Walking Toward Wellness

Walking Toward Wellness is a 21-week program that offers the reader information for increasing her physical, mental/emotional and spiritual well-being. The reader is also introduced to a variety of alternative healing and wellness options. Over-all wellness is a progressive, on-going process. Daily, consciously or unconsciously, we make decisions and choices, and we set priorities that impact our well-being. Today, choose to walk toward wellness.

Sometimes life’s hurdles literally stop us in our tracks, sapping vitality and preventing us from participating fully in our own lives and the lives of those we love. Carolyn Scott Kortge recognizes that a key to joyous re-engagement with the world can be—just as literally—to get moving again. With a focus on walking for wellness, Kortge outlines a compassionate, practical program for navigating your way through life’s physical, emotional, and spiritual hard times. Within the supportive framework of this eight-week walking program you set your own pace, taking steps that restore a sense of balance and order, even if you’re weighed down by the lethargy and loss of control that often accompany illness, depression, or trauma. Discover how to link mental focus with physical movement to create healing periods of stress release. Learn to match your steps with meditation in a way that clears a path through confusion. Move forward, literally, both in good times and in tough ones, with mental and physical steps that lead you away from fear or stress and guide you toward wellness and peace. Engage in a path to recovery that attends to not just the physical, but also acknowledges healing as an emotional, spiritual, and mental journey—a journey of survivorship. To learn more about the author, visit her website at walksthatheal.com.

Walking in Wellness is the practice of incorporating healthy habits daily to achieve better physical, mental, and spiritual health so that you go from just surviving, to thriving. Which in turn, empowers you to create a life you love. Wellness or the lack of impacts every area of your life. It is a great predictor of the health of your body, your relationships, your work performance and effectiveness, and your ability to cope. Practicing wellness allows you to show up healthier and more whole which makes you a better friend, mother, daughter, sister, employee, basically a better person all around. It enables you to run your race longer and more efficiently. This book is a collaboration of health & wellness experts sharing their stories and guidance to lead you toward a healthier lifestyle. Are you READY to Walk In Wellness?

A basic easy guide to creating your own walking fitness plan, including how to get started and stay motivated.

This teacher's resource guide for implementing a "Walking Wellness" curriculum in grades four through eight offers 16 hands-on workshops. Activities focus on fitness walking, cardiovascular conditioning, nutrition and weight control, walking techniques and posture, stress control, tobacco-free living, and lifestyle planning. The student workbook is included. Workshop objectives, diagrams, and step-by-step lesson plans are offered. Appended are ten tips for walking, a calorie chart, how to avoid a heart attack, a glossary, creative walking ideas, and several walking quotations. (DF)

An internationally respected doctor of Chinese medicine and author of the bestselling "The Healer Within" clearly and simply explains the concepts of qigong. 125 illustrations.