyoko Tanihara still loves books. Just about. But life at the Musashino Bookstore is starting to get her...

Super Easy Pickling and Fermentation 3-in-1 Cookbook for Beginners brings together everything you need to master the art of preserving at home, from quick pickles to gut-healthy ferments and traditional Japanese techniques — all in one beginner-friendly guide. This unique bundle includes three complete manuscripts: MANUSCRIPT 1: Pickling and Fermenting for Beginners A step-by-step guide to classic pickling and fermentation techniques, with essential tips, safety guidelines, and foolproof recipes for everything from cucumbers and onions to carrots, beets, and more. MANUSCRIPT 2: Fermented ...

Cultivate stillness and contentment in an ever-changing, uncertain world, with this powerful book inspired by ancient and contemporary Japanese wisdom. Drawing on a thousand years of Japanese literature, culture, and philosophical ideas to explore the true nature of time and what it means to be...

Since the first whiff of information came from Japan that there might still be traditional Japanese Reiki practitioners in Japan, we became intrigued with the system of Reiki's Japanese past. We travelled to Japan (with our two year old in tow) to see if we could find out anything else about it. In Japan we met with teachers who taught a mixture of both traditional styles of Reiki and its more modern versions.

Age Well, Master the Japanese Way Feel Strong, Think Sharp, and Radiate Energy—No Matter How Many Candles on Your Cake ❌ Tired of those all-or-nothing health fads that leave you exhausted and disappointed? ❌ Anxious about declining energy, brain fog, or mounting aches as the years go by? ❌ Fed up with juggling conflicting “anti-aging” advice and pricey treatments? Pause—and imagine living vibrantly, with less worry and more joy, at every stage of life. This guide reveals Japan’s best-kept longevity secrets—focusing on practical, everyday habits rather than drastic ...

Brought to you by Penguin. For fans of THE TRAVELLING CAT CHRONICLES, THE CAT WHO SAVED BOOKS and SHE AND HER CAT, discover the award-winning bestselling Japanese novel that has become an international sensation in this utterly charming celebration of the healing power of cats. A cat a day keeps...

The Japanese Art of Shinrin-Yoku: A Woman’s Guide to Forest Bathing for Stress and Wellness Life today is fast-paced, chaotic, and often overwhelming—especially for women who balance careers, relationships, families, and personal growth. The demands of modern life can leave you feeling stressed, disconnected, and drained. But what if the solution to reclaiming your peace and well-being was as simple as stepping into a forest? Discover Shinrin-yoku, the Japanese practice of forest bathing. Rooted in centuries of Japanese culture and backed by modern science, Shinrin-yoku is a practice of...

Where to Start! We need to heal our relationship with stuff and our obsession with buying and hoarding possessions to greater and lesser extremes. People continue to fill their homes and storage units with possessions that they don’t have any real use for and yet continue to shop and get themselves into severe debt, leading to a miserable and unfulfilled life. The key to living a peaceful and sane life is to have; a loving relationship with ourselves, our living space, the environment and the possessions we bring into those three spaces.

A Japanese cultural historian shares a path to joyful living drawn from her nation’s unique approach to spirituality and nature, offering a “fascinating” (Wintering author Katherine May) blend of memoir, cultural reporting, and practical guidance for anyone struggling to find balance in...

Discover the Ancient Healing Wisdom of Japan: 50 Time-Tested Herbal Remedies for Modern Ailments For over 2,000 years, Japanese traditional medicine has cultivated one of the world's most sophisticated herbal healing systems. Now, for the first time, this comprehensive guide unlocks the secrets of 50 powerful Japanese medicinal plants, each carefully selected to address today's most common health concerns. What You'll Discover: Complete healing profiles for 50 remarkable Japanese herbs, from well-known remedies like ginseng and green tea to hidden gems like dokudami and sansho pepper ...

Según los japoneses, todo el mundo tiene un ikigai, un motivo para existir. Algunos lo han encontrado y son conscientes de su ikigai, otros lo llevan dentro, pero todavía lo están buscando. Este es uno de los secretos para una vida larga, joven y feliz como la que llevan los habitantes de Okinawa, la isla más longeva del mundo.

You are not lazy. You are not weak. You are not failing to cope. You are running on empty in a world that has never once asked whether the tank was full — and Japan has known the antidote for centuries. Japan named death from overwork. The country called it karoshi, documented it, studied it, and then — quietly, over centuries of philosophy and practice — built one of the most sophisticated systems for rest and recovery available anywhere in the world. Forests prescribed as medicine. Silence treated as productive. The evening bath elevated to a science. Imperfection celebrated as ...

kokoro [n.] intelligent heart, feeling mind One year. Two devastating losses. Three sacred Japanese mountains. A major life transition, a heart full of grief and a revelation that changes everything. Join Japanologist Beth Kempton on a pilgrimage through rural Japan in search of answers to some...