Hot Yoga or From the First Bite

Hot Yoga: Energizing, Rejuvenating, Healing

Author: Marilyn Barnett

Yoga is many centuries old, but hot yoga, developed only in the 1960s, has already proven a beneficial and popular variation on the ancient art. Hot yoga-also known as Bikram, after its originator, Bikram Choudhury-is a method for working out in rooms heated up to 100 degrees, thus enhancing muscle suppleness and aiding body detoxification. This heavily illustrated book describes each of the 26 progressively more challenging hot yoga postures. Aided by color photos, the author gives detailed instruction on all hot yoga poses, which she claims unite mind, body, and spirit when performed in rigorous but enjoyable workouts. Each pose is preceded by information on its specific benefits. Practitioners are advised to end each session with cool-down techniques that relax both mind and body. The book concludes with recommendations for hot yoga as treatment for complaints such as back pain, sports injuries, and stress. Hot yoga helps its practitioners explore their limits and enhance their physical and mental well-being. Approximately 50 color photos and more than 100 line drawings.

Table of Contents:

	Introduction	6
	Why Hot Yoga?	8
	What is yoga?	10
	What is hot yoga?	12
	The body and heat	14
	Developing in mind and body	16
	How the body works	18
	Moving with understanding	20
	Key movements	22
	Hot yoga at home	30
	Preparing for practice	33
	Relaxation in Savasana	36
	The Poses	38
	Standing poses	40
	Floor poses	92
	The cool-down	150
	Resources and Glossary	156
	Index	158

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From the First Bite: A Complete Guide to Recovery from Food Addiction

Author: Kay Sheppard

Renowned therapist, eating disorder specialist and recovering food addict Kay Sheppard helps countless individuals win their battles over food addiction-people for whom diets, pills and purging have become a way of life. In 1993, her groundbreaking book, Food Addiction: The Body Knows, explained the illness of food addiction from the physiological origins through recovery.

Today, obesity is on the rise. In addition to the 300,000 overweight people in this country, millions more who may not look overweight are unable to control their eating.

Sheppard's follow-up book, From the First Biteoffers the latest medical insights into food addiction coupled with time-tested, practical advice.

Unlike other books that are very dry in nature, this book includes compelling personal stories and do's and don'ts from other recovering and relapsed food addicts, including the author herself, who began her own recovery in 1967. The book explains how to avoid the physiological and situational triggers that lead to relapse; how to confront the emotional issues behind food cravings; how to establish a balanced food plan that eliminates cravings; and how to avoid hidden dangers in cleverly packaged foods. The book also includes a handy Twelve-Step workbook.

Just as Sheppard's first book broke new ground, her latest work offers a critical first step for food addicts on the road to physical, emotional and spiritual recovery.

VOYA

Weight gain, claims Sheppard in this sequel to Food Addiction: The Body Knows (Health Communications, 1993), is "just a symptom" of a disease called food addiction, a "physical intolerance for refined and processed foods, coupled with mental obsession.... One bite will set up a reaction which demands more binge food." Sheppard advocates treating this "medical condition," which might have a genetic base, via "an abstinent food plan combined with living a Twelve-Step way of life." Sheppard provides three personal histories, including her own, of adults with multiple addictions—drugs, alcohol, nicotine, caffeine—and food. After false starts with other methods, these people claim to be recovering on Sheppard's program. She describes the addictive properties of "trigger foods" such as sugars, flour, wheat, high-fat foods, high-sugar fruits, puffed and popped grains, caffeine, alcohol, and "personal binge foods," all forbidden on her food plan. She advocates living a Twelve-Step life to gain and maintain the control necessary for "clean abstinence." Much space is devoted to the Twelve Steps, feelings, recognizing relapse signs, and practical aspects of abstinence, such as what to do when dining out. Although Sheppard addresses few sentences specifically to the teenage situation, her Twelve-Step wisdom will resonate with thoughtful young adults. Sheppard passionately advocates that her food plan be followed exactly but warns that "perfection is paralyzing" and "perfect is impossible." Teens vulnerable to compulsive behavior might have difficulty striking a balance. Sheppard wisely advises readers to get a sponsor. Attempting her program solo might risk substituting one set ofcompulsive behaviors for another. Biblio. Appendix. Illus. VOYA CODES: 3Q 2P S A/YA (Readable without serious defects; For the YA with a special interest in the subject; Senior High, defined as grades 10 to 12; Adult and Young Adult). 2000, Health Communications, 287p, Trade pb. Ages 16 to Adult. Reviewer: Mary E. Heslin SOURCE: VOYA, April 2001 (Vol. 24, No.1)