My favorite professional designation is "Belly Queen." Having gained and lost at least 2,000 pounds during twenty years of yo-yo dieting, I'm thrilled to share the path to healing that I've discovered in ways that empower others.
A seasoned Kripalu yoga teacher and bodywork therapist, my articles on the body's center, yoga, and holistic health have appeared in publications including Yoga Journal, SageWoman, Radiance, and Personal Transformation.
A graduate of Brown University and an award-winning essayist, poet, and public speaker, I present keynote speeches and workshops on women's health and body confidence nationally and internationally.
For upcoming workshops and other events, see http://loveyourbelly.com/events
To create health, you have to trust your gut. And to trust your gut, you've got to reclaim the wisdom of your belly. The Woman's Belly Book shows you how.
--Christiane Northrup, MD
author of Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom
Most women focus on how to change their bellies -- instead of how our bellies can change us. This is what I love about Lisa Sarasohn's book. We can all learn to make peace with the belly's shape, and tap into power and energy sources there I never would have imagined existed. Bye-bye Xanax! Hello The Woman's Belly Book.
--Susan Reinhardt
author of Not Tonight Honey, Wait 'Til I'm a Size 6
This book is the perfect antidote to the media's mission to keep us all buffed, botoxed, and brainless! Lisa Sarasohn's message of "celebration" infuses her teaching and her writing, and this book is a terrific resource.
--Adrienne Ressler MA, LMSW
Body Image Specialist and National Training Director
The Renfrew Center Foundation
The Woman's Belly Book teaches a unique approach that stimulated a powerful spiritual awakening for me. Experiencing my body as sacred greatly enhanced my visceral connection with the source of universal love. I've begun to honor my belly as a life-affirming goddess.
--Elizabeth Fisher
author of Rise Up and Call Her Name:
A Woman-Honoring Journey into Global Earth-Based Spiritualities
The Woman's Belly Book is a warm and friendly book filled with womb wisdom, belly laughs, gut feelings, and pelvic power. It is a guide to buried treasure. I recommend it highly.
--Susun Weed
author of New Menopausal Years the Wise Woman Way
Wise Woman Herbal for the Childbearing Year
The Woman's Belly Book is about knowing your body's center — your belly — as your center of being, the site of your soul power.
The life force focused in your belly activates your physical, emotional, and spiritual vitality. It's the source of your passion and creativity, your courage and confidence, your capacity to love fully. It’s the starting point of your intuition, insight, and sense of purpose. The vital energy centered in your belly is your release from stress, your guide to good health. It is the origin of your inner strength. It's your connection to the source of life itself.
You can develop the Source Energy concentrated in your body's center with movement, breath, and compassionate awarenes. You can direct its expression to enhance every dimension of your life. This book is a guide for doing exactly that.
To tap into the power concentrated in your body's center, you need to deepen your awareness into your belly.Yet for many, if not most, of us, this is a tall order. For respectable reasons, many of us have abandoned our bellies; we rarely visit or call.
Still, as you experience the vitality, pleasure, creativity, and confidence that energizing your belly brings into your life, you may begin to feel a tad of gratitude.
As you reap the benefits of belly awareness in terms of enhancing your relationships, developing your inner guidance, and clarifying your sense of purpose — well, you may find yourself loving your belly after all, no matter what its size or shape.
Lisa Sarasohn
Self-Health Education, Inc
PO Box 1783
Asheville, NC 28802
website: http://loveyourbelly.com
email: lisa (at) loveyourbelly.com