Yogalean

From the founder of YogaFit™, one of the world’s leading mind-body education and yoga training organizations, comes a revolutionary approach to weight loss and wellness. Forget diets and guilt and judgments! Achieve your optimal weight by developing what internationally recognized yoga and fitness expert Beth Shaw calls Lean Consciousness. The ultimate path to weight loss, weight management, and whole-life wellness, Lean Consciousness grows out of filling your mind with good intentions, fueling your body with good food, and then moving your body intentionally. Combining the latest nutrition and exercise science with yogic wisdom and principles, YogaLean offers an easy-to-follow and inspiring holistic lifestyle program: • fully illustrated yoga poses that promote a lean physique, strengthen your core, increase energy, improve balance, boost metabolism, and enhance confidence • a menu of cardio and weight-training workouts that complement your yoga, refine your physical strength, and ward off disease • easy recipes (gluten-free!) and simple suggestions for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks that will help you burn fat more efficiently • stress-reducing and clarity-enhancing daily meditations • breathing exercises to fortify your immune system • strategies for clearing clutter from your space in order to clear barriers from your life • a one-week jumpstart plan outlining precisely what to eat and how to exercise your body and mind! Praise for YogaLean “YogaLean is a maverick and unique plan.”—Pamela Peeke, MD, author of Body for Life for Women “Perfect for people who want to integrate yoga and nutrition into a 360-degree program to lose weight and increase their energy levels. The book walks readers through cohesive plans for four distinct motivations: amp up energy, promote a leaner body, increase immunity, and promote youthfulness inside and out.”—Christa Avampato, founder, Compass Yoga “The ultimate path to whole-life wellness.”—Massage Magazine

From the founder of YogaFit™, one of the world’s leading mind-body education and yoga training organizations, comes a revolutionary approach to weight loss and wellness. Forget diets and guilt and judgments! Achieve your optimal weight by developing what internationally recognized yoga and fitness expert Beth Shaw calls Lean Consciousness. The ultimate path to weight loss, weight management, and whole-life wellness, Lean Consciousness grows out of filling your mind with good intentions, fueling your body with good food, and then moving your body intentionally. Combining the latest nutrition and exercise science with yogic wisdom and principles, YogaLean offers an easy-to-follow and inspiring holistic lifestyle program: • fully illustrated yoga poses that promote a lean physique, strengthen your core, increase energy, improve balance, boost metabolism, and enhance confidence • a menu of cardio and weight-training workouts that complement your yoga, refine your physical strength, and ward off disease • easy recipes (gluten-free!) and simple suggestions for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks that will help you burn fat more efficiently • stress-reducing and clarity-enhancing daily meditations • breathing exercises to fortify your immune system • strategies for clearing clutter from your space in order to clear barriers from your life • a one-week jumpstart plan outlining precisely what to eat and how to exercise your body and mind! Praise for YogaLean “YogaLean is a maverick and unique plan.”—Pamela Peeke, MD, author of Body for Life for Women “Perfect for people who want to integrate yoga and nutrition into a 360-degree program to lose weight and increase their energy levels. The book walks readers through cohesive plans for four distinct motivations: amp up energy, promote a leaner body, increase immunity, and promote youthfulness inside and out.”—Christa Avampato, founder, Compass Yoga “The ultimate path to whole-life wellness.”—Massage Magazine

YogaLean is not just a diet book or weight loss program; it is a holistic approach to living in healthy. Learn to listen to your body, exercise and eat accordingly. To stay in optimal health, this book will help you from the basics of cleaning and organizing your kitchen for maximum efficiency to the intricacies of specific yoga postures for metabolism and high energy. The YogaLean program helps us balance the body, mind and psyche. Authors Beth Shaw and Cynthia Sass will guide you through the easy-to-follow program and explain how to eat and practice for every motivation, including energy, immunity, weight loss, relaxation, and more. You’ll even see yoga poses in detail, including benefits and challenges to take each pose to the next level. YogaLean will provide techniques to: Cleanse Your BodyMaintain EnergyStay ImmuneRelax and Manage Stress Use YogaLean to stay balanced through proper thought, mindset, meditation, yoga, exercise, and nutrition.

Whether you are searching for a new physical challenge or a way to incorporate yoga into your exercise routine, Beth Shaw’s YogaFit will help you reach your physical potential. Expanded and updated, this highly acclaimed program combines challenging conditioning work with strength- and flexibility-building yoga to create a total-body workout. With YogaFit, you’ll have not only increased overall health, energy, and vitality but also a stronger and leaner body, reduced stress, better posture, improved concentration, and a higher level of fitness. Written by Beth Shaw, an internationally renowned expert on fitness and yoga, this book presents more than 100 YogaFit poses organized into workout routines that you can use every day. The text includes information on using YogaFit as a training tool for sports and creating personalized routines to meet your own needs. Athletes will benefit from sport-specific routines designed specifically for baseball, basketball, boxing, cycling, golf, kickboxing, running, skiing, snowboarding, softball, swimming, tennis, volleyball, and weightlifting. The full-color photo sequences and step-by-step instruction make it more accessible than ever! Join the more than 250,000 trained YogaFit instructors and the millions of people who have already tried Beth Shaw’s YogaFit and proved that it works. You’ll get results in a few weeks—and benefits that last a lifetime.

Bring the strength and breathing power of yoga to the sports you love—and seriously up your game! Yoga routines designed specifically for swimming, running, cycling, golf, tennis, baseball, football, volleyball, basketball, skiing, snowboarding, weight lifting, kickboxing, boxing, CrossFit, and more! “Your body can either help you achieve your goals or get in the way of you living your best life. By practicing yoga and meditation, you can make your body work with you, not against you.”—Beth Shaw Whether you’re a professional athlete, a weekend warrior, or a pick-up game enthusiast, yoga can dramatically affect your athletic performance and improve your alignment, balance, core stability, strength, flexibility, agility, endurance, lung capacity, and mobility. In this motivating and practical guide, celebrated fitness expert Beth Shaw provides short, sport-specific yoga routines designed to help counter tight muscles, overuse injuries, and musculature imbalances. By adding a quick yoga routine to any workout, you will increase your overall strength and health, and achieve your personal best. Inside you’ll find • fully illustrated, sport-specific yoga routines that engage the core, enhance your play, and reduce the risk of injury • essential warm-up and cool-down movements to complement any athletic endeavor • simple breathing exercises to steady your breath and calm your nerves during competition • meditation techniques to help clear your mind and bring laser focus to your goals • guided imagery and visualization exercises to improve performance • strategies for coaching yourself and others

Are you ready for a total body transformation? In The 21-Day Yoga Body, renowned wellness warrior and lifestyle expert Sadie Nardini gives you a program to renovate your body, mind and spirit. This fast-acting program, based on Sadie’s potent inspirations, real-world recipes and unique Core Strength Vinyasa yoga style will turbocharge your results: speed up your metabolism, build lean muscle, and burn fat, all while building nutritional savvy and emotional strength. Designed to fit into your busy life, each day of the three-week plan includes a series of daily lifestyle tips, new-generation yoga poses (illustrated with step-by-step photos), breathing and meditation exercises, and nutrition tips and recipes (vegans, vegetarians and meat-eaters alike, welcome!). There's even wine! Here’s what results many people are getting in just 3 weeks: • A fun, fresh yoga practice that's based in cutting edge anatomy for the maximum safety, strength, flexibility, and mind-centering benefits for the time you spend on the mat. • More confidence, clarity of purpose, a renewed spirit and the ability to know yourself more deeply and act from your truth. • Daily guidance about how to approach your personal, life and relationship challenges—and totally rock them. • A daily meal plan that gives you a new, creative relationship with food and reveals how to eat fresh, whole—and fantastically well—for a lifetime. • Creative action steps to make all these great ideas a reality and create more success for you on all levels! So get ready to kick some asana, play while you learn, and create your most fit, fierce, and fabulous self ever!

Let's face it—women simply do not shed pounds or build muscle as easily as men do. Drawing on fascinating recent research that has shed new light on the gender differences in food metabolism and the effect of exercise, the editors of Women's Health, the healthy lifestyle magazine for today's active woman on the go, have devised a weight-loss plan that works especially well for women who would like to lose 5-25 pounds. Key features of the Women's Health Perfect Body Plan include: • Glucomannan, a soluble fiber that helps dieters feel full faster—and therefore eat less throughout the day • Meal plans that contain at least 40 grams of fiber per day • An adjustment for the impact of female hormones on weight loss (women need a higher protein diet than men to increase lean body tissue and decrease body fat) • Dieting techniques that revolve around psychological needs and personal goals and lifestyle • Two diet plans to choose from—one higher in fats and lower in carbs; the other higher in carbs and lower in fats (simple food tests help women choose the type they need) In addition to the customized eating plan—complete with 75 easy-to-prepare recipes—there is a vigorous customized fitness program consisting of 50 exercises that brings results in just three weeks.

For many of us, the return of Zen conjures up images of rock gardens and gently flowing waterfalls. We think of mindfulness and meditation, immersion in a state of being where meaning is found through simplicity. Zen lore has been absorbed by Western practitioners and pop culture alike, yet there is a specific area of this ancient tradition that hasn’t been fully explored in the West. Now, in The Zen of Creativity, American Zen master John Daido Loori presents a book that taps the principles of the Zen arts and aesthetic as a means to unlock creativity and find freedom in the various dimensions of our existence. Loori dissolves the barriers between art and spirituality, opening up the possibility of meeting life with spontaneity, grace, and peace. Zen Buddhism is steeped in the arts. In spiritual ways, calligraphy, poetry, painting, the tea ceremony, and flower arranging can point us toward our essential, boundless nature. Brilliantly interpreting the teachings of the artless arts, Loori illuminates various elements that awaken our creativity, among them still point, the center of each moment that focuses on the tranquility within; simplicity, in which the creative process is uncluttered and unlimited, like a cloudless sky; spontaneity, a way to navigate through life without preconceptions, with a freshness in which everything becomes new; mystery, a sense of trust in the unknown; creative feedback, the systematic use of an audience to receive noncritical input about our art; art koans, exercises based on paradoxical questions that can be resolved only through artistic expression. Loori shows how these elements interpenetrate and function not only in art, but in all our endeavors. Beautifully illustrated and punctuated with poems and reflections from Loori’s own spiritual journey, The Zen of Creativity presents a multilayered, bottomless source of insight into our creativity. Appealing equally to spiritual seekers, artists, and veteran Buddhist practitioners, this book is perfect for those wishing to discover new means of self-awareness and expression—and to restore equanimity and freedom amid the vicissitudes of our lives.