Monday, September 15, 2008

Health At Every Size: The Surprising Truth About Your Weight


In this long-awaited book, nutritionist Linda Bacon shows us how to boost our health and self-esteem, no matter what our body size may be.

What a gift! Here's liberation from the tyranny of useless weight-loss regimens and the feelings of failure they provoke. When I read this book, I couldn't sit or stand still -- I was dancing around the room!

Linda Bacon details the convincing proof that diets simply don't work. In fact, they set the stage for repeated weight gain. She offers a welcome, practical alternative to obsessing about your weight and shape -- eating and exercising according to your body's built-in wisdom. She shows you how to enjoy sound health and unstoppable self-esteem whatever size your body may be.

If you're ready to escape from self-loathing and discover the pleasures of self-affirmation, toss out those diet books and dump the bathroom scale. Treat yourself to this sane and friendly guide to making peace with your body and nourishing all of who you are.

Linda proves that fat isn’t the problem. Dieting is the problem. A society that rejects anyone whose body shape or size doesn’t match an impossible ideal is the problem. A medical establishment that equates “thin” with “healthy” is the problem.

The solution, she says, is to tune in to your body’s expert guidance. Find the joy in movement. Eat what you want, when you want, choosing pleasurable foods that help you to feel good. You too can feel great in your body right now -- and Health at Every Size will show you how.

Health at Every Size has been scientifically proven to boost health and self-esteem. The program was evaluated in a government-funded academic study, its data published in well-respected scientific journals.

Health at Every Size is not a diet book. Read it and you will be convinced that the best way to win the war against fat is to give up the fight.

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Sunday, August 10, 2008

The Body's Center, Chinese-style

As you may know, the power-centering exercises I share in The Woman's Belly Book and teach in my workshops are moves I've adapted from a number of healing arts -- including tai chi, qigong (a.k.a. chi kung), and an invigorating Japanese style of yoga developed by Masahira Oki.

These exercises, gathered into The Gutsy Women's Workout, use movement and breath to energize the body's center. In Japanese, this onepoint within the hara -- the belly -- is called the tanden. In Chinese, it's called the tan tien.

Continuing my love affair with the body's center, I've recently begun studying with seasoned qigong teacher Michael Winn. I've been thrilled to experience the ways in which qigong practices, rooted in the ancient Chinese philosophy of the Tao (the Way of nature), affirm and expand what I've learned in my own journey of discovery during the past several years.

Having taken four of Michael's classes since November 2007 (and always ready for more), I can say he teaches with a deep understanding of the body as an energy field rooted in the belly's center, the tan tien.

If you're interested, here's how, when, and where to start -- with Michael's classes in Asheville, NC in the Inner Smile and Qigong Fundamentals 1 & 2. Click on the links below for more info. And prepare yourself in advance by downloading the free e-book, Way of the Inner Smile, from the top left section at www.healingtaousa.com.

Inner Smile
Evening Lecture & Meditation

Qigong Fundamentals 1 & 2

Day 1: Five Animals Qigong, Six Healing Sounds, and more.

Day 2: Micro-cosmic Orbit, the Taoist meditation that unifies all the core energy centers into a flowing whole.

Sunday, February 10, 2008

Times & Valentines

Like many holidays, Valentine's Day holds a secret.

In other times, this day was a celebration of women's pro-creative power — the body-centered power to renew life, and the pleasure of doing so!

Strands of Celtic, Roman, and heretical Christian customs weave through Valentine's Day...

This Valentine came in the mail today—
the fe-male, that is:
Greetings from history in women's terms.

Valentine Day's is a fraud, of course, you know that,
Hall-marked and carded as it is for commerce.

But more than that:
The boy himself's a fraud.
St. Valentine's a fiction, the convenient invention
of some grim Christian churchmen.

What Valentine's Day is:
it's a thin distillation of our
midwinter night fever;
the celebration of our sexual heat and staying alive.

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