Awake and Ready

Awake and Ready
¿Featuring Paramhansa Yogananda's practical principles on energy and form, Awake & Ready guides you in applications and practices. Susan Usha Dermond cites real-life experiences to illustrate different keys to working with energy. You will find useful suggestions that ease tensions, improve your relationships, and create a happier environment whether in your home, workplace, or classroom.

Discover the 8 Keys to Working with Energy & Motivating Anyone: Excitement vs Happiness
Nurture Enthusiasm
Getting Unstuck: Action is the Answer!
Energy Follows Will
Progressive Development
Redirect Energy to a Higher Level
Be FOR Something, Not Against Anything
Change Directions With Creativity and Fun

Susan Usha Dermond, BA, MA, MLS, has a varied background in education, most of it in the Education for Life system. She began her career as an English teacher in public high schools and most recently taught high school English in the Ananda Online High School. She founded the third Living Wisdom School in Portland, Oregon, where she was the director for fifteen years, and prior to that, taught fourth through ninth grades at the first Living Wisdom School at Ananda Village in northern California, where she currently lives.

She developed the first online Education for Life classes and is the author of a handbook for teachers and parents, Calm and Compassionate Children (Random House).