About this item
Our ancestors adhered to the daily, seasonal, and yearly rhythms of nature by necessity, but modern life overrides these cycles, compromising women's health and happiness. In this book, Sara Avant Stover shows how simple, natural, and refreshingly accessible practices can minimize stress and put us back in sync with our own cycles and those of nature. When we honor spring's seedlings, summer's vibrancy, fall's harvest, and winter's quietude, we harmonize our inner and outer worlds. Sara's recommendations nurture the body, invigorate the mind, and lift the spirit. Illustrated yin and yang yoga sequences, one-day season-specific retreats, enticing recipes, and innovative self-reflection techniques make it easy to reconnect with the essential.
About the Author
Sara Avant is the founder and director of The Way of the Happy Woman® and the author of The Way of the Happy Woman: Living the Best Year of Your Life (New World Library). A Phi Beta Kapha and Summa Cum Laude graduate of Columbia University's all women's Barnard College, Sara took her first yoga class at age 18, sat her first meditation retreat a few years later, and knew immediately that she would devote her life to teaching. After a health scare in her early 20's, Sara moved to Chiang Mai, Thailand where she lived for 9 years, embarked on a healing odyssey throughout Asia, and, as a multi-certified yoga teacher, served as one of the pioneer yoga teachers in that part of the world. Since that time she has studied with the leading spiritual masters of our time and has taught 3,000 students in over a dozen different countries. Her work has been featured in The Huffington Post, Yoga Journal, Fit Yoga, Pilates Style, and Yogi Times. Sara continues to travel the world leading women's workshops, retreats, and teacher trainings and is now based in Boulder, CO. Visit her website www.SaraAvant.com
