Healthy happy sexy Ayurveda wisdom for modern women
Book - 2015
"A hip, sensual Ayurveda bible for the modern woman, this life-changing guide distills ancient teachings into a spirit-infused yet pragmatic approach to your physical, mental, and spiritual health. Teacher and yoga instructor Katie Silcox is a leading expert on Ayurveda. She knows that bringing ancient wisdom into our modern lives does not mean sacrificing the occasional rendezvous with red wine, fashion magazines, and other sensual pleasures. In Healthy Happy Sexy, Katie offers not only a philosophy of life but a time-tested (we're talking thousands of years!) method for living your most radiant, healthy, and sexually vital life possible. Covering everything from how to get the perfect poo to glowing skin to deeper sexual fulfill...ment, here is a complete guide to women's health. It offers evocative questions, journaling exercises, simple but deep meditations, and natural recipes and remedies for common health and beauty needs. By engaging in these lifestyle choices, you will experience ancient practices that resonate with the way we live our lives now. Combining Ayurvedic wisdom with practical tools and her lively, playful, and down-to-earth voice, Katie provides a method to heal, entertain, inspire, and remind you that you are one sexy goddess"--
- Subjects
- Published
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New York : Hillsboro, Oregon :
Atria Paperback : Beyond Words
2015.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Edition
- First Atria Paperback/Beyond Words trade paperback edition
- Physical Description
- xxvii, 276 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN
- 9781582704739
- Foreword
- Preface
- Introduction: So, What the Heck Is Ayurveda?
- Part I. Philosophy
- 1. Aligning with Big Mama
- 2. The Four Glorious Goals of Life
- 3. The Doshas and the Five Elements
- 4. Your Soulful, Subtle Self
- Part II. Healthy
- 5. Ayurvedic Nutrition and Your Dosha
- 6. The Secret of Great Digestion
- 7. Food and the Emotions
- 8. Setting Up a Living, Sexy Kitchen
- Part III. Happy
- 9. Glowing Goddess Routines
- 10. Boost Radiance and Slow Aging
- 11. Exercise Like an Ayurveda Queen
- 12. Why Modern Gals Should Meditate
- Part IV. Sexy
- 13. Ayurveda Sexuality and Deep Female Vitality
- 14. Tantra and Conscious Sex
- 15. Cultivating Sexual Energy from Within
- 16. The Power of Your "Womb
- In Closing
- Acknowledgments
- Appendix A. Open-Secret Recipes
- Appendix B. Kitchen Pharmacy: Herbs
- Appendix C. Let's Have Words
- Notes
- Resources