Perfect & Great Practice with Suggestions!
590575
Perfect Kindergarten (or pre-k) set! Goes in line with current sight word curriculum at daughters school. Nice clear cards, a word on each side. Great practice & comes with suggestions how to incorporate additional practice (make it a game & super fun!)
959240
This ebook contains a wealth of tips from the author as well as from students and parents. You get suggestions from every perspective for just about any practice problem. But the great thing is that it is aimed at motivating the student to practice as much as it addresses how to practice. I teach a full studio of pianists of all ages. No two are alike, but all will be able to find the golden words that will help them reach the next level in this short ebook. I'm recommending it for all of my students' families. You will get your money's worth after finding just one tip that works for your pianist.
4279685
Very helpful, plan on starting next week! Can't wait to try her helpful ideas and tricks. Thank you so much
2668355
Excellent ideas that I can use immediately! I made notes on things to try.  So many good, suggestions I don't know which one to use first, I plan to try some tomorrow!
1140821
I highly recommend this book, whether you are an amateur artist or a seasoned artist.  Wonderful lessons, fresh, new ideas!  I have always had a certain rigid way of drawing facial features, Jane has nudged me to try being less fussy and more free and I am just loving it!  One of the best workshops I have ever taken!!
1401005
This book looks deceptively simple, but is incredibly useful.  I only recently received the book, and here is how I use page 1:

* As a warm up to get my fingers moving, somewhat slowly at first, then faster and faster if speed is my goal

* With the tuner, to find and get muscle memory for "the perfect hand" (I learned I need more space between 2 & 3 to play in tune).

* To improve the strength and dexterity in my left hand, especially fingers 3 and 4

* To work on bowing distribution and speed (four notes to a bow, slurred)

* To work on bow placement (it's easy to repeat the drills so I am able to look down and fix bow direction / angle; still working on that muscle memory as well).

If you are unsure if you should get this book, I would recommend the following: curve the fingers of your left hand and rest the tips lightly on a flat surface.  Try tapping your ring finger (#3) up and down, and try doing a trill motion with fingers 3 and 4.  It should be obvious to you if you need to work on strength or dexterity, and if so, you need this book.

I took the book to my lesson yesterday and planned to ask my teacher to play along so that I could get practice rolling into tune quickly to match her intonation.  When she saw the page she asked me to start playing and she looked at me.  She immediately pointed out that my third finger was collapsing, which I hadn't realized.  When I fixed that, I went from sounding like a sick cow to sounding like a cellist.  So now I will practice with focus on my left hand shape, which I will check periodically by glancing at my hand or by looking in a mirror while I practice.  This is all from the first line of page 1.  I'm very glad that I bought this book, and I intend to start every practice session with 5 minutes of these drills.

Please note:
As of March 15,2014, two of the four reviews are written by people who have only reviewed this book, and they sound like infomercials.  I mention this only to encourage people to evaluate reviews and vote accordingly, to maintain the integrity of amazon's review function, for every product that you research.  This is a real review by a real user.  I hope that it helps you.
128496
I'm so grateful that Lucy, Raj and Judi put this toolkit together. I've been waiting for something to come out that puts everything together in one resource. Not only are there clear exercises with instructions and handouts, there are also video clips that show the training in action and handouts you can download. As a somewhat new facilitator of NVC, this has been a great support in giving me proven exercises and resources to use in workshops. It also includes templates with needs, feelings, signs that are useful for posting, guided meditations, etc. This helps your workshop reach people who learn in different ways more easily.

It's definitely worth the $58 - they have over 500 pages, lots of video clips and have been very responsive to me about questions I've had! Make the investment. I got it the day it came out because I was so eager to have the tools to help me share NVC with more confidence. I am very pleased! -Bonnie, speakingoflistening.com
448255
I love the yoga sequences she gives. I have copied a few of the routines onto poster board (to make it easier to follow- larger, no pages to turn etc. If I had one suggestion, it would be to have the book spiral bound to make it easier to practice. I am grateful she has shared her gifts!
2435242
As a clinical hypnotist, I love using The Swish. Not only is it effective, it's FUN!

But my biggest frustration with the wonderful NLP Practitioner and Master Practitioner courses I took was the lack of time to plumb the depths of all the transformative concepts and patterns we were being taught. I wanted more!

After reading only a few pages of Shawn Carson and Jess Marion's new book, I sighed with relief - THIS is exactly what I've been looking for.  The Swish isn't a dry dissertation; it's a lively conversation between the reader and two gifted teachers. I felt as though Shawn and Jess were sitting across from me, reading my mind, answering my questions, bringing to light things I've overlooked, concepts not fully grasped, or ways to achieve better results. Treat The Swish as a piece of theater, they say - of course!

No matter how long you have been using The Swish, I urge you to read this book.
323447
As testing time is almost upon us, the practice pages in this book are a perfect way to review concepts from the year with my students. The problems are complex enough to mimic the problems my students will see on the state assessment and leave plenty of room per page for the student to complete the problem and correct if necessary. Perfect!
3553391
Its rare that I give anything a five star review anymore but Im pleased to say that this book is fantastic. I have a 4.5 year old whos arguably a fast learner, even so, after exactly 1 month of using this book we just wrapped up lesson 10 and he still loves practicing every day! Done at 1/3 the speed youd still finish the book in a very acceptable 6 months. This teaches not only reading, but grammar, word definition, and speech all at the same time. The biggest stumbling block can be the pronouncing of certain sounds like TH. You need to practice patiently and may want to look ahead a few chapters to make sure your child can make the needed letter sounds. This way you have some time to practice and try a few techniques before its needed in the lessons to help prevent discouragement. Nicely done and what a benefit to my sons learning this book has been! Quite possibly the best 20-some bucks youll ever spend on education.
182760
I loved the 75 micro date ideas! Some of them are so simple, yet we had not ever done them before! We plan to literally use them as a list and check them all off as we complete them. In a world that we become so busy and rushed these are great ideas to implement without a lot of pre-planning. I also enjoyed the segment about using Groupon for dates. With this resource we can not longer say money is the reason we do not go on date nights.

Wonderful resource that will for sure get you dating your spouse again!
303241
Love this. Tara is one of my favorite instructors for her tireless effort to remind you to breathe. These disks are soothing, beautiful, relaxing, and fun. There is definitely a flow for everyone in these disks. Great variety for beginners up past intermediate and even on to advanced who still like a guided practice that is a nice self-challenging no-brainer.

Tara's narrative is like a constant path guiding you through every moment with your body in each pose, suggesting play and even micromovements within the greater poses of the flow. I love it! Flow yoga constantly moves, so it can be hard to get clear guidance in new practices unless you choreograph it yourself.

Can't say enough good things about this set. Really. It's exactly what I've been looking for in a DVD set for years. Hours of good feelings for body and mind! Varieties of length practices from a 5 minute routines in bed for am and pm, 15 minute Gentle Flow on Disk 2 to an hour long flows on Disks 1 & 3, and plenty of 30-40 minute flows too.

Thanks Tara and Strala Yoga for being inspiring, warm, friendly, and approachable. Your love of yoga shines through everything you do, and is contagious. Thank you for being the breadcrumbs we need from where we are in our yoga practice to where we know we want to end up.

People seem confused about routine time lengths. Disk two's descriptions have a few names for each flow, so I can see where the confusion is from. The descriptions and times are listed on the back of each disk, but here's a quick guide:

Disk 1
  - Strong Flow (1 hour play time) listed at 60 minutes
  - Relax Flow (34 minute play time) listed at 30 minutes

Disk 2
  - AM Flow (33 minute play time) listed as Beginners Flow
  on back of case at 30 minutes
  - Gentle Flow (14 minute play time) listed on back of case
  as Relaxed Easygoing Flow on back of disk at 15 minutes
  - PM Flow (48 minute play time) listed on back of case
  as Calming Night Time Flow at 50 minutes

Disk 3
  - AM Yoga In Bed (4 minute play time) listed at 5 minutes
  - Daily Flow (32 minute play time) listed on back of case
  as Daily Basic Flow at 15 minutes
  - Energy Flow (1 hour 2 minute play time) listed on case
  as Energizing Strong Flow 60 minutes
  - PM Yoga in Bed (6 minute play time) listed on case as
  Bed Time Flow at 5 minutes

Disk 4
  - Pose Library
  Sets of poses related to topics such as Seated, Standing,
  Sun Salutations, Arm Balance, Inversions, Back Bends,
  Reclining and runs 90 minutes total according to
  back of case
  - BONUS: Strength and Flexibility poses listed as 20
  collective minutes on back of case

Hope that helps! :) I'm printing it up and putting it with the disks for quick reference for myself too since I don't have them memorized yet.
50207
Someone recommended the Practice Makes Perfect Series of books to us, and we bought many of the books in this series, to the delight and increased abilities use of Our Families and Friends who are making frequent serious use of these books, and thus far we have no complaints, as everyone seems to really like the formats, study and practice guidelines and we also observe them making notable strides in their pursuit to increase fluency and more perfection with their fluency, and for some of us, this series simply makes really good reference material for those of us for whom English is a First Language but for those many long years already from scholastic endeavors as a refresher course for rules and other language information. We find this series to be a winner for all of us. Thank you, Amazon. Blessings.
3204042
Thus was so helpful for my exam! I am grateful! My favorite is all of the practice exams, thanks a million!
3515776
Amaizing book and dvd , for mind and body , i recomand it ! For home practice !
3502099
I'm only two days into using this book, but already I'm loving it! I've shown my daughters this book and now they each want one too, to work on it with me. The 1st day is simply drawing different kinds of lines. I ended up with a ton of ideas, and never realized how simple it can be to spruce up a page with just some fun lines. I also love that each day's practice only takes about 15 minutes, making it easier to fit it in to my super busy days.