Pilates Edge: An Athlete's Guide to Strength and Performance
Author: Karrie Adamany
Pilates is a unique conditioning method-originally developed by Joseph Pilates for boxers, gymnasts, and dancers-based on the philosophy of a unified body, mind, and spirit. The Pilates Edge uniquely applies the Pilates Method to sports training, revealing how the basic principles of Pilates relate to athletic achievement as well as everyday health and fitness. With more than 200 photographs, the book includes a basic mat routine with as well as specific workouts for golf, running, racket sports, swimming, cycling, and skiing, giving special attention to the muscle groups and common injuries associated with each sport. Pilates can improve the physical and mental well-being for athletes at any level, enhancing performance and confidence, improving control, increasing range of motion in the limbs, and preventing injuries-giving them The Pilates Edge.
Karrie Adamany is the founder of ab lab(r), a service that sends certified Pilates instructors to hotels and private residences. This service has been recognized as a hot fitness trend in magazines such as Elle, Gotham, and Where New York. She is the cofounder of The Pilates Edge Studio in New York City.
Daniel Loigerot is an athletic trainer, a certified personal trainer, and a martial arts instructor in judo. He is a former French national triathlete who served as strength coach for the French basketball and cycling teams. He is the cofounder of The Pilates Edge Studio in New York City.
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Profound Healing: The Power of Acceptance on the Path to Wellness
Author: Cheryl Canfield
At the age of 41 Cheryl Canfield was diagnosed with advanced cervical cancer. Going against warnings from doctors, she rejected proposed surgeries that would involve removing her uterus, cervix, lymph nodes, and surrounding nerves. Instead, she decided to accept death and focused her energy on attempting to die well. In the process, she cured herself.
Profound Healing is Canfield’s down-to-earth account of her journey as she inadvertently experiences a modern-day miracle, and her subsequent reflections on physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual healing. Her story is intertwined with the exercises, dreams, visualizations, and experiences that assisted her healing process--from her encounters with the modern mystic Peace Pilgrim to her own acceptance of cancer. Canfield summarizes her healing techniques--emotional clearing, meditations, and lifestyle changes--into twelve self-help practices of wellness so others may use her hard-earned insights as a source of hope, inspiration, and practical advice. Relevant to anyone seeking personal growth and life wisdom, Profound Healing is not merely about dying or living; it is about discovering one’s life and living it fully.
CHERYL CANFIELD is a wellness counselor who lectures nationally on topics of profound healing and steps toward inner peace. She is the editor of Peace Pilgrim’s Wisdom and co-compiler of Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words. She lives in northern California.
Cheryl Canfield is a wellness counselor who lectures nationally on topics of profound healing and steps toward inner peace. She is the editor of Peace Pilgrim's Wisdom, co-compiler of Peace Pilgrim:Her Life and Work in Her Own Words, and author of Profound Healing:
The Power of Acceptance on the Path to Wellness. She lives in northern California.
Joseph Chilton Pearce is the author of The Death of Religion and the Rebirth of the Spirit, The Biology of Transcendence, The Crack in the Cosmic Egg, Magical Child, and Evolution’s End. For the past 35 years, he has lectured and led workshops teaching about the changing needs of children and the development of human society. He lives in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia.
A sensitive, clear description of guidelines for dealing with a catastrophic illness from someone who has been there . . . that can help the reader cross the bridge of forgiveness and spiritual transformation.
Table of Contents:
Profound Healing
The Power of Acceptance on the Path to Wellness
Foreword by Joseph Chilton Pearce
Acknowledgments
Introduction Mobilizing Our Inner Resources
Part I
Preparing for the Possibilities
One--Face to Face with Mortality
Two--Weighing the Alternatives
Three--Exploring Death
Four--Buying Time
Five--Tying Up Loose Ends
Six --Making My Way Through the system
Part II
Life Stories
Seven--The Spiritual Path
Eight--Encounter with a Modern Mystic: A Woman Called Peace Pilgrim
Nine--Peace Pilgrim on Healing
Ten--The Journey Home
Eleven--Land of Vastness
Twelve--Sojourn in Paradise
Thirteen--Testing the Water
Fourteen--The Greatest Gift
Fifteen--More Goodbyes
Part III
ReEngaging Life
Sixteen--Surviving the Dark Night
Seventeen--Time in the Wilderness
Eighteen--Embracing the Possibilities
Nineteen--Five Healing Stories
Part IV
Twelve Steps in the Healing Process
Twenty--The Beginning of Self Transformation
Twenty-One--Step One: Take Charge
Twenty-Two--Step Two: Develop an Empowered Attitude
Twenty-Three--Step Three: Create a Healing Environment
Twenty-Four--Step Four: Practice Forgiveness
Twenty-Five--Step Five: Explore Attitudes and Beliefs
Twenty-Six--Step Six: Transform Negative Feelings to Heal and Release the Past
Twenty-Seven--Step Seven: Build a Support System
Twenty-Eight--Step Eight: Simplify Life
Twenty-Nine--Step Nine: Establish Personal Integrity
Thirty--Step Ten: Open to Intuition
Thirty-One--Step Eleven: Love Yourself
Thirty-Two--Step Twelve: Do All You Can and Release the Rest
Epiloque Heal Ourselves, Heal the World
Appendix: Summary of Steps in the Healing Process
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